Hydraulic riveting

✍ Scribed by C.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 114
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90370-2

✦ Synopsis

Hydraulic Riveting.--The advantages of hydraulic riveting are de~ribed as follows in the journal named below : " Under the enormous pressure of the hydraulic riveter the iron of the rivet is crowded back over its whole length, and welds to fill the void exactly, whatever may be its shape, so as closely to unite the plates, even when they are numerous and of considerable thickness. The grip is so strong that all the seams disappear, and after the riveting is done the plates, courseirons and rivets seem to form but a single piece. The rivets of the mounting-bolts can be removed by hand." Messrs. Greig and Eith, in 1879, reported the following comparative resistances: hand-riveting • 405, steam-riveting "509, hydraulic-rlveting "559. These figures are evidently in favor of the hydraulic riveting.--Ze Genie Civil, ii, 289. C.