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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1997
Seiichi Tanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A clinch mechanism in a stapler in which legs of a staple penetrating a work are bent in a bending groove, comprises: a pair of right and left movable clinchers being movable in the bending groove in an operative direction, a pair of receivers formed symmetrical with a center of the bending groove so as to receive the legs of the staple which have penetrated the work, the receivers having guide slopes inclined towards the bending groove, and wall surfaces on the sides of the center of the bending groove wherein the wall surfaces are continuous to ends of the guide slopes which are on the sides of the bending groove such that the wall surfaces are in parallel with the operative direction of the movable clincher.