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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2009
Applicant:
Jonathan Brewer, Bedfordshire, GB;
Inventor:
Jonathan Brewer, Bedfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Avdel UK Limited, Welwyn Garden, Hertfordshire, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A fastener () such as a rivet, and a method of manufacture of such, wherein the fastener () is formed with helical () and annular grooves on the shell (), such that when the fastener () is installed into a workpiece (), a bulb () having a lobed blindside footprint () is produced on the blindside of the workpiece (), the helical grooves () having an increasing depth towards the head end () of the shell () to promote formation of the bulb () initially towards the head end ().