RIVETED JOINT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: aircraft manufacture; connection of metal members and parts made of composite materials. SUBSTANCE: rivet is inserted in stack of parts to be connected; rivet has shank with manufactured head at one end and bush at other end. Bush has embossed inner surface and taper outer surface whose lesser base is directed inside part stack. On surface of one of parts there is seat sunken to cone which receives above-mentioned bush. Angle of taper of outer surface of bush ranges from 88 to 92 deg; larger base of bush is flush with stack surface. Inner surface is embossed in form of circular teeth. Rivet shank has blind cylindrical hole at free end. Depth of hole does not exceed height of bush. EFFECT: enhanced reliability. 3 dwg