Patents by Inventor Stuart E. Garber
Stuart E. Garber 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).
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Publication number: 20240100669Abstract: A fastening tool having a nail stop which positions a nail for driving and is made at least in part of a contact material which can be investment cast and/or hardened. The contact material can resist wear from the action of driving the nail and the movement of a driver blade. The nail stop can be configured to align nails fed from a magazine and can be offset from the longitudinal centerline of the fastening tool. The nail stop can have a head contact length which is 0.5% to 95% of the length of the nail to be driven. The nail stop is used in methods for positioning a nail for driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20230364760Abstract: A tool is provided for applying fasteners to a workpiece. The tool has a housing with a nosepiece, a motor, a drive actuator, a magazine assembly that holds fasteners, and a feed assembly with a feed actuator configured to move a lead fastener into the nosepiece. A driver in the housing is driven by a drive system that is associated with the driver actuator. A controller is connected to the feed actuator and the drive actuator to implement a firing sequence for driving each lead fastener into the workpiece using the driver and feeding the lead fastener into the nosepiece assembly. The actuators may be in the form of solenoids. The controller is designed to energize and deenergize the motor selectively while the drive actuator and feed actuator are activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: BLACK & DECKER, INC.Inventors: Jongsoo LIM, Jonathan KIRKPATRICK, Merrill MYERS, Stuart E. GARBER
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Patent number: 11745323Abstract: A tool is provided for applying fasteners to a workpiece. The tool has a housing with a nosepiece, a motor, a drive actuator, a magazine assembly that holds fasteners, and a feed assembly with a feed actuator configured to move a lead fastener into the nosepiece. A driver in the housing is driven by a drive system that is associated with the driver actuator. A controller is connected to the feed actuator and the drive actuator to implement a firing sequence for driving each lead fastener into the workpiece using the driver and feeding the lead fastener into the nosepiece assembly. The actuators may be in the form of solenoids. The controller is designed to energize and deenergize the motor selectively while the drive actuator and feed actuator are activated.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Jongsoo Lim, Jonathan Kirkpatrick, Merrill Myers, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20220314410Abstract: A fastening tool includes a contact trip operatively associated with a contact trip switch to enable a fastener drive system to be fired when the contact trip reaches a firing position, after having engaged a work surface. if a dry-fire condition exists in a magazine connected to the fastening tool, the movement of the contact trip is completely taken up or absorbed by a biasing agent so that the contact trip switch is not closed. The biasing agent also limits the amount of force that can be applied to the contact trip switch in the event an operator slams the contact trip against a work surface or drops the fastening tool nose-first onto an unyielding surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Erin Elizabeth JASKOT, Michael P. BARON, Stuart E. GARBER
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Patent number: 11400572Abstract: A fastening tool includes a contact trip operatively associated with a contact trip switch to enable a fastener drive system to be fired when the contact trip reaches a firing position, after having engaged a work surface. If a dry-fire condition exists in a magazine connected to the fastening tool, the movement of the contact trip is completely taken up or absorbed by a biasing agent so that the contact trip switch is not closed. The biasing agent also limits the amount of force that can be applied to the contact trip switch in the event an operator slams the contact trip against a work surface or drops the fastening tool nose-first onto an unyielding surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Erin Elizabeth Jaskot, Michael P. Baron, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20220234186Abstract: A fastening tool of the present invention includes a housing having an underside. The fastening tool also includes a magazine and a support foot connected to one of the housing underside and the magazine. Using a system of cooperating detents formed on the support foot and housing underside (or magazine, as the case may be), the support foot can be quickly and easily removably secured to the fastening tool without using any tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey J. MEYER, Stuart E. GARBER, Erin Elizabeth JASKOT
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Publication number: 20220143796Abstract: A fastening tool including a magazine securely and releasably retained on the fastening tool by a cam mounted on one of the fastening tool and the magazine. In a single rotary motion, the cam wedges together the housing member of the fastening tool and the housing member of the magazine, while simultaneously rotating cam lobes into respective chambers formed on the fastening tool and the magazine. The cam rotation and magazine retention system is accomplished without tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey J. Meyer, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 11325235Abstract: A fastening tool of the present invention includes a housing having an underside. The fastening tool also includes a magazine and a support foot connected to one of the housing underside and the magazine. Using a system of cooperating detents formed on the support foot and housing underside (or magazine, as the case may be), the support foot can be quickly and easily removably secured to the fastening tool without using any tools.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Meyer, Stuart E. Garber, Erin Elizabeth Jaskot
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Publication number: 20220118593Abstract: A fastening tool having a nail stop which positions a nail for driving and is made at least in part of a contact material which can be investment cast and/or hardened. The contact material can resist wear from the action of driving the nail and the movement of a driver blade. The nail stop can be configured to align nails fed from a magazine and can be offset from the longitudinal centerline of the fastening tool. The nail stop can have a head contact length which is 0.5% to 95% of the length of the nail to be driven. The nail stop is used in methods for positioning a nail for driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 11279013Abstract: A driver rebound plate to prevent a fastener driver from rebounding into the drive path and striking additional fasteners at the end of a drive cycle. The driver rebound plate is formed from an elongated body having a mounting portion at a first end and a bearing portion at a second end. A retaining portion is disposed between the mounting portion and the bearing portion and is adjacent to the mounting portion. An impact portion designed to receive the impact of a driver during a return stroke is disposed between the retaining portion and the bearing portion. The impact portion is bent at an oblique angle with respect to the drive axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Erin Elizabeth Jaskot, Stuart E. Garber, Dustin L. DeMarr
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Publication number: 20220080571Abstract: A magazine for use with a fastening tool. The magazine can have a pusher assembly that can be retracted into a recess in the magazine to facilitate loading and reloading of fasteners. The pusher assembly can have a pusher assembly knob which can be reversibly latched to a detent to maintain the pusher assembly in a retracted state. The fastening tool can use a magazine which can be reloaded by a method which has a step of reversibly retracting the pusher assembly into the retracted state to allow for feeding one or more fasteners to the magazine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 11267114Abstract: A fastening tool including a magazine securely and releasably retained on the fastening tool by a cam mounted on one of the fastening tool and the magazine. In a single rotary motion, the cam wedges together the housing member of the fastening tool and the housing member of the magazine, while simultaneously rotating cam lobes into respective chambers formed on the fastening tool and the magazine. The cam rotation and magazine retention system is accomplished without tools.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Meyer, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 11229995Abstract: A fastening tool having a nail stop which positions a nail for driving and is made at least in part of a contact material which can be investment cast and/or hardened. The contact material can resist wear from the action of driving the nail and the movement of a driver blade. The nail stop can be configured to align nails fed from a magazine and can be offset from the longitudinal centerline of the fastening tool. The nail stop can have a head contact length which is 0.5% to 95% of the length of the nail to be driven. The nail stop is used in methods for positioning a nail for driving.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Black Decker Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 11179836Abstract: A magazine for use with a fastening tool. The magazine can have a pusher assembly that can be retracted into a recess in the magazine to facilitate loading and reloading of fasteners. The pusher assembly can have a pusher assembly knob which can be reversibly latched to a detent to maintain the pusher assembly in a retracted state. The fastening tool can use a magazine which can be reloaded by a method which has a step of reversibly retracting the pusher assembly into the retracted state to allow for feeding one or more fasteners to the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 10987790Abstract: A power take-off (PTO) assembly of a cordless electric concrete driver includes a bracket supporting a solenoid and a compression spring and a linkage arm coupled between a plunger of the solenoid and the compression spring. The linkage arm is biased by the compression spring toward the nail driver. A carrier supports or carries a pinch roller and the carrier is pivotably mounted to the bracket via a pivot pin. An engaging surface is movable with the plunger between an engagement position in which the engaging surface engages a cooperating engaging surface of the carrier and orients the carrier into a corresponding engagement orientation, and a disengagement position in which the engaging surface is spaced away from the cooperating engaging surface of the carrier, allowing the carrier to pivot outside the corresponding engagement orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20210107125Abstract: A magazine for use with a fastening tool. The magazine can have a pusher assembly that can be retracted into a recess in the magazine to facilitate loading and reloading of fasteners. The pusher assembly can have a pusher assembly knob which can be reversibly latched to a detent to maintain the pusher assembly in a retracted state. The fastening tool can use a magazine which can be reloaded by a method which has a step of reversibly retracting the pusher assembly into the retracted state to allow for feeding one or more fasteners to the magazine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 10926385Abstract: A powered driving tool, such as a nailer, having a magnetic filter in the contact trip that retains ferrous debris remaining in the nosepiece as a result of a first fastener being driven into a workpiece, and allows the ferrous debris to be expelled from the nosepiece with a portion of a second fastener, when the second fastener is driven into a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Merrill Myers, Stuart E. Garber, Diego A. Tejada, William R. Stumpf
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Patent number: 10888981Abstract: A magazine for use with a fastening tool. The magazine can have a pusher assembly that can be retracted into a recess in the magazine to facilitate loading and reloading of fasteners. The pusher assembly can have a pusher assembly knob which can be reversibly latched to a detent to maintain the pusher assembly in a retracted state. The fastening tool can use a magazine which can be reloaded by a method which has a step of reversibly retracting the pusher assembly into the retracted state to allow for feeding one or more fasteners to the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Patent number: 10654155Abstract: A driver return assembly can be positioned to return a concrete nail driver of a cordless electric powered nailer to the home position. A return rack can be fixedly coupled to and positioned along a longitudinal length of the concrete nail driver The driver return assembly can include a solenoid driving a plunger in a reciprocating motion in a homeward direction and a driven direction. A return pawl can be coupled to the plunger and pivotable into a pawl raised position relative to the plunger in which the pawl is engageable with the return rack during movement of the plunger in the homeward direction, and pivotable into a pawl lowered position relative to the plunger in which the pawl is not engageable with the return rack during movement of the plunger in the driven direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Meyer, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20200039043Abstract: A fastening tool which controls the return behavior of a driver blade by using a blade stop and/or a bumper. The fastening tool can remove the driver blade from the drive path upon its return after driving a fastener into a workpiece and bring the driver blade to a resting state by using a bumper to orient the driver blade out of alignment with the drive path and into contact the driver blade stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventor: Stuart E. Garber