Patent ID: 6905295

Claim:
A rivet for use in joining an assembly of two or more material layers through a rivet hole extending through said layers, said layers having a thickness and said assembly having a first side that is accessible for the insertion of said rivet and a second side that is inaccessible for the setting of said rivet from that side, said rivet comprising: a first rivet head larger than said rivet hole, a tubular rivet body of plastically deformable material attached at one end to said rivet head and having a second end for plastic deformation into a second rivet head, said tubular rivet body being shaped and sized to fit into and through said rivet hole, and an extrudable body of adhesive in said tubular rivet body; said tubular rivet body having a length including a first portion starting at said rivet head with a first portion length to extend through said layers and to contain a first portion of said adhesive, and a second portion with a second portion length for containing a second portion of said adhesive, said first having axially spaced holes alone said first portion length for expulsion of adhesive from said tubular rivet body, and said second portion having weakened regions for plastically deforming said second portion of said tubular rivet body as a rivet head against said second side of said assembly and for extruding said second portion of adhesive into said first portion of said rivet body and expelling said first portion of said adhesive.