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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2002
Hilti Aktiengesellchaft, Schaan, LI;
Abstract
A portable setting tool includes a housing ( ), a guide tube ( ) for guiding the fastening elements and connectable with the housing and having a side cut-out through which the fastening elements are fed into the guide tube ( ), and a feeler ( ) extendable into the guide tube ( ) at a location opposite the cut-out ( ) of the guide tube ( ) and having, at an end thereof extendable into the guide tube ( ), an end surface ( ) providing for displacement of the feeler ( ) in a direction transverse t a longitudinal axis ( ) of the guide tube ( ) upon being acted upon by a fastening element, and an adjusting rim ( ) adjoining the end surface ( ) and forming, with a longitudinal axis ( ) of the guide tube ( ), an acute angle (&agr; ) opening in a direction toward a mouth opening of the guide tube ( ) with the adjusting rim providing for displacement of the feeler ( ) in the transverse direction upon being acted upon by an object displaceable along the longitudinal axis ( ) of the guide tube ( ).