Curved Driver Path Patents (Class 227/145)
  • Patent number: 9713474
    Abstract: An endoscopic stapler comprises a first jaw and a second jaw. The first jaw includes structure for retaining a plurality of staples. The first jaw and second jaw are mounted to permit pivotal movement of the first and second jaws relative to one another. The endoscopic stapler also comprises at least one clamp member for clamping tissue and pulling the tissue into a position between the first jaw and the second jaw to facilitate inserting at least one staple of the plurality of staples into the tissue. A first handle is operably coupled with the first jaw such that movement of the first handle effects delivery of the at least one staple of the plurality of staples to the tissue. A second handle is operably coupled with the second jaw and the at least one clamp member such that movement of the second handle effects movement of the second jaw and movement of the at least one clamp member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventor: Robert R. Lorenz
  • Patent number: 9481078
    Abstract: A nailer is provided for securing planks to a subfloor in tight places with fasteners. A fastener ejection channel made in the nailer is formed in between a pair of first and second guide plates spacedly mounted parallel to one another. The first guide plate defines a planar inner end portion having an ovoidal slot and an outer end portion defining a transverse arcuate first flange. The second guide plate defines an arcuate second flange extending away from the first guide plate and generally parallel to the first flange. An elongated straight push rod is mounted partially nested at an inner end in the ovoidal slot. The bottom portion of the push rod is movable along the fastener ejection channel between first and second limit positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: LABORATOIRE PRIMATECH INC.
    Inventors: Jacques Maltais, David Lavoie
  • Patent number: 9433422
    Abstract: A surgical clip applicator includes a handle configured to produce translational movement; a cartridge containing a plurality of clips arranged in a row, the cartridge including a jaw assembly for receiving and closing a clip; a jaw closing mechanism for closing the jaw assembly; a clip feed mechanism for serially feeding a lead clip from the row to the jaw assembly; a clip advance mechanism for advancing the row as the lead clip is fed to the jaws; and a rocker mechanism for translating translational movement from the handle opposite translational movement of the haw closing mechanism in one direction and the clip feed mechanism and clip advance mechanism in an opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Design Standards Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Crainich, Joseph Trabka, Maurice Gilchrest, Thomas Carignan
  • Publication number: 20150096776
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventor: Stuart E. Garber
  • Patent number: 7954681
    Abstract: A new and improved nailing bridge system which comprises a single nailing gun which is mounted for movement along a stud frame locus or a seam locus, defined by means of abutting sheets of wall sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, wherein the single nailing gun can be moved to any one of effectively an infinite number of positions so as to permit nails to be driven into the covering, sheathing, paneling, or the like, in order to fixedly secure the sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, to underlying stud frame members of a wall structure or wall panel member. Stitcher guns are also mounted upon a separate support beam so as to fixedly secure the sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, to the upper and lower plate, header, or footer members of the wall structure or wall panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robert Tucker, Douglas Dodd
  • Patent number: 7228998
    Abstract: A hammer tacker has a strike, a tack-driving piston, a tack-feeding mechanism, and a handle for a user to cause a strike against a target. The piston cycles between drive and retraction strokes. The tack-feeding mechanism cycles between recession and feed strokes to feed the tack in a next-to-lead position to the lead position after the preceding tack in the lead position is struck into the target, and includes an escaping driver for engaging a pallet of the tack in the next-to-lead position during the feed stroke to feed that tack to the lead position, as well as for escaping the pallet of that tack during the recession stroke and then receding to engage the pallet of the tack that succeeds to the next-to-lead position, if any. Wherein as the piston's drive stroke coincides with the recession stroke, the feed stroke lags after a pause behind the piston's retraction stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: High Wind Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack A. Schulz, Sam D Hammond, Kent F. Schien
  • Patent number: 7063248
    Abstract: A stapler moving guide device is disclosed, which can move regardless of a paper conveyer so as to enable multi-stapling at the end of papers and at the same time can move to a side portion at a tilt angle. The stapler moving guide device includes a stapler frame 131 provided with a stapler moving path 133 and a horizontal moving guide 52, a first moving plate 50 reciprocating along the horizontal moving guide, a second moving plate 51 reciprocating on the first moving plate in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal moving guide and moving in parallel with the first moving plate, and a stapler 124 fixed on the second moving plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignees: KRDC Co., Ltd., GRADCO Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyoon Noh, Seung-Gweon Lee, Umehara Kenji
  • Patent number: 6783051
    Abstract: A point driver is provided that comprises a body, a selectively operable actuator, a pushplate connected to the actuator, and a head. The head includes a channel disposed between a first section and a second section. At least a segment of the channel follows an arcuate path. The head is aligned with the actuator so that a portion or all of the pushplate can be driven by the selectively operable actuator through at least a portion of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: The Fletcher-Terry Company
    Inventor: Vincent T. Kozyrski
  • Patent number: 6220494
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting, in the molding of picture-frames, metal staples adapted to retain laminar backing elements for pictures, photographs and the like, comprising a beam which is arranged horizontally above the surface that supports the molding, two fixing tools which are guided on the beam transversely to two opposite sides of the molding, an actuation for adjusting the distance between the fixing tools along the beam as a function of the distance between the sides, and a further actuation for vertically actuating the fixing tools into the position for applying metallic staples in the sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Giuseppe Raffoni
  • Patent number: 5816467
    Abstract: An apparatus for final assembly of framed artwork includes a conveyor for translating a plurality of art frames past a robot arm assembly. A fastener driver module is supported by the robot arm assembly, the module including a support plate and a magazine secured to the support plate by a pivot assembly at the upper end of the magazine, with the freely pivoting lower end of the magazine depending from the support plate. A pneumatic actuator extends laterally from the support plate to rotate the lower end of the magazine to impinge on the art frame, and another pneumatic actuator supported on the magazine is coupled through a lever arrangement to a driver blade extending through the lower end of the magazine. The driver blade engages the lowermost fastener in the magazine and ejects it forcefully, driving it into the interior opening of the frame on the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Bullseye Fastener Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Dunn
  • Patent number: 5605270
    Abstract: An apparatus for final assembly of framed artwork includes a table supported on a structural frame, and a pneumatic actuator for raising and lowering the table. Two pairs of tubular rectangular beams extend in rectangular array superjacent to the table, and are secured at opposed ends to the upper ends of respective vertical supports. Clamping sleeves secured to the ends of the lateral beams engage the longitudinal beams, so that the lateral beams may be slidably positioned along the longitudinal beams. A plurality of modules are provided for installing tabs in a picture frame supported on the table, each module including a support plate having a dogleg cutout which is adapted to receive one of the longitudinal or lateral beams, and an adjacent clamp to secure the support plate at any point along the beam. A magazine is secured to the support plate by a pivot assembly at the upper end of the magazine, with the freely pivoting lower end of the magazine depending from the support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Bullseye Fastener Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Dunn
  • Patent number: 5397045
    Abstract: A tape stapling device made up of a body (1) with a container or store for a reel of tape, an upper framework (2) connected to the body, with a staple loader (18) housed inside it and with a lever (3,6) and an arm (4) secured to and pivoting on the said framework (2). The end of the arm (4) includes a mechanism which takes up the tape coming from the container (36) along an open groove, it pulls on the tape, later creating a loop on the inside of the arm (4) and finally it staples and cuts the tape which has already been arranged around the items to be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Siems-Senco, S.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Lucas
  • Patent number: 4969582
    Abstract: To provide an apparatus for feeding an elongated fastener to a fastening tool, in which the fasteners are fed individually through a first passage and are forced into a holder by a plunger guided in a second additional passage and in which comparatively short fasteners can be fed without jamming or other difficulty in an orderly way, the first passage extending through the apparatus is substantially linear until at the holder positioned coaxial to it, the second passage opens at an acute angle to the first passage and the plunger is made from a flexible material so that the plunger is positionable in an end position outside the first passage and also in a forwardly moved fastener feed position which corresponds to another end position partially in the second and partially in the first passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Obo Bettermann OHG.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Gauger
  • Patent number: 4707908
    Abstract: A J-nut, which is a clip having a crown on one side, is inserted into a hole in a portion of an element in a single plane so that portions of the clip are on opposite sides of the portion having the hole with the J-nut having its crown, which may have a greater thickness than the remainder, either above or below the remainder of the J-nut. The J-nut is inserted by a tool having a locator disposed within the hole after the J-nut has been advanced to a position in the tool in which a portion of the J-nut is positioned within a passage within the locator. When the crown is on the bottom of the J-nut, the crown rests within this locator passage. The J-nut is oriented with the crown either up or down even though all the J-nuts are fed from a feeder in the same orientation. The locator is not positioned in the hole in the element until the J-nut is positioned with a portion within the locator passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Inventors: Paul R. Everhard, Roy K. Monroe
  • Patent number: 4625380
    Abstract: A J-clip is inserted by a tool into a hole in a portion of an element in a single plane or a hole at the intersection of two substantially perpendicular portions of an element so that portions of the clip are on opposite sides of the portion of the element having the hole. The tool has a hook disposed in a hole in the single plane portion when the clip is to be inserted into the hole and guide surfaces engaging the single plane portion cooperating with the hook to orient the tool relative to the single plane portion. The tool has a pair of locater fingers for disposition within the hole at the intersection of the two substantially perpendicular portions of the element when a clip is to be inserted therein and toes engaging the intersection of the two substantially perpendicular portions of the element cooperating with the locater fingers to orient the tool relative to the two substantially perpendicular portions of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Inventors: Paul R. Everhard, Roy K. Monroe
  • Patent number: 4535926
    Abstract: An improved fastener dispensing device which comprises a pistol-shaped main body mounted with a side-slitted hollow needle and comprising a grip part and a fastener driving part including a driver, and an operation lever which may be operated to drive the driver into the needle to drive the crossbar of a fastener to be dispensed into and through the needle, improved in that the driver at least partly comprises a flexible resilient structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignees: Japan Bano'k Co., Ltd., Ben Clements & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 4453661
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprises an elongated body provided with a hand lever. At a distal end of said body there is secured a female die having a pit for bending the legs of staples. A clamping jaw provided with a driver for inserting staples is mounted on said body for reciprocating travel in the direction of said female die. Within the clamping jaw there is provided a passage for feeding a wire, and on the clamping jaw there is mounted a knife capable of reciprocating in the direction perpendicular to the outlet end of the conduit, and adapted for cutting wire lengths. On the body there is also mounted a device for forming staples from wire lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Ivano-Frankovsky Gosudarstvenny Meditsinsky Institut
    Inventors: Stepan N. Genyk, Vasily M. Krysa, Mikhail V. Zraiko, Ljubomir G. Vovk, Ivan I. Pyatiletov
  • Patent number: 4410125
    Abstract: Surgical stapler apparatus of the type in which a surgical staple is formed around an anvil. The staple is driven by a longitudinally curved pusher which forms an arc of a circle and which is arcuately reciprocal in a similarly curved channel. The distal end portion of the curved channel is substantially tangent to the plane of the distal-most staple in a stack of staples, and the proximal end portion of the staple pusher is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stack to provide a very compact stapler configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: United States Surgical Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas G. Noiles, David T. Green
  • Patent number: 4204625
    Abstract: An apparatus for installing a tack strip or the like providing a rigid frame having an adjustable guide which spaces the tack strip at a proper distance from a wall, baseboard, or other guide. An adjustable base on the apparatus varies the width of an open space in which a tack strip to be installed is positioned and located. The base gap width thus can be adjusted to position differing width tack strips as necessary. A central hammer equipped with an impact head is hit with a conventional hammer or the like, when the tack strip nailer is located above a spot in the tack strip where it is desirous to hammer a nail to secure the tack strip. The hammer can be equipped with a magnetic tip portion for holding and properly orienting nails to be installed. Additionally, the hammer is adjustable in its longitudinal position over the tack strip allowing the proper placement of the hammer to correspond with different tack strip widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Inventor: Travis A. Glenn
  • Patent number: 4202481
    Abstract: A stapling machine adapted for use with a special configuration of a wire staple comprising a base plate having a wire staple receiving mold or recess in one end portion thereof an upright flanged portions at both sides on the opposite ends thereof; a wire staple holding frame in a cylindrical configuration having a cross-sectional shape conforming to the shape of an ornamental wire staple having a broadened center beam section which is wider than the staple points or legs at both sides thereof, and a leaf spring connected at one end thereof with the wire staple holding frame, and the other end being partially bent in a U-shape to provide a repulsive force and partially formed into a hook-shape; a pressure applying member including at one end portion thereof a wire staple extruding member formed in a fork-shape to freely slide into and out of grooves formed in said wire staple holding frame and a pair of upright flanged portions at both sides of the other end thereof forming a bearing for a shaft so as to be
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1980
    Inventors: Jun Yanagida, Souichiro Ishikawa, Kazutada Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 4013207
    Abstract: A curved pin provided with an enlarged planar solid or open head lying in the plane of the shank of the pin and extending inwardly therefrom together with an apparatus for holding a plurality of such pins and inserting each pin sequentially are provided. The curved pin is particularly useable by one who sews when it is desired to, for example, affix a pattern to a piece of fabric or the like. The pin's curved shape facilitates its insertion and positioning with less difficulty and more accuracy than the well known straight or "common" pin. The inserting apparatus holds a number of pins in a magazine and allows for their individual insertion by means of a rotatable, generally arcuate shaped plunger which moves each pin along an arcuate path and inserts it into the fabric at an acute angle to the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1977
    Assignee: New Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth B. ErkenBrack
  • Patent number: 3952935
    Abstract: A curved pin provided with an enlarged planar solid or open head lying in the plane of the shank of the pin and extending inwardly therefrom together with an apparatus for holding a plurality of such pins and inserting each pin sequentially are provided. The curved pin is particularly useable by one who sews when it is desired to, for example, affix a pattern to a piece of fabric or the like. The pin's curved shape facilitates its insertion and positioning with less difficulty and more accuracy than the well known straight or "common" pin. The inserting apparatus holds a number of pins in a magazine and allows for their individual insertion by means of a rotatable, generally arcuate shaped plunger which moves each pin along an arcuate path and inserts it into the fabric at an acute angle to the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: New Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth B. Erkenbrack