Campbell Hausfeld/scott Fetzer Company

The Scott-fetzer Company

Campbell Hausfeld

Gregory A Kramer

Bobby Lynn Lawrence

Bryan Thomas Humpert

Amy Lynn Miller

Alaric Scott Durr

Elizabeth Ann Gradwohl

Bret M Schneider

Aric S Durr

Daniel John Harty

A nailer incorporates an integrated stud finder for sensing when a stud is present. The nailer has a work contact element and a magazine for storing nails. The stud finder includes a sensor plate coupled to the work contact element of a nailer and a stud sensing circuit coupled to the sensor plate. The stud sensing circuit is provided for reading a capacitance level and for determining whether the sensor plate is positioned adjacent a stud based upon the capacitance level that is read. The stud finder also includes at least one signaling device coupled to the sensor plate for signaling to a user when a stud is present. The sensor plate is coupled to a no mar tip that is tethered to the nailer. A storage post for storing the no mar tip is positioned on the magazine for storing the no mar tip when not in use.

Nailer with integrated stud finder

An fastener driving apparatus has an actuator linked to a work contact element so as to move a trigger plate when the work contact element retracts. A button is movable back and forth along a transverse axis when depressed from its opposite ends. The actuator has a bump mode surface and a sequential mode surface at different locations along the axis, and is moveable transversely back and forth between a bump mode arrangement in which the bump mode surface can move the trigger plate and a sequential mode arrangement in which the sequential mode surface can move the trigger plate. The button is linked to the actuator so as to move the actuator to the bump mode arrangement when depressed from one end, and to move the actuator to the sequential mode arrangement when depressed from the opposite end.

Mode switch for fastener driving tool

Nailer

Tire pressure gauge

An apparatus comprises a gauge for measuring a parameter. The gauge has a sensing section configured to react to exposure to the parameter in a manner indicative of the parameter. The gauge further has a port through which the sensing section is exposed to the parameter. A cap is configured to be removably attached to the gauge such that the cap covers the port to protect the port from damage. The cap has a hole configured to allow coupling of the cap to another device.

Pressure gauge and cap

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Gregory A Kramer