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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7343764 | Placing tool with means for controlling placing processes A rivet setting tool is provided to provide improved monitoring of riveted connections during rivet setting. The rivet setting tool includes a head piece for holding a rivet, a device for gripping a rivet pin, a pulling apparatus connected to the device for gripping... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7228997 | Nailing chuck An apparatus nails a plurality of cross members to an underlying stringer to produce a pallet. The carriage moves in a continuous motion without stopping over the cross members until the cross members are nailed to the stringer. The carriage includes at least one na... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7182238 | Sheet staple feeding mechanism A feeding mechanism for sheet staple comprises a reciprocating member (12) which is provided under a cartridge in which stacked sheet staples are contained and which is reciprocated forwardly and backwardly in response to up and down movements of a driver for... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7089420 | Authentication method and system The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficul... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7048165 | Staple detecting mechanism of electric stapler A staple sheet-detecting mechanism of an electric stapler having improved detection accuracy and miniaturization has a passage for feeding a staple sheet composed of straight forward staples arranged in parallel, and a forming plate and driver arranged above an anvi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6994241 | Power square and stationary nail bridge conveyor system for sheathing pre-framed exterior wall panels The invention discloses a method and apparatus for squaring wall panel assemblies prior to nailing sheathing material thereto. A preformed wall section having a frame and studs has a sheathing member placed thereover and fastened thereto whereby said components form... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974065 | Adapter device for placing clips instead of staples in a frame assembling machine An adaptor (8) located underneath the work surface (1) is arranged to occupy a position locking the hammer (6), which is movable in an upward direction under the action of an actuator, when the machine is required for fixing in place a hanging c... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6968605 | Tagging apparatus and method A tag apparatus and method includes a nail gun with a tag positioning device. The tag positioning device is connected to a nail gun safety probe. Flexible tags are held in a tag magazine. Upon depression of the safety probe, a tag is rotated from its storage positio... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6954979 | Frame joiner press system A frame joiner press system for efficiently driving a V-nail into two adjacent members of a picture frame. The frame joiner press system includes a base, a plurality of support shafts extending upwardly from the base, a support platform slidably positioned upon the ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6918580 | Staple estimation device and method A document handling machine comprises a stapling device, and a staple cartridge operatively connected to the stapling device and including a staple estimating device adapted for measuring rotational movement of a roll of staples held within the staple cartridge and ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6892920 | Two-stage actuation system for tag attaching tool Apparatus is provided for actuating a tag attaching tool of the type which dispenses plastic fasteners from a clip of fasteners in response to the depression of a trigger. Each of the fasteners has a T-bar. The fasteners are dispensed by severing the fastener from t... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6719181 | Motor-driven stapler A motor-driven stapler is disclosed which comprises a table (100) arranged as opposed to a staple drive portion for driving a staple and provided movably up and down on a stapler body, and a driver for driving a staple from the staple drive portion to sheets ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6173949 | Device for positioning a sheet stack for stapling In a stapler for variably stapling a set or stack of sheets manually inserted through the stapler entrance path with different orientations, there is a sheet guide system with movable guide members automatically differently repositioned into different she... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6112939 | Cartridge for housing connected clip body of clip members A cartridge is provided which is detachably attached to a main body of a unit. The main body of the unit houses a connected clip body where a plurality of clip plates are interconnected in ribbon form by tape and wound in roll form, and the main body is e... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6089434 | Automatic frame maker A fully automated frame maker which makes rectangular frames includes a controller device for controlling a cycle of operation and preferably multiple cycles of operation to form a plurality of frames. The apparatus also broadly includes a framing device ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5938100 | Mechanism for transporting the leading end of a staple wire from a supply roll to a stapling device for sheet stacks 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 mech... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5816467 | Apparatus for applying fasteners to picture frames An apparatus for final assembly of framed artwork includes a conveyor for translating a plurality of art frames past a robot arm assembly. A fastener driver module is supported by the robot arm assembly, the module including a support plate and a magazine... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5065062 | Motor-drive industrial robot A motor-drive industrial robot which can be used as a painting robot is mainly constructed by a direct-drive motor, a fixed portion such as a base, and a movable portion such as a rotary table, an arm etc. The direct-drive motor for driving the movable po... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5035353 | Automatic riveting machine A vacuum pulls a spent mandrel through a gun bore and into a collection tube which discharges into a collector. Gun operation and mandrel entry into and departure from the collection tube are sensed and blockage of the mandrel within the collection tube a... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5009354 | Automatic riveting machine Rivets are delivered from a feed chute to a transfer location and blown through a feed tube to a loading device. The presence of a rivet is sensed both at the transfer location and at the loading device and a fault indicator is operated in the event a riv... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4988028 | Automatic riveting machine An automatic riveting machine is disclosed which counts the rivets, as set, to control the feeding of rivets from a feeder to the rivet track or chute. The track will be resupplied after a selected number of rivets are set or sooner should the track becom... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4972985 | Automatic riveting machine A vacuum pulls a spent mandrel through a gun bore and into a collection tube which discharges into a collector. Gun operation and mandrel entry into and departure from the collection tube are sensed and blockage of the mandrel within the collection tube a... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4955521 | Door jamb assembly machine with automatic alignment and feed A machine for assembling a jamb member, two sides members, and a stop member into a finished door jamb. The individual members are placed into the machine, which positions and aligns members and transports them in the proper relationship to a fastening st... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4898314 | Method and apparatus for stitcher wire loading 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 tu... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4842181 | Apparatus for loading food for alignment with food sticks An apparatus for loading food for alignment with food sticks is provided. A food bin stores the food to be processed. The bin is filled with food which is gravity fed into J-shaped sections of a food conveyor belt. Concurrently, a stick conveyor system ca... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4817965 | Device for assembling, by clipping, moldings incorporating several rabbets The invention relates to a device for assembling mouldings incorporating several rabbets, which comprises a table for positioning the mouldings, slides supporting this table, rendered fast with two columns which are connected in their lower part by a base... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4721228 | Apparatus for dispensing elongated small mechanical parts A system for dispensing components one-at-a-time upon demand for utilization comprises a component handling assembly and a buffer assembly. The component handling assembly receives bulk quantities of the components and when activated, properly orients eac... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4685603 | Fastener positioning device A fastener positioning apparatus includes a magnetized engaging element for slidably holding fasteners next to an elongated member as they are pushed from a first position into a hammering position by a positioning mechanism. In the hammering position, a ... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4655423 | Plastic clip with integral nail A plastic molded fastener is described as formed with a fastening clip and drive pin. The fastening clip has an elongate base member with an integrally formed clip member at one end and a mounting aperture adjacent the other end. The plastic drive pin ext... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4621757 | Signature thickness discriminating apparatus Apparatus for discriminating signature sets of abnormal total thickness from signature sets having normal total thickness in a saddle-wired preparing apparatus. The discriminating apparatus includes means for electrically detecting the movement of sensor ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4605149 | Stapling machine A machine for automatically driving object such as staples into a rod at substantially equally spaced intervals comprises a stapling device for driving staples into the rod, a driving assembly for moving the rod past the stapling device, and an indexing w... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4574991 | Fastener feeding apparatus A fastener feeding apparatus is used to supply a pair of strips of detachably connected staples to a magazine of a fastener driving device in each loading cycle of the feeding apparatus. A plurality of pairs of strips of staples are supplied to an incline... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4515356 | Spring biased crank arm drive for tray mounted stapler In a copying machine a copy-receiving device is provided which includes a table with a plate inclined to a horizontal at a predetermined angle and supporting thereon sets of copies or sheets to be stapled together by a stapling device which is insertable ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4438724 | Grooved gas gate A grooved passageway surface in a magnetic gas gate, the gas gate adapted to operatively connect two adjacent chambers, in the first chamber of which process gases are introduced for depositing a first layer upon a magnetic substrate and in the second cha... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4373651 | Method and apparatus assembling and nailing boards together A board nailing machine, herein disclosed in the form of a pallet maker, in which the stringer or inner boards are automatically fed in spaced apart relation into a nailing station and the deck boards or outer boards are automatically fed into nailing pos... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4372473 | Stitching assembly A stitching assembly for stitching together sheets of paper, card and similar materials comprises a frame carrying a number of stitching machines each of which includes a stitching head and a clinch block connected together so that each stitching head and... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4367835 | Feeder for nailing machine This invention provides improvements in nail feeding control as presented in U.S. Pat. No. 3,273,776. The ratchet system of the reference patent has been improved upon by use of a two-position drum bar which is moved by a cylinder. The latter is activated... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4323183 | Tag dispenser for hand-held attacher The tag-dispensing device is designed for use with a hand-held plastic fastener attacher of the type having a needle for penetrating an article to be tagged and through which a fastener is dispensed. The device includes a support to which the attacher is ... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4298072 | Control arrangement for electro-mechanical tool A control arrangement for an electro-mechanical tool is disclosed. The tool may, for example, be a nailer or stapler, and is provided with an impact member which is frictionally moved in a working stroke by means of an electrically driven flywheel, which ... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4181248 | Fixed stapler head An apparatus in which a plurality of sheets are stapled to one another. The stapling frequency is dependent upon the number of sheets being stapled together. The foregoing abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification... | 01/01/1980 |
