Patent ID: 6224310
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: B21K,F16B

Abstract:
A self-plugging blind rivet for securing together apertured members, the rivet comprising a tubular shell (11) having a tail end face (16) at one end and a pre-formed radially enlarged head (13) at the other end, and a stem which extends through the shell and has a stem head (22) adjacent the tail end face (16) of the shell (11), in which the region adjacent the stem head is of increased diameter relative to the rest of the stem shank and has a plurality of axial depressions (26) formed therein, the corresponding region of the shell being arranged to fill the axial depressions (26) in the stem and being harder than the material of the shell (11) in a region adjacent the radially enlarged head (13), whereby, in use and under axial compression loading of the shell, the shell (11) buckles in the region adjacent the member remote from the preformed head to form a blind head in contact with said member so as to clamp together the apertured members.