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Setting tool

US6053388A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 9, 1998
Grant dateApr 25, 2000
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Expiry dateDec 9, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB25C1/14
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A setting tool for driving-in nail-shaped fastening elements into hard constructional components and including a housing (10, 110), a guide cylinder (20, 120) displaceable in the housing (10, 110) in a direction opposite to a setting direction against a spring-biasing force, a drive piston (40, 140) axially displaceable in the guide cylinder (20, 120), and a pivotal resetting element (50, 150) having a first lever arm (51, 151) cooperating with the drive piston (40, 140) for resetting the drive piston (40, 140) to its inoperative position and a second lever arm (152) cooperating with the guide cylinder (20, 120) for displacing the first lever arm (151) in accordance with displacement of the guide cylinder (120).

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