Including Supply Magazine For Constantly Urged Members Patents (Class 227/120)
  • Patent number: 7137186
    Abstract: A fastening tool includes a housing assembly having a nosepiece and a magazine assembly that is coupled to the housing assembly. The magazine assembly includes a canister, a door structure, a feed pawl and a follower structure. The canister is configured to hold a plurality of collated fasteners and has a first canister portion and a second canister portion that is movable relative to the first canister portion between a closed position and an open position. The fastening tool further includes a coil feeder assembly having an indexing pawl. The indexing pawl advances a fastener into operative engagement with the feed pawl upon movement of the second canister portion from the open position to the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Andrzej R Wojcicki, Glen V Steinbrunner, Michael P Baron, James R Niblett
  • Patent number: 7137541
    Abstract: A fastening tool having a contact trip switch, a trigger switch, a driver, a motor assembly and a controller. The controller is configured to selectively operate the motor assembly in response to inputs received from the contact trip switch and the trigger switch. The controller includes a mode selector switch having a first switch setting, which can permit bump-feed operation of the fastening tool, and a second switch setting, which prohibits bump-feed operation of the fastening tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Ashok S. Baskar, Craig A. Schell, Alan Berry, Nathan Cruise, Charles L. Bradenbaugh, IV
  • Patent number: 7134586
    Abstract: A fastener driving device is disclosed. The device includes a fastener depletion sensing system that is constructed and arranged to allow normal operation of a power system contained within the device so long as a supply of fasteners provided by a magazine assembly is such that more than a predetermined number of fasteners are in a feed track and/or a drive track within the device. The fastener depletion sensing system is operable when the predetermined number of fasteners in the feed and/or the drive track is reached to provide a tactile indication to the user that the predetermined number of fasteners has been reached, and permitting the user to either cease further operation following the indication or complete the operation following the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P.
    Inventors: David M McGee, Prudencio S Canlas, Jr., Alexander J Calvino
  • Patent number: 7124922
    Abstract: A stapler or like self-powered tool for dispensing and driving fasteners includes a safety mechanism to prevent unintended ejection of a staple or fastener. A movable hook normally obstructs the path of a staple so that the staple is intercepted and stopped as a spring-biased striker ejects the staple from the stapler. The striker preferably includes a notch and an end of the hook extends into the notch so that the safety mechanism can be compact. A button bar is linked to the hook and the button bar normally extends out from the stapler. When the stapler is placed against a working surface, the working surface presses the button bar vertically into the stapler, which causes the hook to rotate out from the striker slot and enables normal stapling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: WorkTools, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel S. Marks
  • Patent number: 7124924
    Abstract: A desktop stapler having a feature for alignment of the anvil with the striker is disclosed. In one embodiment, a stapler body containing a striker is pivotably attached to a base. The pivoting rotation of the body causes a front-to-back motion of the striker over an anvil. A rib disposed at the back end of the body selectively pulls the back end of a linkage to the anvil backward as the body pivots downward to the stapling position. The anvil thus translates in relation to the body to maintain a close alignment of the striker over the anvil. The base assembly may include a cover plate slidable upon a base, wherein the cover plate includes the anvil. Another embodiment uses a tab that urges a staple track to be forcibly pulled open as the body is rotated away from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: WorkTools, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel S. Marks
  • Patent number: 7118020
    Abstract: A stapler is provided for stapling decorative staples into a sheet media, where the decorative staples have an indicia platform and a plurality of prongs. The stapler includes a base and a cartridge assembly pivotably mounted to the base. The cartridge assembly has a magazine for storing the decorative staples. A stapler head is provided with a ram configured to press downwardly on the indicia platform of the decorative staple, pushing the decorative staple out of the magazine such that the prongs enter a top side of a sheet media and deformed against the base on a bottom side of the sheet media. The ram is provided with ridges that extend below a table portion of the ram such that the ridges are disposed substantially directly above the prongs on the decorative staples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Inventors: Chung-Heng Lee, Rebecca A. Nocella
  • Patent number: 7097088
    Abstract: A forward acting stapler includes a unique linkage for driving a firing lever. The linkage includes two links that are each connected to the trigger lever by a roller. The roller is movable within a spot in the trigger lever. As the handle is driven, the two links cause the triggering level to pivot. As the trigger lever pivots it lifts a plunger against a spring force. At some point, the trigger portion releases the plunger allowing the plunger to be returned by the spring force by a staple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Arrow Fastener Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Ilya Shor
  • Patent number: 7097086
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stapler with a novel leaf spring actuation mechanism. According to the teaching of the present invention, the stapler comprises a striking plate for dispensing a staple from a staple magazine, a leaf spring engaged with the striking plate for driving the striking plate, and an actuation bar for lifting the leaf spring from a first position to a second position whereby lifting the striking plate from an initial position to a release position in which the leaf spring is released from the actuation bar to drive the striking plate towards the initial position. Preferably, a pair of lugs on the actuation bar pushes up a pair of tabs on the leaf spring when an L-shaped front end of the actuation bar moves upward along a ramp when an external force is applied to the actuation bar during the stapling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Inventors: Michael P. Joyce, Brent Lucas
  • Patent number: 7090110
    Abstract: A stapler for binding a stack of sheets includes a base, a staple driving mechanism coupled to the base, and a sheet locating device coupled to the base. The sheet locating device includes a guide having first and second guide members and is movable with respect to the staple driving mechanism from a first rotational orientation relative to the staple driving mechanism to a second rotational orientation. The stapler can be used to perform a method of stapling wherein a first stack of sheets receives a staple in a first rotational orientation with respect to the guide, and a second stack of sheets receives a staple in a second rotational orientation with respect to the guide by moving the guide between first and second rotational orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: ACCO Brands USA LLC
    Inventors: David P. Adams, Roland Sudmalis
  • Patent number: 7086573
    Abstract: A braking unit for nail drivers, mainly a rotary retaining unit pivotally mounted on lateral sides of a punch channel of a nail driver, comprises a front blocking portion, a first cam, a second cam and a handle portion. The first cam is engaged with the securing slide rod so as to restrain the slide rod. The second cam is inserted into a punch channel to engaging nails within the channel. Thereby, when the nail cartridge is loaded, the retaining unit releases the securing slide rod so that the trigger can be pulled to punch a nail. It can sense the emptiness of the cartridge so as to restrain the slide rod and invalidate the trigger. The handle portion can be pushed so as to rotate the first cam and the second cam out of the punch channel, whereby a striking test with empty nail cartridge can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: De Poan PNeumatic
    Inventor: Ming-Han Wen
  • Patent number: 7083074
    Abstract: A stapling comprises a nose having a top seat, a nose cover, and a fastening latch. The top seat is mounted on the top of a magazine and is provided with a plurality of retaining portions. A top cover is provided with a plurality of retaining portions and is mounted on the top seat such that the retaining portions of the top cover are retained by the retaining portions of the top seat. The fastening latch is pivoted to the top cover such that a retaining ring of the fastening latch is retained by a holding slot of the retaining portions of the top seat. The top seat and the top cover are securely held together in such a way that they work together to confine a staple which is discharged by the stapling gun, thereby ensuring the accuracy and precision of driving staples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Apach Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Kwei Chen
  • Patent number: 7080768
    Abstract: A desktop stapler includes an automatic opening staple track whereby when the stapler is opened by pivoting the body about the base, the track is de-latched by ribs of the base, and the track slides out from a chamber within the body. The stapler includes a track alignment system that holds the front of the body precisely over the anvil by use of forward and rear torque arm contact areas between the base and track. The stapler also features a striker bottom edge that is shaped to follow the curved shape of the anvil so that the striker may enter the anvil recess without impacting the anvil. A staple chamber in the stapler has staple exit ribs that allow only one staple at a time to be ejected from the staple chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: WorkTools, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel S. Marks
  • Patent number: 7070081
    Abstract: A driver guide for use with a fastener-driving tool has a first guide member mounted to the tool body of the fastener-driving tool. A mount device is coupled to the first guide member and serves to mount a second guide member to the first guide member. A fastener guide channel is defined between the first guide member and the second guide member. The mount device is operable in at least three different modes including a first, second, and third mode, while the mount device remains coupled to the first guide member. In the first mode, the second guide member can be fixed in position relative to the first guide member. In the second mode, the second guide member is movable relative to the first guide member within a limited range. In the third mode, the second guide member can be removed from the first guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuchiya Tadayoshi, Kakuda Nobuyuki, Fujimoto Yasuyuki
  • Patent number: 7070082
    Abstract: A pneumatic gun for fixing elements, comprising a body (2) provided with pneumatically-actuated mechanism for expelling the fixing elements, a handle (3) that protrudes from the body (2) and a magazine (4), for storing and individually feeding the elements, defined by a box-like container (11) provided with a sliding flap (13) for inserting the elements, the body (2) being provided with a working head (8) for driving the elements that can be coupled to a complementary end head (9) of the box-like container (11) that is affected by an opening (18) for the passage of the elements and is adapted to form, together with the head (8), a firing channel (7) for the elements; the gun comprises a guide (38) that runs from the head (8) to the handle (3) and with which the box-like container (11) is coupled slidingly so as to allow a manual translational motion of the magazine (4) from a first active end position, in which the complementary head (9) is adjacent to the head (8), allowing the expulsion of the elements thro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: FASCO S.p.A.
    Inventor: Marco Ronconi
  • Patent number: 7066370
    Abstract: A cassette for stapler capable of storing staples with different lengths of needle legs and capable of being manufactured at a low cost, comprising a cassette body formed slender with a channel shaped cross section and having a staple extrusion groove provided at the tip thereof, a staple holder longitudinally fitted to the cassette body to hold the large number of staples, a feeder for moving the staples pressingly toward the tip thereof, a spring for energizing the feeder, and a guide rod for guiding the movement of the feeder, wherein a guide wall capable of storing the staples with different lengths of needles is provided in the staple holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignees: E-Top Corporation, Sato Kensetsu Kogyo Co., LTD
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ebihara
  • Patent number: 7059507
    Abstract: Apparatus for driving fasteners includes a barrel, a fastener guide which retreats as the apparatus is pressed against a substrate, a feed magazine, receiving a loader of fasteners, and a safety element configured to allow a fastener to be driven only after the fastener guide has retreated. There is a safety shoe configured to, when there is no fastener in the barrel, be moved into a safe position and prevent the retreat of the fastener guide, and including a tell-tale of the safe position of the safety shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Societe de Prospection et d'Inventions Techniques SPIT
    Inventors: Roland Almeras, Patrick Herelier, Emmanuel Vallon
  • Patent number: 7059509
    Abstract: A surgical stapling device having a removable staple cartridge is disclosed. The cartridge includes a first opening in the staple-forming end of the housing member to allow access to the a staple and an aligned second opening to allow the lead staple to move therethrough. The staple cartridge also comprises a fixed blocking surface on the housing member and a traveling blocking surface on a feeder shoe. The traveling blocking surface is sized so that the feeder shoe moves relative to the fixed blocking surface while moving the staple. The feeder shoe is further shaped so that, when the trigger member is actuated when no staples remain in the staple cartridge, the staple former is not blocked by the feeder shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventor: Phillip Clay Brown
  • Patent number: 7055728
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a positioning structure for a nailer capable of adjusting the position of the nailer arbitrarily. In the rail of magazine is slidably provided an adjusting member whose lateral side is disposed an engaging paw against which a spring abuts. The engaging paw is formed in response to the shape of the cavities in the sidewall of the groove of the rail. On a side of the engaging paw opposite the spring is disposed a press key which partially projects out of the adjusting member and is provided for being pressed by the user. This adjusting member can enable the user to adjust the position of the nailer arbitrarily. The position structure can make the operation easy for the user and can be prevented from being mistakenly pressed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.
    Inventor: Rick Lin
  • Patent number: 7048169
    Abstract: A nail magazine for alternatively accommodating T-nails or U-nails includes a nail track and a stop block. The nailing track has a bottom notch and a first nail hole upwardly extended from the bottom notch for holding a T-nail. The stop block is positioned in the bottom notch of the nailing track and has a top side, a left side and a right side, which define with a peripheral wall of the bottom notch of the nailing track a second nail hole for holding a U-nail. The stop block further has a top cut groove aligned with the first nail hole such that the T-nail held in the first nail hole is in coincidence with an axis of a driving path that aligns with the second nail hole, thereby enabling the T-nail to be positively and straightly driven into a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignees: Modern Pioneer Ltd., Pei-Chang Sun
    Inventor: Pei-Chang Sun
  • Patent number: 7044350
    Abstract: A stapler of the present invention includes a retaining part having a staple pusher, a storing section that stores a staple, and a receiving base that bends leg parts after piercing the staple pushed out by the staple pusher through a sheet material to bind the sheet material with the staple. The staple includes left and right shoulder parts against which the staple pusher abuts, leg parts extending substantially perpendicularly from the shoulder parts and a pattern part having an arbitrary shape and provided between the left and right shoulder parts. The pattern part is inclined against the leg parts and the storing section is provided, on one side thereof, with a take-out opening of the staple that is large enough to allow the pattern part to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kameyama, Sannosuke Kameyama
  • Patent number: 7040522
    Abstract: A nail feeding mechanism is provided with a front feed claw (9) and a rear feed claw (10). The rear feed claw (10) is provided with a contact portion (10b) on a front side of a claw portion (10a). A face of the contact portion (10b) to be brought into contact with connected nails is wider than a gap between nails in a width thereof and cannot enter between nails. When the front feed claw (9) is moved rearward and catches a final nail (TN1) of a first row, the contact portion (10b) and the claw portion (10a) move into a nail path, the contact portion (10b) enters between the final nail (TN1) of the first row and a front nail (FN2) of a second row and the claw portion (10a) enters a rear side of the front nail (FN2) of the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Osuga, Mitsugu Takezaki
  • Patent number: 7040521
    Abstract: A combustion tool having a gas actuated magazine advance includes a combustion chamber defined in part by a cylinder, a valve sleeve axially reciprocating relative to the cylinder and an upper surface of a piston, a pneumatically actuated magazine fastener mechanism, and an exhaust driven actuation feed tube having a first end configured for insertion into an opening in the cylinder in fluid communication with the combustion chamber and a second end connected to the magazine fastener advance mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert K. Kolodziej, Cheryl L. Panasik, Kevin M. Tucker, James W. Robinson, Yongping Gong
  • Patent number: 7036706
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a staple cartridge that can offset any discrepancies when mounting a staple cartridge, even if staples are slightly offset to check the occurrence of stapling defects. The staple cartridge 100 of the holding means 200 which is equivalent to the cartridge holder disposed as either a body separate to the stapler unit 300 or unitized thereto, actuates the staple feeds means 202. Even if the position of the staple pulled out from the staple cartridge is offset, this action corrects the offset to correctly set the staple at the driving position thereby enabling it to check stapling defects that occur because of mis-positioning of the staple set position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignees: ACCO Brands USA LLC, NISCA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Mochizuki, Yousuke Saijiki
  • Patent number: 7032794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety device for preventing a nailer from dry firing, wherein an elongated hole is formed on the magazine, the safety link is provided with a folded projection in response to the elongated hole, a safety nut is pivotally disposed in the elongated hole. The magazine is provided with an elastic element for keeping the safety nut flush with the edge of the elongated hole. After the last nail is shot (when no nails are loaded), the safety nut will be pushed out of the elongated hole by the drive plate so as to prevent the nailer from being fired. Thus, the user's strength and energy are saved, meanwhile, the service life of the nailer is prolonged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.
    Inventors: Sunking Hung, Li-Hsin Chang
  • Patent number: 7028875
    Abstract: A nail checker assembly, disposed with a nail loading assembly, provides a pivoting probe assembly which engages with a nail, advancing down the nail loading assembly, and determines if the nail is correctly aligned. If the nail is properly aligned the pivoting probe assembly, coupled with a pivoting probe base assembly, rotates and allows the nail to advance. If the nail is improperly aligned the pivoting probe assembly engages with a lock ledge assembly providing a stop and hindering the advancement of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Beville, Patrick G. Barry
  • Patent number: 7025242
    Abstract: An adjustable angle magazine provides the operator of a nail gun the ability to adjust the position of a housing of the magazine, which stores nails to be driven, relative to a nose casting of the nail gun. This repositioning enables an operator to employ a variety of nails, collated at a variety of angles, within the nail gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Schnell
  • 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: 7021511
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool comprises a tool body, a muzzle extending forwardly from the tool body and being displaceable into a ready-to-fire position, a magazine for holding fasteners coupled to the muzzle, and a follower within the magazine that biases the fasteners. The follower has a blocking surface that blocks the muzzle during fastener-empty condition and prevents the muzzle from displacing into ready-to-fire position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Popovich, Anthony R. Caringella
  • Patent number: 7021512
    Abstract: A stapler having a staple magazine 3 for storing adhesive-coated staples. The staple is bent at its legs by being firmly held between a pressing plate and a matrix anvil, heat from an electric heater inside the anvil is transmitted to the adhesive to fuse the adhesive, and documents are bound by the staple with enhanced adhesive strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Yuriko Nakamura
    Inventor: Youzou Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7021514
    Abstract: An apparatus which enables a user of a pneumatic tool device, such as a nail gun, to determine the required compressor pressure needed to most effectively utilize the pneumatic tool device and maximize the life of the tool. A compressor pressure indication assembly on a nail gun comprising a nail verification assembly and a readout assembly enables a user to verify the length and/or diameter of the nails to be driven by the nail gun and set the compressor pressure accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Beville
  • Patent number: 7014090
    Abstract: A stapling device includes a housing pivotally attached to a base member and having a channel formed by a partition, a staple drive plate slidably received in the housing, a staple magazine slidably engageable in the channel of the housing and having a front staple drive space. A staple feeder is engaged into the staple magazine and includes a spring-biased pusher for forcing staples forwardly toward the staple drive space of the staple magazine, and for allowing the staples to be driven by the staple drive plate, and an actuating device for actuating the staple drive plate to drive the staples. The staple magazine may be easily disengaged from the housing from a rear inlet of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: Chun Yuan Chang
  • Patent number: 7014091
    Abstract: A stapler apparatus includes a fixed frame, a movable frame pivotably mounted to the fixed frame, a staple driving device, and a staple bending device to bend the staples. A drive mechanism reciprocally moves the movable frame with respect to the fixed frame to clamp a stack of sheets between the fixed frame and the movable frame. A transmission member is movably supported on the movable frame without any connection utilizing an elongated slot. An urging member is disposed to bias the transmission member with respect to the movable frame, the transmission member being coupled to the drive mechanism such that the drive mechanism engages and moves the transmission member with respect to the movable frame, thereby overcoming the bias of the urging member, to compensate for a stack height of the stack of sheets clamped between the fixed frame and the movable frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignees: ACCO Brands USA LLC, NISCA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoto Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 7011242
    Abstract: Insulated or coated staple and a fastening tool for driving the same into a substrate. The tool includes a housing and a driver reciprocally mounted in the housing and moveable with respect to the housing, the driver having a driving surface for engaging a fastener such as a coated staple. A magazine assembly is associated with the housing for positioning and aligning the coated fastener in the path of the driver so that when actuated, the driver strikes the fastener and forcibly ejects it from the magazine into the substrate on which the object to be fastened is to be secured. Suitable fasteners include coated staples (of various sizes and configurations), nails, brads, rivets, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Acme Staple Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Van Barlow, Onno Boswinkel, Robert Haynes, Richard Gold
  • Patent number: 7007364
    Abstract: A nail module for nail attachment of metal tags to hot steel includes a nail and a fracturable carrier. The nail has a pointed shank and a head. The carrier houses the nail and has a delivery end and a female socket end. The carrier delivery end is adapted to receive said nail shank. The female socket end is adapted to receive said nail head. The female socket end also is adapted to receive a mandrel for carrying the module to a driving location in an orientation for driving the nail into a workpiece. The carrier is fractured and releases the nail when the mandrel drives the nail into a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Infosight Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Robertson, Ken R. Vaughn
  • Patent number: 7004368
    Abstract: A nail magazine includes a magazine base and a magazine cover which are coupled slidably to each other to confine a nail channel. The magazine base has a guide groove which is communicated with the nail channel and receives a guide tube which in turn receives a coiled spring. A nail pusher plate is slidably received in the nail channel and attached to the magazine cover. A protrusion of the nail pusher plate extends slidably into the guide tube and connected to the coiled spring so that the nail pusher plate is urged by the coiled spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Panrex Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Chen
  • Patent number: 7000817
    Abstract: A nailing gun applicable to oblique rowed nails of different specifications includes a nail box having its upper rear side pivotally combined with the head end of a muzzle to form a pivot and its intermediate portion combined with the arc-shaped guiding slot of the combining member of a handle. Thus, the nail box can be adjusted and positioned at a proper angle for loading oblique rowed nails of different specifications. The nail box has a U-shaped nail-guiding plate fitted in a nail head groove and having its upper end formed with an extending section extending upward and reaching the rear end wall of the muzzle. The extending section of the nail-guiding plate is able to guide oblique rowed nails to smoothly move in the interior of the muzzle whenever the nail box is adjusted at a slant angle for loading oblique rowed nails of different specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Bently Fastening Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian Wang
  • Patent number: 6997366
    Abstract: A cartridge comprises a container 11 for housing a connected staple, a driving section 21 for driving a staple, a conveying path 25 which extends from the container 11 to the driving section 21, and conveys the connected staple, a feeding member 30 which is disposed in a position remote from a guide member 23 forming the conveying path 25, and reciprocates along the conveying path, feeding claws 31A, 31B having leading end portions which are attached to the feeding member 30, and project in the conveying path 25 from openings 23A, 23B formed in the guide wall 23, and the connected staple being fed toward the driving section 21 by the feeding claws 31A, 31B when the feeding member 30 advances. The cartridge further comprises a link mechanism 50 for moving the feeding member 30 backward when a lid 13 of the container 11 is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: MAX Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsunori Manabe
  • Patent number: 6994240
    Abstract: A setting device (10) for driving fastening elements into a receiving material has a housing (11), with a muzzle part (20) which is displaceable axially relative to the housing (11) and is arranged with a guide channel (38) for a fastening element strip (50) and opens into a receiving space (39) for a fastening element (51) to be driven in. Further, a locking element (30) is arranged in the muzzle part (20). The locking element (30) has a feeler portion (33) for detecting a fastening element (51) in the receiving space (39) and a locking part (32) for blocking the displacement of the muzzle part (20) relative to the housing (11) in a locking position (61) when a fastening element (51) is not detected in the receiving space (39) by the feeler portion (33). A blocking member (40) in the muzzle part (20) is movable into the guide channel (38) so as to block the fastening element strip (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Jakob, Michael Weibel
  • 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: 6988303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screw gun including a driving unit fitted with a slidable cartridge holder adapted for receiving and indexing a separate cartridge containing a plurality of screws. The invention further relates to the replaceable cartridge containing the plurality of screws for use in a screw gun. The invention allows for the loading and insertion of a plurality of screws from a cartridge without requiring a worker to handle and insert the individual screws into the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Davicorp, Inc.
    Inventors: William V. Goodhue, David E. Daw, David L. Mathieu
  • Patent number: 6978920
    Abstract: A box nailing machine includes: a box nailing machine body having a nail driving port from which nails are driven; a handle portion having a handle arm; and a magazine for accommodating nails in it, the forward end portion of which is attached to the nail driving port, the portion of the magazine except for the forward end portion being attached to the handle portion via the handle arm. The magazine has a handle arm attaching portion for attaching the magazine to the handle arm. The magazine is made of metal and formed substantially U-shape by press forming. A washer is integrally formed in the handle arm attaching portion so that the washer is disposed between a head portion of a fixing bolt and the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Hamada, Akira Oono, Hiroshi Okazaki, Toshiaki Kishino
  • Patent number: 6974067
    Abstract: A nail stapler magazine includes a storing device, a feeding device, a gate and a distinguisher. The storing device is for storing nails and first and second types of staples each including first and second legs. The feeding device is for feeding the nails and the first and second types of staples from the storing device. The nails and the first and second types of staples are fed through the gate. The distinguisher is for distinguishing the nails and the first and second types of staples from one another and ensuring that only one of the nails and the first and second types of staples is fed at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Inventor: Mu-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 6968605
    Abstract: A tag apparatus and method includes a nail gun with a tag positioning device. The tag positioning device is connected to a nail gun safety probe. Flexible tags are held in a tag magazine. Upon depression of the safety probe, a tag is rotated from its storage position within the tag magazine into position in front of the nail gun. According to one embodiment a scanning device is connected to the tag apparatus for obtaining data from tags after they are attached to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Inventor: G. Rene Zamora
  • Patent number: 6966477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety device for preventing a nailer from dry firing, wherein the drive plate is provided with a rod which is used to push the safety piece, the safety piece acts as a leverage and the second end of the safety piece serves to work in conjunction with an end of the safety link. After all nails are fired (when no rails are loaded), the second end of the safety piece will move downward to stop the movement of the safety link so as to prevent the nailer from being fired. Thus, the service life of the nailer is prolonged. Moreover, the movement of the safety link is stopped indirectly by the safety piece, thereby preventing the deformation of the drive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp
    Inventors: Po Chien-Kuo, Chang Shin-Nan, Wu Kun-Ta
  • Patent number: 6966479
    Abstract: A stapler 10 has a stapler main body 11 made of metal and a cover 12 made of resin. The cover 12 has an upper cover 55, which is positioned at the handle 19 side of the stapler main body 11, and a base cover 56, which is pivotally connected to the upper cover and is positioned at the base 21 side of the stapler main body 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigekazu Tanaka, Katsuaki Furukawa, Syuro Osato
  • Patent number: 6957757
    Abstract: A nail box of a nail driver comprises a main casing; a lower side of the main casing being installed with a firmly secured with a first magnetic element; a sub-casing pivotally installed to the main casing as so to form a casing; a lower side of the sub-casing being formed with an inclined resisting portion; a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of nails; a lower side of the receiving unit being firmly secured with a second magnetic element; one lateral side of a lower portion of the receiving unit being formed with a push portion corresponding to the inclined resisting portion of the sub-casing. The receiving unit is installed below the main casing and received in the casing; the same polarity of magnetic elements of the receiving unit and the main casing are oppositely arranged so as to generate an impulsive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventor: Hung-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 6955281
    Abstract: An electric nailing gun is disclosed to use a sensor in the nail magazine and to connect the sensor to a control circuit such that when a magazine follower is moved to a predetermined position in the nail path, the sensor sends a control signal to the control circuit to drive a counter to start counting the number of striking actions of the plunger, and the control circuit controls the electric nailing gun to reduce the plunger impact when the counting of the counter reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Mobiletron Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen-Ku Wei
  • Patent number: 6942136
    Abstract: A staple apparatus is installed in a stapler so the stapler can staple stacks of paper with different thicknesses without having to change staples or components in the stapler. The apparatus cuts legs of a staple to a proper length after the staple has been driven completely into a stack of paper and bends the protruding ends to bind the stack of paper together. The apparatus performs these operations with a cutter, a bending template, and a cutting anvil in conjunction with a sliding bracket and a cutter actuator. Operation of the cutter is delayed by a staple driver actuator until the staple has completely penetrated the stack of paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Apex Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eric Tsai
  • Patent number: 6938813
    Abstract: A nail stapler includes a magazine, a nozzle and a hammering device. The magazine stores nails. The nozzle prevents jamming via allowing only a leading one of the nails to the hammering device. The hammering device is capable of hammering the leading one of the nails more than once until it hammers the leading nail completely into an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Aplus Pneumatic Corp.
    Inventor: Mu-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 6938812
    Abstract: A magazine assembly for a fastening tool. The magazine assembly slides on guide posts that are formed into the nose assembly of the fastening tool and is clamped to the fastening tool via a magazine clamp assembly that requires no tools to operate. The magazine clamp assembly may be partially released to permit the magazine assembly to be partially withdrawn from the nose assembly so that the nose assembly may be maintained without the complete removal of the magazine assembly. The construction of the nose assembly is such that when the magazine assembly is placed in a partially withdrawn state, a portion of the nose assembly mechanically inhibits actuation of the fastening tool trigger system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Keven E. Miller, John C. Funicello, Todd A. Hagan, Thomas E. Miller