Abstract: A method for manipulating tissue of a patient includes a surgical instrument having a handle assembly, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The method includes positioning a tissue within a gap between a cartridge and an anvil and against a guide pin to laterally position the tissue relative to the cartridge and the anvil. The method also includes moving a retaining pin from an open position to a closed position to capture the tissue and moving the cartridge toward the anvil in a closed configuration. Furthermore, the method includes inhibiting deflection of a distal end portion of the end effector wherein at least at least one of the guide pin or the retaining pin connects to the distal end portion. The method further includes forming a plurality of staples within the tissue and cutting the tissue with a knife.

Abstract: A surgical instrument that includes a surgical end effector as well as a first drive member and a second drive member that are configured to apply actuation motions to the surgical end effector. A drive clutch assembly operably interfaces with the first and second drive members and is configured to move between an engaged position wherein the second drive member is linked to the first drive member and a second disengaged position wherein the first drive member is independently movable. A lock assembly is configured to move between a locked position wherein the second drive member is prevented from moving and an unlocked position wherein the second drive member is movable.

Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus is disclosed which comprises a tissue stop configured to inhibit tissue from flowing out of the distal end of the stapling instrument as the tissue is being stapled and/or incised. Also disclosed is a surgical stapling apparatus comprising one or more interruptions, or absent staple cavities, in the rows of staple cavities defined therein. Also disclosed is a surgical stapling apparatus comprising a channel configured to receive tissue and/or another surgical instrument therein. In at least one instance, such a stapling apparatus could comprise staple cavities on one side of a longitudinal knife slot and no staple cavities on the other side of the knife slot. Further disclosed are methods for using the surgical stapling devices disclosed herein.

Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a body, a shaft, and an end effector that is operable to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The end effector includes and anvil and a cartridge. The anvil has a body and a modular releasable curved tip that connects with the body. The curved tip is elastically deformable in response to force exerted on the curved tip when tissue is clamped between the anvil and cartridge. The curved and deformable features of anvil provide for an end effector with improved visualization and maneuverability, in particular during procedures involving marching. The modular nature of the curved anvil tip provides for an end effector that allows anvil tip replacement due to wear or interchangeability based on a user preference or procedure.

Abstract: Provided is a stapler device installed to staple a bundle of papers processed and discharged from an image forming apparatus or a post-processing apparatus. The stapler device includes a stapler, and a moving unit installed to allow the stapler to reciprocate in a direction intersecting with a discharge direction of the bundle of papers. The moving unit may rotate the stapler outwardly such that a bundle of papers inserted from the outside in addition to the discharged bundle of papers is stapled in at least one end position of a range of the reciprocating movement.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anvil assembly, an end effector and/or a surgical stapler suitable for performing curved or circular anastomosis and/or treatment to internal walls of hollow tissue organs wherein the anvil assembly includes an anvil center rod having a proximal end and a distal end, the center rod defining a central longitudinal axis; and an anvil head secured to the distal end of the anvil center rod. The anvil head includes an anvil plate defining a tissue contact surface; and a plurality of staple forming pockets formed in the tissue contact surface of the anvil plate, wherein each of the plurality of staple pockets defines an arcuate longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A drive-in tool comprises a hand-held housing having an energy-transmitting element accommodated therein for transmitting energy to a fastener to be driven in; and a drive apparatus for driving the energy-transmitting element; wherein the drive apparatus comprises an energy accumulator having a gas chamber, which gas chamber can be filled with a driving gas at a defined overpressure, wherein the overpressure in the gas chamber is present as stored driving energy before a drive-in process is triggered, and wherein a piston of the energy-transmitting element forms a variable wall segment of the gas chamber, wherein the gas chamber has at least one further variable wall segment for changing the chamber volume, wherein a movement of the variable wall segment that enlarges the chamber volume charges a mechanical energy accumulator.

Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus is disclosed. The surgical stapling apparatus comprises a cartridge body. The cartridge body comprises a deck comprising a tissue-supporting surface, a slot defined in the deck, and a plurality of staple cavities. The slot extends from a proximal end toward a distal end. The surgical stapling apparatus further comprises a plurality of staples removably stored in the staple cavities and a tissue stop positioned in the slot. The tissue stop comprises a detent releasably engaged with the cartridge body. The detent is configured to release from the cartridge body to permit the tissue stop to move from an undisplaced position to a displaced position.

Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for stabilizing fasteners post-deployment. Devices and methods are also provided for facilitating ejection of surgical fasteners from a cartridge. Devices and methods are also provided for guiding surgical fasteners. Devices and methods are also provided for facilitating closing and clamping of an end effector of a surgical device. Devices and methods are also provided for securing fasteners and adjunct materials to tissue. Devices and methods are also provided for removably coupling a cartridge to an end effector of a surgical device. Devices and methods are also provided for locking a surgical device based on loading of a fastener cartridge in the surgical device. Devices and methods are provided for adjusting a tissue gap of an end effector of a surgical device. Devices and methods are also provided for manually retracting a drive shaft, drive beam, and associated components.

Abstract: Various implementations of the invention provide for a one-piece surgical stapling apparatus that includes a stapler head and an anvil head assembly. The anvil head assembly is tiltable between a tilted position and a transverse position, and anvil plates of the anvil head assembly are moveable about one or more hinges between a closed and an open position. When in the tilted and closed positions, the anvil assembly has a reduced footprint that allows the anvil assembly to be passed directly through a trocar and holes created in the bodily tissues, which eliminates the need for separate placement of the anvil head. At the site of the anastomosis, the anvil head assembly can be moved to the transverse and open positions, and the stapling head may be engaged to fire staples against the anvil head.

Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a handle portion, an elongated portion defining a longitudinal axis and extending distally from the handle portion, and first and second jaw members dimensioned to clamp tissue therebetween. The first jaw member has at least one row of fasteners arranged in a row substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis. A pin is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the first jaw member and is movable between a first position where the engagement section is spaced from the second jaw member and a second position where the engagement section engages the second jaw member. The pin has a non-circular cross-section.

Abstract: Tooling intended for fixing hooks connecting the ends of belt conveyors including a fixed lower part forming an anvil linked to a movable upper part by positioning and centering fingers, a main punch, and a complementary punch. The main punch includes a head provided with enlarged parts and can slide in a vertical channel. The complementary punch can slide in a vertical channel. A vertical guiding groove staple is arranged on the side of the complementary punch. A pneumatic hammer provided with a head hammers the main punch which drives the staple in and drives, or hammers, the complementary punch which simultaneously hammers the upper of the hook.

Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein for assembling a fence gate on-site. The system may include a fence press and a nail plate. The fence press may be smaller and more portable than typical presses, and adapted to press the nail plate into a junction of a plurality of boards to create the fence gate. In one embodiment, the fence press presses the nail plate into three boards at once, causing a strong union at the plate location. The nail plate may contain protrusions that have a hook feature to prevent the nail plate from pulling out of the boards. In one embodiment, the hook feature may include a sub-protrusion on the protrusion. The fence press may include a pressing surface that is substantially the same shape as the nail plate, and may be adapted to hold the nail plate in place as the press operates.

Abstract: A system and method for positioning a tool. The system includes a base member configured to contact a first decking member and a second decking member; at least one base guide including a first end and an opposing second end, the first end coupled to the base member, the at least one base guide configured to position the base member relative to the first decking member and the second decking member; and an adjustable section coupled to the base member, the adjustable section configured to allow adjustment of at least one of a position and an angle of the tool relative to the base member.

Abstract: An electric stapler is operated by the steps of: a paper bundle pinching step of relatively moving a table part (10) and a driver unit (3) and also pinching a paper bundle (19); a staple separation step of folding a staple into U-shape by a forming plate (8) and also separating the folded U-shape staple (22) from a staple sheet (20) by moving a driver (7); a penetration step of penetrating legs (24) of the staple (22) into the paper bundle (19) by further moving the driver (7); a clinch step of inward folding the legs (24) penetrating through the paper bundle (19) by a clinch device (5); and a paper bundle releasing step of releasing the paper bundle (19). A relative movement of the table part (10) and the driver unit (3), the forming plate (8), the driver (7), and the clinch device are powered by a single motor (13). A driving speed of the motor (13) in the steps excluding the penetration step and the clinch step is slower than the driving speed of the motor (13) in the penetration step and the clinch step.

Abstract: A slide hammer for driving a probe into the ground includes a probe lifting and removal arrangement in which a slide hammer tube is pivoted away from the probe to function as a lever operating with a clutch arrangement to incrementally withdraw the probe from the ground. A biasing arrangement using a coil spring is operative to hold the anvil in a locked probe driving position, to facilitate release of the tube from the locking position for pivotal movement to the probe removal position, to bias a clutch disk to a release position with respect to the pin, to facilitate incremental lifting contact between the clutch disk and the pin, and to return the tube to a subsequent incremental lifting position.

Abstract: A simple tool that joins mitred wood corners of a picture frame with a minimum effort by eliminating several moving parts that (because of these innovations) are no longer necessary. The use of a Neodymium magnet to direct the action of the v-nails into the wood makes the usual spring load obsolete. The second unique feature of the machine is a food pedal beveled in such a fashion as to bring down the required pressure pad without prior adjustment to suit the moulding height. These improvements provide the user with a tool that will always work as intended without the need for adjustments.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling box springs for use in bedding applications. The apparatus comprises a base for supporting a frame and a spring unit, a framework with a plurality of tools coupled thereto. Each tool has an associated module adjuster coupled thereto. A vertical drive mechanism provides relative movement between the tools and the base where the tools may be disposed between a first vertical position and a second vertical position. A horizontal drive mechanism provides relative horizontal movement between the tools and the base. Each tool is configured to secure a respective module of a row of the spring unit to a corresponding target location on the frame when disposed in the second vertical position and each module adjuster is configured to align a respective module with a corresponding fastening location when the tool is disposed in the second vertical position.

Abstract: A combustion-powered driving tool for propelling fasteners into a workpiece includes a housing, a power source located in the housing, a nosepiece associated with a lower end of the power source, a magazine associated with the housing and constructed and arranged for storing and sequentially feeding a plurality of fasteners to the nosepiece, and a workpiece contact element associated with the nosepiece and including at least one tooth extending from the workpiece contact element and being constructed and arranged for engaging the workpiece to enable the tool to actuate when the magazine is arranged generally parallel to the workpiece.

Abstract: A stapler having a driver unit vertically separated from its clincher unit, which has a clincher base with a clincher. The clincher base is disposed to vertically reciprocate, and sheets inserted between the base and driver unit are clamped between the base and the driver unit when the base is reciprocated. The stapler has a first motor to operate the driver, and a second motor to reciprocate the clincher base and operate the clincher. In sequence, the second motor reciprocates the base and makes the base clamp the sheets, and then stops; the first motor makes the driver drive out the staple, and then stops; the second motor makes the clincher clinch the staple legs having passed the sheets, the base is returned, and the second motor stops; and after clinching, the first motor returns the driver to the initial position, and then stops.

Abstract: Apparatus for closing a fastener includes a first member adapted to engage and bend a fastener toward a closed position, a second member defining a recessed fastener guide adapted to engage and bend the fastener toward the closed position, the recessed fastener guide being generally aligned with the first member to receive at least a portion of the fastener from the first member, structure for moving the first member, and structure for moving the second member relative to the first member to move the fastener toward the closed position.

Abstract: A riveting system for hammering a set of nails along a path having a rotatable upper table with a plurality of riveting mechanisms positioned along a plurality of radii on the upper table and a lower table having a plurality of upset members positioned along a plurality of radii on the lower table.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool having a reciprocating driver blade and a nosepiece, and being configured for sequentially feeding fasteners to the nosepiece for engagement by the driver blade for subsequent driving into a workpiece, each fastener defining a plane, further includes a deformation formation in the nosepiece configured for engaging a portion of each of the fasteners so that upon impact of the fastener by the driver blade, the engaged fastener portion is deformed in a direction transverse to the plane to define a deformed portion, the deformed portion configured for providing a clamping force upon at least one of the workpiece and a workpiece material being secured to the workpiece. A fastener is provided for use in such a tool and includes a crown configured so that, upon impact with at least one of the workpiece and the workpiece material, the crown has a nonlinear configuration.

Abstract: A framing point driver system for efficiently driving various framing points into a picture frame. The framing point driver system includes a lever unit, a turret member with a plurality of receiver apertures rotatably attached to the lever unit, a shaft member extending from the lever unit, and an engaging arm lockably positioned about the shaft member. The user rotates the turret member so that the desired size receiver aperture is facing toward the engaging arm. A framing point is inserted into the selected receiver aperture for insertion into the picture frame.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wire retainer of a stapler that is applicable for stapling objects with different staple size, and such stapler comprises a groove bracket being disposed at the bottom edge between two side casings for accommodating the staples; a staple roller assembly being disposed on the groove bracket; a staple plate being disposed at the front edge of the side casing for shooting the staple; characterized in that: a detachable wire retainer being disposed at the front edge of the staple plate of the stapler such that the user can switch the wire retainer of different specifications, and maintain a smooth and stable stapling working surface for different stapler specifications without a need of switching the stapler. The present invention effectively improves the current existing stapler that can only fit a single specification to attain the purpose of convenient operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a component holder assembly includes a frame, a plurality of stapler assemblies, which are supported by the frame, and a support surface. The stapler assemblies are aligned along a common axis for ejecting staples along the common axis. The support surface is provided to support at least a first side frame member of a component holder assembly whereby a portion of the first side frame member can be aligned with the stapler assemblies. The apparatus further includes an actuator for actuating at least a group of the stapler assemblies to eject staples generally along the common axis to form a seam for connecting a shelf member of a component holder assembly to a first side frame member of the component holder assembly.

Abstract: A hydraulic drive mechanism to actuate a tool for joining at least two work-pieces of ductile material such as by self-piercing riveting or clinching. The drive mechanism comprises a punch drive for actuating a punch and a clamp drive for actuating a clamp which clamps the workpieces against an up-setting die during the joining operation. Both drives comprise piston cylinder assemblies. The piston cylinder assembly of the clamp drive is carried by the piston rod of the punch drive. The pressure chamber of the clamp drive communicates with one of the work chambers of the punch drive such that pressure within the work chamber of the punch drive is transmitted to the pressure chamber of the clamp drive in order to generate the clamping force. As a result thereof only a pair of fluid connections are required for operating both drives.

Abstract: A staple driving tool and a method for clamping and stapling together two or more steel workpiece layers as in light gauge steel framing for residential and commercial buildings, truss assembly, and the like. The stapling tool has a guide body and a jaw assembly supporting an anvil. The jaw assembly is pivoted to a mounting bar extending along and beneath the tool magazine. The jaw is pivotable between a normal open position and a closed position wherein it clamps the steel workpiece layers to be joined between the anvil and the guide body prior to stapling. The jaw is pivotable by an air cylinder actuated toggle mechanism. An air valve normally connects the air cylinder to atmosphere. When actuated, the air valve connects the air cylinder to a source of pressurized air, shifting the jaw to clamping position. The air valve may be actuated by one of the tool safety and the tool trigger.

Abstract: A device for applying nailing plates to the ends of wooden ties includes a plate feeder for applying nailing plates to the generally vertically-oriented ends of a wooden tie horizontally disposed therein. The plate feeder includes a frame on each side for holding a nailing plate in a generally vertical orientation adjacent one of the ends of the wooden tie, a dispenser associated with each frame for dispensing nailing plates to the frame; and a piston on each side actuable to partially press a nailing plate held in the frame into the ends of the wooden tie. A tie feeder for conveys ties to the plate feeder. There is also a press for pressing nailing plates partially embedded in the ends of a wooden tie, into the ends of the wooden tie. A conveyor conveys wooden ties from the plate feeder to the press.

Abstract: A stapling device has a holddown element, a staple forming member, and a staple driving means, which are guided linearly and are movable perpendicular to the upper side of a sheet stack to be stapled.A first pressure spring with a lower spring force is associated with the holddown element. A second pressure spring whose spring force is greater than that of the first pressure spring, is associated with the staple forming member. A third pressure spring is associated with the staple driving means, its spring force being greater than that of the second pressure spring. The pressure springs are arranged with identical working directions perpendicular to the upper side of the sheet stack.The first pressure spring is arranged in preloaded fashion between the holddown element and the staple forming member. The second pressure spring is arranged in preloaded fashion between the staple forming member and the staple driving means.

Abstract: A stapling apparatus (1) has a stationary stapling head (9) and a counterbearing(13), fastened to a slider(4) and equipped with a clinching apparatus (14), that is fastened to slider (4). The slider (4) has parallel clamping surfaces (4d, 4e), associated with which are a clamping element (19), mounted in stationary pivotable fashion and having clamping jaws (19c, 19d) and edges (19e, 19f), that can be positioned by a torsion spring (21), pivotably about a bearing (19a), against the clamping surfaces (4d, 4e) of the slider (4). The clamping element (19) is spring-loaded opposite to a movement direction "B" of the slider (4). The pivot bearing (19a) of the clamping element (19) is arranged at a distance (r) from the slider (4) that is related by a ratio l/r<2 .mu., which effects self-locking, to the length (l) of the clamping jaws (19c, 19d).

Abstract: A collapsible anvil assembly and applicator instrument for use with a surgical stapler. The collapsible anvil assembly includes an anvil shaft and a plurality of anvil segments, having staple clinching buckets thereon, flexibly affixed to the anvil shaft which are movable between a collapsed or radially inwardly deflected condition and an expanded or radially outwardly deflected condition. Immobilizing means in the form of an axially slidable locking ring is provided to fix and maintain the anvil segments in the expanded condition. Mounting element are also provided for subsequent detachable mounting of the anvil assembly on a surgical stapler. The collapsible anvil assembly may also include a suction purse stringing device which attracts and holds a surrounding tissue section within the anvil segments. Additionally, an axially slidable tissue holding ring or snap cap is provided to lock the held tissue section within the anvil segments.

Abstract: A machine for the attachment of buttons, rivets or the like, preferably to articles of clothing, which buttons, rivets or the like consist of an upper portion and a lower portion, a material held between an upper clamping jaw and a lower clamping jaw being punched by actuation of a ram, and, after movement of a slide having an upper tool and a lower tool, the button portions disposed therein being positively connected to one another by ram actuation by virtue of the upper and lower tools being brought towards one another. In order to be able to carry out the punching of the article of clothing which is necessary before the attachment of the object, using the same machine and without changing the position of the article of clothing, an attachment tool (36) at the end of the ram is disposed, in the hole punching disposition (FIG. 3), in coaxial alignment with a hole punching tool (26).

Abstract: An apparatus for securing a U-shaped clip to the end of a belt with a staple has a die having a seat shaped to fit a belt end over which is fitted the clip, a presser head displaceable transversely toward and away from the die and having a passage holding the staple, and a plunger displaceable toward and away from the die in the passage of the presser head. Respective piston-cylinder units connected to the presser head and plunger and are pressurizable to displace same toward the die. A hydraulic pump supplies fluid under pressure to a multiport valve connected to the piston-cylinder units for first pressurizing the presser unit to compress the clip on the belt end and then for pressurizing the plunger unit for forcing the staple through the belt end and clip.

Abstract: An apparatus to assemble prefabricated walls and joist panels for homes, apartments, commercial buildings, etc. Apparatus is self-loading and can place and fasten 2.times.3, 2.times.4, 3.times.4, 4.times.4, and 4.times.6 cross members between parallel plates on the fly, having telescoping carriage and track, cross members may vary in length from 7-1/2 feet to 12 feet. Self-contained and portable apparatus may be used in remote locations and transported without special highway permits. All the frames for a building can be fabricated in on production run therefore saving handling and storage.

Abstract: An electromotive stapler according is provided with a paper holder, which is linked with a striking block, to press the neighborhood of the place where the staple is driven, whereby binding of many sheets of paper is possible without consuming much power of the motor, the pressing force of the paper holder being obtained by motion of push rod to press the paper holder, and the force of push rod necessary therefor being obtained by a coil spring compressed by the motion of the striking block.

Abstract: A machine (1) for attaching buttons, rivets or the like, preferably to articles of clothing, which buttons, rivets or the like consist of an upper part (124, 125) and a lower part (67, 68) which are fed to an upper tool (9) and lower tool (10) from magazines and are brought into form-locked connection with each other with the interposition of the material (167) by the stroke of a ram (140); in order to optimize the use of different button parts, it is proposed that the upper tool (9) and the lower tool (10) be arranged opposite each other, lying in each case one behind the other in a row on the upper (51) and lower (48) arms of a U-shaped carriage (30) by the positioning of which the upper tool (9), which is to be placed in action in each case, enters into coupling position with respect to the ram (140).

Abstract: Riveting apparatus for operation on a workpiece having opposite sides and supported vertically on a horizontal surface comprising a frame having a pair of spaced apart sides movable along the supporting surface and straddling the workpiece, first and second carriages movably mounted on respective sides of the frame and riveting tools on first and second heads on the first and second carriages, respectively, the tools being movable toward and away from the workpiece. The frame travels in a first direction along the supporting surface and along the workpiece, the first and second carriages are movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and toward and away from the supporting surface, and the frame is movable in a third direction transverse to the first direction and toward and away from the workpiece.

Abstract: A belt fastener apparatus and comb assembly is mounted and operable on a frame. The fastener apparatus is particularly applicable to wire loop-type fasteners and includes a locating pin to positively locate the punch and anvil arrangement to inhibit indexing the fastener apparatus prior to punch withdrawal from the comb bed and to provide independently operable punches which sequentially final-clinch a fastener and initially drive staples therethrough to reduce the work load on the fastener apparatus and operation.

Abstract: A shaft seal including a stiffening ring 1 and a lip ring 2 made of a polymeric material connected thereto. The lip ring 2 has a cylindrical surface 3 surrounding the shaft to be sealed about, i.e. shaft 5, in a very short distance and at least one retaining rib 4 projecting from said cylindrical surface towards the inside. The cylindrical surface 3, the retaining rib 4, and the shaft 5 surround capillary-active free spaces. The cylindrical surface rises above the retaining rib 4 on both sides in axial direction and the retaining rib 4 surrounds the shaft 5 on a sine-like course and continuously.

Abstract: An automatic fastening machine where strips of covered fasteners (11) are fed from a reel 16 of fasteners into the rear of the fastening machine along a guide means (12) as needed. A fastener advancing means (13) intermittently urges the strip of fasteners toward a drive element (60). The drive element engages the top of the foremost fastener of the strip of fasteners to force the fastener into a work piece.

Abstract: In a stapling system with a power driven stapler unit for stapling sheets together by clamping the sheets together with a clamper and driving a staple into the sheets with a staple driver while the sheets are clamped, and clinching the legs of the staple with a clincher, sequentially in that order; a single flexible cable with internal bights thereof operatively connecting with the clamper, the staple driver and the clincher, and with a free portion of the cable extending from the stapler unit and pulled with increasing movement and tension to provide the sole actuating power for the stapler unit wherein sequentially coupling pulleys engaged by the internal bights of the single flexible cable, and movement stops and/or resistance springs of different resistance forces, respectively operatively associated with the clamper, the staple driver and the clincher actuate them in that order, and wherein paired pulleys are arranged to multiply the forces available for the stapling from the cable tension.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for assembling mouldings incorporating several rabbets, which comprises a table for positioning the mouldings, slides supporting this table, rendered fast with two columns which are connected in their lower part by a base under which is mounted a jack whose rod is connected to a hammer which penetrates in a clip magazine, and in their upper part by a piece provided with a presser member located opposite the hammer. According to the invention, a clipping assembly is provided which bears the hammer and a sliding guide fast with the hammer, as well as a sensor; two small columns on which the clipping assembly may slide vertically; balancing means mounted on each small column below the clipping assembly; and a plate disposed at the top of the rod, and on which the hammer and the sliding guide rest, and which comprises a matching member opposite the sensor. The invention is more particularly applicable to the manufacture of wooden frames.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically tagging selected layers of multi-layered articles by the operation of a single switch that initiates the sequential stepped operation of a clamp for holding the selected layers in a tagging position while a tag is fed and tacked, as by a bar tack, to join the tag to the selected layers. When the tagging sequence is completed, the article is removed from the apparatus, thereby separating the joined bar tack and tag from the apparatus for similar subsequent automatic repetitive operations.

Abstract: A hand-held plier type stapler having a first rearward handle to which an anvil is pivotally mounted. The first handle provides a housing for a belt stapler head for forming and driving staples. A second forward handle is connected to the anvil to pull the anvil down as the second handle is moved down and rearward and as such movement continues a link mechanism operates the stapler head to form and drive a staple.

Abstract: A riveting press wherein a vertically movable downwardly yieldable platform supports a selected portion of a textile workpiece between a passive lower tool and a vertically rciprocable upper tool. The upper tool is surrounded by a set of two or more radially outwardly movable and vertically reciprocable grippers having serrated undersides which are moved downwardly and into engagement with the upper side of the workpiece on the platform before the upper tool descends to affix a first component of an article of hardware to the workpiece simultaneously with the application of a second component of such article to the first component and to the workpiece. One such component is supported by the lower tool and the other component is releasably held in sockets of the grippers below the upper tool.

Abstract: An end plating machine comprising a frame having an in-feed portion at one side thereof and an out-feed portion at the other side thereof. A stationary platen is provided at opposite ends of the frame below the in-feed and out-feed portions adapted to support the ends of a cross-tie delivered thereto. A conveyor delivers the cross-ties to the in-feed portion whereupon a tie transporter assembly moves the tie from the in-feed portion and delivers the tie to a tie elevator assembly which lowers the tie onto the stationary platens. A robotic claw assembly is provided above the stationary platen for squeezing the ends of the tie to close cracks therein. Each of the robotic claws are operated by a single hydraulic cylinder. When the ends of the tie are squeezed together by the robotic claws, a hydraulic ram at opposite ends of the tie drives nail plates into the ends of the tie.

Abstract: A surgical stapling instrument suitable for performing a gastrointestinal anastomosis is provided. The stapling instrument incorporates a jaw clamping mechanism which applies clamping forces to its jaw members to resist the forces exerted on the anvil and staple cartridge carrying portions of the jaw members when the staples are formed. Preferably, the stapling instrument includes a pair of elongate jaw members, one of which supports a staple cartridge adapted to receive at least two laterally spaced longitudinal rows of staples, and the other provided with an anvil adapted to form the staples. A pusher bar and knife blade assembly is slidable longitudinally relative to the jaw members to sequentially drive the staples from the cartridge and form the staples against the anvil to produce a pair of laterally spaced rows in the tissue. The pusher bar and knife blade assembly includes a knife blade for cutting the tissue along a line between the longitudinal staple rows.

Abstract: A hand-held plier type stapler is disclosed. The stapler has a first handle to which an anvil is pivotally mounted. The first handle also houses a stapler head for forming and driving staples. A second handle is rotatably mounted to the first handle. Movement of the second handle moves the anvil towards a workpiece to be stapled and drives the stapler head to form and drive a staple.

Abstract: 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 motor is actuated to drive the staple to connect the items. Following the driving action, the anvil assembly is removed to permit assembly of the connected items.