11-08-2017, 09:45 AM
At the risk of getting into an argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.....
The "Pop" rivet is still a registered Trade Name. The United Shoe Machinery company had it all to themselves for years. They originally made eyelets. In the UK & until the patents ran out Tucker (Eyelet) in Birmingham were the company that really developed the sales for general (non aircraft) use after 1945 outside the USA.
As a matter of interest (to me anyway!) Louis Huck was a really talented engineer who (also in the 1940's maybe late 30's), invented the "Huck" Bolt (a 2 piece structural pre-tensioned fastener- not a blind fixing) to replace nuts & bolts if you have no need to disassemble the joint. His name was also on the Patent for developing the "Rivnut" - a blind threaded insert, initially also for the aircraft industry (to hold the de icing rubber inflatable sections on aircraft wings for BF Goodrich.) This again became a generic product widely used in all industries today. Just like Pop & Huck there are hundreds of copies and developments of these pioneering highly efficient fasteners.
Blind rivets may have been thought of before the Austin Seven, but were not widely (if at all) commercially available during it's lifetime. They were around for special builders in the 50's & 60's through Pop,Avdel Gesipa et al.
Huck & Rivnut are also still registered names & I would have put an R in a circle after them if I knew where to find the symbol on my keyboard!
The "Pop" rivet is still a registered Trade Name. The United Shoe Machinery company had it all to themselves for years. They originally made eyelets. In the UK & until the patents ran out Tucker (Eyelet) in Birmingham were the company that really developed the sales for general (non aircraft) use after 1945 outside the USA.
As a matter of interest (to me anyway!) Louis Huck was a really talented engineer who (also in the 1940's maybe late 30's), invented the "Huck" Bolt (a 2 piece structural pre-tensioned fastener- not a blind fixing) to replace nuts & bolts if you have no need to disassemble the joint. His name was also on the Patent for developing the "Rivnut" - a blind threaded insert, initially also for the aircraft industry (to hold the de icing rubber inflatable sections on aircraft wings for BF Goodrich.) This again became a generic product widely used in all industries today. Just like Pop & Huck there are hundreds of copies and developments of these pioneering highly efficient fasteners.
Blind rivets may have been thought of before the Austin Seven, but were not widely (if at all) commercially available during it's lifetime. They were around for special builders in the 50's & 60's through Pop,Avdel Gesipa et al.
Huck & Rivnut are also still registered names & I would have put an R in a circle after them if I knew where to find the symbol on my keyboard!