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Driver for fasteners, wherein a slidable element contacts a work surface to allow fasteners to be driven, but otherwise inhibits the driving of fasteners.

A powder-actuated fastening gun including a housing in which a barrel assembly is mounted for movement between a locked position and an unlocked forward position. A percussion assembly is mounted in said housing for movement between a firing position and a fired position. A rod member, external of the...     

Driver for fasteners, wherein a slidable element contacts a work surface to allow fasteners to be driven, but otherwise inhibits the driving of fasteners.

A longitudinal housing includes a bore for slidably receiving a barrel assembly having a bore coaxially aligned with the housing bore. A cartridge receiving chamber is positioned within the barrel assembly, and a firing mechanism actuated by a trigger assembly fires the cartridge. The explosion forwardly...     

An apparatus is described for driving fasteners or for other impacting applications. The apparatus comprises a cylinder, a piston slidably mounted in the cylinder, a hammer connected to the piston, an air reservoir, an air manifold or supply chamber connected to the air reservoir, a quick-acting poppet...     

A cartridge-type powder actuated piston tool with automatic cartridge feed by gravity and manual fastener feed. The tool is designed specifically for the setting of fasteners to secure insulating board to ingot mold walls.

A carrier for converting a hand nailer gun of the type used in frame building construction to an automatic nailing mechanism is described. The carrier includes a carriage for a hand nailer gun, and a frame which supports the carriage for movement along a construction surface. A motion sensing wheel engages...     

A power driven percussion tool is provided with a rotatable magazine block formed with a plurality of bores about the axis of rotation of the magazine block and is loaded with fasteners such as rivets or nails respectively retained in the bores. When the magazine block is stepwise rotated about its axis...     

A tool for driving nails into hard surfaces wherein the driving power is provided by cartridges of explosive powder. The cartridges are contained in strips with a single strip containing a multiple of cartridges, in the order of ten. The improvement comprises the mechanism for feeding the strip of cartridges...     

An electro-mechanical impact device, useful for driving nails, staples and other fastening elements. The driving member is driven by frictional engagement between a pair of counter-rotating high speed flywheels. The device has a safety provision whereby it cannot be actuated until the nose of the device...     

An improved driver is provided wherein a pneumatically operated piston is slidably disposed in a cylinder which is adapted to vent to atmosphere through a port positioned adjacent the end wall of the cylinder. A piston cushion, anchored to the interior surface of the cylinder end wall, is configured...     

A pneumatic tool for driving clamp nails, having a single nose piece making possible the driving of clamp nails into the outside corner of a miter joint, or the inside corner of a miter joint, and having a plate which may be adjusted to position the nose piece at any angle from 45.degree. to 30.degree....     

An impact tool includes a rotational energy device mounted within the housing of the tool. A driver is reciprocally mounted within the housing and is coupled to the energy device by a toggle member. The toggle member includes a clutch and is actuated to transfer energy from the energy device to the driver....     

A binding system is disclosed for binding volumes comprising a cabinet having a trough herein for the receipt of an edge of a stack of sheets with power compressor means on one side of the trough for compressing the stack of sheets and power operated stapling means on the opposite side of the trough...     

There is disclosed a tag attaching method, particularly a method of pinning tags to merchandise and apparatus for carrying out the method. The illustrated apparatus includes a plunger and a cooperable anvil between which a tag and merchandise are positioned and through which a fastener specifically a...     

A stapler having a frame formed in two parts of high density polymer, wherein the major support and guide elements of the stapler are integrally formed with the two parts.

This invention relates to a pistol-shaped, small-sized tag attacher, in which the transverse bar of a tag pin is caused to penetrate through an article such as cloth etc. to attach a tag thereto, said tag pin being moulded from thermoplastic resin into an H-shape comprising a transverse bar, a filament...     

An impact device, useful for driving nails, staples and other fastening elements. The driving member is driven by frictional engagement with a rotating high speed flywheel. The device has a safety provision whereby it cannot be actuated until the nose of the device is pressed against a work piece. This...     

An improved type of pneumatic tacking tool is disclosed for use in fastening carpet tacking strips and the like to wooden or concrete floors. The tool comprises a modification of the fastener driving tool described in my U.S. Pat. No. 4,040,554 and my U.S. Pat. No. 4,122,904, and is particularly well...     

A nailer for repeatively driving nails one at a time into material. A safety yoke including an integral safety yoke lever cams against a safety yoke pin in the body of the nailer and actuates a secondary trigger pivotally mounted in a trigger. The secondary trigger actuates a valve plunger in a trigger...     

A fastener driving apparatus having a barrel provided with a fastening element guide which is pivotally mounted about an axis orthogonal to the barrel axis in order to introduce a fastening element therein. The fastening element guide is pivotally mounted on a support secured to the barrel, and there...     

A wire stitching machine includes a head frame carrying a support, a staple former and a staple driver all reciprocally movable with respect to the head frame under the action of a single reciprocating drive bar coupled by crank mechanism to a rotary drive means. Wire feed rolls and a wire-supporting...     

A pneumatic tool is disclosed for attaching small metal members such as washers and name tags to a workpiece. The tool generally comprises a pneumatic driver apparatus for driving nail-like fasteners and a holder apparatus for holding the metal member positioned before the driver so that the member may...     

A fastener driving tool includes a magnetized driver or a driver with an embedded permanent magnet that is of a tapered configuration. The tool also includes a fastener feeding mechanism that wedges or ejects a fastener from a fastener strip whereupon the fastener is attracted during free-flight to the...     

A hammer drive, powder actuated tool having a main barrel housing, fastener drive and guide means telescopically slidable in one end of the housing and having a muzzle end for orienting a fastener and a breech end for orienting a fastener-driving powder charge, the other end of said main housing having...     

A plurality of two-piece fasteners are connected together by frangible plastic and are automatically fed past moveable wall portions to an area where they are in operative position to be acted upon by impacting pistons. A first inner and a second, outer, concentric pistons are provided, the second piston...     

One or both of a pair of oppositely rotating bodies, such as motor driven flywheels, are mounted for pivotal movement against the side of a ram. One or more tension rods connect pivot shafts or members for equalizing precession and similar forces of rotating bodies, rather than housing. Pulsed solenoids...     

Dispensing of attachment members, each formed by a filament with a head at one end and a cross bar at the other end, using an ejector with forward and return strokes. Each attachment member is dispensed during the forward stroke of the ejector and an antijam mechanism is operated for assuring completion...     

A surgical stapler powered by a relatively low pressure gas supply contained in the stapler. The stapler has a mechanical linkage between the pneumatic actuator and the staple driver with a differential mechanical advantage to match the substantially constant force provided by the pneumatic actuator...     

A novel device is disclosed for driving nail-like fasteners with associated washers into a workpiece. The device comprises a pneumatic driver apparatus, preferably one substantially the same as the tool disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,040,554, in association with a washer dispenser apparatus capable of...     

A machine for affixing e.g. snap fasteners, rivets and the like to workpieces has a stationary lower tool and a downwardly movable cooperating upper tool. To protect the finger of an operator against injury by the tools the machine also has a finger guard positioned to move ahead of the descending upper...     

Improved forms of pneumatic tools of the type shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,040,554, 4,098,171 and 4,122,904 are provided for driving nail-like fasteners into a workpiece. The tool may be used for attaching small articles such as washers or name tags to the workpiece, in which event the tool may be combined...     

A hydraulic nailing pistol with force or energy-accumulators for reciprocally driving a nail driver (5) formed as a piston with associated piston rod (5). The outer end of the rod is intended for applying to the nail head of the nail to be driven. The piston is arranged in a hydraulic cylinder (26) and...     

A disposable surgical stapler is provided which comprises: a tubular housing having an axial bore and an axial slot which extends through its tubular wall; a tubular pusher axially located within the bore of the housing and adapted to move distally and proximally within the bore; the pusher having an...     

A tacker which ejects magazines from a staple on operation of a handle by means of a spring biased striker protruding from the ejections slot. The tacker must first be pressed against the surface so that the protruding portion of the striker is pressed inwardly so that a pawl formed on the operating...     

An operator-tended machine, e.g., a machine for applying snap fasteners, rivets or the like to workpieces, has an upper tool which moves against a lower tool acting as an anvil for it. A fingerguard moves ahead of the upper tool to protect the fingers of an operator. A workpiece support, with reference...     

A fastener driving tool for driving fasteners into a workpiece includes a trigger assembly movable from an inoperative position to an operative position and a workpiece responsive assembly also movable from an inoperative position to an operative position as the tool is moved adjacent the workpiece....     

A cyclical wire stitching machine includes a reciprocating driving coupled to a staple-forming and drive means, which is in turn coupled by a rack and pinion mechanism to a wire feed means, so that the wire feed means and the staple-forming and driving means reciprocate simultaneously in opposite directions....     

An electrically operated fastener driving device comprising a housing structure providing a manually engageable handle for engaging a user to portably operate the device, a front wall disposed in vertically extending relation forwardly and below the handle and a vertically extending fastener drive track...     

Apparatus for placing steps in a concrete pipe or riser immediately after the pipe has been cast but before it is cured. A movable carriage is mounted upon a support column that is arranged to move a step driving mechanism vertically along the inner wall of the riser before the riser is removed from...     

In a pneumatic nail driver, compressed air drives a working piston in the driving direction within a working cylinder. An inlet valve controls the flow of compressed air into the working cylinder. A sensing element mounted on the front end of the driver moves opposite to the driving direction when it...     

A fastener tool having a housing in which is mounted a universal motor to be continuously operated during operation of the tool. A gear driven by the motor is a rotary driven member. A drive pin is carried by the gear to rotate therewith and is free to be shifted axially relative the gear. A drive bar...     

The disclosed tacker involves a spring-impelled staple driver operated by a spring having opposite movable ends, one being operated to compress the spring and the other being releasable to drive the staple driver. The described release means involves a stationary latch and means for pushing the latched...     

Self-centering fastening tool for quickly and easily fastening wire and paper lath to support members.

A tool for driving uncollated nails includes a tool body with a nose portion defining a drive track wherein a driver blade moves in drive and return strokes. A magazine carried by the body supports a row of nails, and a pusher urges the nails along a feed path toward the drive track. The magazine is...     

The disclosed stapler has a manual actuator that is depressed to force a staple magazine against papers on an anvil, charging a leaf spring that carries a staple driver. A stop arrests the staple driver during this operation of the actuator. The staple driver is released by the actuator near the end...     

An improved nailing machine including a reciprocatable plunger for sequentially severing and driving nails from a nailing strip, and a reciprocatable piston for advancing and retracting the plunger. The machine includes a unique reciprocatable control valve actuating and nail guide means which serves...     

A portable gas-fired fastener driving tool in which the tool cannot be operated until the combustion chamber is closed and the combustion chamber cannot be reopened after ignition until the trigger is released. The operation of the trigger is permitted by the actuation of a bottom trip mechanism which...     

An efficient, portable, easy to operate fastener applying tool is disclosed that is powered by the gases produced from the internal combustion of a fuel and air mixture. The tool uses an internally contained supply of liquified gas stored under pressure in a cylinder. Air is drawn in from outside the...     

An apparatus for applying a fastener to a fabric includes a pair of levers disposed pivotably one on each side of a stationary die for interlocking a punch driver and an actuator therefor in such a manner that the former can be activated by the latter only after the levers have been lowered while supporting...     

A pneumatic tool is disclosed for use in puncturing or hammering applications, particularly cattle stunning and the like. The tool generally comprises a cylinder, a piston slidably mounted in the cylinder, a hammer or striker connected to the piston, an air manifold or supply chamber, a reservoir connected...     

The present invention relates to a pneumatically operable fastener driving tool which uses a safety device which prevents the operation of the tool until it is in engagement with the workpiece. More particularly, the safety mechanism includes a safety nose that is normally retained in a retracted position...     

A fastener driving tool includes a housing defining a handle portion and a head portion with a nose portion extending therebelow. Mounted within the head portion is a cylindrical sleeve within which is reciprocally mounted a drive piston. A driver for driving fasteners is secured to the drive piston...     

A stapler, particularly for suturing skin wounds or incisions, is disclosed which comprises a channel in which a driver is advanced by a slide in the direction of an anvil surface. A staple magazine which extends substantially parallel with the driver includes a curved section which opens into the channel...     

A disposable linear surgical stapling instrument comprising a body with handle means and trigger means and, at its forward end, a fixed anvil-supporting jaw. A movable jaw comprising a staple cartridge is mounted on the body and is operatively connected to the handle means and trigger means. An adjustment...     

A bone stapler including a housing in which stapler can be driven by a driver along a passageway from an inlet to an outlet opening by activation of an operated drive means. Pointed projections are provided to locate bone portions to be stapled, manually releasable safety means is provided to prevent...     

An article is clamped in a predetermined position on a support, which is movable along a reciprocating path by a stepping motor. This movement of the support positions selected and spaced portions of the article at a fixed location at which a fastener element is attached to an edge of the article. The...     

A power-driven hand-held fastener driving machine includes a housing including a reciprocally movable blade, a magazine for carrying a strip of fasteners such as staples, and a guide assembly composed of first and second guides defining a drive track therebetween. A safety device is actuatable in response...     

A fastener driving tool includes a control assembly that allows the tool to be fired sequentially by first placing the tool against a workpiece followed by actuation of a trigger to fire the tool. The control assembly includes a valve assembly that allows the tool to be selectively adjusted to operate...     

The tool is used for explosively driving fasteners or the like into supporting surfaces, such as masonry. It is designed for the do-it-yourself user and includes a safety which requires that both hands be used to fire the tool. The tool is of the type which includes a barrel which is reciprocally slidably...     

A pneumatically operated fastener-driving tool, particularly adapted for nailing drywall to the framing of a building, includes a housing, a reciprocator assembly mounted within the housing, and a piston mechanism mounted within the reciprocating assembly for axially driving the fastener into the drywall...     

A press having a generally "C" shaped frame, punch mounting means arranged on an upper part of the frame, and anvil support means provided on a lower part of the frame. A relatively deep throat is thereby afforded for sheet metal which may be inserted between said punch mounting means and said anvil...     

A fore chamber assembly of a nailing gun serially feeds nails by gravity through a channel into a firing chamber. A nail head fence prevents the heads of trailing nails from underriding the heads of preceding nails and getting more than one nail in the firing chamber. The fence is vertically adjustable...     

A stapling tool which includes an anvil assembly that is pivotally mounted and which can be positioned to secure items together through which a staple received from a magazine assembly is driven. The tool is trigger-operated and sequentially positions the anvil assembly to retain the items, after which...     

An electro-magnetic tacker, which can carry out a limited number of driving strokes when its main switch is actuated, has a staple magazine pivotal between a blocking position and an operating position. In the operating position of the staple magazine, a staple blocking member blocks the front staple...     

A portable electric stapler wherein a bladelike impeller is reciprocable by the armature of an electromagnet which is energizable a selected number of times so that a staple which is introduced into a housing channel in front of the impeller is gradually driven into a workpiece. The magazine for staples...     

An actuator assembly for a stunning gun has a trigger valve in addition to a second shiftable nose piece valve. In use, the trigger valve is manually depressed to open and the user then moves the stunner such that the nose piece shifts as the animal is engaged, whereupon the second valve opens. The stunner...     

An impact-delivery tool (20) includes a motor-driven gear (72) which supports for continuous rotation therewith a relatively shiftable drive pin (80). The drive pin (80) is selectively shifted to couple the rotary drive of the gear (72) to a reciprocably operable, impact drive bar (76). An interrupt...     

The tool has a reciprocating barrel mounted in a housing and includes a ram mounted in the barrel for driving a fastener into a work surface. The firing mechanism has a firing pin and a firing pin driver which the operator strikes with a hammer to fire a cartridge chambered in the tool. The firing pin...     

A fastener driving tool is provided which employs a drive housing subassembly, preferably in the form of opposed cast metal housing sections, which encloses the flywheel and suitable bearings for rotating the same at high speed. This subassembly also supports the associated idler wheel positioned on...     

A fastener assembling apparatus has a safety device including a vertical elongate rod vertically movably supported by a reciprocable ram and having a feeler disposed adjacent to the path of movement of a punch carried on the ram, the rod being normally urged downwardly toward a lowermost position in...     

A portable self-piercing riveting system includes a pneumatically driven driver which forces a self-piercing rivet through a workpiece. An anvil carried on a pivotal clamp is moved into operative alignment with the driver on the blind side of the workpiece to receive and set a rivet. The clamp is part...     

An arrangement for advancing a continuous strip of nails to a nail driving section (5) of an apparatus having a safety-catch device (24) and a nail strip magazine, and holding the strip in the driving section. One nail at a time is separated from the strip and then driven into a workpiece. A strip guide...     

A press machine for articles to be pressed has a "movable" jaw (2) which acts upon said articles, protective guard means (8) for the moveable jaw, and operation control means (16), one part (24) of which is attached to the guard means and another part (20) of which is attached to the moveable jaw, the...     

A housing partially defines a combustion chamber. A movable piston partially defines the combustion chamber. An air and fuel mixture is generated in the combustion chamber. The air and fuel mixture is ignited in the combustion chamber. An obstacle member is fixedly disposed in the combustion chamber....     

Electrically operated driving device for staples, nails or the like, comprising an electric motor, a disc coupled to the electric motor, a cam means which cooperates with a driving pusher and with which the disc is movable into engagement to displace the driving pusher against a driving spring, and a...     

In an automatic fastener assembling apparatus, a device for actuating a drive to initiate the lowering of a punch includes a pivotable actuating lever having at its front end portion a lower sloping edge and at its rear end portion a projection the front end portion being normally urged upwardly by an...     

A guide assembly mounted on a fastener driving tool locates the tool a predetermined distance from the edge of hardboard siding or a similar workpiece and assures that a fastener is driven into the workpiece the correct distance. The tool includes a housing having a nose defining a drive track and a...     

The invention concerns improvements in a hammer-activated, powder-actuated drive tool comprising an elongated tubular housing, a tubular piston guide telescopically received extending from the front end of the housing, a piston telescopically movable within the piston guide, a chamber secured to the...     

There is disclosed a pneumatic nailing tool operated by a hammer blow or the like substantial force. The tool also carries a feeler which ensures operation of the tool only when the latter is properly positioned on the work-piece to be nailed. The above characteristics constitute two safety features...     

A percussion tool of the repeatedly operating type includes a housing, a striking cylinder received in the housing for movement therealong, and a driving piston received in the striking cylinder for movement therealong. The striking cylinder cooperates with the housing to provide a switch valve means...     

A surgical stapling instrument is provided which employs a highly pressurized gas as its source of energy. The highly pressurized gas is conducted to means for indicating the presence of the pressurized gas and to a pressure regulator. The pressure regulator controllably develops gas pressurized to a...     

An electromechanical flywheel containing fastener driving tool. The tool comprises a frame supporting a housing, a guide body and a fastener containing magazine. A free floating driver within said frame. Forward and rearward flywheels are arranged in tandem within the tool frame with their peripheral...     

An elecrically-operated tacker includes means for driving a tack which is urged toward a muzzle section by a spring, an operating means for moving the driving means back to a starting position, a switch having a push button, a trigger means having a pair of first and second depressing elements, a control...     

A button applicator with a one-rotation clutch linked to a foot pedal and is released by a disconnecting and connecting mechanism. A safety member is provided between a punch and a die and urged upward. A swing lever is linked to the safety member at its one end and linked to an operation rod connected...     

A fastener driving device of pneumatic type comprises a piston (20) within a cylinder (49), and a driver (21), connected to the piston (20) and movable through a fastener driving throat (26) formed by the housing of the device. A chamber (52) is provided within the housing to function as an air pressure...     

A fastener driving tool for fabricating upholstered furniture and particularly for securing furniture clips, such as a J-type spring clip, to a wood furniture frame. The furniture clips are used to suspend furniture springs across the furniture frame. The tool includes a pivotally mounted magazine which...     

A fastener driving tool includes a guide for positioning a furniture spring clip with respect to the tool and also positions the furniture spring clip with respect to a wooden furniture frame to allow the furniture spring clip to be secured thereto. A furniture spring clip is also disclosed which includes...     

A fastener driving tool of the type utilizing a motor driven energy storing flywheel and a reciprocating fastener driving ram employs a flywheel having a metal peripheral surface that selectively engages a metal surface of the ram in order to drive the ram into engagement with a fastener to be driven...     

An improved stapler firing assembly and a surgical stapler are disclosed. The stapler comprises structural members having handle parts with opposite sides and jaw parts projecting from the handle parts. The stapler includes a mechanism for releasable engagement between an elongate locking member and...     

The attachment is a device to which a nail gun is secured. The attachment has a wheel for support of both the nail gun and attachment. The wheel is connected through appropriate gearing to actuate the safety slide on the nail gun so that, when a predetermined distance is traversed, the nail gun is actuated....     

A mechanism for returning a hammer of an electrically-operated tacker from the tack-driving position to the starting position, in two stages, includes first and second hammer-returning elements and a rotating element for returning the hammer to the starting position.

A nailing machine having a cylinder housing which houses a cylinder which slidably houses a piston in communication with a source of compressed fluid for moving the piston within the cylinder, and a nail machine body which integrally includes a grip portion. A nail magazine and a nail feeder cooperate...     

A rivet tool is supported for repeated displacement to a rivet setting location. When the tool is at this location, it is forcefully pushed against the workpiece during rivet setting to assure that the rivet will be properly set.

A portable setting device for driving fastening elements (4) through a structural member (B) has a muzzle part (1) mounted on and extending outwardly from a housing (2). The muzzle part (1) has a receiving region (5a) in a barrel (5) for a fastening element (4) in position ready to be driven. A feeler...     

Powder charge operated setting tool includes a barrel (11) and a closing or breech member (17), axially displaceable within a housing 1. Stops (3a, 17a) and shoulders (8b, 11e) cooperating with each other are provided in the housing (1) and on the barrel (11) as well as on the closing member (17) which...     

A pneumatically operated fastener driving tool having a pivotally mounted magazine. The displacement of the magazine is used to actuate the tool when the nosepiece is in engagement with a workpiece. With the magazine travel kept to a minimum, the magazine is coupled to a cam lever which amplifies the...     

A nailing machine includes a driver guide mounted on a body. A driver is provided and is reciprocally movable within a nail guide channel formed within the driver guide. A nail magazine is mounted on the driver guide and includes therein a nail storing channel in communication with the nail guide channel....     

A nailing machine according to the present invention comprises a nail push member for separating a nail from a nail band supplied to the nail injection hole of the nose member by the nail supply mechanism before the nail is driven by the percussion driver and for pushing the nail to the front of the...     

In a combustion-powered, fastener-driving tool, a cylinder body mounted fixedly within a housing structure has a combustion chamber defining an axis. A valve sleeve functions to open and close the combustion chamber. A piston operative within the combustion chamber and a driving blade moveable with the...