Patent · US Expired

Guide anvil including movable clinching wings for stapler

US5004142A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 23, 1989
Grant dateApr 2, 1991
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Expiry dateJan 23, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB25C5/0207
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An anvil unit for guiding and clinching staples as driven downwardly in a vertical plane in which each staple leg is guided into a guide means in the unit, each guide means lies at an angle to such vertical plane. Communicating with forming a part of each guide means is a slot, at an angle to the vertical plane, with a swingable wing thereon for clinching the staple legs after each has penetrated the workpiece.

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