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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2014
Senco Brands, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Thomas A. McCardle, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Donald C. Ries, Loveland, OH (US);
David Michael Young, Sardinia, OH (US);
John T. Burke, Williamsburg, OH (US);
Kory Adam Gunnerson, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Senco Brands, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A clenching adapter for use with automatic nailers tools is provided, which mounts to a nailer tool, and which extends behind a two-layer workpiece and curls the tip of a driven nail on the opposite side of the multiple-layer workpiece. The adapter includes a movable extension link that pivots on a proximal end, due to the action of an air cylinder actuator, and that pivoting motion causes an anvil mounted on its distal end to grasp the opposite (bottom) side of the workpiece, while also positioning the anvil to a location where it intercepts the nail that will be fired through the workpiece by the nailer tool. The anvil mechanism rotates from a 'relaxed' position that fits within a gap in the boards of a workpiece, to an actuated 'ready' position that receives and curls the nail, for clenching a multi-substrate workpiece. The actuations are automatically sequenced, in one embodiment.