Duo-fast Corporation

Raymond F Novak

Richard H Doyle

Bernard W Geist

Edmund Frank

Ernest F Schaudek

Salvatore L Morabito

Andrew I Yohana

Chester A Berry

A pneumatic fastener driving tool includes a return system for efficiently and rapidly returning a drive piston to the static position and effecting a fastener feeding operation. A housing defines a pressure fluid reservoir connected by a pneumatic control system to a first side of a drive piston to move a driver blade through a drive track in a drive stroke. A pressure fluid actuated fastener feed assembly advances fasteners along a feed path to the drive track. Following a drive stroke, the return system connects the reservoir to the second side of the drive piston for moving the drive piston and driver blade in a return stroke. The return system also connects the reservoir to the fastener feeding assembly for feeding of a fastener. The return system includes two separate return valves operable at different flow capacities and fluid pressures for drive piston return and for fastener feeding.

Fastener driving tool

A tool for driving uncollated nails includes a tool body with a nose portion defining a drive track wherein a driver blade moves in drive and return strokes. A magazine carried by the body supports a row of nails, and a pusher urges the nails along a feed path toward the drive track. The magazine is adjustable for tailoring the feed path width to the nail size. Individual nails are advanced from the magazine to a drive position in the drive track by an escapement mechanism operated in timed relationship with the driver blade, and an advanced nail is held in the drive position by a magnet assembly supported by the tool nose portion. Nails are positively advanced and are properly oriented by the escapement mechanism independently of the number of nails, the pusher force, or other conditions in the magazine. The tool magazine is quickly and conveniently loaded with nails supplied in an oriented condition from a loading chute. The loading operation is automatic in response to engagement of the magazine with the chute, and does not require awkward manipulation of the pusher. Coupling members on the magazine and on the chute are mated by means of ramp and guide structures. In the mated position, stops in the nail path are opened to permit nails to slide from the chute into the magazine.

An electric nailer includes a body and a fastener magazine pivotally connected thereto. The nailer also includes a switch for energizing the nailer that is engagable by a safety to prevent actuation. The safety is moved out of engagement with the switch upon pivoting of the magazine. The magazine includes a pusher assembly defined in part by portions of an elongated tube joined together to define a gap. A pusher is slideably mounted within the gap and biased to push fasteners toward the nose of the nailer. The magazine also includes a fastener track that includes a reduced portion and an enlarged portion to accommodate fasteners of different sizes. A shoe may be releasably attached to the bottom portion of the magazine and in one embodiment is V-shaped including a raised portion at one end. In another embodiment the shoe has a flat workpiece engagement portion.

Electric fastener driving tool

A tool for driving fasteners includes a housing defining a handle portion and a nose portion. A driver is reciprocally mounted within the housing as is an assembly for driving the driver through a fastener driving stroke. A muffler is mounted in the housing adjacent and in fluid communication with the nose portion. The muffler includes a chamber defined within the housing and a tubular muffler element mounted within the chamber. The tubular muffler element includes a plurality of holes therein and communicates with at least one exhaust port. A second muffler element is mounted within the chamber and encircles the tubular muffler element.

Muffler for fastener driving tool

A tool for driving fasteners includes a casing defining a nose portion and a handle portion within which is a reservoir for pressurized fluid. A driver is mounted in the nose portion that is reciprocated by a piston attached thereto and an assembly for returning the piston to a static position after a driving stroke is also included. The return assembly includes a chamber in fluid communication through an inlet with pressurized air and with an outlet that is in communication with a location beneath the return piston. A diaphragm is mounted within the chamber and is biased by a shoe and spring into sealing engagement with the inlet and the outlet. Another metered inlet is also included in the chamber that is in fluid communication with the source of pressurized fluid and controls the sealing action of the diaphragm. The chamber for the return assembly is also in fluid communication with a second chamber within which is mounted a differential area piston. The piston includes a feed pawl for feeding fasteners to the driver from a magazine. The magazine is defined by two identical portions that are reversed upon assembly. Fasteners for the tool are fed from the magazine to the driver on a tape and each fastener is held by at least one tab. To prevent the fasteners from dislodging from the tape, the tool includes a shoe biased into engagement with the fastener and the tab.

A fastener driving tool including a body having a handle and a head portion. A drive assembly includes a driver blade movable along a drive path defined by a nose assembly located below the head portion. A magazine assembly extends from the nose assembly and includes a frame member fixed relative to the tool body, a first track member slidably movable relative to the frame member and a second track member slidably movable relative to the first track member. The track members define a fastener slideway opened for loading of fasteners by movement of the second track member. The nose assembly includes a nose member mounted on the first track member, and movement of the first track member opens the feed path for removal of a jammed fastener. One track member is J-shaped for slidably supporting points of the fasteners and one side of the fastener shanks. The other track member slidably supports the opposite side of the fastener shanks.

A compression tacker for driving fasteners includes a frame defining a nose portion and a grip portion. A front jaw is pivotally and removably mounted on the nose portion to define a drive track. A plunger is reciprocated in the drive track. The front jaw includes a locking mechanism that upon actuation by the operator of the tool, unlocks the jaw from the frame and allows it to be pivoted relative to the frame to expose the drive track. A handle for actuating the plunger is mounted on the frame and includes a bearing about which a spring is mounted. A workpiece engaging jaw may be removably fastened to the nose portion. The workpiece jaw includes upper and lower surfaces for engaging different workpieces.

Compression tacker

An electric fastener driving tool includes a body of clamshell construction formed of two, similar, molded plastic body parts. The body includes a head portion and a handle portion, and a magazine for supplying fasteners to be driven is supported by the base of the head portion and by the handle. Walls and projections integral with the body parts define a solenoid chamber within the head cavity and support a switch and circuit board within the handle. The body is held in assembled condition and the magazine is attached to the body by bolts of equal length. A solenoid with a central axial opening is mounted in the solenoid chamber. An armature formed of magnetic and nonmagnetic, electrically insulated segments is slidably mounted in the axial solenoid opening. A spring contacting an integral body wall and the insulating armature segment biases the armature in the return direction. A driver blade carried by the armature may be attached in electrically insulated fashion, and moves in a drive path into which fasteners are supplied from the magazine. A circuit including a switch controls energization of the solenoid, and a switch operating assembly provides for fail-safe operation and prevents unintentional multiple firing.

Growing community of inventors

Itasca, IL, United States of America

Raymond F Novak