Magnetic Member-feed And/or Holding Means Patents (Class 227/113)
  • Patent number: 11660736
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, including a front end portion, the front end portion including a staple outlet and a plate member, the plate member including a concave adjacent to the staple outlet; a holder, switchably disposed on the main body, including a plurality of notches with different sizes and a plurality of first positioning portions; and a positioning member, disposed on the main body, releasably positioned with one of the plurality of first positioning portions so that one of the plurality of notches corresponds to the concave in a front to rear direction, for receiving a portion of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 10765424
    Abstract: A surgical stapler can comprise an anvil comprising a staple pocket formed in a tissue contacting surface. The staple pocket can comprise a midline or centerline, a first forming cup, and a second forming cup. The first forming cup can comprise a first interior sidewall comprising a first vertical portion which is substantially perpendicular to the tissue contacting surface. The second forming cup can comprise a second interior sidewall comprising a second vertical portion which is substantially perpendicular to the tissue contacting surface. The first vertical portion and the second vertical portion can extend through the centerline, wherein the first interior sidewall and the second interior sidewall can comprise a trap for deforming a first staple leg of a staple to a first side of the centerline and for deforming a second staple leg of the staple to a second side of the centerline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Chester O. Baxter, III, James J. Bedi
  • Patent number: 10751053
    Abstract: A staple cartridge is disclosed including a cartridge body including a longitudinal slot. A plurality of staple cavities are arranged in a plurality of rows. The plurality of rows includes a first row, a second row, and a third row positioned on a first side of the longitudinal slot. The first row includes a first staple obliquely-oriented relative to the longitudinal slot and is configured to rotate a first amount when stapled into tissue. The second row includes a second staple obliquely-oriented relative to the longitudinal slot and is configured to rotate a second amount when stapled into tissue. The third row includes a third staple obliquely-oriented relative to said longitudinal slot and is configured to rotate a third amount when stapled into tissue. The third amount is different than the first amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Jerome R. Morgan, Mark S. Zeiner, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
  • Patent number: 10723006
    Abstract: A device functioning as a stapler. The device including a viewing region within an arm of the stapler. The viewing region adapted to provide a user of the device with a view of an interior of a magazine within the arm of the stapler, wherein a user of the device can determine the amount of staples within the magazine without having to open the device. The device further includes an integrated staple removal tool received within a base portion of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Amritha Thiyagarajan
  • Patent number: 10639778
    Abstract: A magazine assembly and a stapler including the same are provided. The magazine assembly includes a main body and a staple-pushing mechanism. The main body has a seat body and at least one rail, the seat body has a first end portion and a second end portion, a connection of the first and second end portions is defined as a moving path, and the at least one rail is disposed on the seat body. The staple-pushing mechanism is arranged on the main body, the staple-pushing mechanism includes a staple-pushing member and a constant force spring, and the staple-pushing member is driven to move toward the first end portion via the constant force spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing- Li Wang, Py-Yi Chang
  • Patent number: 9975232
    Abstract: A pin anchor driver for use with a rotary hammer includes a main shaft having a bore in which a drill bit of the rotary hammer is at least partially receivable, a driver head coupled to the main shaft, and a magnet positioned between the main shaft and the driver head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger D. Neitzell, Ryan Malloy
  • Patent number: 9943952
    Abstract: An electro-pneumatic tool drives a fastener into a workpiece by energizing an electric motor to drive a first piston and generate compressed air in a first cylinder. The compressed air is then supplied to a second cylinder and causes a second piston to move and drive the fastener into the workpiece. After the first piston has passed through its top dead center, braking is applied to the first piston according to one or more braking parameters. Then, if a control unit determines that the first piston has come to a stop at a position that is outside a predetermined range about the bottom dead center of the first piston, one or more of the braking parameters is changed in a subsequent fastener driving cycle to cause the first piston to stop closer to its bottom dead center after conclusion of the subsequent fastener driving cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Itsuku Kato
  • Patent number: 9789596
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool injects a fastener from an injection passage formed in a leading end of a tool main body. The injection passage includes therein a guide portion formed along a driving direction of the fastener for guiding the fastener. The guide portion is formed by providing contours having mutually different distances from a center of the injection passage in a cross-section of the injection passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke Moriwaki, Keisuke Ida, Takamichi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9561030
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a surgical staple (50) and staple pocket (57) for forming kidney-shaped staple therefor, with the staple pocket (57) being recessed inward on the tissue contacting surface of the staple anvil (58), and with M-shaped staple (50) being used, wherein the degree of projection of the middle portion of the back span (51) of the M-shaped staple (50) arranged at the inner circle or arranged at a proximal side of a cutter slot (121) is larger than that of the back span (51) of the M-shaped staple (50) arranged at the outer circle or arranged at a distal side of the cutter slot (121), so that when the staple (50) of the same height are adapted to staple tissues to be stapled of different thickness, staple driver (68) bends the M-shaped staple (50) on the staple pocket (57) to form kidney-shaped staple (50) so as to achieve the operational effect of being able to seal the stapled tissue, to stop bleeding and to heal the tissue therearound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: CHANGZHOU KANGDI MEDICAL STAPLER CO., LTD., SHANGHAI CHUANGYI MEDICAL DEVICE TECH. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuren Zhang, Wei Min Yang, Suying Li, Zhenyu Jiang, Dongkun Yuan, Guoan Yu, Rong Ji, Yiyi Zhang, Weihua Xu
  • Patent number: 9517551
    Abstract: A fuel injector assembly tool includes a frame coupled to a gun body, and a push rod configured to traverse through the frame and the gun body, the gun body having a fixed handle and a trigger for causing distal movement of the push rod as the trigger moves towards the fixed handle. The tool further includes a pressure rod coupled to or forming a portion of the push rod, the pressure rod being arranged and constructed to apply pressure to a tip of a fuel injector to compress springs within the fuel injector and maintain internal alignment of fuel injector components. In one arrangement, the tool includes a pressure rod adaptor nut coupling the push rod to the pressure rod. A method of re-assembly of a fuel injector using the fuel injector assembly tool is disclosed. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LR Inventions, LLC
    Inventor: Ricardo Perez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9333015
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus, devices and methods for affixing an implant, plate, or the like to body tissue. Preferred embodiments comprise a plate with a pre-defined hole, fasteners configured for secure attachment to body tissue, and a self-centering tool capable of holding and installing multiple fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Inventor: Terry Daglow
  • Patent number: 9278411
    Abstract: A material feeding includes a delivery assembly, a pushing assembly, and a positioning assembly. The delivery assembly deliveries workpieces. The pushing assembly is coupled to the delivery assembly and includes a cylinder. The positioning assembly includes a mounting piece and an engaging piece. The mounting piece is coupled to the cylinder and includes a slantwise slot. The engaging piece is adjacent to the delivery assembly and includes a shaft, the shaft inserts through the slantwise slot to couple the engaging piece to the mounting piece. The cylinder moves vertically to drive the mounting piece, the engaging piece moves horizontally related to the delivery assembly since the shaft slides along the slantwise slot, synchronously the cylinder pushes up the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: SHENZHEN FUTAIHONG PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: San-Jun Song, Jian-Ping Jin, Bing Yu
  • Patent number: 8777081
    Abstract: An automatic nail-feeding mechanism for a power tool having a striking assembly having a striking rod movable in a linear reciprocating manner feeds a nail to be struck to a front end of the striking rod. The automatic nail-feeding mechanism has a driving part movable between a first position and a second position in a direction of a reciprocating motion of the striking rod and a nail-storing element is provided with nails arranged at a fixed pitch, the nail-storing element being fed a distance of the fixed pitch towards the striking rod when the driving part moves from the first position to the second position and then from the second position to the first position in a stroke of the reciprocating motion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Yijie Yang
  • Patent number: 8678262
    Abstract: A quick-clamping mechanism for an electric hammer for clamping fasteners such as nails includes a biasing assembly for making the clamping assembly movable between a closed position and an opened position. The clamping assembly includes at least two clamping claws, pivotally connected to a pivot shaft including the combination of a torsion spring and a magnet. Fasteners such as nails and the like, can be clamped or released by the two clamping claws rotating relative to the pivot shaft, so that the quick-clamping mechanism has a simple structure and is easily implemented. The two clamping claws can be automatically closed, after a nail is loaded, by providing a torsion spring or a magnet on the two clamping claws, so that the quick-clamping mechanism can be operated expediently and the nail clamped securely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Hongtao Zhou, Jinhua Wu, Liang Chen, Guigong Ni
  • Patent number: 8672205
    Abstract: A nailing device includes a body with first and second ends and a handle attached to one of the first and second ends. A nail magazine is articulatably connected to the body, where the nail magazine is configured to receive a nail coil. The nail magazine includes an upper part that has a plurality of recesses and a lower part. In order to stabilize the nails in the nail coil, a plurality of magnets are disposed in the plurality of recesses of the upper part of the nail magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Helmut Leitner
  • Patent number: 8661944
    Abstract: The present invention is a nail placement device that includes an enter rod that allows the device to extend into a confined area wherein the enter rod's diameter forms an indentation on the distal end of the enter rod and a magnetic tip disposed on the distal end of the enter rod that secures a nail to be sunk into a desired surface within the relatively confined area. The device also includes an inner rod that receives the proximal end portion of the enter rod that is weighted that enhances any force utilized to set the nail with the device and an ergonomically designed handle to accommodate the user's fingers and a raised distal end to prevent the user's fingers and grasping hand from sliding off of the handle while utilizing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: Duggan Wood
  • Patent number: 8544710
    Abstract: In a gas combustion type driving tool, a measuring chamber 22 is provided in an intermediate part of a gas pipeline 11 between a gas canister 7 and a combustion chamber 2. A solenoid valve 23 is provided in the measuring chamber 22. When fuel gas is supplied to the combustion chamber, an upstream side gas pipeline 11a and a downstream side gas pipeline 11b of the measuring chamber 22 are opened for a predetermined opening time by the solenoid valve 23 to supply the fuel gas within the measuring chamber 22 to the gas pipeline 11b by an injection pressure of the fuel gas in the gas canister 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8439242
    Abstract: A fastening machine 1 is provided, which prevents the tip member 131 from wear and improve its durability as well as align a material into which a fastener is to be driven. The fastening machine 1 is provided with a housing 2, a handle 2A extended from the housing 2, a nose 3 extended from the housing 2 and comprising an ejecting mouth 6 to fire a fastener 25 and a tip member 131 arranged at the tip of nose 3 in the direction of ejecting the fastener 25. The tip member 131 is characterized by comprising a super-hard material member 19 in the side facing a material into which a fastener is to be driven and in the side opposite to the direction of extending the handle 2A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Tanji, Hideyuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8359737
    Abstract: A device for connecting a framework of lengths of timber includes a number of upper and lower frame sections, as well as a number of diagonals or struts wherein at least one press tool is disposed to fixedly press at least one nail plate over joints between the lengths of timber, and that the press tools are disposed in a portal with a number of upper beams and a number of lower beams on which the press tools are adjustable reciprocally across the framework between a position in which the press tool collects a pair of nail plates, and a position over a joint for fixedly pressing one of the nail plates on the upper side and the other on the under side of the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Nordiska Truss AB
    Inventor: Lars Englundh
  • Patent number: 8201481
    Abstract: There is a tool configured to tack a coupling device to a surface including a handle configured to permit a user to grasp the tool. The tool also includes a shaft member coupled to the handle and including a spring-loaded mechanism, configured to provide a force to tack a coupling device to a surface and to release the coupling device to the surface. In addition, the tool includes a head member coupled to the shaft member and configured to receive and hold a coupling device head in preparation for tacking. The head member includes a head body, a magnet disposed within the head body, and a socket member extending from the head body and including a curved socket bottom adjacent the magnet and a rim having a beveled cross-section; wherein the head member includes a gap between the magnet and the coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Victor D. Williams
  • Patent number: 8083117
    Abstract: A nailer device is carried within a housing having a nozzle portion wherein the nozzle portion is connected with the housing via a head portion of the housing. The nozzle portion includes a sleeve, a fixing member, and a magnetic member located between the sleeve and the fixing member. The fixing member is mounted on the sleeve and the fixing member has a groove in which the magnetic member is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Chervon Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi Fukinuki, Toshinari Yamaoka, Gan Wei
  • Publication number: 20110214536
    Abstract: There is a tool configured to tack a coupling device to a surface including a handle configured to permit a user to grasp the tool. The tool also includes a shaft member coupled to the handle and including a spring-loaded mechanism, configured to provide a force to tack a coupling device to a surface and to release the coupling device to the surface. In addition, the tool includes a head member coupled to the shaft member and configured to receive and hold a coupling device head in preparation for tacking. The head member includes a head body, a magnet disposed within the head body, and a socket member extending from the head body and including a curved socket bottom adjacent the magnet and a rim having a beveled cross-section; wherein the head member includes a gap between the magnet and the coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventor: Victor D. Williams
  • Publication number: 20110011912
    Abstract: An auto hammer has a housing body and a nozzle portion connected to the housing. The housing body contains a striking device therein. The nozzle portion contains a sleeve and a sleeve support. The sleeve is retractable within the sleeve support and contains a nail attracting device therein. A magnet is arranged in the nail attracting device and is supported by at least one spring. The nail attracting device of the auto hammer is thus arranged in the sleeve and the spring is used to support the magnet to increase stability. After being attracted, the nail is positioned along the centerline of the sleeve so it becomes more convenient to use the nail attracting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Chervon Limited
    Inventors: Gan Wei, Masatoshi Fukinuki
  • Publication number: 20100320251
    Abstract: A nailer (1) for nails (14) which are belted in the form of a coil (13) via at least one wire (15), with the heads (14?) of which partially overlapping each other, said device comprising an upper part (2), which is designed as hammer handle (4) at its one end (3) and has an angular stop (6) at its other end (5), and comprising a lever part (7), which is connected to the upper part (2) in an articulated manner and includes a nail magazine (11), a hammerhead (17) and a nail-feeding or guiding means (18), wherein the hammerhead (17) has a drive channel (16) in which a striker (28) is guided, and wherein the nail-feeding or guiding means (18) has a rocker arm (22) which upon activation of the nailer (1), displaces a feeder (19) in an opening (17?) in the hammerhead (17), and in the relaxed state of the nailer (1), the upper part (2) and the lever part (7) are forced apart by a resilient element (9, 10), and wherein at least one stabilizing element is assigned to the nail magazine (11) via which the nails (14) are
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Helmut Leitner
  • Patent number: 7775412
    Abstract: A nail is held within a cylindrical nail receiver by a magnetized tip of a cylindrical driver rod. As the driver sleeve is moved toward a surface, the driver rod drives the nail into the surface leaving a predetermine space between the head of the nail and the surface. A coil spring, attached to the nail receiver and allows for the nail receiver to be adjusted for several nail lengths thus allowing for an accurate placement of the nail against the wall. The nail receiver is interchangeable to allow use of the device with nails and anchors of differing diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Andres Nemeth
  • Publication number: 20100193562
    Abstract: A nailer device has a housing containing a motor and a striking device arranged in a compact manner. A transmission mechanism is mounted in the housing for translating the rotating motions of the motor into the periodic impact motions upon the striking device. The transmission mechanism includes an impact assembly which imparts the periodic impact motions upon the striking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Chervon Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi Fukinuki, Gan Wei, Zhiguo Chen, Guillaume Keller
  • Patent number: 7712209
    Abstract: A magnetic rivet retention system for a rivet gun, wherein a magnet is provided in a frame that is engageable with a powered handle. The magnet attracts a rivet and aligns the rivet relative to a punch and die of the rivet gun. The magnet is disposed in an internal chamber in a front bushing. The front bushing is threadably engaged with a back bushing, and both are disposed in a chamber which is provided in a C-frame. A compression spring is also disposed in the C-frame, thereby providing that the rivet gun is spring return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Acument Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Wim Bouman, Ed Hovestadt
  • Patent number: 7712646
    Abstract: An adaptor (10) for a fastening tool (12) having an attachment portion (18) for coupling the adaptor (10) to the fastening tool and a support (14, 16) for coupling a mounting bracket (26) to the adaptor (10), arranged so as to hold the mounting bracket (26) relative to a substrate and allow a fastener from the tool to be driven through the mounting bracket to secure the mounting bracket to the substrate (52). A holder for holding an item to facilitate attachment of said item to a substrate by a fastener, wherein the holder magnetically retains the item in a position to receive the fastener from a fastener tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Cetram Pty Limited
    Inventors: Tim Gamble, Andrew Crawford, Fred Blochlinger
  • Publication number: 20100108737
    Abstract: A simple tool that joins mitred wood corners of a picture frame with a minimum effort by eliminating several moving parts that (because of these innovations) are no longer necessary. The use of a Neodymium magnet to direct the action of the v-nails into the wood makes the usual spring load obsolete. The second unique feature of the machine is a food pedal beveled in such a fashion as to bring down the required pressure pad without prior adjustment to suit the moulding height. These improvements provide the user with a tool that will always work as intended without the need for adjustments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Eugene J. Cox
  • Patent number: 7708178
    Abstract: A tool (12) has a body (14) having an opening (16) forming a barrel (18) which has a top and a bottom (20 and 22), an opening (30) at the bottom (22), and a pressure input (44) for fluid communication. The barrel (18) receives a piston (24) and a magnet (23) which is contiguous with the pressure input (44). An actuator pin tube (26) is received in the opening (30) at the bottom (22) of the barrel (18), and an actuator pin (38) is engaged in the tube (26). A second opening (28) may be disposed in the top (20). A kit (110) containing the tool (12), hose (94), cartridges (84) and a pump (P). A method for using the tool (12) is also contemplated hereby. Multiple tools (12) may be detonated at the same time by hooking them up to a manifold (95 or 95?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Inventor: Carroll Bassett
  • Patent number: 7552852
    Abstract: A nail holding and driving device includes an elongated generally non-magnetically conductive main tube and a magnet movably mounted on the outer wall of the main tube. A nail-driving rod is slidably housed within the main tube, the nail-driving rod being constructed of a magnetically conductive material and having a nail engaging and striking lower impact end face and an impact-receiving upper end. The magnet is operative to magnetize the nail-driving rod through the main tube. The nail-driving rod is operative to magnetically engage a nail to support the nail within the main tube in contact with the nail engaging and striking lower end of the nail-driving rod and drive the nail into the desired location by impact of a nail-driving device with the impact-receiving upper end of the nail-driving rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Lee Haskins, Donna L. Hutchison
  • Publication number: 20080217373
    Abstract: Coupling for transmission of a rotational movement from a driving member to a driven member, comprising permanent magnets which are integral with the driving member and permanent magnets which are integral with the driven member, said permanent magnets having a matching polarity (N-N;S-S) and lying in respective radial planes parallel to the axis of rotation and situated opposite each other so that each pair of oppositely facing magnets produces a corresponding magnetic repulsion force. The magnet transmission force transmits the rotational movement from the driving member to the driven member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Piercarlo Boffelli, Claudio Bellotti, Erminio Depoli, Fabio Natale
  • Publication number: 20080185418
    Abstract: A fastening device drives one or more fasteners into a workpiece. The fastening device generally includes a tool housing and a multistage solenoid having at least a first stage, a second stage and an armature member that travels therebetween. The multistage solenoid is contained within the tool housing. A driver blade is connected to the armature member. The driver blade is operable between an extended condition and a retracted condition. A control module determines a position of the armature member relative to at least one of the first stage, the second stage and a combination thereof. A trigger assembly is connected to the control module and activates a driver sequence that moves the driver blade member between the retracted condition and the extended condition. The control module directs power between the first stage and the second stage based on the position of the armature member relative thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Paul G. Gross, Nathan J. Cruise
  • Publication number: 20070262115
    Abstract: A nail holding and driving device includes an elongated generally non-magnetically conductive main tube and a magnet movably mounted on the outer wall of the main tube. A nail-driving rod is slidably housed within the main tube, the nail-driving rod being constructed of a magnetically conductive material and having a nail engaging and striking lower impact end face and an impact-receiving upper end. The magnet is operative to magnetize the nail-driving rod through the main tube. The nail-driving rod is operative to magnetically engage a nail to support the nail within the main tube in contact with the nail engaging and striking lower end of the nail-driving rod and drive the nail into the desired location by impact of a nail-driving device with the impact-receiving upper end of the nail-driving rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Lee Haskins, Donna L. Hutchison
  • Patent number: 7086575
    Abstract: A magnetically operated driving tool includes a body member, first and second stator magnets at opposed ends with like poles facing one another, a movable magnet (traveler), a coupling adjacent each stator coupled to a user-operable linkage, a hammer, and a spring. A user operable linkage causes the traveler to be selectively repulsed by one stator magnet and drawn to the other. In use, a user operates the linkage, rotating the traveler until its polarity and the first stator's polarity match. The first stator magnet magnetically repulses the traveler, propelling it to the second stator magnet. In one embodiment, this action drives a fastener. Another embodiment includes metal coils for generating an electric charge for charging a battery upon movement of the traveler through the coils. Another embodiment includes air nozzles connectable to a pressure tank for compressing air upon each stroke of the traveler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Inventor: David W. Kimple
  • Patent number: 7025241
    Abstract: A device attaches to a roofing nail gun for individually feeding disc-shaped tin tags into centered alignment with the nail gun hammer for safe and accurate center nailing of the tin tag to a host surface. A chute on the device extends from an open top end to a bottom end having a tin tag passage hole centered below the nail gun hammer. Tin Tags are individually deposited through the open top of the device and slide down the chute. Magnets at the bottom end direct and hold the tin tag in centered alignment between the nail gun hammer and passage hole. The bottom portion of the chute is spring biased to allow the nail gun to be pressed downwardly so that the hammer urges the tin tag through the hole and against the host surface prior to firing the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Inventor: Jorge Luis Castellanos
  • Patent number: 6991146
    Abstract: A stapler having a detached base supporting an anvil and a first magnetic element, and a stapling assembly for ejecting staples from a magazine port. The stapling assembly supports a second magnetic element positioned for magnetic coupling to the base to align the anvil with the magazine port. Accordingly, the staple-driving stapling assembly and detached anvil-supporting base are not mechanically coupled. Instead, the stapling assembly and base are magnetically couplable. The magnetic coupling feature eliminates throat depth limitations and allows for staple placement at any desired location on a sheet of any size. An alignment guide may be provided to visually indicate an approximate location where a driven staple will be placed. The base and stapling assembly may be provided with friction pads for limiting movement of any sheets therebetween while stapling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Design Circle, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Sinisi, Jennifer W. Sinisi
  • Patent number: 6955282
    Abstract: A magnetically operated driving tool includes a body member, first and second stator magnets at opposed ends of the body with like poles facing one another, a movable magnet (traveler), a coupling adjacent each stator coupled to a user-operable linkage, a hammer, and a spring. In use, the traveler begins magnetically coupled to the first stator and engaged with the first coupling; the hammer holds a fastener. A user operates the linkage, rotating the traveler until its and the first stator's polarity match. The first stator magnetically repulses the traveler, which propels the hammer to insert the fastener and moves to the second stator where it engages the second coupling. The user operates the linkage, causing the traveler to rotate until its and the second stator's polarity match. The second stator then magnetically repulses the traveler, which engages the spring and reaches the first stator, returning to the initial configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: David W. Kimple
  • Patent number: 6918524
    Abstract: A staple storage unit (10/20) allows the effective and easy removal of jammed staples (200) from the inside of the apparatus (100) by attracting jammed staples to the staple storage unit. The staple storage unit can be removed from the stapler apparatus frame. The staple storage unit is detachably mounted to a stapler apparatus provided with a storage unit (10) storing staples and a guide unit (20) to guide staples in this storage unit to a staple driving unit (103). The stapler includes staple attracting member (24) in the apex of a staple driving unit on the guide unit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignees: ACCO Brands, Inc., NISCA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Mochizuki, Toshiro Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 6871568
    Abstract: A hand-held framing tool includes a handle, a cover shell, and a guide member. The handle includes a coupling portion at an end thereof and a bar member protruded outwards from the coupling portion and fitted with a spring. The cover shell includes a chamber inside at a front end thereof and a guide hole positioned at a bottom side of the chamber. The guide member includes a stopping portion at an end thereof and a plurality of guide ditches extended longitudinally along an inner periphery of a hollow space thereof. The guide member is fitted in the guide hole of the cover shell. The bar member of the handle runs through the hollow space of the guide member. The spring contacts against the stopping portion of the guide member at an end thereof and contacts against the coupling portion of the handle at the other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Inventor: Chung-Wu Chen
  • Patent number: 6805272
    Abstract: A pneumatic nail driver includes a main body having a cavity defined for receiving a spring and a sleeve that has an annular groove defined in an outer periphery of the sleeve. A passage is defined in the main body and selectively communicates with the annular groove for allowing the compressed air flow into the sleeve. A block and a cylinder are sequentially received in the cavity. A striker is reciprocally movably received in the cylinder due to the block and the compressed air. A shaft partially longitudinally extends into the cylinder and the striker is moved to strike the shaft for driving the nail when the shaft and the cylinder are backward pushed to make the annular groove communicate the passage to guide the compressed air flowing to the cylinder for pushing the striker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Inventors: Yang Sen-Mu, Tsai Chih-Wei
  • Publication number: 20040173658
    Abstract: A device attaches to a roofing nail gun for individually feeding disc-shaped tin tags into centered alignment with the nail gun hammer for safe and accurate center nailing of the tin tag to a host surface. A chute on the device extends from an open top end to a bottom end having a tin tag passage hole centered below the nail gun hammer. Tin Tags are individually deposited through the open top of the device and slide down the chute. Magnets at the bottom end direct and hold the tin tag in centered alignment between the nail gun hammer and passage hole. The bottom portion of the chute is spring biased to allow the nail gun to be pressed downwardly so that the hammer urges the tin tag through the hole and against the host surface prior to firing the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Jorge Luis Castellanos
  • Patent number: 6783048
    Abstract: A fastener used to secure a surface layer to a base and a two-stage fastener driver used the drive the fastener into the base. The fastener comprising a non-magnetic fastener body retaining a ferro-magnetic nail. The fastener driver for driving the fastener into the base. The fastener driver having a housing for magnetically retaining the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: K & R Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Powell
  • Patent number: 6769591
    Abstract: In a nailing machine in which a linear-sheath-shaped magazine for storing therein connected nails connected together in a linear manner is disposed so as to be continuous with a nose part, the connected nails are supplied from the magazine to an injection port formed in the nose part, and the connected nails are then driven out of the injection port by a driver, a magnet is disposed on a supply guide surface which is used to guide the nails from the magazine to the injection port of the nose part, and such portion of the shaft of the nail as ranges from the longitudinal-direction center of the nail shaft portion to the leading end side portion thereof is attracted and held by the magnet to thereby be able to prevent the leading end side portion of the shaft portion of the nail left in the injection port from entering into the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Tatsusi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20030230621
    Abstract: In a nailing machine in which a linear-sheath-shaped magazine for storing therein connected nails connected together in a linear manner is disposed so as to be continuous with a nose part, the connected nails are supplied from the magazine to an injection port formed in the nose part, and the connected nails are then driven out of the injection port by a driver, a magnet is disposed on a supply guide surface which is used to guide the nails from the magazine to the injection port of the nose part, and such portion of the shaft of the nail as ranges from the longitudinal-direction center of the nail shaft portion to the leading end side portion thereof is attracted and held by the magnet to thereby be able to prevent the leading end side portion of the shaft portion of the nail left in the injection port from entering into the magazine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Tatsusi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20030146262
    Abstract: The invention disclosed and taught herein relates to a powered fastener driving tool particularly suited for driving straight line fasteners, such as nails or straight line pins into a work piece. A hand held fastener driving tool as particularly described herein, may be used to drive straight line pins, nails and/or staples into a work piece. A magnet is placed within the fastener driving head that magnetically attracts the lead fastener of a soldier course strip of fasteners thereby securing the lead fastener, and trailing strip of fasteners, within the driving tool thereby preventing the possibility of the tool jamming by a fastener not aligning horizontal within the tool and/or its supply magazine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: Senco Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Shin-Leei Hwang, Donald Carl Ries, John Peter Schloemer
  • Patent number: 6598775
    Abstract: A hammer head assembly used in a power hammer for driving a nail into objects to be fastened is constructed to include a nail holder axially slidably mounted in a hollow mounting base and forced out of the bottom side of the mounting base by a spring member, a magnet fixedly provided inside the nail holder and adapted to attract a nail in vertical for driving into the workpiece, and a hammering rod axially inserted into the nail holder and controlled to drive a nail out of the nail holder into the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignees: De Poan Pneumatic Corp.
    Inventor: Tung-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 6595399
    Abstract: A stable pushing magazine for a manual frame stapler having a punch bearing a guide member in the form of a stud magnetized to hold a staple positioned against it. The magazine is in the form of an elongated, closed drawer. One face of the magazine is pierced by a longitudinal opening and another end of the magazine opens in a window at the end of the drawer. The drawer contains a sliding pusher operated by a button for the purpose of displacing the contiguous staples and of placing one staple on the punch via the window at the end of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Societe Cassese
    Inventor: Alain Cassese
  • Patent number: 6592015
    Abstract: A fastener feeding head (10) has fasteners (21, 121, 221) supplied to a fastener passage (15, 115, 215) aligned with a fastener engagement means (14, 114, 214) driven down the fastener passage by a drive means (13) to engage the fastener with workpieces (31, 131, 231). A charge of compressed gas is used to hold the fastener (21, 121, 221) against its engagement means (14, 114, 214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Henrob Limited
    Inventors: Wojciech Gostylla, Stuart Edmund Blacket
  • Patent number: RE44572
    Abstract: A nailer device is carried within a housing having a nozzle portion wherein the nozzle portion is connected with the housing via a head portion of the housing. The nozzle portion includes a sleeve, a fixing member, and a magnetic member located between the sleeve and the fixing member. The fixing member is mounted on the sleeve and the fixing member has a groove in which the magnetic member is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi Fukinuki, Toshinari Yamaoka, Gan Wei, Zhiguo Chen, Guillaume Keller