Abstract: A fluid-powered percussion tool includes a percussion piston which, under the effect of a control alternately performs a working stroke and a return stroke with the aid of a control valve. The control valve assumes a working stroke or a return stroke position, depending on the position of the percussion piston. In the working stroke position, the percussion piston is admitted with working pressure such that it performs a working stroke counter to the effect of a continuous reset force. In contrast, the percussion piston is connected in the return stroke position to a discharge line so that it performs a return stroke under the effect of the reset force. The control valve is admitted during the working stroke with working pressure and is thereby held in the working stroke position.

Abstract: A compressor piston divides a first compartment into two compression chambers, while a hammer piston divides a second compartment into two drive chambers, each of the compression chambers being connected to a respective one of the drive chambers to form a closed fluid system wherein reciprocation of the compressor piston-causes cyclic compression and expansion of the fluid in the compression chambers and thus in the drive chambers, to effect a cyclic impacting of the hammer piston with a bit adapter connected to the drill bit. A mud motor rotates a shaft to drive an oscillator which reciprocates the compressor piston. The oscillator can comprise roller elements in the compressor piston in engagement with canted grooves in the shaft. While drilling mud drives the motor and then passes downwardly to flush the drill bit and the borehole, the drilling mud is isolated from the closed fluid system.

Abstract: An apparatus for attaching rivets, buttons or the like to textiles or the like, having a plunger which performs the riveting stroke and whose upward and downward movement is controlled by the interaction of the top end of the plunger with a cam plate rotationally driven by an electric motor, the apparatus performing a sequence of attachments upon actuation of a switch or the like, the electric motor (39) running at a fixed preset angular velocity being stopped briefly in the top dead-center position of the plunger (24) by a braking device or the like in order to reduce the cycle frequency of the plunger stroke. To this end, the control unit switches off the drive motor (39) in the top dead-center position of the plunger for a preprogrammed time and switches it on again after the preprogrammed waiting time has expired and actuates a brake in particular during the waiting time.

Abstract: Two transverse rod portions of a securing piece having the transverse rod portion at the both ends of a filament portion respectively are simultaneously driven through hollow needles 22 and 22 while journaling one end of a lever 13 so as to approach or separate from a grip portion 12 formed on a body 11 by oscillating, journaling one end of a support table 14 having a bottom support table 14a at the bottom of the body 11, making the front of the support 14 approach or separate from the body 11 by interlocking with the lever 13 and oscillating, and inserting two hollow needles 22 and 22 provided for the bottom of the body 11 into two needle holes 21 and 21 opened in the bottom support table 14a and moreover, an object 7 to be fixed is fixed to an object 6 to be worked by operating the lever 13 while mounting the object 6 to be worked and the object 7 to be fixed on the bottom support table 14a.

Abstract: An improved grip structure for a pneumatic tool, in which the grip is furnished with a valve seat mounted with a control valve; the central part of the valve seat has an intake passage, of which the outer end is connected with an intake connector, the valve seat and a ring-shaped groove of the bearing-block hole in the dynamic housing are connected and communicated each other by means of an intake passage.

Abstract: A pneumatic impact breaker comprises a housing (11) with a cylinder bore (20), a hammer piston (28) with a piston head (63) and an impact delivering stem portion (64), an anvil (14) displaceably supported in a cylinder bore extension (50) and normally abutting against the shank (15) of a working implement (16), an annular energy absorbing air cushion chamber (59) is formed between the hammer piston (28), the cylinder bore (20) and an annular shoulder (49) in the cylinder bore (20), wherein the piston head (63) is formed with two axially spaced end portions (65, 66) for guiding and sealing cooperation with the cylinder bore (20).

Abstract: A method of preparing filled plastic containers by preparing a formed plastic precursor by thermoforming, pressure molding, or tabletting in a precursor preparation station, heating the plastic precursor in a heating station to a compression molding temperature, preparing a plastic preform by compression molding the heat plastic precursor in a preform production station, blow molding the preform into the configuration of a final container in a blow molding station, and filling the blow molded container in a filling station, wherein the preform preparation, blow molding and filling are performed sequentially in physically proximate operations.

Abstract: An improved feed shell positioning mechanism for a rock drilling machine, having a boom, a feed shell support pivotably mounted with respect to the boom and supporting a feed shell having a feed shell axis, a roll actuator interposed between the boom and the feed shell support, and a rock drill having a rock drill axis. The rock drill axis and the feed shell axis are parallel and define a reference plane. The improvement resides in a swivel assembly for attaching the feed shell support to the roll actuator, allowing the feed shell support to swivel between a forward drilling orientation and a sideways drilling orientation. The swivel assembly has a roll actuator securing element, mounted to the roll actuator, and a feed shell support securing element, mounted to the feed shell support, which are pivotably mounted to each other about a swivel pivot axis which is inclined with respect to the reference plane.

Abstract: Stapling devices, which form staples from a staple wire transported from supply rolls, are arranged in a stapling apparatus. The supply rolls are associated with a threading-in device which is mounted displaceably on the stapling apparatus. Transport mechanisms as well as feed-in and guide mechanisms are associated with each supply roll. Flexible guide tubes connect the threading-in device to the respective stapling device. The threading-in device can be moved into a position pulled out of the stapling apparatus device, in which the supply rolls can easily be inserted. The leading end of the wire is pushed, in simple and conveniently visible fashion, between a transport roller pair by way of a guide element and a funnel-shaped feed-in tube.

Abstract: A stapler includes a base with an operation arm pivotally connected to a frame extending from the base. A first magazine and a second magazine which is received in the first magazine are pivotally connected to the frame so that the staples with small size can be received in the second magazine and the staples with large size can be mounted between the two magazines. A staple follower includes an inner portion to push the staples with small size and an outer portion to push the staples with large size. The stapler employs either one of two staples having different sizes.

Abstract: An electric powered multiple impact fastener driving tool comprising a handle portion, a main body portion, a guide block, a magazine, and a guide and biasing assembly mounted in the guide block and affixed to the magazine enabling shifting of the magazine within the guide block between an extended fastener starting position and a retracted fastener driven position. The main body portion contains an impact assembly comprising a motor driven cam wheel with a single drop-off, a cam follower roller mounted on a reciprocable hammer, a compression spring surmounting and abutting the hammer, and a fastener driver. For each rotation of the cam wheel, the cam follower roll lifts the hammer, compressing the spring and storing energy therein. At the cam wheel drop-off, the cam follower wheel and hammer drop under the influence of the spring and the hammer impacts the driver which imparts a blow to the fastener. The cam follower wheel does not contact the cam wheel immediately after drop-off.

Abstract: A setting tool for nails comprises a hollow cylindrical grip sleeve open at both ends with a first hollow section connected by a through-opening to a second hollow section, a ram being disposed in the first hollow section and having one end with an arrangement for releasably holding a nail extending from a first end of the grip sleeve, a pin being disposed in the first hollow section between the ram and the through-opening, the pin having a first segment connected by a centering section to a second segment which extends through the through-opening, a coupling member having a blind bore of the diameter of the second segment being disposed in the second hollow section, with the blind bore facing the pin and being urged toward the pin by a compression spring disposed in the second hollow section entrapped between the coupling member and an adjustable device.

Abstract: A pneumatic portable impact tool includes a tubular housing, at least one handle pivotally supported on the housing, a hammer piston formed with an impact delivering neck portion, and an air distribution valve for directing air pressure alternatingly to opposite ends of the hammer piston so as to make the hammer piston reciprocate in the housing. The housing includes a rear section, an intermediate section, and a front section integrally formed in one piece. The rear section includes a socket portion for supporting the air distribution valve. The intermediate section includes a cylinder bore for sealingly guiding the hammer piston, and a damping sleeve mounted in the cylinder bore and arranged to be penetrated by the hammer piston neck portion, thereby forming a hammer piston damping air cushion chamber. And the front section includes a working implement receiving front opening and supports a movable latch arranged to releasably lock a working implement to the housing.

Abstract: In a roofing washer-dispensing and fastener-driving machine, which has a fastener-feeding tube, a fastener-engaging pawl is mounted operatively to the tube, near its upper end. The pawl is pivotable between a normal position wherein the pawl is arranged to engage a fastener dropped into the tube so as to prevent the fastener from dropping through the tube and a pivoted position wherein the pawl is arranged to disengage from the fastener. An elongate rod is arranged to pivot the pawl from the normal position into the pivoted position when the machine is operated.

Abstract: In the canning of tow produced by a synthetic textile filament extrusion line, a pair of deflecting rolls having radially projecting spokes are positioned immediately above the tow-receiving can for travel of the tow between the rolls to impose a folding or plaiting of the tow as it is deposited into the can, thereby reducing the linear velocity of the tow to mitigate potential entanglement of the tow within the can. The production output and operational speed of the filament extrusion process may thus be optimized without being limited by the downstream canning operation.

Abstract: Pneumatic or pressurized fluid tool, such as a screwdriver, having a control device. The control device includes a pivotally mounted trigger which causes rotation of the motor in a first rotational direction when pivoted in a first direction and which causes rotation of the motor in an opposite rotational direction when pivoted in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The trigger is connected to a piston which is movable in a cylinder. The piston is connected by a rod to a valve and includes a cam. The cam of the piston, cooperating with a plunger, operates a selector so that when the trigger is pivoted in the first direction, compressed air or pressurized fluid is admitted to rotate the motor in the first direction.

Abstract: A combustion powered tool having a self-contained internal combustion power source constructed and arranged for creating a combustion for driving a driver blade to impact a fastener and drive it into a work piece includes a housing constructed and arranged to enclose the power source, a combustion chamber defined at an upper end of the housing, a cylinder disposed in the housing to be in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, a piston associated with the driver blade and configured for reciprocal movement within the cylinder between a start position located at a first end of cylinder and a driving position located at a second end of the cylinder, a gas control device for periodically opening the combustion chamber to atmosphere, and a delay apparatus connected to the gas control device for delaying the opening of the combustion chamber until the piston returns to the start position after driving the fastener.

Abstract: A device for fitting articles including rivets, buttons and the like, to a fabric, comprising a lower tool serving as an abutment for an article, and a ram executing a riveting stroke. A lower end of the ram joins with an upper tool for impinging upon an upper portion of the article and for urging the article against the lower tool upon execution of the riveting stroke. A rotatably driven cam disc urges an upper end of the ram for controlling travel movement of the ram. A clamp is carried by the bottom end of the ram for movement in synchronism with the ram. For finger protection, the device is operative to stop the clamp in a position spaced from the lower tool during a first lowering movement.

Abstract: An improved surgical stapler which allows for the multi-directional release of staples includes a stapler body and a driver contained therein. A magazine is connected to the stapler body and includes a staple track for carrying a plurality of staples wherein each of the staples has staple legs. An anvil is associated with the staple track for providing a staple forming surface for forming a staple thereon. A feeder element which is spring biased against the staples is used for feeding each staple from the staple track to the anvil. A trigger is operatively connected to the driver and is movable from a pre-fire position to a firing position for advancing the driver against the anvil for forming the staple against the anvil. A kick-off spring is positioned beneath and substantially parallel to the staple track and the anvil.

Abstract: An explosively actuated fastener system comprises an open-ended outer tubular member; an open-ended tubular cap being attached to the back end of the outer tubular member having an inward circular protrusion at its back end; an open-ended barrel member connecting the muzzle to the outer tubular member; an open-ended inner tubular member with an outward circular protrusion and an inward circular protrusion being positioned at the front end; a reciprocable ejector comprising a retaining section and a firing rod that comprises a front section, a middle section and a back section; an ejector housing comprising a tube and a firing pin that extends forwardly from the tube; a forward spring being positioned within the inner tubular member; a balancing spring being positioned within the outer tubular member; a handle being attached to the back end of the inner tubular member; an open-ended sliding guide being positioned in front of the outward circular protrusion of the inner tubular member and within the outer tubul