Method for molding a strip of blind rivets

A method of molding a strip of blind rivets, each of said rivets having a pin within a sleeve, with the pin having a pulling head and a shank,

• including the steps of:
• molding a set of pins in pin mold cavities, each of the pins having ahead end and a shank end, including
• feeding molding material to each of the pin mold cavities at the shank end of the pin from a first runner,
• with the first runner including band means about an advance member adhering the first runner to the advance member;
• advancing the molded pins to sleeve mold cavities by advancing the advance member from a first position to a second position with the pins joined together at the shank ends by the first runner;
• retracing the advance member to the first position leaving the molded pins in the sleeve mold cavities;
• and
• molding a set of sleeves about corresponding pins in the sleeve mold cavities forming rivets, each of the sleeves having a flange end and a body end, including feeding each of the sleeve mold cavities at the body end of the sleeve from a second runner overlying the first runner.