Contact trip assembly for fastening tool

US6705501B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BLACK & DECKER INC. · US

Inventors

• Keven E. Miller · Wyoming, US
• Glen V. Steinbrunner · Bel Air, US
• Michael P. Baron · Phoenix, US
• Robert A. Berry · Fincastle, US
• Paul G. Gross · White Marsh, US
• Craig A. Schell · Baltimore, US
• C. Kerwin Braddock · Cincinnati, US
• Charles L. Bradenbaugh, IV · York, US
• William D. Sauerwein · Joppatowne, US
• John Funicello · Palm Bay, US
• James R. Niblett · Columbia, US
• Andrzej R. Wojcicki · Rosedale, US
• Adan Ayala · Owings Mills, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 22, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 16, 2004
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B25C1/008
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fastening tool including a housing, a magazine connected to the housing for storing a fastener, a driving mechanism disposed within the housing for driving the fastener into a workpiece, a trigger assembly pivotally attached to the housing for activating the driving mechanism, the trigger assembly comprising a main trigger, pivotally attached to the housing and a supplemental trigger pivotally attached to the main trigger; and a contact trip assembly comprising an upper contact trip contacting the supplemental trigger, a lower contact trip connected to the upper contact trip, wherein the upper and lower contact trips have teeth that mesh together for locking the upper and lower contact trips.