With Interlock Means Patents (Class 227/8)
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Patent number: 8851351Abstract: A trigger assembly for switching one shoot mode or repeat shoot mode includes a trigger, a switch, a fixing element, a trigger plate and a torsion spring. When a user wants to switch the shoot modes of the nail gun, the user turns the switch so that the fixing element moves along the curved track of the switch and the fixing element drives the trigger plate to move on a protrusion or on a through hole simultaneously. After the user presses the trigger, the trigger plate is resisted by the protrusion so that the nail gun is in one shoot mode. In addition, when the trigger plate is vibrating on the through hole, the nail gun is in repeat shoot mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Apach Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tung-Sung Yeh
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Patent number: 8851352Abstract: A setting tool for driving a fastening element in a constructional component includes a housing (11), a drive member (13) displaceable in a guide (12) located in the housing, a bolt guide (15) adjoining the drive member guide (12) in direction of the operational axis (A) and forming a dog point (16) for abutting the constructional component and a drive-in depth setting tool (20) for displacing the bolt guide (15) axially relative to the drive member guide (15) for setting a distance between a drive end (14) of the drive member (13) and the dog point (16) in the initial position of the drive member.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Erhardt, Peter Stauss, Dierk Tille
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Patent number: 8833627Abstract: A dual operating mode hand tool for dispensing plastic fasteners and a method for transitioning the hand tool from a first operating mode to a second operating mode is provided. The hand tool tagging gun can be used both to dispense a plastic fastener to attach labels, price tags or other items to articles, and also to dispense a plastic fastener to maintain certain articles of clothing in a folded condition. The hand tool has a gun shaped casing, a hollow needle, a needle assembly, a trigger, a locking switch, a safety button, and a hinged anvil. In the first operating mode the hand tool is best adapted to dispense plastic fasteners to maintain an article of clothing in a folded condition. In the second operating mode the hand tool is best adapted to dispense plastic fasteners to attach labels, price tags, or other items to an article of clothing.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Daniel Gilbertson, David E. Herring, Jeffrey A. Raymond
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Patent number: 8833626Abstract: A fastening tool includes an actuation device configured to actuate a drive engine of the tool to initiate a drive stroke. The actuation device includes a contact trip assembly operatively connected to the movable portion of the nose assembly. The contact trip assembly a lower contact arm connected to the movable portion of the nose assembly biased in the retracted position and movable to the extended position with the moveable portion of the nose assembly, and an upper contact arm operatively connected to the lower contact arm. The actuation device includes a trigger assembly that includes a trigger, a trigger arm pivotally supported by the trigger and configured to interact with the upper contact arm, and a check pawl configured to engage an opening in the upper contact arm when the upper contact arm moves downward to prevent the tool from being operated in a contact trip mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P.Inventors: Donald R. Perron, Keven E. Miller, David M. McGee, Adair Yang, Brian Burke, Paul Grandstrand, Wai Ho
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Publication number: 20140252060Abstract: A fastener-driving tool including a housing, a power source including a reciprocating driver blade, a tool nose configured for receiving the driver blade for driving fasteners fed into the nose and a magazine configured to house a collation including a plurality of the fasteners. A workpiece contact element is movably connected to the nose and moves between a rest position and an actuated position when the workpiece contact element is pressed against a workpiece, the workpiece contact element moves to the actuated position. A lockout mechanism is operatively associated with the workpiece contact element and the magazine, and is in contact with the collation in a first position when fasteners are in the magazine and moves to a second position when a last fastener in the collation has been driven by the driver blade to block the workpiece contact element and prevent further actuation of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Ricardo Segura
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Patent number: 8827131Abstract: A switching adapter for enabling individual settings with a hand-held setting tool (10) having a magazine (40) for fastening elements (51), and a detection element (31) for detecting presence of a fastening element (51) in a receiving chamber of the setting tool. The adapter (60) includes a retaining section (61) for releasably mounting the switching adapter (60) on the fastening elements magazine (40) of the setting tool (10), and an actuation section (62) that displaces the detection element (31) of the setting tool from its a locking position to its release position.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Hilt AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mario Zahner, Rolf Erhardt
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Publication number: 20140231485Abstract: Pneumatic nailer comprising a working piston which is connected to a driving plunger for driving in a fastening means and which is subjected to compressed air when a driving-in process is triggered, and a triggering device which has a manually actuatable trigger and a contact feeler, wherein actuating the trigger and the contact feeler together activates a first control valve and can trigger a driving-in process, characterized by a second control valve which is activated when actuating the trigger independently of an actuation of the contact feeler, a chamber which is either aerated or deaerated via a throttle when the second control valve is activated, and a locking piston which is displaced from a resting position into a locked position when the pressure in the chamber passes a predetermined pressure threshold and which in the locked position prevents a driving-in process from being triggered.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventor: Joachim Bauer
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Patent number: 8800835Abstract: A fastener driving device includes a frame, a fastener driver reciprocally mounted in the frame, and a trigger assembly. The trigger assembly includes a trigger lever configured to be moved to an actuated position to actuate the fastener driving device, a mode selector rotatably mounted to the frame, the mode selector being configured to move to select a mode of operation of the fastener driving device, and a trigger lock mounted to the frame, the trigger lock being movable between a first position wherein actuation of the trigger lever is permitted and a second position wherein actuation of the trigger lever is prevented. In the first position, the trigger lock engages the mode selector to prevent the mode selector from moving. In the second position, the trigger lock disengages the mode selector to permit movement of the mode selector to select the mode of operation of the fastener driving device.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Stanley Fastening Systems, LPInventors: Donald R. Perron, Paul J. Zerbarini, Tom Fang, Vivek Jeyasingh, Sean Lee
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Patent number: 8800836Abstract: A tool for driving a fastener pin into a substrate to secure a fastener body to the substrate for fixing insulation or other cladding, the tool being of the type comprising a fastener guide and a driving piston driven along the fastener guide by gas pressure to engage and drive the pin, the fastener guide being displaceable axially inwardly relative to the body of the tool in order to cock the tool for firing of the driving piston, wherein the tool comprises means for enabling the tool to push the fastener body through insulation or other cladding into engagement with the underlying substrate without putting the tool into a condition in which firing can occur, the tool being thereafter able to be put into a condition to permit firing to take place.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: ITW Construction Systems Australia Pty LtdInventors: Lachlan James Scott, Ian Ross Ferrier, David McCullough
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Publication number: 20140209656Abstract: A nail gun structure includes a main body, a seat, an actuating button and a driving cable. The main body has a trigger member for shooting a nail. One end of the seat is assembled at a rear end of the main body. The actuating button is assembled at another end of the seat. One end of the driving cable is assembled to the trigger member of the main body, and another end of the driving cable is assembled to the actuating button. Under this arrangement, when a user holds the seat and presses down the actuating button, the actuating button drives the driving cable to trigger the trigger member so as to shoot the nail.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventor: Yi-Chang Wu
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Publication number: 20140197220Abstract: A fastener-driving tool has a housing including a combustion chamber, where the combustion chamber generates combustion for driving a fastener, and a processor associated with the housing and in communication with the combustion chamber. The processor is configured to cause an initial combustion in the combustion chamber and cause a fastener to be driven when a first actuation event and a second actuation event occur, and is configured to cause at least one subsequent combustion in the combustion chamber and cause at least one additional fastener to be driven when only the first actuation event occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Daniel J. Birk
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Patent number: 8777078Abstract: A driving tool is provided in which contact arms of the driving tool are symmetrically arranged at lateral sides of the drive passage, and contact portions of the contact arms are movable between an ON position and an OFF position. Further, the driving tool is configured such that each contact portion is independently movable between the ON position and the OFF position, and when both of the contact portions are moved to the ON position, the driving operation of a drive unit is allowed to operate, and when only one of the contact portions is moved to the ON position, the driving operation of the drive unit is not allowed to operate.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Kakuda, Naoharu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8777079Abstract: A nail gun includes a rotatable shaft which can lock a switch of a trigger of the nail gun in a nail-empty condition. The rotatable shaft has a locking portion and a driven portion extending partly into a nail magazine, such that when a nail pushing member disposed in the nail magazine reaches a predetermined position, the nail pushing member pushes the driven portion to make the rotatable shaft rotate about an axis perpendicular to a marching direction of the nails loaded in the nail magazine. As a result, the locking portion of the rotatable shaft in an initial position and spaced away from the switch will move to a locking position to be engaged with the switch. Therefore, the nail gun can shoot nails continuously until there is totally no nail in the nail gun and the nail gun is locked.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.Inventors: Chien-Kuo Po, Kun-Ta Wu
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Patent number: 8770456Abstract: A combustion nailer includes a tool housing, and a combustion engine substantially located within the housing and including a valve sleeve reciprocating relative to a cylinder head for cyclically opening and closing a combustion chamber. A control system is associated with the housing and is connected to the combustion engine for providing for a designated open time for the combustion chamber after a combustion event and before a subsequent combustion can occur.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Larry Moeller, Frederic Nayrac, Hanxin Zhao
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Patent number: 8763874Abstract: A portable linear fastener driving tool is provided that drive staples, nails, or other linearly driven fasteners. The tool uses a gas spring principle, in which a cylinder filled with compressed gas is used to quickly force a piston through a driving stroke movement, while a driver also drives a fastener into a workpiece. The piston/driver is then moved back to its starting position by use of a rotary-to-linear lifter, and the piston again compresses the gas above the piston, thereby preparing the tool for another driving stroke. An improved lifter design has modified lifting pins that reduce the side-forces on the driver. A pivotable latch acts as a safety device, by preventing the driver from making a full driving stroke at an improper time. An improved latch design has a more durable catching surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Senco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. McCardle, Richard L. Leimbach
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Patent number: 8746527Abstract: A pneumatic nailer for use with a fluid source includes a housing, a cylinder, a first valve assembly, a piston, and a port assembly. The housing defines a storage chamber configured for fluid communication with the fluid source. The cylinder is configured for movement with respect to the housing between a first cylinder position and a second cylinder position. An inner side of the cylinder defines a sleeve chamber and an outer side of the cylinder and the housing defines an actuating chamber therebetween. The first valve assembly is connected to the cylinder and is configured to (i) to allow fluid flow from the sleeve chamber to the actuating chamber and (ii) to prevent fluid flow from the actuating chamber to the sleeve chamber. The piston has a piston head and a driver member extending from the piston head.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Marco Laubach, Yizhuo Zhang
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Patent number: 8746526Abstract: A fastener driver comprises a housing and a magazine configured to retain a plurality of fasteners. A driver assembly is positioned within the housing and is configured to provide an expulsion force that expels one of the plurality of fasteners from the magazine. The device further includes a lockout member configured to pivot about a pivot axis between an unlocked position and a lockout position. The pivot axis is configured to move relative to the housing when a work contact element is depressed. The driver assembly is prevented from providing the expulsion force when the lockout arm is in the lockout position. The pivot arm moves from the unlocked position to the lockout position when a low level of fasteners remains in the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Hlinka, Chia Sheng Liang, Chu Hsiang Tseng, Chin Lung Chang
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Patent number: 8740031Abstract: A trigger structure for switching one shoot mode or repeat shoot mode includes a trigger member and a switching member. The trigger member has a recess defined laterally. Two protrusions are defined in the inner wall of the recess. The switching member has an adjusting member and a trigger plate. Under this arrangement, when the adjusting member is pressed into the recess, the trigger plate is at one position to allow the trigger to shoot in a repeat shoot mode; when the adjusting member is turned to abut against the two protrusions, the trigger plate is at another position to allow the trigger to shoot in a one shoot mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Apach Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tien-Fu Lin
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Patent number: 8733610Abstract: A fastener driving apparatus includes a vacuum piston and a drive piston, which vacuum piston, when moved (by way of a motor and linear motion converter), draws a vacuum against the drive piston, which drive piston may be held in place by retention means. An anvil is coupled to the drive piston. The retention means is released electrically or mechanically at or near the point of maximum vacuum volume. This drive piston and anvil assembly is then driven by atmospheric pressure and may strike as fastener to drive it into a substrate. At least one position sensor may be used. Once the fastener is driven, the apparatus may reset to an initial position. At least one valve may be included to dump the energy stored in the vacuum in the case of a jam condition, thus providing good safety profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Tricord Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Pedicini
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Patent number: 8708209Abstract: A driving tool includes a housing, a magazine, a cylinder head, a push lever, a cylinder, a combustion chamber frame, a piston, an injection part, and a fastener feeding unit. The housing has one end portion and another end portion. The magazine is connected to the housing and accommodating a fastener. The cylinder head is disposed at the one end portion. The push lever is movable relative to the housing upon pressure contacting a workpiece in a moving direction. The cylinder is fixed to the housing. The combustion chamber frame is movable in the housing in accordance with the push lever and selectively defining a combustion chamber in cooperation with the cylinder. The piston is slidably reciprocally movable relative to the cylinder and displaced upon expansion of air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber. The injection part is connected to the another end portion of the housing and having an injection passage in communication with the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Haruhiko Oouchi
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Publication number: 20140110451Abstract: A nailer includes a power source including a piston reciprocating within a cylinder; a driver blade secured to the piston for common movement relative to a nosepiece; a magazine connected to the nosepiece for feeding fasteners sequentially for being driven into a workpiece by the driver blade; a fastener delay mechanism operatively associated with the magazine and configured for engaging a subsequent fastener and delaying advancement of the second fastener to the nosepiece until the driver blade returns to the pre-firing position after driving a leading fastener; and wherein the delay mechanism includes an electromagnetic solenoid with a reciprocating plunger connected to a pivoting cam member such that extension of the plunger causes the pivoting cam member to pivot into a blocking position between the fasteners.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Marc Largo, Hanxin Zhao, Christopher H. Porth, Daniel Birk
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Publication number: 20140110452Abstract: A fastener-driving tool includes a housing and a workpiece-contacting element movable between a rest position and an activated position. The tool also includes a trigger connected to the housing and movable between a rest position and an activated position, a control valve including an actuating pin, an actuation lever movably connected to the trigger and movable between a rest position and an actuating position adjacent to the actuating pin, and a trigger control mechanism associated with the actuation lever and configured for moving and holding the actuation lever in the actuating position. In a powered mode, the trigger control mechanism causes the-actuation lever to move and remain in the actuating position such that the tool is actuated each time the workpiece-contacting element contacts a workpiece and moves to the activated position causing the actuation lever to contact the actuating pin and initiate an actuation of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Stephen P. Moore, Murray Z. Weinger, Daniel J. Birk, Hanxin Zhao, Ricardo Segura, Ryan L. Francis
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Publication number: 20140110450Abstract: A fastener-driving tool includes a housing, a workpiece-contacting element movable between a rest position and an activated position, and a trigger movable between a rest position and an activated position. The tool includes an actuation lever movably connected to the trigger and a control valve including an actuating pin and an electromagnet where the actuating pin is movable between a rest position and an activated position. In a powered mode, the electromagnet is energized and attracts the actuation lever to the actuating pin and hold the actuation lever and the actuating pin in respective activated positions such that the tool is actuated each time the workpiece-contacting element contacts a workpiece. In a non-powered mode, the electromagnet is not energized such that the tool is actuated each time the workpiece-contacting element and the trigger are each moved from the rest position to the activated position in a designated sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Stephen P. Moore, Murray Z. Weinger, Daniel J. Birk, Hanxin Zhao
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Patent number: 8695860Abstract: A nail guiding structure of the present invention is disposed inside of the nail gun having a nail rail. The nail guiding structure includes one or more supporting members and a holding mechanism. The supporting member can move between a first and a second position, wherein the supporting member can move toward the first position to elastically push nails in the air gun, so that the nails can be vertically held in front of the nail rail. The holding mechanism can selectively hold the supporting member, so that the supporting cannot move back to the second position. Thereby, a user can move the holding mechanism to adapt for different thicknesses of nails. Only one nail can move to the front of the nail rail every time when a punching board of the nail gun punches. Consequently, the problems of nail jamming or crookedly stapling are prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Apex Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jing-Li Wang, Rong-Yu Wang
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Patent number: 8695861Abstract: A stitching head is provided having a cam connected to the bender rail rail, the cam operates to redirect the staple driving force being applied by the driver rail to the driver and upon the staple during the staple driving step of stitching head operation; the force-redirecting position of the cam is automatically adjusted in response to the thickness of each workpiece as the cam is connected to the bender rail rail and the contacting of the workpiece by the bender rail repositions the cam at the desired distance above the workpiece to reestablish the set-point for the redirection of the staple driving force being applied to the driver rail upon as staple head contacts each variable thickness workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Inventor: William Grady Duff
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Patent number: 8690036Abstract: A cordless nailer is provided having a magazine assembly with improved features. An improved latch mechanism for clearing nail jams is provided that reduces wear on the latch. A driver retention feature is provided to retain a drive blade from accidentally escaping the nailer. A pusher assembly is provided having a simplified and efficient construction. A pusher retention feature is provided that prevents the driver blade from impacting a nail pusher. A nail retention feature is provided to allow easy loading and unloading of nails into the nailer. Finally, a method of assembling the magazine assembly is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Craig A. Schell, Ashok Samuel Baskar, Paul G. Gross, James J. Kenney, Li Xu
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Patent number: 8684245Abstract: A fastener driving device includes a nose assembly having a drive channel, a magazine for carrying a supply of fasteners through a feed channel along a feed channel direction toward the nose assembly, and one or more mechanisms for preventing undesirable movement of fasteners. The mechanisms may include a first stop pawl and a second stop pawl for preventing the supply of fasteners from moving along a direction opposite to the feed channel direction. The stop pawls may extend from a common side of the feed channel and pivot on a common axis. The mechanisms may also include a first nail stop, a second nail stop and/or a movable nail stop.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P.Inventors: Prudencio S. Canlas, Jr., Jeff Peng, Hao Chang, Adam C. Tillinghast
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Publication number: 20140076951Abstract: A follower assembly includes a follower mounted on an axle with the axle being coupled to a carrier that is pivotable relative to the frame about a pivot axis. The follower assembly has a locked position in which the pivot axis and axle are positioned relative to each other in a locked over-center position. In the locked over-center position the driver is pinched between the follower assembly and the flywheel subjecting the driver to a pinch force when the driver is in the stall position. When the driver is in the stall position and the follower assembly is in the locked over-center position, pivotal movement of a stall release lever toward the release position forces the follower assembly out of the locked over-center position toward the reverse over-center position in which the relative positions of the pivot axis and axle are reversed and the pinch force is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Lee Michael Brendel, Paul G. Gross, Michael P. Baron
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Publication number: 20140069981Abstract: A gas setting tool, wasting a limited amount of fuel. The tool comprises i) an internal combustion engine, with a device for injecting fuel in the chamber of the engine, comprising a check valve and an injection piston, the injection piston extending beyond the check valve, and iii) a sealing joint mounted on the injection piston of the check valve. The injection piston comprises an internal bore opened on the exterior and the check valve and its injection piston are arranged so that, in an opening position, the fuel in a container is able, outside the check valve, to only flow through the internal bore of the injection piston. Thanks to this invention, fuel waste is reduced to the best.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: SOCIETE DE PROSPECTION ET D'INVENTIONS TECHNIQUES SPITInventors: Christian Ricordi, Alain Vettoretti, Frederic Nayrac, Patrick Herelier, Pascale Grandjean, Pierre Cordeiro, Jean-Michel Dreveton
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Publication number: 20140054350Abstract: A fastener driving apparatus includes a vacuum piston and a drive piston, which vacuum piston, when moved (by way of a motor and linear motion converter), draws a vacuum against the drive piston, which drive piston may be held in place by retention means. An anvil is coupled to the drive piston. The retention means is released electrically or mechanically at or near the point of maximum vacuum volume. This drive piston and anvil assembly is then driven by atmospheric pressure and may strike as fastener to drive it into a substrate. At least one position sensor may be used. Once the fastener is driven, the apparatus may reset to an initial position. At least one valve may be included to dump the energy stored in the vacuum in the case of a jam condition, thus providing good safety profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventor: Christopher Pedicini
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Patent number: 8646671Abstract: A new and improved combustion chamber and cooling system for a fastener-driving tool wherein a new and improved tangentially oriented, vortex induced fuel-injection system is operatively associated with the tool's combustion chamber. In addition, a new and improved trigger-controlled valve actuating system, such as, for example, a switch-operated, solenoid-actuated valve-controlling system, is incorporated within the tool so as to ensure the rapid operation of the intake and outlet valve structures. Still further, a sealed, liquid evaporative or liquid recirculating cooling system is integrally incorporated within the tool housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Joseph S. Adams
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Publication number: 20140034700Abstract: A nail gun capable of preventing a trigger from being pulled in a nail-empty condition is provided. The nail gun includes a housing connected with a trigger, a muzzle, a nail driving member moveably mounted in the muzzle and a nail magazine communicated with the muzzle for accommodating nails and a nail pushing member for pushing the nails toward the muzzle, and a side of the nail pushing member has a locking portion; and a safety member moveably mounted to the muzzle for upward or downward movement. An end of the safety member has a stop portion. A position of the locking portion is corresponding to that of the stop portion for selectively stopping the upward or downward movement of the safety member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventor: Chin-Chin Chang
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Publication number: 20140034701Abstract: A driver includes: a driver blade which is driven by a pressure of fluid supplied to a main cylinder to strike a fastener, thereby driving the fastener into a target object; a push lever which is movably provided in the main body and reciprocably moves between a releasing position at which fluid supply to the main cylinder is enabled and a restricting position at which fluid supply to the main cylinder is disabled; a sub-piston which abuts on the push lever and holds the push lever at the restricting position; and a trigger which is provided in the main body and controls the fluid supply to the main cylinder, and a stroke of the push lever is changed when the fluid is supplied to the main cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiichi KOMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20140014703Abstract: A fastener-driving tool including a combustion power source configured for powering a driver blade drive system for reciprocal movement of a driver blade relative to a workpiece. The driver blade drive system includes a first portion configured such that the combustion power source linearly drives a driver blade towards the workpiece, and a second portion configured such that the driver blade is rotated relative to the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Kyle Kestner, Tomasz Sikora, Michael S. Popovich
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Patent number: 8613327Abstract: A fluid powered percussion tool 1 has a housing 2 with a supply channel for pressurized fluid 3, a percussion mechanism 4, a swing joint 5 arranged to carry the percussion mechanism 4 relative to the housing 2 at a point situated between the forward end A and the rear end B of the percussion mechanism 4, at least one elastically resilient element 6 arranged between the housing 2 and the percussion mechanism 4 at a distance from the swinging joint 5 and arranged to load the percussion mechanism 4 against a neutral position in the housing 2 and to absorb the vibrational movements of the percussion mechanism 4, and a flexible connection for pressurized fluid 7 for distribution of pressurized fluid from the supply channel for pressurized fluid 3 to the percussion mechanism 4. The elastically resilient element 6 includes a conical spring 8. The flexible connection for pressurized fluid 7 includes a hose 11.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Atlas Copco Construction Tools ABInventors: Ingemar Johansson, Lars Saxbäck, Thomas Lilja, Ola Davidsson
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Publication number: 20130334275Abstract: A hand tool for mechanically generating and delivering a driving force to a fastener. The hand tool includes a mechanical force delivery system that is structured and operable to mechanically generate and deliver a driving force to a fastener. The hand tool additionally includes a pneumatic actuation device that is operatively connected to the mechanical force delivery system. The pneumatic actuation device is structured and operable to actuate the mechanical force delivery system such that the mechanical force delivery system mechanically generates and delivers the driving force.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Lok C. Lam, Brian C. Burke
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Patent number: 8602282Abstract: A portable linear fastener driving tool is provided that drive staples, nails, or other linearly driven fasteners. The tool uses a gas spring principle, in which a cylinder filled with compressed gas is used to quickly force a piston through a driving stroke movement, while a driver also drives a fastener into a workpiece. The piston/driver is then moved back to its starting position by use of a rotary-to-linear lifter, and the piston again compresses the gas above the piston, thereby preparing the tool for another driving stroke. The driver has protrusions along its edges that contact the lifter, which lifts the driver during a return stroke. A pivotable latch is controlled to move into either an interfering position or a non-interfering position with respect to the driver protrusions, and acts as a safety device, by preventing the driver from making a full driving stroke at an improper time.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Senco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Richard L. Leimbach, Thomas A. McCardle, Danny L. Bolender, Steve Dickinson, Joseph R. Knueven, Robert L. Lance, Jr., Dan Stoltz, Michael V. Petrocelli
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Patent number: 8602284Abstract: A fastener driving device includes a nose assembly carried by a housing that has a reservoir. The nose assembly has a fastener drive track. At least a portion of the fastener drive track is defined by a movable portion of the nose assembly. A fastener driver is movably mounted in the housing and configured to enter the drive track and drive successive leading fasteners into a workpiece. A head valve is constructed and arranged to be actuated so as to allow the pressurized gas to move the fastener driver through an operating cycle. An actuator is constructed and arranged to actuate the head valve. The actuator includes a trigger valve constructed and arranged to allow passage of the pressurized gas from the reservoir to a chamber above the head valve, and a contact valve operatively connected to the movable portion of the nose assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P.Inventors: Adam Tillinghast, Juan Ignacio Aguirre, Prudencio S. Canlas, Jr.
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Patent number: 8602283Abstract: A gas combustion type driving tool includes a feed piston/cylinder mechanism 6 by which a feed piston 8, engaged/disengaged to/from a connecting fastener housed in a magazine, is reciprocated in a fastener feed direction in which the piston is fed toward a nose part 5 and a retracting direction opposite to the feed direction. The feed piston 8 is constantly spring-urged in the feed direction, and part of a combustion gas is supplied to a feed cylinder 7 via a gas pipe 21 provided between the combustion chamber 4 and the feed piston/cylinder mechanism 6, thereby operating the feed piston 8 in the retracting direction against a spring 20. In the gas combustion type driving tool, filters 33 for cooling a combustion gas are located in the gas pipe 21.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Tamura, Katsuhiko Murayama, Masakazu Konishi
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Publication number: 20130320060Abstract: A fastening tool having a lockout mechanism which has a dry fire lockout which achieves a controlled lockout override. The lockout mechanism can be part of a fastening tool magazine, a pusher assembly or a nosepiece contact trip. The lockout mechanism can be an angled lockout, a torsion spring lockout, or a fixed member lockout. The fastening tool can have a method of controlling lockout override using a lockout control angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20130320059Abstract: A trigger mechanism for a fastening tool having a spring curl trip actuator. The spring curl trip actuator can be made of a flexible material and can be configured to exert a force upon a trigger switch. The spring curl trip actuator can also absorb force from a contact trip. The spring curl trip actuator can have compact height and length dimensions. The fastening tool can use a method for controlling triggering by using a spring curl trip actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Larry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Publication number: 20130306699Abstract: A driving tool with a housing, a motor received in the housing, a control unit and a trigger. The housing defines a handle. The control unit is configured to operate the motor and has a microswitch, an actuator arm and a spring. The actuator arm is biased by the spring toward the microswitch. The spring is configured to move the actuator arm against the microswitch to cause the microswitch to operate in an actuated switch state. The trigger is coupled to the handle and is movable between a first trigger position and a second trigger position. The trigger has a switch arm that cooperates with the actuator arm to form a lost-motion coupling that permits a predetermined amount of movement of the trigger from the first trigger position to the second trigger position before coupling the switch arm to the actuator arm. The actuator member does not contact the microswitch when the trigger is in the second trigger position so that the microswitch operates in a nominal switch state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Ashok S. Baskar, Charles L. Bradenbaugh, Craig A. Schell, James J. Kenney, Paul G. Gross
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Publication number: 20130299546Abstract: A combustion-powered fastener-driving tool includes a combustion-powered power source having a combustion chamber, a reciprocating piston and driver blade, and a valve sleeve reciprocable relative to the power source between a rest position and a firing position. The valve sleeve partially defines the combustion chamber. A lockout device is in fluid communication with the combustion power source and includes a reciprocating gas piston connected to a latch in operational proximity to the valve sleeve. The lockout device is configured such that upon combustion in the combustion chamber, gas from the combustion engages the gas piston and moves the latch to an engaged position in which the valve sleeve is prevented from moving to the rest position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Hanxin Zhao, Christopher H. Porth, Stephen P. Moore
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Patent number: 8579173Abstract: A stapler (1) by which a workpiece (11), preferably a sheaf of papers, is stapled together with a staple, which stapler (5) comprises a stapling head (2) accommodating staples and a driver (6) and connected pivotably by a pivot pin (4) to a bottom part (3) which comprises a lower element (9) and an upper element (8) which are connected to one another in such a way that they can be moved towards and away from one another (P) and which in an initial state are held in a locking position at a distance from one another by a locking device (17), with forming means (14, 15) arranged between the upper and lower elements, which forming means, when the staple has been fully driven into the workpiece at its insertion area (26) by the driver, are activated to bend the staple legs towards the workpiece as a result of the upper and lower elements moving towards one another when the locking device is released by an activating means (22) which is part of the locking device (17) being acted upon by an unlocking means (7) dispType: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Isaberg Rapid ABInventors: Trygve Gustafsson, Martin Elonsson, Torbjörn Lönkvist
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Patent number: 8567654Abstract: A locking mechanism for a nail gun includes a side slot formed on a bottom side of a gun body and a nail supplying slot connected to a drive track of the nail gun. A stopper element is formed on a side of a slider element corresponding to the side slot. The gun also includes a magazine in which a nail pusher facing the nail supplying slot and a lockout element facing the side slot are formed. The nail pusher has an ear portion. The lockout element includes a pushing arm and a moveable guide slot capping with the ear portion to restrict the sliding movement of the lockout element on the nail pusher. As the pushing arm extends towards the corresponding end of the nail supplying slot, a nail is pushed into the drive track to shoot. The lockout element enters into the side slot to block the stopper element when the nail is exhausted, so as to enhance the shooting blocking effect of the nail gun.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignees: De Poan Pneumatic Corp., Robert Bosch Tool Corp.Inventors: I-Tsung Wu, Po-Feng Huang, Yi-Zhuo Zhang
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Patent number: 8556148Abstract: A fastener tool includes a housing comprising a nosepiece and a magazine connected to the housing for storing a fastener. A driving mechanism is disposed within the housing for driving the fastener into a workpiece. A trigger assembly is pivotally attached to the housing for activating the driving mechanism. A nosepiece cover is pivotally attached to the nosepiece. A latch is pivotally attached to the nosepiece cover. A latch wire is pivotally attached to the latch for engaging at least one hook disposed on the nosepiece. The latch wire has a portion extending between the latch and the hook, the portion having at least two bends.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Craig A. Schell, Ashok S. Baskar, Keven E. Miller, Thomas E. Miller, Charles R. Frohlich, III, John E. Buck, Andrzej R. Wojcicki, Glen V. Steinbrunner
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Patent number: 8556149Abstract: An adjustable exhaust assembly for a pneumatic fastening tool having body and a handle extending from the body, the handle defining an inlet channel for receiving input of pressurized gas and an outlet channel for outputting exhaust. The adjustable exhaust assembly includes a base non-rotatably attachable to an end of the handle opposite the body. The base has a plate and a boss extending from the plate. The boss is configured to receive an air hose and defining an inlet opening configured to direct compressed air to the inlet channel. The plate has an outlet opening in communication with the outlet channel. A substantially annular and cap is rotatably received about the boss. The cap defines a substantially annular channel in communication with the outlet opening of the base and an outlet port defined in a portion of a circumferential wall of the annular cap and in communication with the annular channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: John W. Schnell, Daniel P. Wall, Dan Goodwin, Barbara A. Rose
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Patent number: 8550323Abstract: A technique is provided which contributes to improvement in workability in a driving tool. The driving tool includes a cam switching member 183 and a driving mechanism 115. The cam switching member 183 normally holds a cam member 137 in an inoperative position, and when a user's driving operation is performed, it performs a switching movement to move the cam member 137 from the inoperative position to an operative position and further to return the cam member 137 from the operative position to the inoperative position. When the earn member 137 moves from the inoperative position to the operative position, the earn member 137 moves a driving member 133 for the driving mechanism to a first position in a direction of a rotational axis of a rotating member 131. At this time, the driving mechanism 115 mechanically engages with the driving member 133 for the driving mechanism in the first position and performs a movement of driving a material to be driven.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventor: Yasuyuki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 8550324Abstract: A fastening tool for driving a fastener into a workpiece includes a trigger assembly that activates a driver sequence that drives the fastener into the workpiece. A contact trip mechanism has a blocking member connected to a carrier member. The contact trip mechanism is moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. In the extended position, the blocking member prevents the trigger assembly from activating the driver sequence. A depth adjustment assembly includes an adjuster member moveable between at least a first position associated with a first depth setting and a second position associated with a second depth setting. The adjuster member is moveable to obstruct the carrier member, when the contact trip mechanism moves from the extended position to the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Micah A Coleman
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Patent number: 8550320Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a driving device including: a driver bit for striking a fastener loaded in a launching section; a driver for driving the fastener from the launching section by reciprocating the driver bit; a triggering device pullable to control the driver; and a locking device that locks the pulling operation of the triggering device when being set to a lock position and that releases the locking state when being set to a release position, wherein the locking device includes a release device to operate the locking device toward the release position when the triggering device is pulled and a returning device to return the locking device toward the lock position when the pulling is released.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakano, Hiroyuki Oda, Yukihiro Shima, Hideyuki Tanimoto