Patent attributes
A blind rivet having a rivet sleeve and a pin, the rivet sleeve having a sleeve head for contact with a visible-side workpiece surface and a sleeve shank and a through hole, through which the pin is guided, the pin having a blind-side pin head for contact in the region of a blind-side end of the sleeve shank, and the sleeve shank having a first forming section and a second forming section which is arranged axially spaced apart from the first forming section and closer to the sleeve head, a first intermediate section being formed between the first and the second forming section, which first intermediate section, during setting of the blind rivet, can form a first blind head which can be formed at axially different points in order to set up different clamping thicknesses.