Excerpt from Structural Engineering
After the rivet holes have been either punched or drilled into the plates and shapes to be riveted together, and the same have been assembled, each in its proper place, rivets are heated, placed in the holes, and driven. The driving of a rivet consists principally of forming a head on the plane end, usually the same as the one on the other end formed by the rivet machine just described.
Rivets are driven by machines known as riveters except in a few cases where it is necessary to drive them by hand. The riveter, or rivet-driving machine, has two headers known as tools, one being fixed and the other movable, each of which is very similar to the header used in the rivet-manufacturing machine described above.
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