Patent ID: 7832074

Claim:
A method of attaching together a pair of members by the installation of a blind rivet of the type having a rivet head abutting one of the members and a hollow shank reaching through aligned holes of the members and having a terminal end, and a mandrel including a stem extending through the hollow shank of the blind rivet and a mandrel head adjacent the terminal end of the rivet shank; comprising: gripping the mandrel and displacing the mandrel axially to axially load the mandrel and cause the mandrel head to axially collapse and radially expand the hollow shank of the blind rivet into engagement with the other of the members so that the blind rivet attaches the members together; and cutting off the mandrel flush with the rivet head; said cutting off of the mandrel being performed by a cut off blade mounted in a tool housing having an anvil seated on the rivet head to cut off the mandrel stem flush with the rivet head.