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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
May. 24, 1995
Glenn E Vallee, West Warwick, RI (US);
Stanley-Bostitch, Inc., East Greenwich, RI (US);
Abstract
A fastener driving tool includes an improved trigger assembly including control structure constructed and arranged to be manually movable between a sequential operating mode position and a contact operating mode position to cause the tool to operate in a sequential operating mode and a contact operating mode, respectively. The device includes a work piece contact responsive assembly carried by a housing and constructed and arranged for movement from a normal, inoperative position into an operative position in response to movement of the tool into cooperating engagement with the work piece. The control structure and the work piece contact responsive assembly cooperate to define actuation prevention structure constructed and arranged to prevent more than one cycle of tool operation from occurring during the sequential operating mode when only a single cycle of tool operation is intended.