Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

Michael Melocco

Kai-Uwe Keller

Mario Scalet

Anton Hirtl

Sybille Renner

A setting tool includes a sleeve-shaped housing (), a piston guide () and an ignition unit () located in the housing (), with the ignition unit () having a cartridge chamber bottom () for enclosing a propellant () in cartridge chamber (), which is located between the piston guide () and the ignition unit () and a locking device () having a locking position () in which the ignition unit () is held in a pre-loaded position () against an energy accumulator () and in which the cartridge chamber () remains open, and having a release position () in which the ignition unit () is displaced to its ignition position () by the energy accumulator in which the cartridge chamber bottom () closes the cartridge chamber ().

Setting tool

A high-pressure gas operated setting tool including a piston guide (7), a driving piston (21) axially displaceable in the piston guide (7) and formed of a head (9) and a stem (8), and a deformable member surrounding the stem (8) and extending between a stop (17), provided in a front, in the setting direction, end portion of the piston guide (7) and a front, in the setting direction end surface of the head (9), the deformable member (11) having a substantially closed cellular structure.

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Mettlach, Germany

Michael Melocco