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Cartridge setting tool

US6123243A · kind A · utility

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8Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 15, 1998
Grant dateSep 26, 2000
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Expiry dateDec 15, 2018

Classification

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

Abstract

A high pressure gas operated setting tool and including guide cylinder, a fastening element guide (6) arranged, in a setting direction, in front of the guide cylinder and axially displaceable against a spring-biasing force in a direction opposite to the setting direction by a maximum amount (S), a drive piston (8) axially displaceable in the guide cylinder, a return device for displacing the drive piston to its ignition-ready position, and an elastic resetting element (9), surrounding the stem (82) of the drive piston and extending between the stop (73) of the guide cylinder (7) and a front, in the setting direction, end surface of the drive piston head (81), the resetting element (9) having a length corresponding at least to a maximum distance (A) between the stop (73) and the front end surface (83) of the drive piston head (81) reduced by the amount of the axial displacement of the fastening element guide (6).

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