Elongated-member-driving apparatus inventions 08/06

20060191971 - Nail restrainer and a nailing machine equipped with said restrainer: An improved nail restrainer for a nailing machine comprises a nose located in the front of the nailing machine and a nose cover coupled with the nose. In the nose, there are formed a through hole allowing staples or straight nails to pass therethrough and a guiding groove allowing the...

20060191972 - Spring energized desktop stapler: A desktop stapler includes an automatic opening staple track whereby when the stapler is opened by pivoting the body about the base, the track is de-latched by ribs of the base, and the track slides out from a chamber within the body. The stapler includes a track alignment system that...

20060191973 - Nail stopper for a skew nailing gun: The present invention relates to a nail stopper for a skew nailing gun that is applicable to different types of skew nail, at a top end of the nailing groove on the muzzle of a nailing gun is formed a arc-shaped guiding groove correspondingly to the sharp end of various...

20060191974 - Surgical stapler: A surgical stapler has a body capable of containing a plurality of staples in an aligned state; a ram provided inside said body, having a central concave portion and pressure armatures on both sides of the concave portion; an anvil that, when the armatures of said ram contact both sides...

20060191975 - Method and device for full thickness resectioning of an organ: Describeed is a full-thickness resection system which includes a control unit coupled to a proximal end of a flexible endoscope. The control unit remains outside of a body when the stapling head is in an operative position within a body lumen. The control unit includes (i) an anvil actuator coupled...

20060186166 - Combustion-type power tool: A combustion-type power tool includes a cylinder, a piston, a head, a combustion chamber frame, an ignition unit, a trigger, a control member. The combustion chamber frame is abuttable on the head to provide a combustion chamber in cooperation with the head and the piston. The trigger is operated by...

20060186165 - Combustion-type power tool having ignition proof arrangement: In the combustion-type power tool, a first shelter wall and a second shelter wall are disposed to partially surround an area between an ignition plug and an ignition ground. Two gaps are provided between the first and second shelter walls. The first shelter wall extends radially outwardly from an outer...

20060186167 - Manually actuated fastener driver with fastener cap reservoir and advancement mechanism: The invention provides a manually actuated fastener driver device having a fastener cap reservoir disposed in proximity to the driver of the device and a cap advancement mechanism. Upon each actuation, the device delivers a cap and fastener to a work surface, for example, during the attachment of a sheet-like...

20060186168 - Stapler: A driver 12 is provided so that it can move up and down, and a C-shaped leading-end staple of sheet-shaped connected-staples 1 is pressed to a guide surface 15 by a pusher 13 so as to be opposed to a leading end of the driver 12. The pusher 13 includes...

20060186170 - Stapler safety device to limit motion of striker: A safety mechanism to prevent unintended ejection of a staple or fastener in a stapler or fastening tool. A low-start version of the stapler has a handle that when pressed pivots a lever which lifts a striker and energizes a power spring. At the release point, the striker is released...

20060186169 - Stapler safety guard: A stapler or like self-powered tool for dispensing and driving fasteners includes a safety mechanism to prevent unintended ejection of a staple or fastener. A movable hook normally obstructs the path of a staple so that the staple is intercepted and stopped as a spring-biased striker ejects the staple from...

20060186171 - Nail advancement systems for nail arrays disposed within nailing tool magazines: Fastener-advancement systems comprise a multiple lever and linkage mechanically operated system operatively connected to the driver blade member of the fastener driving tool, as well as electro-mechanically operated systems, for advancing a leading fastener of a collated strip of fasteners into the driver blade channel of the fastener-driving tool. In...

20060180628 - Nailing machine with a safety mechanism: The nailing machine with safety mechanism is located between fastener and nailing part of nailing machine. The safety mechanism includes an adjustable shelf, which shifts recurrently within a limited range. The first end of adjustable shelf is linked to the fastener, and second end extends towards nailing part. One side...

20060180629 - Close connection device of lid for a used-nail cylinder of a rivet gun: A close connection device of lid for a used-nail cylinder of a rivet gun, in which rear end of the body portion of the rivet gun is mounted with a used-nail cylinder, and the used-nail cylinder has an outer lid, which has a cylinder-shaped stub furnished with a ring groove...

20060180630 - Intake distributing device of a rivet-nut gun: An intake distributing device of a rivet-nut gun, which comprises a body shell with two intake passages underneath; the center cylindrical hole of the body shell is mounted with a pneumatic motor assembly; the rear end of the body shell is mounted with a tail lid, which has two intake...

20060180631 - Electric motor driven energy storage device for impacting: A portable electric fastening tool operating from a power supply. The motor moves a piston which compresses air against a sealed chamber. The piston is coupled to a fastener impacting anvil and is released after sufficient energy is stored in the air chamber. The air energetically expands pushing the piston...

20060180632 - Pneumatically operated power tool having mechanism for changing compressed air pressure: A pneumatically operated power tool such as a screw driver, a nail gun and an impact wrench those being driven by a pneumatic pressure. A pressure reduction valve is provided between a connector connected to a compressor and a compressed air chamber defined in an outer frame of the power...

20060180633 - Surgical staple: A surgical staple is provided which includes a first leg having a distal end portion and a proximal end, a second leg having a distal end portion and a proximal end and a bridge member interconnecting the proximal ends of the first and second legs. In accordance with the present...

20060180634 - Surgical stapling instrument incorporating an e-beam firing mechanism: A surgical severing and stapling instrument clamps, suitable for laparoscopic and endoscopic clinical procedures, clamps tissue within an end effector of an elongate channel pivotally opposed by an anvil. An E-beam firing bar moves distally through the clamped end effector to sever tissue and to drive staples on each side...

20060175373 - Combustion-engined setting tool: A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes a guide cylinder (12), adjoining the combustion chamber (14) and in which a setting piston (11) is displaceable, a press-on element (30), and a transmission device for connecting the press-on element (30) with the combustion chamber rear...

20060175374 - Combustion-engined setting tool: A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component, includes a guide cylinder (12), a setting piston (11) displaceable in the guide cylinder (12), a combustion chamber sleeve (15) displaceably arranged at the first axial end (27) of the guide cylinder (12), a press-on element (30) supported...

20060175375 - Surgical stapling instrument incorporating a multi-stroke firing mechanism with return spring rotary manual retraction system: A surgical stapling and severing instrument particularly suited to endoscopic procedures incorporates a handle that produces separate closing and firing motions to actuate an end effector. In particular, the handle produces multiple firing strokes in order to reduce the required amount of force required to fire (i.e., staple and sever)...

20060169735 - Brake devicefor de-actuating a nail driver without nails therein: A braking unit for nail drivers, mainly a rotary retaining unit pivotally mounted on lateral sides of a punch channel of a nail driver, comprises a front blocking portion, a first cam, a second cam and a handle portion. The first cam is engaged with the securing slide rod so...

20060169736 - Nail driver bumper: A nail driver bumper comprises an inner pad and an outer pad which are made of heat-resisting elastomer material. A plurality of axial ribs is arranged between the inner pad and the outer pad. An axial slot is formed between two adjacent axial ribs. A top of each axial slot...

20060169737 - Positionoing device for electric nailers: A positioning device for an electric nailer which comprises a case which is movably received in a barrel composed of two side walls. A driving member is received in the case and includes two disks on two ends of a shaft. Each disk has a plurality of teeth extending radially...

20060169738 - Power-driven mailing machine: In a power-driven nailing machine for driving a nail disposed within a discharge port 7 of a nose body 6 into a work, a contact nose 13 giving a leading end discharge port 12 for guiding the nail driven from a discharge port 7 of the nose body 6 toward...