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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042717 | Fastener driving device with contact trip having an electrical actuator A fastener driving device includes a housing, and a nose assembly carried by the housing. The nose assembly has a fastener drive track. The fastener driving device also includes an engine carried by the housing and configured to drive a fastener out of the drive tra... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7984837 | Electrically powered stapler Stapler (1) which in the course of a reciprocating working stroke (V) staples a workpiece (4), preferably a sheaf of papers, which stapler is powered by an electric motor which, via a transmission arrangement (5) drives the stapler during the wo... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7866519 | Cam-actuated pneumatic switch mechanism system for controlling the timed spacing of fasteners driven from hand-held fastener-driving tools A fastener-driving tool has a cam-actuated pneumatic switch mechanism system operatively incorporated thereon which is adapted to control the timed driving or discharge of fasteners out from a hand-held fastener-driving tool and into a substrate at predeterminedly s... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861905 | Hand-held fastener driving tool A hand-held drive-in tool (10) has a trigger switch (19) for triggering a drive-in process by drive unit (30) that drives a drive-in ram (13), a press-on feeler (18) which is arranged so as to be displaceable at a muzzle (16... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7419078 | Nailing device A nailer device having a carriage assembly, a pair of pivotal drive wheels, a nailer assembly and at least one end wheel. The pair of pivotal drive wheels are on the carriage assembly. The at least one end wheel is disposed adjacent an end of the carriage assembly. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7325711 | Electrically operated drive-in tool A drive-in tool drives in fastening elements and includes a driving ram and a drive unit. The driving ram is displaceably supported in a guide. The drive unit has a drive flywheel and a return device. The drive flywheel is set in rotation by an electric motor, and t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318545 | Stapler with a staple-supporting device A stapler with a staple-supporting device has a base, a cover, a holding bracket and a pushing device. The base, the cover and the holding bracket are mounted pivotally together. The cover has a staple spade and the holding bracket has a corresponding staple outlet.... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311235 | Electric stapler with pencil sharpener An electric pencil sharpener is accommodated in a front part of a lower housing. An electric stapler is accommodated in an upper housing including a shared surface that is used as a top face of the lower housing, as its bottom face. A power transformer for supplying... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311238 | Electric stapler An electric stapler comprises an enclosure, a motor, a power transmission device, a working arm pivotally attached to the enclosure, a magazine receiving a plurality of staples and a clinching assembly. A guide device is mounted upon the working arm and rotating the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311236 | Electric stapler having two anvil plates and workpiece sensing controller A stapler includes a double plate anvil with a single piece clincher and a pair of paper guides to sense the presence of the workpiece to reduce jamming. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7299958 | Stapler with stack height compensation A powered stapler includes a housing and a stapling engine within the housing. The stapling engine includes a staple driving assembly and a rotational drive train operable to actuate the staple driving assembly. A stack height compensation mechanism is integrated wi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7249701 | Power actuated gun with fastener feeding track and automatic firing An automated power actuated gun which drives a fastener assembly having a plate frictionally engaging a nail or stud into a hard substrate or surface such as concrete that has attached thereto a fastener feeding assembly. The fastener feeding assembly is formed with... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240817 | Residual staple amount detection device of electric stapler In an electric stapler which is attachably and detachably provided with a staple cartridge 2 attached and detached to and from a magazine portion of a stapler main body 1 and in which in the staple cartridge 2, sheet-like staples a each constitu... | 07/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7165304 | Block attacher apparatus and method A block attacher for attaching blocks to slats as stringers for pallets includes a slat dispenser disposed to dispense individual slats to a slat driver, the slat driver being selectively positionable. A first block dispenser dispenses a block to an assembly station... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7159746 | Staple-forming apparatus A staple-forming and inserting apparatus 10 is provided having an apparatus 22 for movement of the cutter box 20 to allow automatic variations in staple length for one or more staple-forming and inserting apparatus 10 said staple-forming ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152380 | Apparatus and method for repairing popped wallboard nails An apparatus and a method for repairing nail pops in a wallboard is disclosed. The apparatus can be placed In a first state in which it acts as a cutting tool and can be used to cut a bore hole into a wallboard to separate a popped nail from the wallboard. The appar... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152774 | Nail gun A nail gun includes a shell, a hammering device for firing nails, an energizing device for providing energy to the hammering device, an actuating device for actuating the energizing device and a lever for disabling the actuating device after a nail is fired. The act... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140099 | Pallet jig An apparatus for building pallets comprises a jig frame adapted to maintain a plurality of deck boards in deck board locations on top of a plurality of stringers in parallel stringer locations. A gantry frame is mounted above the jig frame and a plurality of nailing... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7121440 | Motor-driven stapler having a driver and a cylinder unit that vertically reciprocates A stapler having a driver unit vertically separated from its clincher unit, which has a clincher base with a clincher. The clincher base is disposed to vertically reciprocate, and sheets inserted between the base and driver unit are clamped between the base and the ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7111767 | Power actuated fastener system An automated power actuated gun having a fastener feeding track with guides for holding a fastener assembly having a plate and attached stud in a firing position. The power actuated gun is attached to the fastener feeding track so as to permit relative movement ther... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7097087 | Powered stapler A portable hand-held power stapler with an outer housing contoured to fit comfortably within the grip of a hand, said stapler having an improved actuation system comprising a manually operated power switch that will actuate the stapling mechanism when a paper-sensin... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089667 | Method of automatic truss assembly A method of assembling a truss utilizing a truss assembly apparatus having a truss table with a work surface, the steps comprising: arranging at least two truss members on the work surface to form a truss in a first assembly zone; clamping the truss in the first zon... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076866 | Simultaneous riveting system of flat surfaces for riveters A riveting system for hammering a set of nails along a path having a rotatable upper table with a plurality of riveting mechanisms positioned along a plurality of radii on the upper table and a lower table having a plurality of upset members positioned along a plura... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7055726 | Apparatus for modifying traveling position of paper web in paper web processing machine An apparatus for modifying a traveling position of a paper web in a paper web processing machine is provided. The apparatus is capable of easily attaching a detection means; requiring no operation of the paper web processing machine to determine an accurately adjust... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7048170 | Nail magazine A nail magazine for use in a power nailing hand tool to hold and feed a rolled belt of nails is constructed to include a casing, a magazine shaft vertically disposed inside the casing at the center, the magazine shaft having an upright shaft at the center inside the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036706 | Stapler apparatus The present invention is to provide a staple cartridge that can offset any discrepancies when mounting a staple cartridge, even if staples are slightly offset to check the occurrence of stapling defects. The staple cartridge 100 of the holding means 200 | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021514 | Apparatus and method to indicate required compressor pressure for use with pneumatic tool device An apparatus which enables a user of a pneumatic tool device, such as a nail gun, to determine the required compressor pressure needed to most effectively utilize the pneumatic tool device and maximize the life of the tool. A compressor pressure indication assembly ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014091 | Stapler apparatus A stapler apparatus includes a fixed frame, a movable frame pivotably mounted to the fixed frame, a staple driving device, and a staple bending device to bend the staples. A drive mechanism reciprocally moves the movable frame with respect to the fixed frame to clam... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997367 | Hand-held nailing tool A handy electric nailing gun includes a firing pin, a firing spring for pushing the firing pin to drive nails into workpiece, an output gear rotatable by a motor through a transmission gear set to retract the firing pin during the first half run of each rotation cyc... | 02/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6964362 | Shock-absorbing system for fastener driving tools A combustion chamber assembly for use in a combustion-powered fastener driving tool, includes a cylinder body, a reciprocating probe assembly slidably disposed relative to the cylinder body between a first, extended position and a second, retracted position, and at ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6948224 | Automatic stapling method and stapler An automatic stapling apparatus and method is disclosed which may have a stapling mechanism moved by a stapler engaging mechanism into a stapling position in relation to a stack of sheets to be stapled, inserted through a stack insertion opening, and adapted to stap... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935547 | Stapler apparatus A stapler apparatus includes a staple driving member to drive staples into a sheet bundle and being reciprocally supported on a frame. The staple driving member is configured to engage and drive staples. A cam member is interlocked to the staple driving member to re... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6926185 | Working station A device for executing a number of actions, such as driving in nails, on a planar section, for example a wall element, for fixing a covering panel or the like on the planar section. A carriage is displaceable longitudinally over the planar section. A number of the a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926186 | Fastener insertion device A fastener insertion device includes an actuator that is either pneumatic or manually operated. The fastener insertion device is illustratively configured to receive either a staple magazine or a stake magazine. The stake magazine can house stakes of different dimen... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6918524 | Staple attracting member for attracting jammed staples A staple storage unit (10/20) allows the effective and easy removal of jammed staples (200) from the inside of the apparatus (100) by attracting jammed staples to the staple storage unit. The staple storage unit can be removed from the stapler a... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6899325 | Method and device for precisely aligning a product to be stapled in relation to a stapling device and gatherer stapler A method for precisely aligning a product to be stapled in relation to a stapling device in a gatherer stapler, includes the steps of determining an exact position of the product to be stapled, comparing the determined position with an expected position of the produ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6814272 | Nailing machine A nailing machine for pallets, comprises nailing grippers supported by a beam which is controllably movable in a vertical plane and includes feeding bins for feeding nails to the grippers, with a plurality of gripper holding beams movable in a vertical plane, a cent... | 11/09/2004 |
