Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Kaoru Ichikawa

Kunio Yamamoto

Akira Uno

Yoshitaka Akiba

Isamu Tanji

Yasunori Ogawa

Masao Hamada

Seki Moriguchi

Sueji Tachihara

The inner surface of a nozzle of a nail driver has a taper in the driving direction near the output nozzle thereof to direct a tip of the nail toward an axis of the nozzle when the tip of the nail contacts with the taper to always drive the nail into a board perpendicularly.

Nail driver

A nose 2 has a recessed portion 4 engageable with the front end of a magazine 3. A through-hole 12 is provided on each side wall of the recessed portion 4 of nose 2. The front end of magazine 3 is formed into a protruding portion 6 just fitting to or coupled into the recessed-portion 4 of nose 2. A through-hole 13 is opened across the protruding portion 6 of magazine 3 so that through-hole 13 meets through-holes 12 opened on the side walls of the recessed portion 4 when the magazine 3 is completely engaged with the nose 2. A pin 16 is inserted into the through-holes 12 and 13 to fix magazine 3 in the recessed portion 4 of nose 2. A resilient member 15 is provided between pin 16 and through-hole 13.

Staple tacker with a striking nose and a staple magazine

A pneumatic nailing machine having a, driving depth controlling mechanism. The pneumatic nailing machine includes a push lever having a lower end in pressure contact with a workpiece and another end in association with a trigger. Vertical moving length of the push lever relative to a nose will change the driving depth. An eccentric body is rotatably supported on the main body. The eccentric body is positioned above the upper tip of the push lever and the upper position of the upper tip of the push lever is regulated by the eccentric body. If the eccentric body is angularly rotated to a first angular position, the push lever can be moved to its highest position for providing a minimum distance between the lower tip of the push lever and a lower tip of the nose to provide the maximum driving depth. If the eccentric body is angularly rotated to a second angular position, the distance between these tips become maximum to provide a minimum driving depth. If the eccentric body is rotated to a third angular position, the trigger is abuttable on the upper tip of the push lever for preventing pivotal movement of the trigger.

Adjustment mechanism for adjusting depth at which pneumatic nailing

A driving machine having a cylinder fixing arrangement. The driving machine is used for driving a fastener such as a nail into a workpiece. For this, a cylinder-piston arrangement is provided. When the piston is driven to drive the fastener a reaction force is applied to the cylinder. To avoid displacement of the cylinder due to the reaction force, the cylinder fixing arrangement is provided. The fixing arrangement includes a detachable stop washer secured in an annular groove of the cylinder. The stop washer is partly engaged with a flange of the cylinder to prevent the cylinder from its upward displacement. Inner diametrical differences are provided in the cylinder at the position around the stop washer.

Driving machine having cylinder fixing arrangement

Portable pneumatic nailer

A pneumatic fastener driving tool includes a main valve operable to cause compressed air to be alternately introduced into and discharged from the upper piston chamber, a first passage leading the compressed air into the main valve chamber, a repeat valve disposed in the first passage for opening and closing the same, and a second passage extending between the lower piston chamber and a repeat valve chamber in which the repeat valve is reciprocably received. With this construction, the repeat valve is reciprocally movable in response to a change of pressure in the lower piston chamber to cause the main valve to reciprocate, thereby reciprocating the piston repeatedly. Since the reciprocating fastener driving movement of the piston is directly related to the reciprocating movement of the repeat valve, the fastener driving work can be achieved reliably without causing any operational failure such as a non-load striking.

Pneumatic fastener driving tool

A power-driven hand-held fastener driving machine includes a housing including a reciprocally movable blade, a magazine for carrying a strip of fasteners such as staples, and a guide assembly composed of first and second guides defining a drive track therebetween. A safety device is actuatable in response to being pressed against a workpiece for depressing a switch means to move the blade for driving fasteners one at a time into the workpiece. The safety device is composed of first and second separate members, the first member being engageable with the switch means and the second member being angularly movable into and out of engagement with the first member and engageable with the workpiece. When the second member is out of engagement with the first member, the first member will not actuate the switch means to prevent accidental driving of the blade. A guide locking device keeps the first and second guides together, and, when unlocked, allows the second guide to be angularly moved away from the first guide to open the drive track.

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Kaoru Ichikawa