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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7565726 | Two-handled blind riveting tool with spent mandrel collecting device A two-handled blind riveting tool with a spent mandrel collecting device has a rivet setting assembly and a driving handle and a spent mandrel collecting device being separately mounted on a housing of the rivet setting assembly. A stationary handle of the spent man... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7377017 | Slim-line hand operated rivet tool for setting plastic blind rivets in tight access spaces A hand-operated rivet setting tool for setting blind rivets in tight access spaces. The tool has a long and slender slim-line profile which allows a user installing a vehicle bumper to set blind rivets in the space between the tire and the vehicle's wheel well witho... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7363798 | Flexible extension for pulling tools A flexible extension device that can be mounted between a fastener installation tool and a pulling head. The device can flex over a range up to about 45 degrees and can operate under tensile and compressive loads required for installing fasteners. It includes adapte... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7263753 | Blind bolt installation tool A pulling head includes a sleeve which threadably engages a sleeve adapter. A collet is threadably engaged with a drawbar adapter, and the collet and drawbar adapter are disposed and slidable in the sleeve. A set of jaws is disposed in the collet, and a jaw follower... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7155953 | Anvil driving assembly An anvil driving assembly, anvil driving tool, and method for installing rivetless floating nut plates in workpieces. The tool and method are capable of pulling a rivetless nut plate sleeve into a countersunk hole in the workpiece simultaneously with flaring the ope... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146698 | Hand-held riveting tool A hand-held riveting tool includes a body, a tube passing through the body, a drive shaft passing through the inside of the tube, a clamping connection between an interchangeable mandrel and the drive shaft, and a hand operated pressure mechanism. The pressure mecha... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7051411 | Apparatus for riveter A riveter apparatus includes a body, a handle part and a pulling part. The body further includes a base and a front tube. The base interior has a column with an adjustable groove that has a greater diameter in the front end than the back end. The base also has a slo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6912763 | Clamping connection for interchangeable mandrel and drive shaft of riveting tool and use of that clamping connection for hand held riveting tools The invention concerns a clamping connection for an interchangeable mandrel (1) and drive shaft (13) of a riveting tool. The connection comprises a connecting casing (15) to which the end of the drive shaft (13) is fastened on one side, w... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6474129 | Setting tool for expanding wall anchors A setting gripper (16) is disclosed for an anchor device of the type comprising two co-axial components of which each has a head with the head being spread apart co-axially during setting. The gripper (16) includes two jaws (36, 49) which are engaged betw... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6032510 | Blind rivet setting tool A blind rivet setting tool (10) includes a front end (2) having an outer support barrel (4), an inner pulling mandrel (6) and a rivet flange contacting face (8). A portion of the outer support barrel (4) and a portion of the inner mandrel (6) are cut away... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029332 | Rivet setting tool A rivet setting tool provided with a threaded bolt or drift for engaging a nut of the rivet. The rivet has a thin walled sleeve portion which is to be deformed during setting of the rivet and forms a flange. The rivet setting tool is driven with decreasin... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5771738 | Rivet-nut tool with a fixing hole A rivet-nut tool has a through hole defined in a collet case and a slot defined in a positioning seat, a pin extending into the through hole and the slot is able to retain the rotary mandrel and the positioning seat in a fixed position relative to the bod... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5367757 | Foldable riveter frame A folding heavyweight riveter includes a base frame assembly, a pull shaft driven to move axially relative to the base frame assembly in moving riveting elements to set rivets or rivnuts, two rollers mounted on the pull shaft at two opposite sides by two ... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5361474 | Riveter A riveter includes a handle, a chuck coupled to the handle, a casing secured to the body, a seat extended from the casing, a chamber formed in the seat for slidably receiving the chuck, and a disc rotatably secured to the seat, two or more mouths of diffe... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5359762 | Dual-usage riveters A dual-usage riveter including two handles pivoted to a base member is provided. A pull shaft linked between the handles is axially displaced thereby. An outer sleeve is fastened to the front end of the base member to hold an inner sleeve. Two symmetrical... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5323521 | Hand riveting tool A manually actuable blind riveting tool comprises a housing carrying a sleeve member at the front end thereof. Fixed in the front sleeve member is a mouthpiece member for accommodating a pulling mandrel of a blind rivet while a collet for clamping the pul... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5295290 | Adapter for plastic blind fastener tool An apparatus for installing a plastic blind fastener in a remote hard-to-reach location comprising an adapter formed to hold a fastener and manipulatable by a conventional hand-operated fastener tool. The adapter includes a bowden cable operatively connec... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5079818 | Riveting apparatus In a hand-held riveting apparatus having two pivotal levers for performing the actual riveting operation and a screwthreaded mandrel which can be caused to rotate for screwing on the rivet nut and for screwing out the rivet nut after the rivet setting ope... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5050420 | Multi-functional riveter The present invention relates to a multi-functional riveter, whose basic structural components include a body and a body head having a hollow upper portion with an extended hand grip. Located within the interior of the body head is a lever hinged thereto.... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4936134 | Rivet-setting tools and gripping jaws therefor A rivet-setting tool for pull-to-set blind rivets having mandrel-gripping jaws in which the teeth are widely-spaced at a level of only 8-15 teeth per inch; preferably the teeth in each jaw have non-uniform spacing, the spacing between some pairs of teeth ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4653308 | Adjustable lever operated riveter The disclosure is of a mechanical riveter wherein rivet-gripping jaws are pulled through a slideway by means of a pull rod. Each of a pair of links is pivoted between one of a pair of squeezable handles and a yoke carried on the pull rod. Means are provid... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4520648 | Lever operated riveter A mechanical riveter comprising a slideway with rivet-gripping jaw assembly slidable in said slideway to be pulled by a rod. A pivot and guide pin at the other end of the slideway pivotally carries a pair of squeezable handles and a pair of links, each pi... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4136547 | Riveter A tool for setting blind hollow rivets which include a mandrel to be pulled from the accessible side of work to set the rivet on the blind side. The tool includes a body, a pulling device movable relative to the body, a pair of actuating levers pivoted to... | 01/30/1979 |
