Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

Peter Von Flue

Theo Gassner

Markus Steffen

A nail retaining strip for feeding nails into a fastening element driving tool where the nails are driven individually out of the tool by a drive piston includes guide bushings for the nails. Adjacent guide bushings are separably interconnected by connecting webs. The guide bushing extends in the axial direction of the nail shank and has axially and circumferentially extending circular guide surfaces for supporting the nails within the muzzle bore of the driving tool. The connecting webs extend radially outwardly from the guide surfaces so that the guide surfaces on adjacent guide bushings are in spaced relation. The connecting webs retain the nails in the axial direction of the muzzle bore by engagement in a receiving recess in the bore located opposite a passage through which the nails are inserted into the bore. Such axial retention permits complete utilization of the nail strip down to and including the last nail.

Nail retaining strip

An explosive powder charge operated tool for driving nails includes a housing with a muzzle part mounted in and projecting axially outwardly from the housing. By moving the muzzle part rearwardly into the housing, the tool is in the ready-to-fire condition. A magazine is supported at one end within the muzzle part and extends generally radially outwardly from it. A slide in the magazine feeds individual nails in a nail strip into the bore in muzzle part into position to be driven by a piston located within the housing. When all of the nails in the strip have been driven from the tool, one end of the strip projects into the muzzle bore. A stop shoulder on the one end of the strip faces toward an end face on the housing and contacts the end face when the muzzle part is pressed into the housing, preventing the placement of the tool in the ready-to-fire condition.

Explosive charge operated tool for fastening elements

An explosive powder charge operated fastening member driving tool has a muzzle part which can be locked within and released and removed from the tool housing by rotational movement and axial movement relative to the housing. When the tool is not ready to be fired, a contact pressure sensor projects from the front end of the muzzle part. By pressing the sensor opposite to the firing direction it compresses a firing mechanism spring and the tool is ready to be fired. Stop elements are provided on the muzzle part and stop surfaces are located on the tool housing. When the muzzle part is in the unlocked condition, the stop elements can abut the stop surfaces and block the displacement of the contact pressure sensor preventing it from compressing the firing spring mechanism so that the driving tool cannot be placed in the ready-to-fire condition.

Explosive powder charge operated fastening member driving tool

In a device for the controlled dispensation of plastic substances from cartridges, the cartridges are mounted in a pressure support removably secured to one end of a hollow cylinder. A piston is slidably displaceable through the cylinder by a pressure medium and, in turn, the piston displaces a pusher rod extending into the pressure support for dispensing the plastic substances. The pressure support is releasably secured to the cylinder by an eccentric shaft located in the one end of the cylinder. By releasing the pressure support, cartridges can be replaced and the piston and the piston rod returned to the starting position.

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Degersheim, Switzerland

Peter Von Flue