Patent · US Expired

Setting tool

US6059163A · kind A · utility

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4References
3Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 18, 1999
Grant dateMay 9, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 18, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16F1/377
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A high pressure gas-operated setting tool, and including a driving piston (21, 41, 61, 81) displaceable in a piston guide (7, 27, 47, 67) and having a stem (8, 28, 48, 68) and a head (9, 29, 49, 69), and a return member surrounding the stem (8, 28, 48, 68) and arranged between a stop (17), provided on the piston guide (7, 27, 47, 67) and facing in a direction opposite to a setting direction, and a front, in the setting direction, end face (18, 38, 58, 78) of the head (9, 29, 49, 69), with the return member being formed as a hollow cylindrical structural member of an elastic material and having a plurality of openings (12, 32, 34, 52, 72) which alternate, in a longitudinal direction, with layers of the elastic material.

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