Patents by Inventor Ryan T. Gallagher

Ryan T. Gallagher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260264284
    Abstract: An assembly includes a cut-off tool and a shroud. The cut-off tool including a motor housing, a pistol-grip handle, an arbor, a cutting disk attachable to the arbor and rotatable about a cutting disk axis, and a guard. The shroud being coupled with the guard and including a shoe configured to support the shroud on a workpiece, a periphery of the shoe defining a shoe profile in a frame of reference parallel with the workpiece with the shoe supported on the workpiece, a depth adjustment bracket coupled to the shoe, a shroud body engageable with and surrounding the guard, the shroud body being pivotably coupled to the shoe to adjust a cut depth of the cutting disk below the shoe, and a lever arm extending between the shroud body and the depth adjustment bracket. The lever arm and the depth adjustment bracket are positioned entirely within the shoe profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Inventors: Ryan T. Gallagher, David A. Bierdeman
  • Publication number: 20250010444
    Abstract: A powered fastener driver including a housing defining a cylinder support portion with a cylinder and a motor housing portion. The driver includes a piston and a driver blade. The piston is movable within the cylinder from a top-dead-center (TDC) position to a bottom-dead-center (BDC) position with a blade attached thereto for driving a fastener. The driver includes a lifter for moving the piston and blade, in unison, from the BDC position toward the TDC position. The driver includes a nosepiece from which the fastener is discharged, a motor disposed in the motor housing portion, a fan coupled to the motor to receive torque therefrom, causing the fan to generate an airflow, and a conduit for directing the airflow to at least one of away from the cylinder to clear and/or prevent debris accumulated in the cylinder support portion of the housing, or toward the cylinder for cooling the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Hunter Kollmann, Troy C. Thorson, Ryan T. Gallagher, David A. Bierdeman