Including supply magazine for constantly urged members

A fluid power driven roof nailing machine which receives a roofing nail and a sealing disc and, keeping them axially aligned, drives the nail through the disc into a surface to be nailed. The machine includes an arm swingably driven by a fluid motor, a sealing disc holder fixedly carried by the free...     

A curved pin provided with an enlarged planar solid or open head lying in the plane of the shank of the pin and extending inwardly therefrom together with an apparatus for holding a plurality of such pins and inserting each pin sequentially are provided. The curved pin is particularly useable by one...     

A nail and nail clip arrangement in which so-called common nails may have their shanks grit-blasted and the edge of their heads flattened along equal parallel planes to provide a minor diametral dimension of the nail head that is approximately twice the diameter of the nail shank. The heads are alternately...     

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...     

A curved pin provided with an enlarged planar solid or open head lying in the plane of the shank of the pin and extending inwardly therefrom together with an apparatus for holding a plurality of such pins and inserting each pin sequentially are provided. The curved pin is particularly useable by one...     

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...     

Staples are delivered to guides in a vertical column by a plurality of slides which move out of the way after the delivery. A boot or shoe and a heel to be stapled is fitted upside down over a heel-shaped last at the top of the column. A pneumatic cylinder and hammers force the staples through the guides...     

A tool for driving staples or nails and simultaneously providing reinforcement therefore. The tool is particularly useful in installing roofing material, although it has equal utility in attaching labels, tags and the like to shipping cases, and siding to buildings, and other purposes. In a preferred...     

In a stapler composed of three parts constituting, respectively, a base plate carrying a staple leg bending anvil, a staple magazine for holding a strip of staples, and an actuating lever carrying a staple driver disposed to drive successive staples toward the anvil, the staple magazine is connected...     

For mounting a food product, such as a frankfurter or an apple, on a stick, an apparatus includes relatively reciprocable jaws which converge on and hold the food product in position on an insertion axis. Individual sticks are gravity fed through a supply duct which aligns each stick with the insertion...     

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 container contains a plurality of strips or rows of nails adhesively secured together and a wedge block splits off one row at a time for dispensing. The separated strip of nails is moved forwardly by means of a magnet so that the front nail of the strip is situated through an aperture and under a tappet....     

A surgical stapling instrument for forming and implanting a staple in the skin or fascia of a patient to close a wound or incision therein. The instrument comprises a handle portion and a nose portion. The nose portion houses a staple driver operable by an actuator pivotally associated with the handle...     

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....     

A magazine of a nailer gun organizes nails with the head of each nail in sliding contact with parallel support rails and the point of each nail on a support track that parallels the rails. The rails and track orient the nails so that they are parallel to each other and at an acute angle to the perpendicular...     

A wiener stick applicator composed of a drum or magazine rotatable about its horizontal longitudinal axis and having parallel grooves extending longitudinally of its exterior for supporting handle sticks and wieners or wieners/half wieners, in axial aligned relationship, fed to the grooves from chute...     

A stapler including a driver, a magazine for sticks of staples, and a staple feeder for feeding staple sticks from the magazine to the driver and biasing the stick into position for stapling, said feeder comprising an endless belt arranged frictionally to engage the crown of a said stick and means for...     

Novel system for applying surgical clips consisting of an instrument and disposable cartridge that together create a forceps with the cartridge being quickly detachable from the instrument to permit easy and fast replacement during a surgical procedure. The instrument has ring handles as a forceps and...     

A drilling and driving device provides, in combination, a drilling tool for drilling a borehole and a percussion attachment for driving fastening elements into the borehole. The drilling device includes a housing into which a drilling tool can be inserted. The percussion attachment is pivotally mounted...     

An apparatus and supply strip is disclosed for inserting terminal pins into an apertured workpiece. The apparatus includes reciprocating feeding means for sequentially advancing a supply strip of integrally connected preformed terminal pins toward the workpiece; shearing means for severing the leading...     

A disposable surgical stapling instrument for forming and implanting surgical staples in the skin or fascia of a patient to close a wound or incision. The instrument comprises an elongated body having a forward portion and a rearward portion serving as a handle portion. The forward portion of instrument...     

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 medical stapling device in which open staples are moved along a track between two grooved rails by a drive member having spaced lugs. Upon activation of the device, the lugs are moved into engagement with the staples and advance them along the track so that the leading staple will be formed around...     

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 power screwdriver for use with a flexible string of disconnected screws retained in head to tip orientation by attachment to a continuous length of plastic, paper or similar flexible material. The string of screws feeds into a rearward section of a reciprocating shaft of the power screwdriver where...     

An electric stapler comprising: a staple bending table; a main arm having a staple push-out blade at the forward edge thereof and supported turnably at the rear edge thereof; a sub-arm turnably supported by said main arm at a position other than the support point for rotation of said main arm; and a...     

This invention concerns a hook-nail and its driving machine having a specially designed hook-nail magazine, an impelling device and other components. The said impelling device, slidably mounted on an impelling ram and spring-energized, drives said hook-nail forward in a trough formed by said magazine...     

The specification discloses a forming die or ram movable along a guideway or track by a pair of toggle-joint linkages to move from a column of staples a staple having a downwardly bowed central portion into engagement with an anvil, then bend outer portions down over the anvil to drive pointed legs into...     

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...     

Disclosed herein is a consecutive nailing machine with specially joined nails manufactured in rows. The machine is capable of hammering the joined nails one by one, separatively and consecutively, into wood.

An electronically operated portable nail driving gun is disclosed. Nails are driven into a workpiece by a driver blade which is actuated by a solenoid powered by a source of alternating current. Each actuation of the device produces two successive driving strokes delivered to a nail. The tool is also...     

A thumbtack tacker tacking thumbtacks by pushing action comprising a case provided with a arc-shaped housing portion housing a lot of thumbtacks inside the case, an arm provided with a V-shaped pick-up member picking up a thumbtack inside the arc-shaped housing portion along the arc-shaped face of the...     

A stapler apparatus having an improved anvil to which staples are applied during a driving operation by a driver member for the apparatus. The anvil is formed with a depression or opening between the clinching grooves and is of size to include the adjacent ends of the grooves. The depression or opening...     

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 percussion tool, disclosed as a nail driver, having a plunger-like hammer or driver which is driven through working and return strokes by a power piston movable in a cylinder which is pressurized with a working fluid and vented by selective actuation of a unique and simplified valving arrangement to...     

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 nailing tool in the form of a hammer is provided to enable a number of nails to be knocked successively into workpieces by single-handed operation. The tool comprises a cavity in the handle of the hammer forming the nail magazine, followed by a passage in the handle leading to a curved deflector within...     

The glazier holds the toe of the driver on the glass, adjacent the edge of the sash, such that a handle trigger can be operated to drive the lowermost point from the magazine into the sash by the action of a coiled compression spring. The magazine has an insert associated with it so that points of various...     

The glazier holds the toe of the driver on the glass, adjacent the edge of the sash, such that a handle trigger can be operated to drive the lowermost point from the magazine into the sash by the action of a coiled compression spring. The magazine has an insert associated with it so that points of various...     

A tool for applying fasteners to fasten an article to the workpiece. A compressible foot is provided to limit the drive distance of a plunger to position dependent upon the thickness of the article. A drive groove in the tool provides support for the fastener until it is driven into the workpiece. The...     

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 tacker has a magazine to contain staples and a striker movable against a spring biassed to eject the staples from an ejection slot. An integral handle and pawl are provided to engage the striker to move the striker against the spring bias, the pawl being disengageable from the striker to release the...     

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 machine for preparing and cooking corn dogs which are batter coated weiners upon a stick has a fry tank and coating bin mounted on a frame. Food articles are impaled by sticks driven through clasps in holes in a stick clamp. The food articles are dipped into a coating substance by elevation of the...     

A magazine for use with a fastener driving tool employing a strip of fasteners formed into a coil, and having a fixed portion to be fastened to such a tool, wall means forming a portion of said fixed portion for engaging such a coil of fasteners, a mounting member on the fixed portion along an axis centrally...     

A generally conventional hammer construction is provided including a nail containing and feeding magazine supported therefrom and extending through the head of the hammer and the adjacent handle portion thereof along a substantially straight path disposed in a plane which contains not only the handle...     

A spring actuated staple driving device including a combined housing and magazine assembly constructed of an outer metal casing and an interior plastic core, the plastic core being provided by a molded body which provides key functional surfaces which materially aids in the assembly and accuracy of assembly....     

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...     

A stapler for applying a staple to join living tissue, a major portion or all of which stapler can be made as a unitary molding. The stapler comprises a body adapted to support the staple adjacent an anvil, and a ram adapted to close the staple around the anvil slidably mounted on the body. A single...     

A multiple clip applier including a handle and a cartridge which holds a large number of ligating clips and which snaps into a cartridge-receiving channel on the handle. The handle operates like an elongted scissors with scissors handles at one end and jaws at the other to which clips may be delivered...     

Disclosed is apparatus for locking and dispensing self-lockable fasteners, comprising a pair of a socket holder and an inserting-part holder. The socket holder comprises a groove for holding sockets of a plurality of fasteners in a series arrangement and a pusher for forcing the plurality of series arranged...     

A stapler for binding sheets of papers by driving a stapler into stacked sheets of paper. The stapler has a base member provided with an anvil plate, a staple magazine member and a driving member provided with a staple drive plate. The base member, staple magazine member and the driving member are pivotally...     

A simplified reliable fastener installation apparatus or head assembly particularly suitable for installing self-attaching pierce or clinch nuts. The head assembly includes a stationary base plate for attachment to a die shoe and a mating relatively moveable member. The moveable member, which may be...     

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...     

Surgical fastener applying apparatus including an actuator and a removable surgical fastener container cartridge. The cartridge fits loosely into a cartridge holder part of the actuator which translates linearly toward or away from an anvil part of the actuator. As the cartridge holder translates toward...     

An electrically-operated manual device, such as a nail driver, has an electric motor for actuating an axially-movable impact body. The motor is a vibrating armature AC motor having a single-sided movably arranged vibrating armature which, in dependence of the power supply frequency, acts with a high...     

A magazine device of an air nailer is disclosed. A support shaft for supporting a coil nail is formed by fitting concentrically a guide post having an outer diameter corresponding to the winding diameter of the coil nail, an adjust post inside the guide post and a tension post inside the adjust post...     

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....     

A stapling machine, whose arms, of which one carries the stapling head and staple magazine and the other an anvil for bending them into shape, are constructed in a single piece body and are linked together about a weakened joint area with at least two leaves acting upon it or upon a cross stiffener in...     

An improved piston and driver structure includes a synthetic piston body, a bifurcated piston insert and a driver secured within the insert by means of a pin and by means of frictional engagement of the driver by the piston insert when the insert is assembled to the piston body. The piston insert has...     

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...     

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 staple forming and driving tool for forming staple wires fed from a staple belt into staples and driving such staples into a workpiece comprising a driver, a former positioned to be driven by the driver, a former block and a sheath, all of which parts are held to a stationary stapler head by means...     

The present invention relates to a construction of a stapler having a base, a staple magazine hinged to the base, a magazine follower arranged in the staple magazine, and a guide body positioned over the staple magazine and hinged to the base. The stapler is characterized by two novel elements. At least...     

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.

The invention is concerned with a nail driving tool preferably operable in pneumatical manner, comprising a magazine for nails composed to form straight rows or straight strips, which nails are successively forced from the front end of a guide, possibly corresponding to the staggered arrangement of the...     

A fastener striking apparatus for fasteners, especially for staples, nails, etc., comprising a housing with a plunger to be struck arranged therein, a tool portion arranged at the housing containing a fastener channel with the plunger guided therein during the striking operation, and a magazine for the...     

A bone stapler including a staple cartridge that, when removed from the stapler, insures that no staple can remain in the stapler, and is held in place by a rotatable locking member that in one position can pass through an opening in a wall of the stapler and can then be rotated to hold the cartridge...     

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 staple forming and driving tool (10) employing a vertical front portion of a staple head base (34), and sheath (40) to provide a space for the reciprocating former member (70) and a driver (80). A spring (50) urges base (34) and the sheath (40) together with spacer lugs (33) maintaining a defined distance...     

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...     

A relatively small desk-type stapler is disclosed which both forms and drives the staple from a belt of staple blanks retained in a removable cartridge. The stapler includes a driver, a former positioned to be driven by the driver, a former block and a sheath, all of which ports are held to a stationary...     

A fastener feeding apparatus is used to supply a pair of strips of detachably connected staples to a magazine of a fastener driving device in each loading cycle of the feeding apparatus. A plurality of pairs of strips of staples are supplied to an inclined receiving bin of the fastener feeding apparatus...     

A surgical stapling instrument is disclosed. The instrument has a handle, a trigger, means for carrying a staple, the carrying means comprising a track for containing at least one staple, and means for closing the staple. The improvement to the track comprises a leaf spring. The track and the leaf spring...     

Disclosed herein is an improved nail driving tool comprising a housing including a reciprocable driver, a driver guide fixedly connected to and extending vertically from the lower end of the housing for slidably receiving the driver therein, a handle secured to and extending laterally outwardly from...     

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 rivet driver is disclosed, which comprises a guide space through which a rivet belt is fed, feeder means for feeding the rivet belt through the guide space stepwise at increments equal to the pitch of the branch portions, re-directing means operable in an interlocked relation with the feeding operation...     

A drywall tool provides tactile and audible feedback to the user, as a fastener is driven by frequent multiple blows, to indicate when the fastener is properly driven, and the drywall dimpled, without tearing the paper facing of the drywall. Dimpling apparatus and a firing valve for controlling the multiple...     

First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing....     

First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing....     

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...     

An electronic stapler suitable to accommodate staples in the form of staple sheets, in which a predetermined number of unformed staple elements are connected adjacent to one another, and a number of these staple sheets are stacked and accommodated in a generally rectangular cartridge, which is placed...     

A device for driving fastening elements, such as nails, staples and the like, includes a magazine extending transversely from a driving unit. A follower is located within the magazine for supplying fastening elements to the driving unit. For filling the magazine with fastening elements, the follower...     

A screw driving apparatus has a housing (1) for the drive system and a hollow screw guide member (2) rigidly secured to the housing (1). A screw driver blade (5) is axially displaceable in the hollow screw guide member and relative to a drive motor forming part of the drive system. This arrangement of...     

First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing....     

In an organizing device comprising a stapler and a hole punch, the magazine for the staples is exploitable substantially over its entire length, since the spring for feeding the staples is arranged transverse to the feed direction and is fastened outside of the magazine. Due to this space-saving arrangement...     

A surgical stapler includes a supply of staples which are fed one at a time to the discharge opening where a driver in the stapler housing bends the staple around the anvil, the anvil being retracted within the housing away from the discharge opening as the driver completes the bending operation.

A dispenser for closures ejects an end-most closure contained in a pivotably mounted housing for closing a bag. The closures are formed with a hole and a cut leading from one side to the hole. In one embodiment, the dispenser is wall mounted such that a weight may be used for feeding closures to a dispensing...     

A guide rail is provided along the length of the inside of a channel shaped frame which staples are loaded in. A staple pushing member, namely, a slider is provided which can move on this guide rail. One end of a tension coil spring is fitted to one side of the guide rail on the inside of the frame,...     

A surgical stapler, preferably in a single use disposable form, comprises a combination of a staple feeding mechanism and a staple forming mechanism secured in a frame and an actuating trigger functionally connected to both the staple feeding mechanism and the staple forming mechanism, wherein the staple...     

An impact nailing and dimpling apparatus is described. In the apparatus there is provided a dimpler and valve assembly for automatically controlling the depth to which nails and dimples are set in a wallboard. A base member is also provided for orientating the apparatus for repeatedly and reliably driving...     

A small desk type stapler having a pivoted cover frame and magazine is disclosed. The magazine has a magazine slide which is retracted upon pivoting the cover frame to the open position. The slide is retracted to a position where it interconnects with a portion of the cover frame and holds the cover...     

The present invention provides a staple cassette including a relatively elongated body having a hollow portion extending throughout the length of the body and having a pair of staple driving apertures formed in the body adjacent to its forward end and aligned with each other and feeder means in the hollow...     

A quick disconnect system for use in rapidly changing die shoes in a press. The system is adapted for use with a fastener installation head. The system includes a receptacle connected to a supply of fasteners and a power outlet connected to a power means, both mounted in the press, and a fastener plug...     

A surgical stapler device of the so-called pistol grip type includes a stack of staples loaded into a lower cartridge in an orientation similar to a conventional paper stapler. A former rotates and turns a leading staple 90.degree. or normal to its prior orientation in the stack of staples as the former...     

A mechanical feeding mechanism for delivering plugs seriatum from a cylindrical delivery chute having upper and lower latching mechanisms. Each of the upper and lower latching mechanisms are movable from a latching position wherein the latching mechanism engages a plug in the chute and an unlatching...     

An installation apparatus and method of attaching a female element, such as a nut, to a panel, wherein the panel is pierced and the female element is permanently installed in the pierced panel opening in a continuous operation. The female element includes a body portion and an annular barrel portion....     

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...