Patents Assigned to Kentec, Inc.
  • Fastener with magazine
    Patent number: 4867367
    Abstract: A fastener machine and fastener supply magazine therefor include a fastener guide in the machine and means for impelling fasteners along the guide to a fastened driving head, while the magazine automatically feeds clips of fasteners to the guide means from a stack of fastener clips contained in the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Kentec, Inc.
    Inventor: George W. Kennedy
  • Fastening machine
    Patent number: 4728021
    Abstract: An automatic fastening machine where clips of cohered fasteners (11, 15) fall freely onto a guide means (12) as they are needed and a fastener advancing means (13) intermittently urges the clips of fasteners toward a drive element (60). The drive element pushes the frontmost fastener on a clip into a work piece and an anti-jamming device (18-20) clears any jammed fasteners from the drive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Kentec, Inc.
    Inventor: George W. Kennedy
  • Picture frame fastener
    Patent number: 4709494
    Abstract: A right angle clamp assembly holds two frame elements in a common plane and in angled abutment to form a mitered joint. Pneumatic cylinders are arranged to move the movable clamps of the right angle clamp assembly. A fastener tool has its discharge opening positioned on one side of the location where the mitered joint is to be formed, and a brace is positioned on the other side, with the brace being movable toward and away from the location of the mitered joint. The fastener tool is tiltable with respect to the right angle clamp assembly, and control means are provided for firing the fastener tool in response to the frame elements being gripped by the right angle clamp assembly. The fastener is inserted into the mitered joint at an angle formed by the frame elements to draw the mitered joint together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Kentec, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary D. Kennedy, Joseph G. Maher
  • Method of fastening metered joints of a wooden picture frame
    Patent number: 4574452
    Abstract: A right angle clamp assembly holds two frame elements in a common plane and in angled abutment to form a mitered joint. Pneumatic cylinders are arranged to move the movable clamps of the right angle clamp assembly. A fastener tool has its discharge opening positioned on one side of the location where the mitered joint is to be formed, and a brace is positioned on the other side, with the brace being movable toward and away from the location of the mitered joint. The fastener tool is tiltable with respect to the right angle clamp assembly, and control means are provided for firing the fastener tool in response to the frame elements being gripped by the right angle clamp assembly. The fastener is inserted into the mitered joint at an angle formed by the frame elements to draw the mitered joint together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Kentec, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary D. Kennedy, Joseph G. Maher