Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing, a motor, a plunger, a spring, a drum, and one of a cable and a sheet member. The motor is provided in the housing. The plunger is provided in the housing for impacting a fastener in a fastener driving direction. The spring urges the plunger in the fastener driving direction. The drum is rotatably supported in the housing and is rotationally driven by the motor. The one of a cable and a sheet member is capable of being wound over the drum and has one end fixed to the drum and another end acting on the spring for transmitting a driving force of the motor to the spring. The spring is configured to accumulate a resilient energy therein for impacting the fastener by the plunger. The resilient energy of the spring is accumulated by forcible resilient deformation thereof as a result of winding of the one of the cable and the sheet member over the drum rotationally driven by the motor.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus in a rotary stapling machine (10) which, with a stapling module (12) placed in a stapling cylinder (11), applies staples through a plurality of layers in a material web (16) running through the rotary stapling machine (10), at an interval corresponding to a predetermined cutting length (?) along the material web (16), the staples being formed by means of a stapling fork (21) in the stapling module (12) in that wire (23) is advanced to a collection position at a forming wheel (22), the wire (23) being cut off whereafter the stapling fork (21) is urged against the forming wheel (22) in order to form the staple which is thereafter collected by the stapling fork (21) and conveyed for application in the material web (16), as well as final forming against a die (15) in a die cylinder (14), wherein the stapling cylinder (11) rotates two revolutions for each cutting length (?).

Abstract: A rotary stitching device has a wire supply, a cutting device for cutting a wire section from the wire supply, and a rotating forming wheel having a forming wheel axis of rotation, the rotating forming wheel receiving the wire section. A rotating delivery wheel has a delivery wheel axis of rotation parallel to the forming wheel axis of rotation and an outer circumference, the delivery wheel having an opening in the outer circumference and having at least one stitching head, and the forming wheel placing the wire section in the opening to form a stitch. A printed product conveyor moves printed products in a direction perpendicular to the delivery wheel axis of rotation so that the printed products receive the stitch from the stitching head.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wire feed device for guiding and straightening a wire which is comprised of a wire infeed unit and a self-cleaning deflection head which are connected together by a flexible guide hose. The wire infeed unit has a guide passage therethrough whose inlet and outlet are offset so the wire will remain in contact with a contact element within the passage to generate a signal when the wire is in the passage. The deflection head has a guide arc-shaped guide passage therethrough which, in turn, have outwardly radiating pockets spaced along the outer side thereof which remove debris (e.g. the material abraded from the wire and wire shavings) transport it out of the deflection head. Dimpled guide points are formed on the other side of the arc-shaped guide passage opposite the pockets to facilitate the self-cleaning of the wire. A wire straightening sleeve is positioned downstream of the deflection head, which can generate a control/monitoring signal is positioned downstream of the head.

Abstract: A rotary stitching device has a wire supply, a cutting device for cutting a wire section from the wire supply, and a rotating forming wheel having a forming wheel axis of rotation, the rotating forming wheel receiving the wire section. A rotating delivery wheel has a delivery wheel axis of rotation parallel to the forming wheel axis of rotation and an outer circumference, the delivery wheel having an opening in the outer circumference and having at least one stitching head, and the forming wheel placing the wire section in the opening to form a stitch. A printed product conveyor moves printed products in a direction perpendicular to the delivery wheel axis of rotation so that the printed products receive the stitch from the stitching head.

Abstract: An arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, complied of folded printed sheets, by staples has a stitching device with a stitching head/bending arrangement. A conveying device for conveying the printed products to the stitching device at a spacing sequentially behind one another and with the spine transverse to the conveying direction is provided. The stitching device has a stitching support on which the stitching head/bending arrangement is arranged. The stitching support is configured to move during the stitching process approximately in the same direction and at least approximately at the same speed as the conveying device.

Abstract: Disclosed and taught is a novel drive mechanism for a cyclic operating tool employing an energized flywheel to provide the necessary energy to perform a working cycle. The drive mechanism disclosed is particularly useful in hand tool applications such as a hand held nailing machine. The flywheel may be energized by a corded or battery powered motor. The herein disclosed mechanism teaches a novel pair of ball ramp cam plates wherein a first pair of ball ramps cause an initial engagement of a clutch with the energized flywheel whereupon rotation of the clutch causes activation of a second pair of ball ramps which affect compression of a spring which acts to increase the pressure applied to the clutch thereby assuring a slip free engagement between the clutch and he flywheel throughout the working cycle of the drive mechanism.

Abstract: A rotating stitcher 4 for driving U-shaped wire stitches 43 into printed products 3 being conveyed along a linear path, wherein a stapling closing device 5 cooperates with the stitcher 4, for closing the wire stitches 43. The rotating stitcher 4 has stitching heads 7 which are hinged around a rotating support 6. A control device guarantees that the stitching heads 7 are swung into a position where the direction of displacement E of the stitch plunger 10 is at right angles to the direction of transport A of the products 3 to be stitched. This takes place before or during entry of the stitching head 7 into the stitching area. While the wire stitches are driven in and stitched, the stitching heads 7 are held in this position and thus move linearly in the stitching area. The heads 32 of the stapling closing device 5 are guided in the same way, so that they move linearly during stapling, just like the allocated staple head 7.

Abstract: A stapling arrangement of a stapling and gathering machine includes a stapling carriage which is seated on a machine frame and travels with a gathering chain for stapling printed products carried by the gathering chain. At least one stapling head travels with the stapling carriage and with a bending device. A drive mechanism is provided for the stroke of the stapling carriage and the strokes of a shaping element and a punch of the stapling head. The drive mechanism includes a first drive for the stroke of the stapling carriage, and a second drive for the strokes of the shaping element and the punch, and for a movement of the bending device. The first drive can be exchanged independently of the second drive for adaptation to the pitch of the gathering chain. The stapling arrangement can also be converted quickly and easily to a different chain pitch by a semi-skilled operator.

Abstract: A gathering and stapling machine includes a gathering chain for conveying printed products and having a variable chain pitch. A stapling device staples the printed products that are conveyed on the gathering chain. A drive device includes a first gear for driving the stapling device, a second gear for driving the gathering chain and a change-over device connected to the first and second gears and having at least two fixed turns ratios.

Abstract: A stapling device is usable to staple printed products transversely to their direction of travel in a folding machine of a rotary press assembly. There is no relative movement between the stapling heads and the product sections during stapling. The stapling heads move directly radially to the counter cylinder during the stapling operation.

Abstract: A braid fuse assembly including a pliers mechanism with a bell-shaped fuse unit coupled thereto. The fuse unit has two halves coupled to the pliers mechanism wherein upon the pliers mechanism having an open orientation, the halves of the fuse mechanism are situated distant with respect to each other and upon the pliers mechanism having a closed orientation, the halves abut each other. In use, the fuse mechanism is adapted to be heated via an electric heater embedded in the bell-shaped fuse unit.

Abstract: A binding device accomplishes the transverse binding or stapling of product elements in a folding apparatus that is situated downstream from a rotary printing press. One or more binding cylinders are supported for rotation with, and with respect to, a binding cylinder support which is cooperatively positioned with respect to a collection and counter-cylinder. The binding device minimizes vibrations and maintains staple-forming elements within the binding cylinder.

Abstract: A device for connecting products composed of stacked and continuously conveyed webs or sheets of paper or the like, wherein the webs or sheets are connected by a wire-like stapling material which can be cut and deformed into individual clamps. The stapling device includes a supply roll with conveying unit for the stapling material, a cutting device for cutting the stapling material to a length required for forming the clamps, a clamp forming unit, a plunger for pushing the formed clamps into the product and a clamp closing unit. The supply roll with the conveying unit, the cutting device and the plunger of the stapling device are mounted on a rotatable drum-shaped body which approximately contacts the product on one side thereof transversely of the conveying direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for stapling to a material (1) at predetermined distances along a web formed by the material with the aid of a stapling cylinder (2), a counterpressure cylinder (3), a forming drum (4) and a horn (5) which extends around the periphery of the stapling cylinder between the forming drum and the counterpressure cylinder, wherein the stapling cylinder (2) coacts with a stapling fork (6) which is intended to cut a staple-forming section from wire-like material (10) in a region (B) between the stapling cylinder (2) and the forming drum (4) and to form therefrom a U-shaped staple which can be carried by the stapling cylinder (2) to a region (A) between the stapling cylinder (2) and the counterpressure cylinder (3) and there fastened to a material web (1) passing between the stapling cylinder (2) and the counterpressure cylinder (3).

Abstract: The retaining device of a wire-section dispenser has a tongue-like first retaining element and a second retaining element which form boundaries for a gap. The second retaining element can be moved out of a rest position into a clamping position, which narrows the gap, and back again. When the second retaining element is located in the rest position, a stapling wire is advanced into the gap and then fixedly clamped by displacing the second retaining element into the clamping position. A cutting element, which severs the continuous stapling wire into wire sections, is synchronously moved with the second retaining element. The staple guide of a stapling head engages with its carry-along member, the wire section and moves it in the direction of rotation, overcoming the retaining force in doing so.

Abstract: An apparatus for stapling printed sheets includes a conveying apparatus having a plurality of sequentially spaced, saddle-shaped supports. The printed sheets straddle the sequentially spaced supports. A shaping body is rotatingly disposed on a first axis, and receives and conveys a wire segment. A stapling head holder is rotatingly driven about a second axis parallel to the first axis. At least one stapling head is radially displaceably seated in a guide arrangement on the stapling head holder. The stapling head has a bending apparatus having an end with an opening forming a guide. The opening is penetrated by the shaping body for receiving the wire segment from the shaping body, and shaping the wire segment into a staple. The stapling head further has a driver that forces the staple through the printed sheets positioned on the supports. The driver and the staple are guided by the guide formed by the opening of the bending apparatus.

Abstract: A rotary stapling machine includes a first rotatable roller, a staple retainer mounted on the first roller to retain a U-shaped staple in a predetermined orientation, and a second rotatable roller having a die. The first and second rollers are adjacently positioned and spaced to allow material for stapling to pass between. Rotation of the first and second rollers positions the staple retainer and the die in a coacting position wherein the staple legs are bent toward the staple retainer. The die includes a pair of bending plates pivotally mounted in a slot that communicates with an outer surface of the second roller. The bending plates have forming surfaces that contact the legs of the staple and by pivoting toward the first roller, drive the legs toward the staple retainer and hold the legs in a desired bent position.

Abstract: A novel gathering stapler for printed products comprising folded printed sheets is provided. The gatherer stapler comprises a plurality of gathering sections defined by saddle-shaped rests which extend parallel to one another and circulate transversely to their longitudinal extent. The printed sheets are gathered and stapled on the gathering sections. A rotary stapling apparatus is also provided. The stapling apparatus has essentially stellately arranged stapling heads which are driven with the gathering sections in a stapling region in such a way that they meet up. Each of the stapling heads includes a plurality of staple guides arranged on a rotating carrier for seating on the printed products, and a plurality of push rods. The push rods engage telescopically in the staple guides.

Abstract: A multi-layered printed product is cross cut and stapled by being fed past a gripping and folding blade cylinder and cooperating binding and cutting cylinders. The binding and cutting cylinders have parallel but offset axes of rotation and define envelopes of rotation which intersect each other at a point which is before, in the direction of travel of the printed product, the point at which the binding and cutting cylinders cooperate with the gripping and folding blade cylinder.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for collecting and stapling printed products is provided. A self-enclosed track of travel for stapling heads extends around a collector drum having a plurality of supports. A stapling head is assigned to each support. The stapling heads rotate mutually synchronously about the axis of rotation of the drum. While running past a wire section dispenser, each stapling head accepts a wire section from which a staple is formed in a predetermined first region. In a second region, the staple is brought onto the side of the stapling heads facing the supports. In a third region, the stapling heads are lowered onto the printed sheets, which are deposited onto the supports, and stapled together.

Abstract: The stitching or stapling heads, which act together in a stitching zone (C) with the supports that carry printed products to be wire-stitched, have a circular orbit. The stitching heads are guided so as to maintain their more or less vertical position during their orbit. Within the stitching zone (C), each stitching head is thus approximately aligned with its respective support and is therefore in the preferred position for driving the staples into the printed products. When the stitching heads encounter the supports, they are pushed back radially inward against the resistance of compression springs. This causes a slight flattening in the orbit of the stitching heads in the stitching zone (C) and slightly prolongs the time available for the stitching heads to act together with the supports in the stitching process.

Abstract: Apparatus for fastening and folding stacks of paper sheets includes a stitching unit adapted to collect staples and insert them in the sheet stack while a folding knife simultaneously drives a section of the sheet stack into a gap of the stitching unit to fold the stack. The inserting edge of the folding knife provides the die for bending the inserted staple into a secured configuration. The folding knife and the stitching unit gap are preferably mounted on planet wheels of coordinated planetary gears so that the knife and the gap periodically align to fold and fasten the sheet stacks.

Abstract: A cylinder stitching device for binding single sheets for thread sealing, modified French sewing, as well as for wire stitching, includes a stitching cylinder that is controlled by central cams. The stitching cylinder is equipped with stitching heads which can be automatically lubricated, are adjustable, and can optionally be replaced. The production arrangement, attached peripherally to the circumference of the stitching cylinder, is likewise replaceable and automated, so that, by use of the adjusting devices provided for the cylinder stitching device, rapid adaptation to changing processing material as well as high productivity are guaranteed.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing a stud and eyelet assembly in a web that moves continuously between the eyelet die wheel and the stud die wheel. The eyelet magazine continually supplies eyelets from an eyelet hopper to the eyelet transfer wheel, which in turn continually supplies the eyelets to the eyelet die wheel. Likewise, the stud magazine continually supplies studs from a stud hopper to the stud transfer wheel, which in turn continually supplies studs to the stud die wheel. The eyelet or stud is held on the die of the die wheel and the stripper of the transfer wheel by a vacuum. The vacuum is applied from a vacuum source through ports in each wheel to the die or stripper interface with the eyelet or stud. The vacuum in a transfer wheel operates from the point it receives an eyelet or stud from the magazine until the point where the eyelet or stud in transferred to the die wheel.

Abstract: A chain link type stapler operates in transit at about 45,000 items per minute to staple and crease printed paper products. Only two link chains are required and they have a common contiguous path for receiving and clasping the paper products for transit while being stapled by means of mating, stapler and anvil links. The stapler link operates to receive wire lengths, form staples therefrom, insert and clinch the staples over a cyclic path of the chain. This is achievable by means of a reciprocating wire clip assembly journalled in an internal cavity of the stapler link. Reciprocation is programmed by a cam arm extending externally from the clip assembly and stapler link on which roller means is mounted to ride in a cam track about the chain travel path.

Abstract: Apparatus which applies staples to groups of sheets at the discharge end of a rotary printing press has a rotary conveyor which transports the groups of sheets past a stapling station where the groups are provided with pairs of staples. If one of the two regular stapling units is out of commission, an auxiliary stapling unit is started in response to detected absence of two staples in each finished product so that the groups of sheets receive pairs of staples while the defective stapling unit is being inspected, repaired or replaced.

Abstract: A saddle stitching machine wherein the pitch of the chain conveyor which transports successive signatures through the stapling station can be changed by changing the ratio of a transmission which receives torque from the timing shaft of the machine. The conveyor transports the signatures along a straight path and the machine has a reciprocable carriage which is moved back and forth along such path by an adjustable crank drive so that the stroke of the carriage can conform to the selected pitch of the conveyor. The tools which are carried by the carriage are actuated by cams which are movable independently of each other at right angles to the straight path. The cams extend in parallelism with the path of signatures at the stapling station.

Abstract: In a staple wire supply system for use in connection with printing machinery or the like and of the sort having a fixed wire guide pipe past whose outlet end a knife is moved for cutting the wire down to the size needed for stapling, the time needed for the operation of changing over to a new reel of wire when one reel has run out may be greatly cut down by so designing the system that two reels may be supported thereon at a time and having a unit for running one wire from one such reel to the guide pipe and guiding the other wire into a ready or waiting position. Between this unit and the guide pipe there are two wire driving parts, such as pinch rollers acting on opposite sides of a capstan, which may be changed over in direction and may be used for moving wire from the two reels in oposite directions at the time of reel changing.

Abstract: Three adjacent continuously running chain link assemblies having two contiguous common paths, respectively in those paths (1) form staples from lengths of wire and (2) insert and clench the staples while creasing a signature passing through the linear path defined by the contiguous chain links. This produces simplified equipment operable at high speeds synchronously on line with signatures from a rotary printing press, or the like.The wire lengths are handled and formed into staples by very simple non-critical mechanical means constituting a magnetic male die member and female shaping die member carried by respective contiguously traveling chain link assemblies to mate as they move about sprockets into an arcuate path leading into their contiguous mated linear travel path.

Abstract: This relates to the production of folders such as those commonly used for binding loose sheets of paper into booklet form. There is provided a method and an apparatus for setting fastener elements, such as tangs and eyelets, into selected portions of a blank made of heavy paper or cardboard. The apparatus employs rotary die holding elements defining a nip or nips therebetween for receiving one or more portions of a paper blank, particularly a blank folded to a T-shaped configuration. The apparatus includes means for applying setting forces to the fastener elements during the very brief interval of time that the fastener elements are disposed in the nip or nips between the die holders. Radially movable dies are mounted in certain of the rotary holders and cam means are employed to apply momentary fastener element setting forces to the fasteners.

Abstract: A flying stitcher and method of forming a panel unit wherein the panel unit is formed and stitched in a continuous process. The stitches are placed in panels by a stitching head which moves with the panel so that the panel need not be stopped/started during a stitching operation.

Abstract: A wire stapling apparatus for use in forming and inserting wire staples in separate signatures, each signature comprising a plurality of sheet layers and with the staples being inserted in the signatures in the direction of motion of the signatures, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a rotating staple closing cylinder and a rotating wire stapling cylinder which cooperates with the staple closing cylinder.

Abstract: A stapling machine is provided of the type which includes at least one stapling cylinder having a wire transport, a shaped disk which for the formation of the staples bites into a peripheral recess provided in the stapling cylinder, and a fixed staple guide which, with reference to the rotational direction of the stapling cylinder, is positioned after the shaped disk, projects into the peripheral recess and is underrun by the finished staple. The stapling machine is characterized in that the staple guide has, in the area of its surface which is underrun by the back of the staple, a post-bending edge which bites deeper into the recess in the stapling cylinder than does the outer periphery of the shaped disk.

Abstract: A staple closing mechanism for use in a longitudinal stapling apparatus for inserting and closing staples in a product conveyed at a uniform speed is disclosed. The staple closing mechanism includes a staple closing cylinder and a staple conveyor cylinder which cooperate to define a path through which the product is conveyed. The closing cylinder carries a rigid staple shank bending insert and a rotatable staple shank bending device. A staple driving die is carried by the staple conveyor cylinder.

Abstract: A wire stapling apparatus for use in forming and inserting wire staples in folded copies is disclosed. The apparatus includes a rotating staple closing cylinder and a rotating wire stapling cylinder which cooperates with a wire staple forming piece to form a staple from a section of staple wire. The wire stapling cylinder carries a rotatable staple driving punch which rotates 90.degree. between a staple receiving position and a staple driving position. The staple driving punch also reciprocates in the stapling cylinder to insert the staple into the folded product to be stapled. The staple closing cylinder carries suitable fixed and rotating staple shank bending devices.

Abstract: A collating machine is disclosed in which a reciprocating frame carries a conventional stitcher head and clincher assembly to bind groups of signatures on the fly. A stitcher assembly includes cams and linkages to drive the stitcher head and clincher as the frame reciprocates. Two suspension units guide the reciprocating frame along a substantially linear path. Each suspension unit includes two suspension links and a coupling link. The upper ends of the suspension links are pivotally mounted to the base of the stitcher assembly, and the axes of rotation lie in a horizontal plane. The lower end portions of the suspension links in each suspension unit are pivotally connected with opposite ends of the base of the coupling link. This arrangement enables the coupling link to rock about a central position in which the base of the coupling link includes a pedestal which extends upward from the base of the coupling link and to which the reciprocating frame is connected.