MISCELLANEOUS

A device adapted for use in the building construction industry for shooting a stud or other fastener into a ceiling in predetermined relation to a known point on a floor below. The device comprises an adjustable telescopic pole with a hanger arm extending laterally from its top. A plumb line, having...     

A stapler having a pair of elongated members pivotally interconnected at first ends thereof by a hinge pin so that the opposite ends of the members can move toward and away from each other to effect a stapling operation. One of the members carries an anvil at its opposite end and the other member has...     

An apparatus for mounting steps on the inner wall surface of a manhole section comprises implanting the steps in the section while the same is still green and following removal of the inner form but before removal of the outer form, positioning each step in confronting relation with the manhole section...     

A stapler has a housing which prevents the two arms of the stapler being opened right out. One part of the housing is attached to the base and engages with a part of the head, and prevents the head moving too far from the base. This part of the housing can be simply removed from the stapler itself. A...     

In a spring-energized stapling machine according to the invention, some provisions are included for extending the function of the machine and preventing any harm possibly caused by the abuse of the machine. These provisions comprise a check plate which can be adjusted to obstruct the operating handle...     

A nail-holding device comprises a magnetic block having two sides meeting at a right angle. When the block is positioned with one of such sides against a working surface, the other side is perpendicular to such surface. A longitudinally extending groove is provided in such other side in perpendicular...     

Attachment for converting a stapler for driving open staples into a stapler for driving closed staples, the attachment including a plate having a first portion which is clamped to the base of the stapler and a resilient second portion which extends a substantial angle to the first portion and carries...     

An improved and versatile nailing tool comprised of parallel and spaced-apart ramrod and nail feeding tubes intersecting adjacent one end thereof. A plurality of foot attachments are provided for accomodating different nailing situations, the attachments being removeably connected to one end of the ramrod...     

An attachment for a stapling gun of the type which is used in the finishing and construction business for fastening electric cable and the like, and more particularly, the pneumatic stapler which is used for securing electrical cable through its routing within a building structure. The attachment consists...     

A process for attaching one or more layers of materials to a base or backing having an anvil in its composition. A backing has incorporated therein an anvil strip of high impact material with formed depressions for clenching staples driven through the layer or layers to be attached. The anvil strip may...     

Apparatus for installing metallic inserts into thermoplastic material. The apparatus comprises a heating device in combination with a heating element having a first bore adapted to receive the heating device. The heating element is formed into an elongated tip specifically shaped to grasp a metallic...     

Staple depressions formed in a panel by the operation of a pneumatic staple driver are automatically filled with putty from a disposable cartridge. Delivery of the putty from the cartridge is automatically sequenced by the operation of the staple driver trigger. Actuation and release of the staple driver...     

A pole extension device for use with a powder-actuated tool. A cam-equipped handle is twistably mounted on the end of a hollow elongate body. An inelastic cable is disposed within the body engaging the tool firing mechanism and attached to a pin riding on the cam, such that twisting of the handle, relative...     

A device for simultaneously stapling and marking a workpiece is disclosed. The device comprises a main body housing means for driving staples into a workpiece as well as means for supporting a removable marking unit. The marking unit is positioned in the housing in such a manner as to apply an identifying...     

A nozzle assembly for a nail gun includes three wing portions pivotally mounted on a nozzle holder to define a nozzle tapering towards a nozzle outlet. When the wing portions are in their inner closed position they can support an upholsterer's nail with the nail head resting on the inner walls of the...     

A pneumatic, linear thrust hand tool, such as a nail driver wherein a charge of pressurized gas in a firing chamber acts, when a main valve is opened, to drive a ram downward. The main valve is opened by a higher pressure source gas entering a charging chamber under a piston carried on the valve stem....     

A new pop rivet assembly is disclosed, wherein said device is capable of forming a rivet hole in a workpiece, inserting a pop rivet into the hole and securing it in place in response to an operator's single blow using a conventional hammer, pneumatic driver or similar device.

An attachment for a typical saber saw to allow the depth of cut of the saber saw to be varied. The attachment includes a parallelogram-type member for attachment to the underside of the base plate of the saber saw and an adjustment member for varying the overall thickness or height of the parallelogram-type...     

In a nut installation head having a nut passage receiving a plurality of nuts in side by side relation, a transverse plunger passage communicating with said nut passage, a plunger reciprocating in said plunger passage to install a nut received in said plunger passage, a reciprocal feed for feeding a...     

This invention relates to a sewing apparatus. Staples or tacks having the function of a sewing thread are first penetrated successively through a work placed on a bed. The staples or tacks are supplied and fed successively from a feeder which is provided over the work. The extremities of the staples...     

A base for supporting a pocket seal press having a bottom, the base having a recess therein adapted to receive the bottom of the seal press with the bottom of the seal press bearing on the bottom of the recess, the bottom of the recess having an opening therein. The base further comprises a latch at...     

A device for protecting a surface into which fasteners are driven. The device includes a shield portion and a handle substantially parallel to the shield. An opening is provided in the shield portion large enough to accommodate the head of a nail, and an elongated open slot extends from an edge of the...     

The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus and an article for piercing tissue especially human ear tissue. A thermoplastic sleeve having a boss on one end is forced through the tissue into contact with a heating member which melts the thermoplastic thus forming a boss on the other end of...     

A stapler assembly frame arranged to be associated with a common office stapler to form a complete assembly, the frame being composed of a pair of two-armed levers pivotally connected at a location between the arms of each lever in the manner of scissors. In the region of their pivot axis one scissors...     

Leveling apparatus for a hand tool such as an electric drill or reciprocating saw is comprised of both a cylindrical bubble level and circular bubble level. The cylindrical bubble level has a longitudinal axis parallel to the working axis of the tool, and thus is utilized for leveling the tool in a horizontal...     

The invention relates to an axial impact tool for driving nails or staples into normally inaccessible places. The tool consists of a guide tube and impact rod slidable inside of said guide tube and containing a heavy handle extending outside of one end of said tube and a magnetic fitting which fits onto...     

A method wherein palletized loads are deposited on a gravity-type conveyor at the upper end, and are moved by gravity toward the lower end, with the palletized loads being stored on the conveyor until the load at the lower end is removed, whereupon the loads are then automatically advanced downwardly....     

A tool for driving fasteners includes a casing defining a nose portion and a handle portion within which is a reservoir for pressurized fluid. A driver is mounted in the nose portion that is reciprocated by a piston attached thereto and an assembly for returning the piston to a static position after...     

A tool for driving fasteners includes a housing defining a handle portion and a nose portion. A driver is reciprocally mounted within the housing as is an assembly for driving the driver through a fastener driving stroke. A muffler is mounted in the housing adjacent and in fluid communication with the...     

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...     

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...     

The instrument has a separable body composed of two oblong interlinked members, each of them carrying at one of its vacant ends a detachable split bush adapted for the element being sutured to pass through the interior thereof and arranged across the longitudinal axis of the respective instrument body...     

A ram block for driving piles and the like into the ground has a lead mass (15) which is enclosed in an inner cylinder (10) and in the space between this and an outer cylinder (11). The cylinders are interconnected at the lower end of the ram block where a cap (14) is arranged in the inner cylinder.

A batten setter for laying batten strips on a surface at a predetermined distance from each other which comprises a first end portion and a second end portion, said first and second end portions being connected together by at least one adjustable frame member so that the distance between said first and...     

A pin chuck press having means for adjusting the rest position of the pin inserting means up or down with respect to a work piece supporting base so that the inserting means will be able to place pins in the cooperating holes in work pieces of different vertical dimensions.

An indicator for a surgical stapler viewable through a window adjacent the handle when the stapler magazine is within a spaced relation range to the stapler anvil; whereby, the staples are properly deformed and the stapled tissue is not inordinately crushed.

An assembly for loading a tool for driving uncollated nails. The tool includes a body with a driver blade for driving fasteners supplied from a magazine carried by the body and supporting a row of nails. A pusher urges the nails along a feed path in the magazine. Individual nails are advanced from the...     

A pair of pliers designed to grasp a short nail or tack and support the same while being pounded into a work by a hammer; the pliers including a pair of jaws between which the tack is held and extends outwardly from one end thereof, while the hammer is struck against the opposite end of the jaws.

A fastener applying tool driven by air in a driving stroke and a return stroke featuring noise and recoil reduction and increased efficiency, driving force, and speed of operation. Air directed into the main cylinder to force the main piston through its driving stroke is stored in a chamber to rapidly...     

A stapler which includes an interchangeable staple magazine and combines desk, wall and hand stapler functions. The stapler utilizes a tensioned coil spring completely enclosed within the magazine to force a load of staples toward a staple driver, the spring varying in length less than fifty percent...     

A surgical stapling instrument comprising a handle and a trigger pivotally attached and on compression internal to the handle has been invented. The forward portion of the handle contains: a track; a plurality of staples loaded and staple advancing means carried on the track; a track cover mounted onto...     

Multiple pins are affixed in the holes of a ceramic substrate by simultaneously impacting the pins with a piston assembly which temporarily places the pins in a viscoelastic fluid state. Upon return of the pins and the resultant fluid flow to its undisturbed solid state, each pin is left with an extension...     

My invention is directed to portable pneumatic nail driving devices for working with large nails ranging in size from 30 to 90 penny which are fed from a primary chute through a transfer chute to a nail driving barrel carried by a base frame. Upstanding from the base are guides over which slides a cradle...     

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...     

A pot shaped housing insert (6) is arranged in a driving apparatus for fastener elements, such as nails, between a pot shaped main body (2) and the driving cylinder (12). In such a driving apparatus the excess driving energy is taken up by an impact buffer (11) made of elastic material. The housing insert...     

Disclosed is an improved fastener attacher for therein loading and thereby dispensing fasteners which are manufactured in integral assemblies from a synthetic resin and which individually comprise a head, a crossbar and their connecting filament having a connecting neck through which each fastener is...     

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...     

A stapler for attaching a plurality of sheets of paper, or the like, to each other comprises an elongated anvil member, forming a base, an elongated staple magazine member and an elongated driver member, forming a cover, all pivotally connected, at one end, to each other, there being a detent on the...     

A flashlight screwdriver combination, the screwdriver being carried by a holder of the approximate size and shape of the flashlight it is to contain, the holder being of flexible construction and having a flashlight access permitting the flashlight to be squeezed into the holder, the holder carrying...     

An apparatus for driving offset fasteners including a pneumatic body, piston housing, reciprocating piston and cartridge. The cartridge includes a stepped track plate and spring member. The spring member and plate cooperate to secure and urge the offset fasteners successively into the piston housing....     

An apparatus for driving plugs into railway tie holes remaining after the removal of at least one rail and its associated tie plate and rail spikes from the railway ties, includes a vehicle adapted for travel along narrow gauge rails temporarily installed on the ties, or along the standard gauge rails...     

A semi-automatic hand-held pneumatic gun for installing plastic rivets. The gun includes a handle equipped with a manual trigger, and an associated magazine which serially feeds a plurality of stored rivets. Repetitive semi-automatic cycling of the gun is established by cooperation between a triggered...     

The invention discloses a tool for securing wire to grapevines by staples. The tool comprises a long handle pivotally mounted to a plate, the plate is bent at a 90 degree angle, one of the plate's side faces the handle. The handle has two circular depressions for holding the staples.

A stapling device utilizes heat recoverable material (the driver) having shape memory to drive staples through materials to be joined and in one embodiment, against an anvil for crimping the ends of the staples. The heat recoverable material, preferably a metal such as Nitinol, may have heat applied...     

A staple throat for a stapling machine comprising a one-piece body member having a central longitudinal bore therethrough, and diametrically opposed elongated guide slots in the sides of the bore for receiving and guiding staples and a flat staple driver toward an anvil in the stapling machine.

A driving tool for an elongated fastener of ferro-magnetic material, including an elongated hollow tubular body reciprocably receiving a driving rod having an impact end and a drive end. The drive end is characterized by an internal cavity receiving an Indalloy permanent magnet, the open end of the cavity...     

An improved hand tool is provided which permits easy field removal and replacement of connecting rivets employed with agricultural implement sickle sections, and is especially designed for use with relatively new so-called double sickle sections which present only very limited working clearance. The...     

The present invention provides an improved and new stapler including a base with an anvil at the forward end thereof, a hollow frame for containing a set of staples and a handle having an integral staple driver formed therein, all of which are molded from a synthetic resin material, said hollow frame...     

A sheetrock hammer attachment used in conjunction with a pneumatic hammer operator having a rear body portion and a forward body portion, the forward body portion comprising a threaded bore having its forward end surrounded by a smooth outer sleeve and the rear body portion having an operating switch...     

A guide bench, or magazine, for fastener elements. Formed mainly of plastics, a first metal portion is embedded to provide a surface of an ejection runway and a further metal portion is embedded to provide a retaining surface. If desired, the two metal portions can form integral parts of a single metal...     

A staple gun tacker having a staple driving blade is disclosed which is adapted to be used in driving and setting a rivet of the type having a pin member mounted in a rivet shank having an expandable workpiece piercing free end. The staple gun tacker includes a front cover over the driving mechanism...     

A riveting press for the application of several types of compatible first and second articles of hardware to garments has a discrete magazine for each first and second article, applicators for first and compatible second articles, a foot pedal for initiating a cycle of operation of the applicators, and...     

A hollow sheet metal steel fastener for joining wood and/or wood product assemblies subjected to high shear and bending stress loadings. The fastener comprises an elongated, equilateral triangular tubular shaft with continuous stiffening ribs along the centerlines of the three sides to effect and approximate...     

A hand-held staple driving tool is provided for driving staples near to obstructions, such as walls. The tool has a solenoid, a solenoid plunger and a staple driving knife which is mounted generally parallel to the axis of the solenoid, but outboard of it near the front of the housing. The staple driving...     

The present invention provides a stapler comprising a base formed with an anvil at its forward end, a frame containing a set of staples and forwardly biasing the set of staples to position the forwardmost one of the staples at a location coincident with a staple driving aperture formed in the frame at...     

The present invention provides a stapler including a base section having an anvil at its forward end, a frame section containing a set of staples and forwardly biasing the set of staples toward a through-opening on the forward end of the frame section, a handle section pivotally mounted on the frame...     

An attachment for a staple gun tacker having a staple driving blade is disclosed which is adapted to be used in driving and setting a rivet of the type having a pin member mounted in a headed rivet shank having an expandable workpiece piercing free end. The attachment includes a housing adapted to be...     

A stitching head includes a crank rotatable about a longitudinal axis through an oscillatory displacement in each of the opposite drive and return directions of a cycle. The crank has a plurality of crank pins displaced radially from the longitudinal axis of the crank. A pivotally mounted staple supporter...     

A hand-held manually-operable tool is disclosed for installing a two-piece expandable plastic fastener (including an expandable body and an insertable pin) in a panel hole. The tool comprises a hand-held housing having a hollow barrel from which a spring-biased hollow plastic sleeve projects. A pushrod...     

A system for setting or driving wedge sockets into holes of a structural ponent combines a mounting member having two shaft sections forming the socket, with a driver having a pistol shape with a pistol grip and a trigger for releasing an automatic impact force. The driver, for example energized by compressed...     

A fastener driving tool comprising a spring activated hammer, wherein the hammer is manually cocked. A foot actuated cocking mechanism is disclosed for cocking the hammer.

A system for producing confectionary products, especially lollipops, is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of molds mounted on a conveyor belt assembly. A dispensing means adapted for injecting a predetermined quantity of fluid into each of the molds is positioned proximate the belt. A stick...     

A device for indicating the depletion of fasteners within the magazine of a pneumatic fastener gun is disclosed. The device comprises an audible signal producing apparatus mounted on the gun housing and a trigger apparatus mounted on the magazine follower. The trigger apparatus activates the signal producing...     

The present invention provides a staple including a base, a hollow frame pivotably mounted on the base and having a forward closed end and a rearward opened end, a handle pivotably mounted on the frame and a feeder mounted in the hollow portion of the frame, the feeder including a cap mounted on the...     

The present invention provides a stapler including a base, a frame pivotally mounted on the base as its rearward end, a handle pivotally mounted on the frame at its rearward end, at least the handle being made of a plastic material, the base including a recess formed on its surface facing the frame at...     

A combination stapler, tape dispenser, hole puncher, pencil sharpener, paper clip holder, and storage compartment. A function plate with a block on top of it which can be slid back and forth lengthwise along the base of the present invention, so as to set which function can be used, i.e. the stapler...     

An automatic fastening machine where clips of cohered fasteners (11, 15) fall freely onto a guide means (12) as they are needed and a fastener advancing means (13) intermittently urges the clips of fasteners toward a drive element (60). The drive element pushes the frontmost fastener on a clip into a...     

The present invention provides a device for advancing fasteners in a magazine to a fastening tool. A plate assembly includes a base plate rigidly connected to a feed track and a pivot plate pivotally connected in a parallel orientation to the base plate. A motor is mounted to the pivot plate in such...     

The present invention provides a cassette type stapler comprising a base member, a cassette receiving member pivotably connected with the base member and including a hollow portion with a forward opened end and a rearward closed end, a handle member pivotably mounted on the cassette receiving member,...     

This invention relates to a pin head assembly and in particular to one comprising a stopper having a neck at its inner surface, a hammer disposed within the stopper with the upper end thereof threadedly engaged with a rod of an air cylinder, a body located under the stopper and suspended by two springs...     

An anvil for a disposable stapler is provided by an elongate metal member of undulated transverse cross-section which is an interference fit in a recess formed in a plastic base of the stapler and which is force fit therewithin to position and locate the anvil in the absence of further securing members.

A stapler comprised of a base body having an anvil at one end, a staple holder having a slot at one end in the vicinity of an end wall and a staple block consisting of many staples positioned between said wall and a pushing spring, a pushing body having a staple pushing plate at one end for extruding...     

The invention provides a multi-purpose safety device which can be used in conventional nailing operations to guide the nail to be driven safely, conveniently and quickly at a desired angle and which can be used for measuring angles and inclinations as well as levelling. The invention includes a driving...     

An electropneumatic V-staple driving machine includes: a machine stand with a switching device on the upper side; a first pressure cylinder member matched with a linking-up mechanism disposed on top of the machine stand; a double positioning seat and a first support frame installed over the first pressure...     

A base for use with a tacker. The base includes a plate fixed on a first cavity at the front side thereof with a rivet. A groove is disposed in the plate. A bending plate is attached to the rear end of a resilient plate such that the staple remover of a tacker can be set within the bending plate, thus...     

A hand-held staple driving tool is provided for driving staples near to obstructions, such as walls. The tool has a solenoid, a solenoid plunger and a staple driving knife which is mounted generally parallel to the axis of the solenoid, but outboard of it near the front of the housing. The staple driving...     

A riveting head for coupling to a stapling apparatus, which is provided with a covering body, a member for removably engaging the covering body with the stapling apparatus, a pulling unit movably mounted within the covering body and formed to grip a stem in turn formed with a frangible head at one end...     

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

A fastener machine and fastener supply magazine therefor include a fastener guide in the machine and means for impelling fasteners along the guide to a fastened driving head, while the magazine automatically feeds clips of fasteners to the guide means from a stack of fastener clips contained in the magazine.

A gutter installation tool for positioning on a gutter and detachably holding a ferrule in position within the gutter while also detachably holding a nail external to the gutter, the nail being in longitudinal alignment with the ferrule, thus eliminating the need for the gutter installer to hold the...     

A fixation stake for securing articles such as benthic barriers to the earth comprising hollow thin-walled elongated plastic body and an enlarged head portion at one end thereof, and a method and apparatus for inserting the stakes into the ground comprising a rod portion of a size suitable to be inserted...     

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 cover case, made from transparent synthetic resin, includes in the surface of the case two kinds of magnifying windows. Through the windows, the binding position can be easily seen and the time for replenishing the staples can be easily found.

A connector (10) for positioning fasteners (16) in a preformed opening (24) in a wall (12). Tabs (18) formed on the front surface (13) of the wall (12) guide the nail gun (22) and trip a trigger mechanism to cause the fastener (16) to be driven through the wall (12) and into an abutting structural member....     

A driving tool comprising a cylinder, a piston movable axially within the cylinder, a driving element movable conjointly with the piston so as to move through a central aperture of an end wall of the cylinder in a driving stroke and in a return stroke, and a bumper, which arrests movement of the piston...     

A hand-held staple driving tool is provided for driving staples near to obstructions, such as walls. The tool has a solenoid, a olenoid plunger and a staple driving knife which is mounted generally parallel to the axis of the solenoid, but outboard of it near the front of the housing. The staple driving...     

A paper trimmer including a base having an upper surface for supporting paper to be cut by a cutter structure pivotally mounted to one edge of the base. Structure is associated with the base for carrying associated office supply and office device elements, such as paper clips, an adhesive tape dispenser,...     

Disclosed is a stapler and a staple to be used in the stapler, by which a slip or the like can be permanently or temporarily fastened with the staple onto ground paper, corrugated cardboard, or the like so that the slip or the like can be easily removed therefrom without taking off the staple. The staple...     

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...     

An apparatus for applying small parts, such as ribets, eyelets, snaps, hooks, buttons, etc., to a carrier material is provided. In addition to having an applying tool, the apparatus includes a separating or sorting magazine for the storage of loose small parts. This magazine comprises a container that...