Abstract: A sheet stapling apparatus includes a storage unit for storing sheets ejected out from an image forming apparatus, and a stapling unit for stapling to the sheets stored in the storage unit. The sheet stapling apparatus can execute a first bending process for bending the feet of a staple which were pierced through the sheets to the inside and a second bending process for bending the feet of the staple which were pierced through the sheets to the outside. In the facsimile mode or the printer mode, the second bending process is executed.

Abstract: A nail flattening apparatus for use primarily in re-furbishing wooden pallet components, comprising a loading station and an operating station interconnected by a conveyor. Boards having nail stubble protruding from opposite sides are placed onto the conveyor in the loading station and transferred to the operating station, whereupon a reciprocating hammer and stationary anvil disposed on opposite sides of the conveyor cooperate to substantially flatten all nail stubble in a single operation. In the preferred embodiment, a microprocessor controls a plurality of hydraulic cylinders which automatically move each board into the proper operating position, lift each board off of the surface of the conveyor, move the hammer to compress substantially all nail stubble, release the hammer to its retracted position, return the board to the conveyor for transfer out of the operating station, and move the next board from the loading station into the operating station.

Abstract: The feeding device for feeding parts to be mounted to at least one of an upper tool and a lower tool of a mounting machine has a carriage and at least one feeding push rod connected to the carriage. A push crank is connected to the carriage for moving in a reciprocating movement the at least one feeding push rod in a longitudinal direction of the at least one push rod between an extended and a retracted position.

Abstract: A power stapler having a clincher provides a stitcher head for driving formed staples into a stack of sheets. A clincher box is positioned opposite the stitcher head. Clinchers located in the clincher box pivot upwardly under the force of a moving clincher bar to deform ends of the staple to pass through the sheet stack. The clincher bar or clinchers include a stop that limits retraction of the clinchers into the box. Hence, as the staple is driven by the stitcher head through the sheets, the ends of the staple are brought into engagement with the clinchers and plastically deform into a substantially inwardly curled shape. Following driving of the staple by the stitcher head, the clincher bar is actuated to rotate the clinchers upwardly toward the stack causing the curled tips of the staple to drive into the sheets. The clinchers can include grooves that are angled into alignment along parallel angled lines so that the ends of the staple pass each other and do not interfere with each other upon clinching.

Abstract: An apparatus for stapling a belt-connecting clip fitted to a belt end has a crimping die, a housing fixable relative to the crimping die and forming a vertical guide, and a hold-down device engageable with the clip on the belt end on the crimping die, having an outer guide ring vertically slidable in the housing, and forming a vertically throughgoing guide bore adapted to hold staples engageable through the clip and belt end on the crimping die. A penetrating die has an extension projecting vertically downward through the guide bore and engageable with the staples therein. A spindle/nut mechanism in the housing can vertically displace the penetrating die between an upper position with its extension above and out of contact with the staples, clip, and belt end and a lower position engaged down on the staples and forcing same through the clip and belt end and against the crimping die.

Abstract: A stapler for driving staples (2) into an object (3) has a drive element (1) for pushing a U-shaped staple (2) out of a magazine (10) to drive its legs (2a) through the object. The stapler also has an anvil device (11) comprising two anvil members (4) which are substantially symmetrically arranged with respect to the staple (2) driven into the object, and which are each pivotable about an axis (5) substantially perpendicular to the plane of the staple, the anvil members (4) being pivotable between a starting position, in which they are so positioned that the free leg ends of the staple (2) will engage the respective anvil member when the staple is driven into the object, and an end position, in order, when pivoting from the starting position to the end position, to bend the projecting end portions of the staple legs (2a) driven through the object (3), against the object in a direction towards each other.

Abstract: An automated apparatus for attaching studs to fabric such as leather jackets jeans, shirts or the like. The apparatus including a feeder for supplying studs to the apparatus, a stud support, a stud placement member, a stud driving member for guiding a stud through its full path of travel until the legs contact a fabric into which they are inserted, a stud positioning member configured to displace the stud placement member and to displace the stud support and a stud fastening member disposed below the stud driving member for bending at least one leg of a stud upon the stud driving member guiding the stud through its full path of travel. The stud support and the stud placement member hold a stud in place for the stud driving member to drive a stud into a fabric and contacting the stud fastening member which bends at least one leg of a stud to fasten a stud to a fabric.

Abstract: A rotary stapling machine includes a first rotatable roller, a staple retainer mounted on the first roller to retain a U-shaped staple in a predetermined orientation, and a second rotatable roller having a die. The first and second rollers are adjacently positioned and spaced to allow material for stapling to pass between. Rotation of the first and second rollers positions the staple retainer and the die in a coacting position wherein the staple legs are bent toward the staple retainer. The die includes a pair of bending plates pivotally mounted in a slot that communicates with an outer surface of the second roller. The bending plates have forming surfaces that contact the legs of the staple and by pivoting toward the first roller, drive the legs toward the staple retainer and hold the legs in a desired bent position.

Abstract: In the course of the upward turning movement of the magazine, the lowermost sheet of staples is taken from the staple cartridge as the feeding member is slidably displaced in the forward direction. Since the thrusting force given by the tension spring is sufficiently larger than the frictional resistance present between the lower surface of the lowermost sheet of staples and the feeding member, each sheet of staples can be more reliably taken from a staple cartridge. As the magazine is turned in an upward direction, a feeding member is displaced in the forward direction by the resilient force of a tension spring, and a contact portion on the feeding member comes in contact with the rear end of the lowermost sheet of staples.

Abstract: A stapler having improved stapling precision is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a stapler has a magazine with a staple driving unit, and a staple clinching unit wherein the magazine and the staple clinching unit are separately disposed. The magazine of the stapler is provided with a actuation linkage and guides which cause the magazine having the staple driving unit to consistently move in a substantially vertical direction with respect to the staple clinching unit, so that a staple driven thereby is driven in a direction substantially perpendicular to sheets of paper to be stapled, regardless of the thickness of the paper. In a variant of the preferred embodiment, the stapler is incorporated in another unit where the stapler is moved from one operating position to another. In order to maintain the alignment of the separately disposed magazine and staple clinching unit, alignment members are provided on either a frame supporting the magazine or a frame supporting the clinching unit, or on both.

Abstract: A stapler powered by a motor and gear train to move a head up and down through utilization of at least one pivotal arm having an elongated cam follower slot in the arm; a driven rotatable gear in the train gear and a pin on the gear to ride in and along the slot. The arm pivots about a spring-loaded axle. Clinching wings for clinching staples are positively driven upwardly and downwardly by a pivotal clinching arms. A manual unit is included for turning the gear train to assist in removing jams.

Abstract: A stapling device (1) comprises a clincher unit (3) with bending elements (30 and 31) by which the ends of a staple (34) driven through a sheet stack (35) are folded and bent onto the sheet stack (35). The bending elements (30, 31) are actuated by a pushrod (26, 27) whose end side facing the bending elements (30, 31) is provided with rotary rollers (28, 29) which roll on the bending elements (30, 31) during each working stroke in order to clinch the ends of the staples. During the return stroke of pushrod (26, 27) the reduced frictional load causes slippage to occur between the rollers (28, 29) and the bending elements (30, 31) so that continuously alternating contact points are brought into engagement. This results in a uniformly distributed, and consequently reduced, load on the rollers (28, 29) by which the service life of the clincher unit (3) is prolonged.

Abstract: A U-shaped clip has a pair of legs each formed with two holes and with a rearwardly open notch and a bight joining the legs. A stapling apparatus has a die part having a seat shaped to fit one of the bights and having an upstanding guide web snugly engageable with the bight and a forwardly pointing centering wedge engageable in the notch. The apparatus also has a presser part displaceable toward and away from the die part and having a passage in which a staple engaged in the holes of the other leg fits complementarily, and a plunger displaceable toward and away from the die part in the passage of the presser part so that, when the clip is fitted over a belt end and to the die part, depression of the plunger forces the staple through the belt end and through both legs of the clip.

Abstract: An electric stapler is provided including a body frame; a magazine fixedly secured to the body frame; a cartridge housing a plurality of staple sheets, each of the staple sheets including straight staples conjoined together in stacked state, the cartridge being coupled to the magazine. A driver is provided for driving a staple out of one of the staple sheets; the driver being supported by the magazine so that the driver can be rectilinearly reciprocated. A clinching member is provided for clinching the staple driven out by the driver. The clinching member is supported by the body frame so that the clinching member is located to face the driver and can be reciprocated. A member is provided for repeatedly moving the driver and clinching member toward and away from each other in mutually opposite directions nearly simultaneously, so that as the driver is moved downwardly to drive the staple into material to be stapled, the clinching member moves upwardly in supporting relation with the material.

Abstract: A system for affixing a device to a workpiece comprises a dynamic fastener applicator for imparting motion to a fastener with respect to the workpiece by urging the fastener along a path so that the fastener piercingly encounters the workpiece and fixedly engages the device with the workpiece. The system includes a static fastener applicator for effecting clasping engagement of the workpiece and the device by the fastener by a deflecting structure located in the path traveled by the driven fastener which orients the fastener to a clasping configuration for establishing the desired clasping engagement. The system further comprises a positioning apparatus for precisely establishing desired relative positions of the workpiece, the dynamic fastener applicator, the static fastener applicator, and the device for the desired clasping engagement.

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: Apparatus for stapling documents. The apparatus includes: a pair of side plates; a stitch head mounting bar secured to the side plates; a clincher mounting bar secured to the side plates; a stitch head mounted on the stitch head mounting bar; a clincher mounted on the clincher mounting bar; a pair of fixture plates secured to the side plates; a clincher actuating bar slidingly engaging the pair of fixture plates; a shaft seated in the fixture plates; a clincher actuating arm rotatably mounted on the shaft and engaging the clincher actuating bar; and a device for rotating the clincher actuating arm whereby the clincher is moved up into clinching position and down away from the clinching position.

Abstract: An improvement in a stitcher for stapling documents. The stitcher includes a pair of side plates, a stitch head mounting bar secured to the side plates, a clincher mounting bar secured to the side plates, a stitch head mounted on the stitch head mounting bar, and a clincher mounted on the clincher mounting bar. The improvement consists of a fixturing plate secured to the stitch head mounting bar and to the clincher mounting bar.

Abstract: An Electric stapler of the type in which a magazine is unmovably fixed, characterized in that the magazine is secured to a body frame; a driver for driving out a staple is supported by the magazine so that the driver can be rectilinearly reciprocated; a clincher, which receives the staple driven out by the driver, is supported by the frame so that the clincher is located to face the driver and can be reciprocated on the production of the direction of the reciprocation of the driver; the driver is coupled to drive links at one end of each thereof; the links are supported by the frame so that the links are swingable; the clincher is coupled to a clincher lever at one end thereof; the lever is supported by the frame so that the lever is swingable; the links and the lever are associated at the other ends thereof with a drive control cam, which is rotated by an electric motor; and the driver and the clincher are nearly simultaneously moved toward and away from each other in mutually opposite directions through the

Abstract: The invention refers to a method and a device that serves to connect convr belt ends and to repair tears or splits in conveyor belts by means of plate-shaped or, respectively, oblong connection elements which are provided with openings for the fastening elements. The essence of the invention is that an upper tool serves for positioning at least one upper connection element, and that a lower tool serves for positioning at least one lower connection element, and that the upper tool and the lower tool are provided to drive in staples by means of hammer blows.

Abstract: A device for stapling sheets at a stapling zone includes a conveyor for conveying the sheets to be collated to the stapling zone, a detector for detecting the overall thickness of sheets conveyed by the conveyor to the stapling zone, a first stapler for stapling the sheets collated at the stapling zone, and a second stapler for stapling the sheets collated at the stapling zone. In the device, one of the first and second staplers is selected to be actuated in accordance with the overall thickness of the stack of sheets detected by the detector.

Abstract: A stapling unit includes an auxiliary device for attaching an anvil thereof adjustably relative to a stapler head of the stapling unit. The auxiliary device includes a rib-type projection for inserting into the stapler head of the unit, and a positioning pin for mounting to the anvil.

Abstract: A stapling device for stapling various size sheets includes a stapling head that is movable along a travel path for adjusting the various sheet stapling positions. The stapling device includes a plurality of cooperating anvils having first and second surfaces for cooperating with the first and second legs of a staple being used by the stapling head. One of the anvils has a centrally located third cooperating surface that cooperates with the first leg of the staple when the stapling device is in a first sheet stapling position, and with the second leg of the staple when the stapling device is in a second and different sheet stapling position.

Abstract: A stapling apparatus for stapling a set of copy sheets in a copier or printer includes a noise reducing clamp mechanism for clamping the set of copy sheets. The noise reducing clamp mechanism includes means for proportionally varying the speed and force of a movable clamping member, such that the thinner the set of copy sheets, the lesser the speed and impact force of the movable member when it contacts the set of sheets.

Abstract: The system disclosed herein includes a pair of polymeric elongated edge-binding strips, each of which includes upstanding staple-like members extending from the strip adjacent the center and the ends thereof. Staple deforming depressions are positioned adjacent each staple-like member. In use a pair of edge-binding strips are positioned opposite each other and are used to bind a series of stacked sheets. In such a case, the strips are arranged to face other with staples from one strip aligned with depressions and another strip and vice versa.

Abstract: A stapling apparatus using continuous staple wire for stapling a set of sheets includes a stapler head having a cover thereto that partially and advantageously defines the stapel wire path therein so as to substantially reduce staple wire jams and misfeeds.

Abstract: A powered stapler mechanism with a pivotal head mounted in a housing comprised of an upper portion and a lower portion including a lower floor and upstand structure to which the mechanism is anchored. The pivotal head is raised by cam means during the stapler cycle and the housing portions are lockable together using an axle and a slide lock.

Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed for ablation of organs or parts of organs or for generally cutting and applying surgical clips to the organ or body tissue. The instrument includes an elongated body having a pair of pincer jaws connected to the distal end, one jaw being fixed, and the other jaw being pivotally mounted at its proximal end for movement toward and away from the fixed jaw for gripping body tissue therebetween. A camming tube is provided for retaining the jaws in the closed position to firmly grip tissue. The instrument includes a knife for cutting the organ, and a tool which carries a cam for propelling suture clips into the tissue. The jaws, the knife and the suture clip application tool are all controllable from the proximal end by the surgeon to facilitate remote control when the instrument is inserted into a trocar or other guide tube.

Abstract: An electric stapler including tension springs which prevent a second staple from entering a staple supply position of a magazine when a first staple is a jammed therein. The tension springs are connected between the arm of actuating links and connecting rods. The connecting rods connect the actuating links to the shaft of a motor. A clincher is provided which folds the legs of a U-shaped staple which have penetrated an article to a stapled against the article.

Abstract: An electric stapler including tension springs which prevent a second staple from entering a staple supply position of a magazine when a first staple is jammed therein. The tension springs are connected between the arm of actuating links and connecting rods. The connecting rods connect the actuating links to the shaft of a motor. A clincher is provided which folds the legs of a U-shaped staple which have penetrated an article to be stapled against the article.

Abstract: At one end of a stacking area, abutments are arranged which extend into, and can be selectively moved out of, the feed path of sheets fed through such area to stack sheets in such area. In the area of the abutments, two oppositely arranged stapling devices are located which are movable parallel with the stack edge defined by the abutments and are adjustable to various stapling distances. The stapling devices engage a spindle with oppositely directed threads such that, when the spindle is rotated, the stapling devices are moved toward or away from each other. The stapling devices laterally substantially surround the stacking area from above and below adjacent to the edge defined by the abutments, but do not intercept the feed path. For this purpose they are provided with recesses through which the sheets can be brought into the stapling position adjacent to the stack abutments and the stacks after stapling can be readily removed from the stapling position.

Abstract: An anvil unit for guiding and clinching staples as driven downwardly in a vertical plane in which each staple leg is guided into a guide means in the unit, each guide means lies at an angle to such vertical plane. Communicating with forming a part of each guide means is a slot, at an angle to the vertical plane, with a swingable wing thereon for clinching the staple legs after each has penetrated the workpiece.

Abstract: A stapler apparatus for fastening junction staples (2) on one end of a conveyor belt (1) comprises a working head (10) slidable along a guide plate (7) provided for guiding the fastener clamps (4) of the staples to be fastened on one end of the conveyor belt (1). The working head (10) comprises a punch (13) for driving-in the clamps (4) and a mobile die (11) for folding down the clamp spikes. The support (25) of the die (11) and the punch (13) are driven through a sliding member (22) slidable inside the working head (10), this member (22) being driven by the piston (23) of an actuating cylinder (24). The sliding member (22) comprises two separate cams (33 and 36) acting respectively upon the support (25) of the movable die (11) and upon the clamp-driving punch (13) , the arrangement and the profile of these cams being such that the first cam (33) will act at first for lowering the movable die (11) before the second cam (36) acts for raising the clamp-driving punch (13).

Abstract: An apparatus for attaching fastener elements one at a time to a garment includes a die plate disposed below a punch and having a plurality of dies spaced apart in a first direction. The die plate is slidably movable in the one direction to place the dies successively into alignment with the punch. The die plate is displaceable in a second direction away from the punch in a plane of sliding movement of the die plate. The die plate is pivotally movable in a vertical plane when it is disposed in a position remote from the punch. According to a preferred embodiment, the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the die plate is tiltable upwardly as it is displaced in the second direction away from the punch.

Abstract: A disposable cartridge assembly for a surgical stapling instrument wherein an anvil carrying component comprises constituent anvil elements articulated with respect to each other and presenting an annular anvil surface. A biasing element is provided for biassing the elements into a retracted position wherein the anvil surface has a first diameter. A locking element is provided for releasable interengagement with the anvil elements so as to maintain them in an expanded position against the biassing force wherein the anvil surface has a second larger diameter and so as to lock said elements against relative displacement, the arrangement being such that upon disengagement of the locking element from the anvil elements, the latter are displaced under the biassing force into the retracted position.

Abstract: A stapler in which staple legs extending through the material to be bound by more than a given length are cut by cooperation between a movable and fixed cutting member. The movable member is moved in a direction orthogonal to the penetrating direction of the staple legs by rotation of a cam which also causes a driver to drive the staple through the material and also clinches the cut staple legs.

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: Disclosed is a stapler which comprises a main body portion having at its one end a staple accommodating portion provided with a staple drive-out opening, a pressing lever portion pivotally attached at its one end to the other end of the main body portion, and a base portion having a guide groove disposed at a position which comes in opposition to the staple drive-out opening for curving stapling leg portions of one staple so as to be close to each other. The staple drive-out opening is formed to be narrower in width at a lower staple driving-out side than an upper staple pressing side, whereby when the staple is driven out of the staple drive-out opening, the stapling leg portions of the staple is forcedly curved so as to make the respective free ends of the staple drive-out opening come into contact with each other while piercing into an object to be stapled. Accordingly, fixing of flaps of a box, fixing of a slip or the like on a box, etc.

Abstract: A surgical stapler for suturing tissue that includes a flat driver slidably mounted in a stapler frame in operative association with a substantially flat anvil rotatably mounted in the frame. The anvil includes a projection, or flange, that is located near the nose of the stapler frame. The driver has a staple-forming recess at the nose area. The anvil is rotated by activation of the driver via a trigger mounted in the frame means. When the anvil is rotated from a non-engaged position to an engaged position by action of the driver, the projection of the anvil drops on the inner side of a staple in the recess. Further outward movement of the driver crimps the staple in the recess between the projection and the driver. De-engagement of the driver from the staple results in forcing the anvil to rotate from the engaged position to the non-engaged position so as to free the crimped staple from its position in the recess.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A fixture for use with a pull tool to form the parts of a grommet about an opening in material to reinforce the material opening.

Abstract: A veterinary stapling mechanism which comprises an implement having a staple delivery means and a staple crimping mechanism, the latter comprising a pantograph device for crimping the ends of a staple over a crimp plate which is then removed from the stapling location.

Abstract: An electric stapler wherein a guide cylinder is fixedly disposed on a base having a groove for bending a driven staple in such a way as to form a slit for inserting papers to be stapled, and in the guide cylinder is disposed a vertically movable block having at its lower end a downwardly projecting blade for driving the staple toward the staple bending groove. The block is always given a downward pull by springs. A working arm is swingably supported by a shaft fixedly disposed at a position spaced-apart from the guide cylinder, the arm being pivotally secured at one end to an upper part of the vertically movable block and having at its other end a pressure receiving portion.

Abstract: A low-electric-current-demand stapler is disclosed. The stapler has a frame upon which is mounted a fastener driver mechanism including a fastener driving blade and drive unit, a blade drive-control unit including spaced-apart frame pieces mounted on the frame, a rotary driven wheel mounted on the drive-control unit, and an electric motor powered transmission apparatus for transmitting the rotary motion of the motor to the driven wheel.

Abstract: The staple has a non-linear bright and two spaced-apart legs depending therefrom. Material weakening means, such as a pair of nicks, is in the regions of the bight adjacent to the legs. When the staple is applied, the legs are bent into a plane approximately parallel to the plane of the bight. When it is desired to remove the staple, the bight is gripped and rotated until it breaks away from the legs.

Abstract: 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 the forward end, and a metallic anvil element being pressed into the recess on the base, the anvil element having at least one pointed projection extending outwardly from the side wall of the anvil element, the pointed projection biting into the material of the base at the corresponding side wall of the recess to hold the anvil element within the recess.

Abstract: A fastener assembling apparatus includes an arrangement for adjustably setting a clinching force to be applied to a pair of fastener elements as they are clinched together by and between a punch and a die, thereby assembling the fastener elements in properly clinched condition without damaging the same. The clinching-force setting arrangement includes a spring-loaded slider block disposed in a lower horizontal portion of a generally C-shaped frame and slidably movable in a horizontal direction. The slider block has a downwardly sloping upper surface and is urged by a spring to hold the sloping upper surface in abutting engagement with an upwardly sloping lower surface of a die holder which is vertically movably disposed in the lower frame portion. The clinching-force setting arrangement also includes an adjustment rod disposed horizontally in the lower frame portion for adjusting the force of the spring.

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 disposable cartridge assembly for a surgical stapling instrument wherein an anvil carrying component comprises constituent anvil elements articulated with respect to each other and presenting an annular anvil surface. A biasing element is provided for biassing the elements into a retracted position wherein the anvil surface has a first diameter. A locking element is provided for releasable interengagement with the anvil elements so as to maintain them in an expanded position against the biassing force wherein the anvil surface has a second larger diameter and so as to lock said elements against relative displacement, the arrangement being such that upon disengagement of the locking element from the anvil elements, the latter are displaced under the biassing force into the retracted position.

Abstract: In a jumper wire inserting apparatus, a transforming members has a fixed member and a movable member, thereby to transform the jumper wire accurately by transferring the movable member only responding to respective pitches of pairs of holes of the printed circuit substrate.