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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2002
Mats Andersson, Mullsjö, SE;
Isaberg Rapid AB, Hestra, SE;
Abstract
A stapler for driving staples into objects comprises an anvil element ( ) and stapling element ( ), which cooperates with the anvil element and which contains staples. The stapler further comprises a driver ( ), which is reciprocatingly arranged on the stapling element ( ) and which is arranged to drive a staple into the object in the direction of the anvil element. An operating element ( ) is arranged to reciprocate the driver ( ). The anvil element ( ) and the operating element ( ) are movable back and forth relative to the stapling element ( ) in one and the same path of motion. The anvil element ( ) and the operating element ( ) are movable relative to each other in this path of motion with the aid of reversible driving elements ( ). The inertia of the operating element ( ) against movement relative to the stapling element ( ) is greater than its inertia against movement relative to the anvil element ( ). The driving elements ( ) are adapted to be reversed, on the one hand, when in a first position the operating element ( ) cannot move the driver ( ) any further in its drive-in direction and, on the other hand, when in a second position it cannot move the driver ( ) any further in the opposite direction.