Abstract: A stitching device for producing stitching wire staples for stitching stacked sheet materials, includes a stitching head base body and a cutting box fixed to the stitching head base body. The cutting box includes a movable knife slide. A control device controls the movement sequences of the stitching head, in particular of the knife slide, for cutting off the stitching wire automatically. The stitching head base body, the cutting box and the knife slide are configured in such a way that, during interaction, the movable knife slide can be displaced relative to the stitching base body in order to cut off the stitching wire. The cutting box and the knife slide are provided with at least partly aligned openings in such a way that, during interaction between these openings and an operating device, it is possible to cut the wire off manually.

Abstract: A device for stitching collated printed products, in particular signatures, with staples, includes a stitching head base body, a former, a clincher, a staple support and a driver. The former has a supporting projection and a control projection. The supporting projection extends beyond a contour of the control projection. A saddle stitcher having a stitching device is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a wire component on a substrate has a feed device for feeding a wire a predetermined length intermittently, and an insert device for cutting the wire fed out by the feed device, bending the cut wire to form a wire component, rotating and positioning the wire component, and then inserting the wire component in a hole defined in the substrate. In particular, irrespective of a position of the insert device, the feed device feeds out the wire in a direction where no interference would occur between the feed device and the insert device.

Abstract: A staple apparatus of the present invention comprises a staple wire unit for storing a staple wire as a roll-like form which provides a staple with which a stack of sheet materials is bound, a feeding roller for feeding the staple wire which is stored in the storage section in accordance with a stacked amount of sheets, a cutting device for cutting the staple wire fed by the feeding roller to form a staple, a conveying clip for conveying the staple formed by the cutting device to a predetermined position, and a stapling apparatus bending the staple conveyed by a conveying clip to the predetermined position to staple the stacked sheet materials.

Abstract: A staple wire cutting element (4) is mounted displaceably on a stapling device (1) in which staple wire segments are shaped into a staple and driven into a sheet stack. A control lever (8) that is in engagement with a radial cam unit (6) engages the cutting element (4). The radial cam unit (6) is driven via an overrunning clutch (10), one end of which has a gear (11) which is fixed to the radial cam unit (6) and engages into a gear (5b) of a stepping motor (5). The other end of the overrunning clutch (10) has a gear (12) which is fixed to a transport wheel (13) for staple wire transport. A gear (27), which is mounted displaceably along its rotation axis and is mounted rotatably about the same rotation axis as the gear (5a), engages into the gear (12). The gears (5b, 27) are equipped at their sides facing one another with tooth sets (28).

Abstract: An insertion head assembly adapted to form insert pins of different lengths includes a first body portion including a transport mechanism for supplying wire to be formed into pins and a pair of jaws operatively connected to the transport mechanism having a beak disposed on each of the jaws. The jaws and the beaks open and close to score wire passing therebetween thereby forming the pins. The assembly also includes a second body portion adapted to receive the pin scored by the first body. The second body includes a fluid actuated pin insertion mechanism responsive to the length of the pin having a pin receiver operatively connected to a punch which pushes the pin from the receiver until the pin exits the insertion head assembly.

Abstract: Stapling devices, which form staples from a staple wire transported from supply rolls, are arranged in a stapling apparatus. The supply rolls are associated with a threading-in device which is mounted displaceably on the stapling apparatus. Transport mechanisms as well as feed-in and guide mechanisms are associated with each supply roll. Flexible guide tubes connect the threading-in device to the respective stapling device. The threading-in device can be moved into a position pulled out of the stapling apparatus device, in which the supply rolls can easily be inserted. The leading end of the wire is pushed, in simple and conveniently visible fashion, between a transport roller pair by way of a guide element and a funnel-shaped feed-in tube.

Abstract: A supply wire cassette is removably mounted on the face plate of a wire stitching machine head. The cassette carries a rotatable reel of wire from which wire is unreeled over a flexible, resilient brake lever through a check pawl and a guide tube, which guides the unreeled wire along an arcuate, wire-straightening path to an outlet at a cutter on the head. A wire holder is removably mounted on the cassette housing and holds the free end thereof in position at the outlet until the cassette is mounted on the face plate to ensure that the wire passes through the feed mechanism of the head. Actuation of the feed mechanism withdraws wire from the cassette, pivoting the brake lever to unbrake the supply reel. When a predetermined length of unreeled wire accumulates in the cassette housing, the brake lever is biased back into braking engagement with the reel. A sensor including a switch removably mounted in the cassette housing indicates when the supply reel is nearly empty.

Abstract: An apparatus in which a set of sheets is stapled together. A predetermined length of wire is fed to the stapler. A wire cutter is positioned along the wire as a function of the movement of the clamper clamping the sheets of the set. The wire cutter cuts the wire at the cutting position and a forming bar forms the cut wire into a staple. A driving bar then drives the staple through the set of sheets to staple the sheets together.

Abstract: A replaceable, closed, container, cartridge or supply-item cassette holds a roll of stitcher wire from which U-shaped wire staples are to be formed by operation of a stitcher. The wire's end is led from the cassette to the stitcher by way of a flexible tube that terminates in a coupler/handle member. The coupler/handle member includes a releasable wire clamp that is operable to hold the wire's end. The coupler/handle member is constructed and arranged to protect the operator's hands from contact with the wire's sharp, needle-like end. When the coupler/handle member is locked or coupled to the stitcher, the stitcher's wire feed rollers automatically move to a nip-closed position, to entrap the end of the wire, and the wire is automatically released from the wire clamp. The stitcher's wire feed rollers are driven by a stepping motor. The cassette includes a brake that is operable to control the orderly feeding or wire by the stepping motor.

Abstract: A jumper wire feeder which can be mounted on an apparatus for automatically inserting axial components and is capable of cutting wires consecutively to a predetermined length by means of an inserting tool. The wire is fed by a servomotor drive to a predetermined length between right and left inserting tool portions.

Abstract: This invention discloses an automatic pivot pin installation apparatus. It mainly consists of two up and down air-cylinders on different sides of a table base. The upper cylinder puts the steel wire into the position of the mold and a cutter driven by the back side cylinder cuts the wire. Pieces of wires then are pressed down to prearranged installation position of the pivot pin. Then the pins are pushed simultaneously into the pin holes of the object fixed at the central mold of the structure base by means of the lower cylinders of each side.

Abstract: A wire routing tool grasps a wire, inserts one end into a connector, routes the wire along a predetermined path to another end connector under the control of a robot, and inserts the second end into that connector. The trailing end of the wire is detected with a circuit using an electrostatic technique. The tool can move the wire along a predetermined, linear path to effectuate the connection.

Abstract: In a jumper wire inserting apparatus, a transforming members has a fixed member and a movable member, thereby to transform the jumper wire accurately by transferring the movable member only responding to respective pitches of pairs of holes of the printed circuit substrate.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting a continuous length of strip-like material into elongate strips and forming the strips into fastened loops such as belt loops and the like, including drawing means for drawing an amount of material from a supply, a cutter for cutting the drawn material into a strip of a predetermined length, grasping fingers for grasping the strip at the cutter and for transferring the strip to a forming area, a forming trough, mandrel and folding fingers which forms the strip into a loop, and a stapler for stapling the strip into a fastened loop. The operations of drawing the material from the supply and cutting the material into strips occur simultaneously with the steps of forming and stapling a previously-cut strip, so that high speeds of operation are possible.

Abstract: In order to be able to remove the wire from its supply source and in order to be able to prevent a bending of the wire, a wire-feed-clamp (3) can be moved along an alignment element (2) which, in a fixed position, is arranged on a carrier (1), whereby the wire-feed-clamp (3) produces a one-sided gripping effect and whereby a hollow needle (8) is affixed on the front side of the wire-feed-clamp (3), for the purpose of penetration of the solid body; at the rear extremity of the alignment element (2), a return-motion stopping-element (11) for the wire is arranged which, in the same sense as the wire-feed-clamp (3), produces a one-sided gripping effect and is aligned with the hollow needle (8) and whereby in front of the alignment element (2), a cutting element (20, 21) is arranged for the purpose of cutting-off the wire section which, at any given time, had been pushed through the solid body.

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.

Abstract: A wire stitcher includes a cutter for cutting a length of wire W from a supply thereof and a stitcher head having a former and driver for forming and driving the length of cut wire for binding a set SS of sheets. The length of cut wire which is presented to the head by a wire advancing and cutting mechanism is automatically determined in dependence upon the thickness of the set SS. The mechanism includes a movable gripper block which advances the wire and the cutter is carried on a movable cutter block. The gripper block and the cutter block are biased towards each other by a spring and driven by a common drive cam.

Abstract: A wire stitcher includes a cutter for cutting a length of wire from a supply thereof and a stitcher head having a former and driver for forming and driving the length of cut wire for binding a set of sheets. The length of cut wire which is presented to the head by a wire advancing and cutting mechanism is automatically determined in dependence upon the thickness of the set.

Abstract: A stapler for automatically driving staples of at least two different characteristics, such as length, into a workpiece. The stapler includes a staple driving member for driving staples into a workpiece, a staple forming member for forming staple blanks into staples and apparatus for selectively providing to the staple forming member staple blanks of at least first and second different lengths. Staple material of preselected first or second lengths is fed from a supply of a continuous length of staple material and severed from the continuous length to form the staple blanks.