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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357194 | Percussion power tool A percussion power tool includes a motor (6) located in the tool-housing (4) for driving the output member (12) and the percussion mechanism (10), a chuck (20) for receiving a working tool (22), a locking mechanism (24 | 04/15/2008 |
| 7308949 | Concrete drill A concrete drill for drilling concrete or the like by a diamond bit (5) attached to a front end of a bit drive shaft (4) projected forward from a main body (1) by driving to rotate the bit drive shaft (4) by a drive source (2) cont... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7096980 | Rotary impact well drilling system and method A system and method for applying rotary percussive impacts to a drill bit, according to which an anvil is connected to the bit and a hammer is driven in one direction in the anvil when the bit encounters a relatively large load. Energy is stored during the movement ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7059423 | Jackhammer system A jackhammer system for reducing the vibration and noise experienced by an operator of the jackhammer. The jackhammer system includes a housing, a chisel movably positioned within a lower neck of the housing, a pair of flywheels rotatably attached to a pair of suppo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6988564 | Diesel hammer systems and methods A diesel hammer system for driving a pile, comprising a housing, an anvil member supported by the housing, a clamp assembly adapted to connect the anvil member to the pile, and a ram member disposed within the housing. A fuel pump system injects fuel into a combusti... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6961983 | Tooling for rivet gun Method and apparatus of back riveting construction for sections of aircraft structure utilizing the flush riveting wherein the back bar tooling for all the rivets in the entire section is a single piece of stationary tooling which conforms to the exterior shape of t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961982 | Rivet gun Method and apparatus of back riveting construction for sections of aircraft structure utilizing the flush riveting wherein the back bar tooling for all the rivets in the entire section is a single piece of stationary tooling which conforms to the exterior shape of t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6932166 | Pneumatic tool A pneumatic tool (20) for impacting a workpiece (22) is provided. The tool (20) comprises a casing (42) defining a chamber (48). A piston (54) is slidable within the chamber (48) along an operational axis (A). An exha... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6736218 | Diesel hammer systems and methods A diesel hammer system for driving piles. In one form of the invention, a control pinion is attached to a cam member employed to adjust the volume of a fuel portion of a pump chamber. A control rack is arranged to engage the control pinion such that linear movement ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6675908 | Drilling hammer or impact hammer A drill hammer or riveter, includes a housing (11), in which a hammering mechanism (12) is accommodated that in an axially displaceably supported guide tube (13) has a reciprocating piston (16) and a striker (17), drivable by the piston (16) via an air cu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6202757 | Impact machine When cutting metal rods, for instance, percussion machines are used that utilize stored kinetic energy which has been produced either mechanically or by the use of compressed gas. A drawback is the inability to accurately control the cutting process. The ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5960893 | Fluid-powered percussion tool A fluid-powered percussion tool includes a percussion piston which, under the effect of a control alternately performs a working stroke and a return stroke with the aid of a control valve. The control valve assumes a working stroke or a return stroke posi... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5803182 | Bidirectional hydraulic jar A double-acting hydraulic striking tool, wherein a hammer's (8) upper end (9) is rigidly connected to an upper piston (10), and wherein the hammer's (8) lower end (26) is rigidly connected to a lower piston (26). The pistons (10, 27), which can be displac... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5687803 | Method for reversing a ground piercing tool The invention provides a method for reversing an impact boring tool of the type having a reversing mechanism actuated by rotation of the compressed air supply hose that enters the tool through a rear end opening. This method includes the initial step of c... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5603383 | Reversible pneumatic ground piercing tool A pneumatic ground piercing tool according to the invention has a reversing mechanism provided as part of the air distributing mechanism. Such a tool includes an elongated tubular housing having a rear opening, a head assembly including an anvil, a strike... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5392865 | Hydraulic percussion apparatus Apparatus comprising a striking piston driven hydraulically in a reciprocating fashion by an incompressible fluid inside a cylinder and striking against a tool, of the type in which the piston slides in a cylinder having two concentric piston bearing surf... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5311950 | Differential pneumopercussive reversible self-propelled soil penetrating machine The invention represents a differential pneumopercussive self-propelled reversible soil penetrating machine (100) having essentially higher efficiency, reliability, durability, and controllability compared to conventional machines. All of these achievemen... | 05/17/1994 |
| 4821812 | Down hole drill improvement A fluid impact tool is disclosed of the type commonly known as a down-the-hole drill for drilling of rock. The improvement herein described increases deep hole drill performance by providing a means for accumulating piston return air in a traveling air po... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4651833 | Pneumatic impact tool A pneumatic impact tool wherein a two-stage piston is reciprocable in the two-stage chamber of a cylinder. The tool which is to penetrate into a bone is mounted in the front portion of the cylinder and the piston strikes against such front portion in resp... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4637476 | Percussive action machine for making holes in the ground A percussive action machine includes a housing in which a hammer is movably secured to define a forward stroke chamber and a return stroke chamber. The hammer is provided with an air-distributor fashioned as a sleeve having holes. The hammer is further pr... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4530407 | Fluid operated hammer A fluid operated hammer comprising; a casing; a top sub mounted to one end of the casing; a drill bit mounted to the other end of the casing; a feed tube located concentrically within the casing and extending for a portion of the length of the casing from... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4298074 | Surgical device using impulse motor The present surgical tool uses high frequency impulses to replace rotating or oscillating members in cutting through or inserting materials into bone. One embodiment comprises a chisel which uses high frequency impulses to remove bone or other hard materi... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4232752 | Method and apparatus for driving pipe A casing hammer for driving casing while drilling a water well comprises a housing having an annular pneumatic chamber with a relatively lightweight, short-stroke annular piston. The piston is reciprocably driven at a high rate to provide a large number o... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4129002 | Cylinder piece for a pile driving ram A pile driving ram for driving piles into subaqueous ground, during which a heavy piston operating as a hammer is each time lifted by fuel explosion in a cylinder, comprises a considerable and expensive cylinder piece, which has inlet and outlet ports and... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4120367 | Pneumatic impact gun A pneumatic impact gun having an accumulator and interlock system for rapidly dumping a predetermined amount of compressed air into a cylinder to thereby propel an associated piston toward an anvil for contact with a rivet to be upset. The interlock syste... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4114700 | Pneumatic apparatus of the percussive type The apparatus has a pointed-nose hollow cylindrical body with a closed rear portion. Disposed inside the body, so as to enable reciprocation and rotation about the axis of the body, is a stepped striker which can be locked against rotation about the axis ... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4102534 | Pneumatic hammer A hand held impact tool is disclosed which employs an impact piston reciprocated by means of fluid pressure to impact a working tool. Fluid pressure is continually supplied to a pressure chamber forwardly of the impact piston such that a fluid cushion is ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4096916 | Diesel pile driver A diesel pile driver with impact atomization of the fuel between pile driver piston and an impact member as well as with a fuel injection pump and an injector nozzle, which sprays fuel onto the impact member in the pile driver cylinder.... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4084646 | Fluid actuated impact tool A fluid actuated impact tool is disclosed of the type commonly known as a down-the-hole drill for drilling of rock. The tool is provided with a reversible casing which serves the dual functions of a casing and cylinder. A partial cylinder sleeve is utiliz... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4076081 | Pile driving device A pile driving device comprises one or more guide stays, a Diesel hammer, consisting of a combustion cylinder guided by guide means along each guide stay and a hammer piston operating in said combustion cylinder. Lifting the hammer piston at the start of the k... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4074776 | Diesel pile-driving ram In a Diesel pile-driving ram comprising a combustion cylinder, a striker extending into the combustion cylinder, a piston housed in the combustion cylinder and a fuel injector for the supply of fuel between the impact surfaces of the piston and the strike... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4072198 | Hydraulic rock drill An hydraulic rock drill having an hydraulically reciprocable hammer piston arranged to pound an anvil carrying a drill string. A sleeve type shiftable valve periodically engaged by the piston to effect alternate application to and relief of pressurized hy... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4067402 | Rammer In a rammer a piston housed in a combustion cylinder strikes with its impact surface the adapted impact surface of a striker. When the impact surfaces are spherical or flattened the piston may strike against the cylinder wall, as a result of which the cyl... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4060139 | Underwater gas discharge hammer with gas reservoir An underwater gas discharge type hammer is provided with a gas reservoir into which expended ram driving gas exhausts to avoid aeration of incoming water which surrounds the gas discharge device of the hammer. The gas resevoir is also arranged as a diving... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4056150 | Ram device A ram device has a drop hammer connected to the piston of a lifting cylinder which is connected by means of short and wide ducts to a control apparatus for admitting compressed air into the cylinder and for discharging the air from the cylinder beneath th... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4039034 | Pneumatic impact gun A pneumatic impact gun having an accumulator and interlock system for rapidly dumping a predetermined amount of compressed air into a cylinder to thereby propel an associated piston toward an anvil for contact with a rivet to be upset. The interlock syste... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3986567 | Hydraulic percussive-rotary machine A machine having a housing wherein are arranged a hammer piston adapted for reciprocation in said housing to effect forward and return strokes and a stepped pressure difference ring valve fitted over the hammer piston and also reciprocating in said housin... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3974885 | Pneumatic percussive power tool A power tool having a cylindrical housing accomodating a hammer and a two-step defining piston head, with central, rear and supplementary chambers in the housing, said head and supplementary chambers being constantly intercommunicated through a passage pr... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3967688 | Fuel injection device for an impact atomization-type diesel pile hammer The nozzle is provided with a bar which may be rotated to and fixed at various angular positions. The bar has a longitudinally extensive cut away portion, providing a fuel passage. Varying the angular position changes the turning velocity of the vortex-ty... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3948058 | Device for soil sampling under water The device features its housing carrying the soil sampling ing socket and the striker arranged coaxially to said socket, and adapted to act thereupon and establish some chambers in said housing, which are alternatively communicated, through the inlet fitt... | 04/06/1976 |
