EP0510351A2 - Outil d'enfoncement d'attaches - Google Patents

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EP0510351A2
EP0510351A2 EP92104549A EP92104549A EP0510351A2 EP 0510351 A2 EP0510351 A2 EP 0510351A2 EP 92104549 A EP92104549 A EP 92104549A EP 92104549 A EP92104549 A EP 92104549A EP 0510351 A2 EP0510351 A2 EP 0510351A2
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Martin Hölzel
Manfred Dipl.-Ing. Buck
Karl Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wanner
Wolfgang Dipl.-Ing. Schmid
Siegfried Fehrle
Klaus Dietz
Klaus Kleyer
Wilfried Dipl.-Ing. Kabatnik (Fh)
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25C—HAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C5/00—Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor
    • B25C5/16—Staple-feeding devices, e.g. with feeding means, supports for staples or accessories concerning feeding devices
    • B25C5/1696—Staple support displaceable relative to the tool to allow re-loading
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25C—HAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C5/00—Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor
    • B25C5/16—Staple-feeding devices, e.g. with feeding means, supports for staples or accessories concerning feeding devices
    • B25C5/1637—Supports for the staples being fed
    • B25C5/1641—Supports for the staples being fed allowing the feeding of a variety of elements
    • B25C5/1644—Supports for the staples being fed allowing the feeding of a variety of elements of different shapes
    • B25C5/1651—Supports for the staples being fed allowing the feeding of a variety of elements of different shapes of T-shaped staples or nails
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25C—HAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C5/00—Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor
    • B25C5/16—Staple-feeding devices, e.g. with feeding means, supports for staples or accessories concerning feeding devices
    • B25C5/1637—Supports for the staples being fed
    • B25C5/1641—Supports for the staples being fed allowing the feeding of a variety of elements
    • B25C5/1658—Supports for the staples being fed allowing the feeding of a variety of elements of different sizes of staples

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  • the invention is based on a driving tool according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such devices are very susceptible to malfunctions in the event of insufficient dimensional accuracy or wear of the firing channel. It is easy for staples to jam.
  • the devices therefore require a high degree of dimensional accuracy and manufacturing precision and usually only allow the use of a certain type of tack in the same shot channel.
  • From DE-PS 35 00 279 a generic wrapping device is known, with which two slightly different U-shaped staple types can be processed in their back width.
  • the magazine cannot be used for narrow and long staples made of stronger wire or for nails.
  • the device has a mouth that is too short for use in inaccessible places.
  • the driving tool according to the invention with the characterizing features of claim 1 has the advantage that it is user-friendly and universally applicable and at the same time high Functional reliability guaranteed. In particular, it is also easily possible to look up stapling materials that have not been fully driven in. In addition, the precise manufacture of the magazine in particular is simple and easy to assemble.
  • the device enables easy filling of the magazine with staples of very different widths and with nails. Wide brackets are more suitable for fastening foils, upholstery, fabrics etc. and for furniture. Long, narrow staples with thicker wire are preferred for panels, ceilings, profiled wood and packaging wood.
  • a one-piece curved tacking slide according to claim 7 simplifies manufacture and assembly.
  • a one-sided from the outside movable bar according to claim 8 serves as an insertion aid for narrow brackets and as a lateral guide for nails and pens.
  • the arrangement of a tension spring leads to a pressing force on the tacking means which remains largely independent of the filling level of the magazine.
  • a end plate or scraper plate profiled according to the dimensions of the stapling means prevents malfunctions due to inclined or jammed stapling means in the firing channel; this applies in particular to narrow brackets.
  • the detachable end plate has the further advantage that the magazine is easy to manufacture, assemble and service.
  • FIG. 1 shows a partially sectioned overall view of a driving tool and FIG. 2 shows a longitudinal section through a magazine
  • FIG. 3 shows a cross section through the magazine according to line III in FIG. 2
  • FIG. 4 shows a stripping plate as a detail
  • FIG. 5 shows a cross section according to line V in FIG. 2
  • FIG. 6 shows a longitudinal section through the firing channel.
  • Figure 7 shows a view of an end plate.
  • a driving tool has in a housing 1 a shock knife 2, which is driven in particular by a current-carrying coil and is guided in a firing channel 3.
  • the firing channel 3 extends into a magazine 4 and ends in a land-stretched mouth 5.
  • the magazine 4 is mounted at the front near the firing channel 3 in an elongated hole 7, which is penetrated by a pin 8 fixed to the housing, with limited vertical movement.
  • the magazine 4 is connected to the housing 1 so that it can rotate about a horizontal axis 9.
  • the magazine 4 consists essentially of a U-shaped, downwardly open jacket 11 and a slider 12 engaging therein, which will be described later with reference to FIG. 3.
  • the jacket 11 has in one of its flanks 13 a longitudinal slot 14 which is penetrated by a handle 15.
  • the handle 15 is connected to a bar 16 which is displaceable within the casing 11.
  • the strip 16 constricts the interior of the magazine 4 in a partial area and can be designed as a sheet metal part or as a plastic-steel composite part.
  • the upper middle part 17 of the casing 11, which connects the flanks 13, has a narrow slot 18.
  • the magazine 4 has latching locking parts 19 (not shown in more detail) for fixing the slide 12.
  • the magazine 4 is delimited by a U-shaped jacket end 21 attached to the flanks of the jacket 11 and encompassing the firing channel 3.
  • the jacket end 21 forms a quiver running in the direction of the firing channel 3 for inserting an end plate 22 in which the stapling means 23 to be processed are guided. This will be described in more detail later with reference to FIG. 5.
  • the end plate is held by a spring clip 24.
  • a retaining pin 25 is fastened to the spring clip 24 or beads or tabs are formed on the spring clip 24, which engage in a recess 26 on the end plate 22 (cf. FIG. 2).
  • the spring clip 24 is hooked onto the jacket end 21.
  • Support flaps 28 are bent away from the jacket face 21 below the flanks and engage around the slide 12 and fix it in its vertical position (see FIG. 1).
  • the slide 12 itself has a base plate 30, on which a one-piece guide rail 31 for guiding the stapling means 23 is fastened in the middle, for example welded on.
  • the guide rail 31 designed as a bent sheet metal profile is preferably about 4 millimeters wide, so that staples 32 of the back width can be guided thereon 4 millimeters.
  • the guide rail has in the upper area an indentation 33, in which the heads of nails 34 to be processed find space.
  • the guide rail 31 is fastened to the base plate 30 with its bent feet 35.
  • a guide tab 36 extends from the bent feet 35 upward.
  • the guide tabs 36 guide the jacket 11 laterally on its flanks 13.
  • a stripping plate 39 engages in the inside hollow guide rail 31 from below through a slot 37 in the base plate 30.
  • the scraper plate 39 contains all adhesive shear edges, outlet slopes and guide surfaces. The metal injection molding technique eliminates the need for expensive machining.
  • the bracing plate 39 shown in more detail in FIG. 4 consists of an angle piece 40 which delimits the mouth 5 of the weft channel 3 with its one leg 41. With its second leg 42, which is angled by 90 °, the angle piece 40 bears against the base plate 30 of the slide 12.
  • a tongue 43 which extends in the longitudinal direction of the magazine and extends into the open guide rail 31 and fills it out, extends centrally and at right angles from the leg 42.
  • the stripping plate 39 is firmly connected to both the base plate and the guide rail 31, for example by welding. Because of the large supporting surfaces, this ensures that the wiper plate 39 is mounted at an angle relative to the slide 12, with reworking of the leg 41 delimiting the firing channel 3. Because of the solid connection of the scraper plate 39 and slide 12, a long mouth 5 is possible.
  • the stripping plate 39 forms, together with the end plate 22, a hardened firing channel 3.
  • the magazine parts, slide 12 and jacket 21, 11 can remain unhardened. This prevents major warping problems when hardening the long sheet metal parts.
  • the spring clip 24 serves as a hard latching edge for the latching spring mounted in the housing 1.
  • FIG. 3 three different types of stapling means 23 are shown for illustration. It can be seen that, in addition to the narrow staples 32 and the nails 34, wide staples 45 with a back width of, for example, 10 mm can also be guided in the magazine 4. The legs of the staples 45 rest directly on the flanks 13 of the jacket 11. The bar 16 constricting the space between the jacket 11 and the guide rail 31 is required as an insert half for narrow clamps and for holding the nails 34. It therefore remains in the rear position shown in FIG. 2 when processing wide staples.
  • a one-piece tacking slide 46 is guided on the guide rail 31.
  • This consists of a sheet metal profile with a cross section in the shape of the narrow staple 32.
  • the stapling slide 46 similar to the guide rail 31, is bent sideways and then upwards again, forming flaps 44, around a contact surface 47 on the legs of the wide ones To form staples 45.
  • the stitching slide 46 has a tab 48 with an integrally formed hook 49 which extends through the slot 18 and which is upward away from the guide rail 31. When the magazine is empty, the tab 48 of the stapling slide 46 comes to rest on the front edge of the slot 18 made in the magazine jacket 11.
  • the tab 48 is attached to the rear end of the particularly long stitching slide 46. As a result, the slot 18 comes out of the filling space when the magazine is open lie. This means that it is avoided that tack (individual staples, nails or pens) can fall into the space between the magazine jacket 11 and the housing base.
  • the flap 48 passes through the slot 18 of the casing 11 and a slot 50 on a bracket 51 connected to the slide 12.
  • the bracket 51 is detachably connected to the slide 12 for assembly and disassembly purposes.
  • the bracket 51 carries at its front end facing the firing channel 3 a deflecting roller 52 and a hook approximately in its central region.
  • a tension spring 53 is suspended in the two hooks on the tacking slide 46 and the bracket 51 and looped around the deflection roller 52. It thus exerts a pull on the tack slide 46 in the direction of the firing channel 3; this forces the stapling means 23 into the firing channel.
  • the bracket 51 takes the tacking slide 46 with it, so that the filling opening for inserting tacking materials is freely accessible.
  • the firing channel 3 is delimited in the area in which stapling agents are guided by the profiled end plate 22 (cf. FIG. 5).
  • the end plate 22 is profiled in such a way that the firing channel 3, seen in the longitudinal direction of the magazine, is formed lower in the central region than in the peripheral regions.
  • the end plate 22 has a first pair of lateral guide surfaces 55, on which the legs of the wide staples 45 are guided over their entire leg width.
  • the legs of the narrower staples 32 are wider than those of the wide-backed staples 45.
  • the face plate 22 has a recessed second pair of guide surfaces 56 which delimit a guide groove 54 and serve at least part of the width of the legs of the narrow clamps 32 for contact.
  • a third pair of guide surfaces 57 are provided, which in turn guide the part of the heads of the nails 34 that is the width of the narrower staples tower over.
  • Three steps or two steps are formed in the end plate 22, since on this side the guide surface 56 merges into the guide surface 57 without a step. In this way, all of the stapling means 23 to be processed are guided laterally in a single end plate 22.
  • the guide groove 54 delimited by the two guide surfaces 56 is made deeper than the wire thickness of the clamps 32 would require. So that the clamps 32 leave the firing channel 3 in this advanced position during the driving-in process, the leg 41 is provided with a small guide rib 58, the height of which corresponds exactly to the lowering of the guide channel.
  • the guide rib 58 is designed so that it deforms the back of the wide brackets 45 as little as possible and does not damage it. For this reason, the guide rib 58 is narrow and only provided with a widening 59 at the end of the mouth 5. In the area of the widening 59, the guide surfaces 55 for the wide brackets 45 are widened, so that the wide brackets are guided over the last millimeters of the driving-in process without bending the back.
  • edges of the guide surfaces 56 and 57 is decisive for the driving result of narrow clamps 32 and nails 34 and the service life of the profiled end plate 32: they should be as sharp as possible. Since this can only be achieved very cost-intensively with conventional manufacturing processes, sintered parts have been tried with great success.
  • the guide surfaces 56, 57 do not have to run parallel, they can advantageously be funnel-shaped.
  • the sintered material can be soaked in oil, which further reduces wear.

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