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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7784561 | Ground drilling hammer and the driving method Disclosed herein is a pneumatic operated hammer for rock drilling, the hammer comprising a cylindrical casing, a back head mounted at an upper portion of the casing, a check valve for opening/closing a compressed air passageway in the casing, a guide for supporting ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7677325 | Pneumatic tool The invention of this application provides a pneumatic tool with a simple structure. The tool has a tubular housing, a stationary shaft, a first piston slidable along the stationary shaft, a second piston, a tool attachment member drivingly connected to the second p... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7426965 | Power transmission unit of an impactor, a hydraulic jet impactor and the application thereof The invention discloses a fluid-driven impactor, a power transmission mechanism for the impactor and the use of the impactor. In the prior art, the working life of the impactor is short, since a rubber primary seal and an upper fluid-diverging lid for the fluid-driv... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7350592 | Hammer drill with camming hammer drive mechanism A reciprocating drive mechanism for a striker in a hammer, a rotary hammer, or a power drill having a hammer action, includes a sinusoidal cam channel formed on a drive member and a cam follower, in the form of a ball bearing, attached to a driven member which, due ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7331408 | Power tool housing A transmission housing for a hammer drill comprises two clamshell halves and that mate to define a first transmission housing chamber and a second transmission housing chamber disposed on either side of a ball bearing race. The first and second transmission housing ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7252155 | Percussive power tool with flushing head A power tool (1) having a striking means (5), by which a percussive tool (2) that can be driven at least partially along an axis (A) struck directly and having a flushing bore (4) extending at least partially longitudinally through a tool... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7191847 | Drive for a motor-driven hand-held tool A drive for a motor-driven hand-held tool includes a motor (17) and a gear mechanism (20) for converting a rotational movement of the motor (17) into a reciprocating movement of the reciprocating drive element (30) for a working tool, wit... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7152692 | Hydraulic hammer having a sealing bushing A hydraulic hammer having a sealing bushing includes a percussion piston that delivers strokes to a tool. A lower part of the percussion piston is sealed with respect to a frame by the sealing bushing, which includes one or more lower seals. The sealing bushing does... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140450 | Percussion tool A percussion tool is described and which includes a housing mounting a tool bit; a reciprocally moveable hammer borne by the housing and which is operable to repeatedly strike the tool bit; and a reciprocally moveable piston enclosed within the hammer and which impa... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7048076 | Percussion electrical hand held tool An electrical hand-held tool includes an electric motor (2) having a rotor shaft (3) extending transverse to the tool percussion axis (A), a rotor sheet stack (4) supported on the rotor shaft, and a pinion (5) supported on the rotor shaft... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040413 | Hand power tool with a pneumatic striking mechanism The striking mechanism has a hammer barrel (3), which has at least one control opening (23) through which, in an idle position, the air can escape from the hammer barrel (3), and which in a striking position is closed by a covering (25) t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6938704 | Pneumatic percussive tool with a movement frequency controlled idling position The invention relates to a pneumatic percussive tool for a paving breaker and/or a hammer drill comprising a drive piston which is displaceable both backwards and forwards by a crankshaft and arranged in a percussion piston which is displaceable both backwards and f... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6913089 | Hammer An electrically powered hammer comprising a hollow cylindrical spindle mounted within a housing. A portion of the spindle is formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes and a corresponding number of peg elements are fitted to the spindle, such that eac... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6913088 | Hammer drill and /or percussion hammer with no-load operation control that depends on application pressure A percussion hammer drill and/or percussion hammer that can be guided by a handgrip comprises a pneumatic spring striking mechanism with a reciprocating drive piston and with a percussion piston that can be operated by the drive piston. A cavity for accommodating a ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907942 | Percussion tool In a percussion tool such as an electric hammer or a hammer drill in which the axial direction of a motor 8 is substantially perpendicular to that of a tool bit 1 attached to a tool holder 2, a motor housing 3 is made of a hard material s... | 06/21/2005 |
| 5161623 | Percussion device The percussion device which can be used as a hammer drill has a drive piston for driving an overhung percussion piston which is mounted between two air cushions. Depending on the percussion travel of the percussion piston, the percussion air cushion is re... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5111890 | Hammer drill A power hammer drill includes a tool holder and an air cushion striking mechanism for driving a tool and including a striker, a reciprocating piston for displacing the striker, and an axially displaceable guide tube for guiding the piston. A device for ho... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4936393 | Pneumatic tool A pneumatic percussion tool for rock breaking and other purposes having removably enclosed within an outer casing a pneumatic engine including a cylinder with a work head extending slidably from its lower end, a piston slidable in the cylinder impacting t... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4932479 | Vacuum-compression type percussion power tool with a pumping chamber A vacuum-compression type percussion power tool comprises a housing (12), a cylinder (14) fixed in the housing, a piston (16) reciprocating in the cylinder (14) from a reciprocating drive mechanism such as a crank mechanism (18) driven by an electric moto... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4828046 | Vacuum-compression type percussion power tool with an auxiliary chamber A vacuum-compression type percussion power tool comprising a housing (12), a cylinder (14) fixed in the housing, a piston (16) reciprocating in the cylinder (14) from a reciprocating drive mechanism such as a crank mechanism (18) driven by an electric mot... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4823886 | Vacuum-compression type percussion power tool A vacuum-compression type percussion power tool comprising a housing (12), a cylinder (14) fixed in the housing, a piston (16) reciprocating in the cylinder (14) from a reciprocating drive mechanism such as a crank mechanism (18) driven by an electric mot... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4798249 | Lockable striking mechanism for hammer drill In a hammer drill, a striking mechanism supplied percussive force to a tool. The striking mechanism includes a free piston slidably displaceable in a reciprocating manner within a guide cylinder. Balls mounted in the guide cylinder are spring biased into ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4690225 | Percussive tool A percussive tool comprises a percussion mechanism and a pressure pulser. The percussion mechanism has a hollow housing with a piston hammer arranged thereinside to form two chambers of variable volume. The pressure pulser has a hollow housing and a fluid... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4658913 | Hydropneumatic percussive tool A vibration or reciprocating hydraulically driven impact tool for breaking up paving, compacting soil, or similar construction purposes. The tool employs a piston situated in a housing and configured to form (in cooperation with the housing) three chamber... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4582144 | Percussive tools Disclosed herein is a percussive tool having a piston and a ram slidably mounted within a cylinder which is axially displaceable. An air chamber is defined in front of the ram, and the cylinder has exhaust openings formed therein. With the cylinder in its... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4222443 | Motor-driven hammer drill In a hammer drill, a drive piston is reciprocated by a motor, and, over a pneumatic buffer, the reciprocating motion is transmitted to a percussion piston. A throttle valve regulates the flow of a fuel mixture to the motor for controlling its operation. A... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4064949 | Electropneumatic hammer In an electropneumatic hammer including an exciter piston and a percussion piston reciprocally displaceable within the bore of a guide cylinder, a sleeve-like clamping member is secured in an axially stationary position within the bore of the guide cylind... | 12/27/1977 |
| 3973633 | Hammer device A hammer mechanism is disclosed, which incorporates a hammer piston driven by a driving piston via a pressure-gas cushion in a working chamber. The hammer piston controls the transference of flushing gas from the working chamber to the tool during normal ... | 08/10/1976 |