Olin Corporation

Harrow Products LLC

Frederick J Harris

Post for a bathroom fixture

Backplate for a bathroom fixture

Design for a backplate for a bathroom fixture

A buffer assembly for use in a piston-type powder-actuated tool, which buffer assembly provides for a longer useful life of the piston. The buffer assembly includes an elastomeric member which is disposed in the bore of the tool barrel, and which is fitted with a metallic cap. The tool barrel and metallic cap combine to control and constrain radial and longitudinal expansion of the elastomeric member, when the latter is impacted by the driven piston. In this manner, extrusion of the elastomeric member is prevented and, at the same time, the piston is prevented from contacting other hardened tool surfaces.

Piston tool buffer assembly

A guidance and retention member, for use with a nail-like fastener of the type adapted to be driven by a powder-actuated tool, comprising an axially elongate, hollow, cylindrical body adapted for telescopic retention on the nose of the fastener and of an even number of flexible, radially extending fins, wherein alternating ones of the fins are of substantially greater radial extent than the fins adjacent thereto. The shorter fins, although nominally of the same thickness as the longer ones, are more rigid by virtue of their lower length-to-thickness ratio and act to limit pre-firing eccentricity of the fastener relative to the tool.

Fastener guidance and retention tip member

The venting of fouled combustion gases from the bore of a piston-type powder actuated fastening tool is provided by forming a gas vent which defines a gas flow path extending through the piston pawl return mechanism mounting to the atmosphere. A gas chamber is provided within the pawl mounting which chamber is vented to the atmosphere. A series of baffles is disposed within the pawl mounting in the gas path to provide for cooling of the hot combustion gases.

Baffled venting of gas from a powder actuated tool

A masonry anchor including a sleeve having one or more protuberances extruded from its sidewall, said sleeve being annealed to a hardness not to exceed a Brinell hardness number of 230 so as to allow said protuberances to deform into a flattened state to increase the overall holding power of said anchor.

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Clinton, CT, United States of America

Frederick J Harris