US 4,602,414 A · Rivet tool having reversible anvil

Abstract

An improved hand tool is provided which permits easy field removal and replacement of connecting rivets employed with agricultural implement sickle sections, and is especially designed for use with relatively new so-called double sickle sections which present only very limited working clearance. The tool preferably includes a pair of jaw sets respectively extending from each end of a handle. The handle is contoured to allow pivotal adjustment between various sickle section spacings. The jaw sets carry structure for either removing or replacing a rivet on a damaged sickle section without removing the sickle section mounting bar from the cutter bar. A removable anvil is included as a component of the rivet-replacing jaw set to permit replacement of different types of rivets through the simple expedient of reversing the anvil position.

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Dependent claims

A hand tool for replacement of different type of sickle section rivets, comprising:

a handle;
a working jaw set integral with the handle comprising a pair of opposed, integrally interconnected jaws extending from said handle, said jaw set presenting a generally C-shaped configuration and an open, sickle sectionreceiving mouth,
one of said jaws including structure defining a bore therein;
an elongated anvil bar having opposed, flat end faces, each adapted for flat engagement therewith by a sickle section mounting strip, said bar being configured for removable insertion into said bore, said end faces respectively including structure for alternately receiving different type of sickle section rivet heads;
and
means carried by the other of said jaws for cooperatively engaging and closing the end of a sickle section rivet remote from said bar with the rivet passing through the strip and the section.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Rivet tool having reversible anvil

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Rivet tool having reversible anvil

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Abstract

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