Abstract: The invention relates to a pyrotechnically operated bolt-setting tool having a barrel (11, 12) which is guided in a barrel-guiding sleeve (1) and can be brought into operative engagement with a locking part (18), the barrel-guiding bore (26) of which accommodates a piston (21), which has a piston shank (23) and a piston head (22), and which has a cartridge store (16) on that side which is remote from the mouth, in which bolt-setting tool the barrel (11, 12), on its side which faces the cartridge store (16), has ventilation slots (31) which are released by the piston head (22) as the bolt is being fired, before the piston (21) reaches its end position on the mouth side, in which position an air cushion is compressed between the piston head (22) and the barrel (11, 12), which air cushion subsequently presses the piston (21) back into its starting position.

Abstract: The invention relates to an explosive powder charge operated bolt-setting tool having a bolt guide (2) which has a through bore (4) for explosive powder charge actuable driving piston (5), a ball brake being provided for the driving piston (5), which brake is designed as a freewheel for the return of the driving piston (5) and comprises a recess (9), which is open radially towards the driving piston (5) and has two spring-loaded brake balls (12) each of which are accommodated therein, and which bear against the driving piston (5) and which can be moved, with maximum and minimum spring loading, between two axial stops (3, 16) along an oblique surface (15) which widens conically at an acute angle towards the driving piston (5).

Abstract: The invention relates to a pyrotechnically operated bolt-setting tool having a barrel (11, 12) which is guided in a barrel-guiding sleeve (1) and can be brought into operative engagement with a locking part (18), the barrel-guiding bore (26) of which accommodates a piston (21), which has a piston shank (23) and a piston head (22), and which has a cartridge store (16) on that side which is remote from the mouth, in which tool the rear side of the piston head (22) is connected through the piston (21) to its front side in such a manner that some of the combustion gases are guided to the front side of the piston head (22), and in which the barrel (11, 12), on its side which faces the cartridge store (16), has ventilation slots (31) which are released by the piston head (22) as the bolt is being fired, before the piston (21) reaches its end position on the mouth side, in which position a gas cushion is compressed between the piston head (22) and the barrel (11, 12), which gas cushion subsequently presses the pisto