Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With means to support member and/or work relative to driver – Work support
Patent
1993-12-28
1995-10-24
Smith, Scott A.
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With means to support member and/or work relative to driver
Work support
227131, 227134, B27F 717
Patent
active
054603145
ABSTRACT:
A stapler having improved stapling precision is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a stapler has a magazine with a staple driving unit, and a staple clinching unit wherein the magazine and the staple clinching unit are separately disposed. The magazine of the stapler is provided with a actuation linkage and guides which cause the magazine having the staple driving unit to consistently move in a substantially vertical direction with respect to the staple clinching unit, so that a staple driven thereby is driven in a direction substantially perpendicular to sheets of paper to be stapled, regardless of the thickness of the paper. In a variant of the preferred embodiment, the stapler is incorporated in another unit where the stapler is moved from one operating position to another. In order to maintain the alignment of the separately disposed magazine and staple clinching unit, alignment members are provided on either a frame supporting the magazine or a frame supporting the clinching unit, or on both. Accordingly, the present invention improves stapling precision and avoids poor quality stapling, especially due to poor alignment between the staple driving unit and the staple clinching unit.
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Max Co. Ltd.
Smith Scott A.
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