Patent ID: 7571834
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: B21J

Abstract:
1. A one-piece magazine mold formed as a unit for holding a quantity of blind rivets ready for use in an automatic rivet setting tool, the quantity of rivets connected together in spaced relation along the length of an elongated rivet carrying strip of thin flexible material by having a distal portion of a mandrel of each rivet inserted or pierced therethrough, said magazine comprising: a plurality of longitudinal generally flat, rectangular panels molded together as a single unit in an evenly spaced, radially extending arrangement about a longitudinal axis extending along a central passageway defined by a convergence of said panels and forming a spool; said plurality of longitudinal panels each defining an outer distal longitudinal edge thereof, all of said distal edges being substantially parallel one to another and to said longitudinal axis; whereby each rivet of the quantity of rivets carried on the flexible strip, when the flexible strip is spiral-wound around said longitudinal distal edges, being positioned in somewhat radially oriented fashion between adjacent said longitudinal panels, a head of each rivet being positioned inwardly toward said longitudinal axis; an overhang tab positioned at each outer distal corner of each of said longitudinal panels whereby the flexible strip spiral wound around said distal edges is retained from inadvertent displacement from the ends of said panels.