Patent ID: 6519997
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: B21J,Y10T

Abstract:
A rivet gun with automatic feeding rivets comprising:a plurality of blind rivets each having a shank with first and second ends and an integral head on the first end of the shank, and a stem extending through the head and shank for pulling relative to the head to form the second end of the rivet and set the rivet, the blind rivets being fixed to a carrier; and, a rivet gun having: pulling head for pulling a rivet stem relative to the rivet head along an axis of the rivet and pulling head, the pulling head having a housing for resting adjacent the rivet head and a jaw assembly for gripping and pulling the rivet stem relative to the housing; means for withdrawing the pulling head after pulling each rivet; and, a rivet loading means receiving the carrier with rivets thereon, removing successive rivets from the carrier at a position wherein the rivet and pulling head are not coaxial, moving each successive rivet to a position coaxial with the pulling head, and loading successive rivets into the pulling head after a previous rivet is pulled.