Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With means to move or guide member into driving position – With means to assure correct orientation of member
Patent
1993-10-04
1994-12-06
Smith, Scott A.
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With means to move or guide member into driving position
With means to assure correct orientation of member
227130, 227136, B25C 104
Patent
active
053702956
ABSTRACT:
In a fastener driving apparatus including a nose piece assembly defining an elongated drive track receiving a fastener driving element therein movable through an operating cycle including a drive stroke and return stroke, and a fastener feeding track communicating laterally with the drive track, an improved mechanism for feeding fasteners from a fastener package into a position to be driven by the fastener driving element during the drive stroke thereof is provided. The feeding mechanism includes an actuating mechanism mounted for movement through an operating cycle including (1) an operative stroke in a direction along the fastener feeding track toward the drive track for feeding fasteners to the drive track and (2) a return stroke. A fastener holding mechanism is also provided and is operatively coupled to the actuating mechanism for movement therewith through the operating cycle thereof, whereby during the operative stroke of the actuating mechanism the fastener holding mechanism holds the fasteners in position biased toward the drive track during at least a portion of the drive stroke so that a leading fastener from the fastener package is disposed in the drive track in position to be contacted by the driving element. The fastener holding mechanism is released from the fasteners during the return stroke of the actuating mechanism, during a portion of operating cycle of the driving element when a fastener need not be held in the drive track.
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Smith Scott A.
Stanley-Bostitch Inc.
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