The heads of the machine rivets are, therefore, larger and stronger, and will hold the plates together more firmly than the smaller hammered heads.
Steel rivets should be heated in the hearth of a reverberatory furnace so arranged that the flame shall play over the top of the rivets, and should be heated uniformly throughout the entire length of the rivet to a cherry red.
Practical use of the above named hold fast would soon convince the consumers of rivets of its value and efficiency.
They also use rivets with a fillet formed under head made in solid dies.
If rivets are made of steel they must be low in carbon, otherwise they will harden by chilling when the hot rivets are placed in the cold plates.
Iron rivets are generally heated in an ordinary blacksmith's or rivet fire having a forced blast; they are inserted with the points down into the fire, so that the heads are kept practically cool.
Iron rivets should be annealed and the iron in the bar should be sufficiently ductile to be bent cold to a right angle without fracture.
Rivets of steel or iron should be made in solid dies.
Rivets made in open dies are liable to have a fin on the shank, which prevents a close fit into the holes of the plates.
And as quickly as they made the spear-heads and the shafts, Creidne the Brazier had the rivets made to rivet them; and if there were bettering those rivets, it would not be by any known workmanship.
Then she opened a wooden casket, and drew forth a razor, whose haft was of ivory, and upon which were two rivets of gold.
Not a single expression (the invocation in the concluding couplet of the second sonnet perhaps excepted) can be spared, yet not a single expression rivets the attention.
It rivets the attention, realizes the greatest amount of enjoyment, and facilitates reference.
The jutting heads of the rivets having been diligently rubbed away from his galling fetter by a big stone--a toil of weeks--he one day stood unshackled, having watched his time to be alone.
Two examples formerly in Mr. Day's collection have rivets of bronze, and others with bronze rivets have been found in England.
It is important to note that the rivetsare of two kinds: some are large and stout like the usual Irish form; and some have metal washers, like the solitary example found in Ireland (fig.
The hindmost rivets, both in the case of the blades with four rivets and those with three only, are shorter than those in front of them.
The shortness of the end-rivets and slope of the heads imply that the handle was rounded off behind the blade, as would be the case with a transverse shaft.
The pins or rivets used to attach this class to the shaft were probably of wood, horn, or bone.
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
There's nothing so contagious in a boat as rivets going.
Rivets have no teeth, so they cannot chatter with fright; but they did their best as a fluttering jar swept along the ship from stern to bow, and she shook like a rat in a terrier's mouth.
They needed just as many rivets as could be driven into them, for the flood would assuredly wash out their supports, and the ironwork would settle down on the caps of stone if they were not blocked at the ends.
We think you will have a certain amount of trouble in that"; and thousands and thousands of the little rivets that held everything together whispered: "You Will!
In the nature o' things, Miss Frazier, if ye follow me, she's just irons and rivets and plates put into the form of a ship.
The din produced by the pneumatic machines in cutting out the many hundreds of rivets and stays inside a boiler is quite appalling.
When a better quality of iron is required the punchings, bolts, and rivets are placed in a large drum which is afterwards set in motion and continues to revolve for several hours.
Rivets put in by hand are far more trustworthy than are those done by the machine.
The only tools, besides hammers, required by the cutters-down, were cold sets to cut off the heads of the rivets and bolts, and punches to force the stems and stays out of the holes.
Good strongrivets are the chief things required there.
It is then placed over the whitehot coke in the forge and the rivets inserted.
The forges for hotting the rivets are fixtures and are supplied with air through pipes laid beneath the ground from the fan under the wall.
This has been perforated with holes at the punch to allow its receiving as many rivets as are required.
The author has found many instances of shear and bearing stresses in excess of those usually sanctioned, under which the rivets behaved well, but is not now able to give precise particulars of these.
It is commonly regarded as bad practice to submit rivets to tension, yet this is frequently, though unintentionally, permitted in end attachments, without any attempt to limit the amount of tension.
The angle bars gaped, suggesting that these had first been riveted to the bottom plate, and left sufficiently wide to allow the web to be afterwards inserted, the rivets failing to pull the work close, and then readily working loose.
The rivets in the diagonals near the centre, 7/8 inch in diameter, which were subject to reversal of stress, occasionally worked loose, and were more than once replaced.
The repair of built up bridgework resolves itself largely into a matter of replacing loose rivets by cutting these out, rhymering the holes, if desirable, and again riveting.
Trough floors may be expected to show loose rivets near the ends, with a probability of excessive leakage where they abut against the webs of supporting girders.
The author has studied the particulars of a number of cases to ascertain under what conditions as to stress, having due regard to the effects of vibration, rivets will remain tight, or become loose.
It is formed of three pieces of different thicknesses (the front piece being the thickest), which are fixed together with strong iron rivets with salient heads and thin brass caps soldered to them.
The rivets for its lining-cap have large, hollow, twisted heads, which are seldom found on existing sallads, though often seen in sculpture.
From the absence of any traces of rivets on the back or sides of the bell, the decoration it has received may have been restricted to the casing of the handle and the enrichment of the front of this venerated relic.
The end was blown off, the rivets not being strong enough for the pressure of 35 lbs.
The rents spread along a part where strength was much reduced by the rivets being countersunk to make room for attachments.
The brackets on the sides of heavy boilers have not only been strained so that the rivets or bolts have leaked and caused corrosion, but they have also bent or cracked the side plates of the boiler.
A patch had been put on a few days before explosion, and as the rivet holes had badly fitted, there had been much strain caused by drifting, and the rivets were much distorted.
The ruptured seam was next to a patch where the cutting out of the old rivets and putting in of new had caused a seam-rip.
Front torn all round the root of angle iron, and stay rivets drawn through flat end.
When the boiler is again set to work, the seams and rivets leak and cause that corrosion which is called channelling.
He came to Finn and brought with him a spear having a head of dark bronze with glittering edges, and fastened with thirty rivets of Arabian gold, and the spear-head was laced up within a leathern case.
Yet it is so malleable that it can be used for rivets when headed cold.
The difficulty of strapping cut beams to make them span their former length; the difficulty of small rivets and big holes, of small holes and big rivets .
Forge fires are devilish in the hands of an unskilled blower; rivets break and twist and get chilled when the striking is squint and irregular; iron is tough and stubborn when leverage is misapplied.
Our loss of the inscription is evidently owing to the action of the iron rivets which have been causelessly used at the two horizontal joints.
I tried them hard, and will warrant them proof, but you had best see to the rivets and fastenings.
The person, then, was a knight, for I had seen him before when he came in knightly harness into my master's shop to have two rivets put into his hauberk.
When he came near he recognized the face, and saw, to his surprise, that it was a knight who had but the day before stopped at the armorer's shop to have two rivets put in his hauberk.
The rivets used ought to be no more than 3 inches apart; this may sometimes be tested by scraping off the paint, when the rivet-heads may be seen.
The edges are joined by angle-iron, rivets and screws, and are rebated and dovetailed together.
Bowling iron only is used, with the longitudinal seams welded, and all holes, whether for rivets or bolts, are drilled and not punched.
One of my wings has got some of the rivets out of it just above the joint.
John fastened the dragon up with the collar and the chains, and when he had padlocked them all on safely he set to work to find out how many rivets would be needed.
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