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Agrafeuse

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Publication number
EP1094920A1
EP1094920A1 EP99934584A EP99934584A EP1094920A1 EP 1094920 A1 EP1094920 A1 EP 1094920A1 EP 99934584 A EP99934584 A EP 99934584A EP 99934584 A EP99934584 A EP 99934584A EP 1094920 A1 EP1094920 A1 EP 1094920A1
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Prior art keywords
magazine
cap part
guide
stapler according
cap
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Application number
EP99934584A
Other languages
German (de)
English (en)
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EP1094920B1 (fr
Inventor
Stefan Frank
Martin Decker
Brigitte Radu
Horst PFRÜNDER
Gerhard Sieghart
Theodor Pflugfelder
Reiner JÜSTEL
Walter Ohnmacht-Bezler
Peter Schwalk
Günther Lehleiter
Thomas Schmaus
Stefan Labonde
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Esselte Leitz GmbH and Co KG
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Esselte Leitz GmbH and Co KG
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Classifications

    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25CHAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C5/00Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor
    • B25C5/16Staple-feeding devices, e.g. with feeding means, supports for staples or accessories concerning feeding devices
    • B25C5/1696Staple support displaceable relative to the tool to allow re-loading
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25CHAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C5/00Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor
    • B25C5/02Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefor with provision for bending the ends of the staples on to the work
    • B25C5/0221Stapling tools of the table model type, i.e. tools supported by a table or the work during operation
    • B25C5/0242Stapling tools of the table model type, i.e. tools supported by a table or the work during operation having a pivoting upper leg and a leg provided with an anvil supported by the table or work
    • B25C5/025Stapling tools of the table model type, i.e. tools supported by a table or the work during operation having a pivoting upper leg and a leg provided with an anvil supported by the table or work the plunger being manually operated

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a stapling device with a bottom part bearing a / anvil in its front area, with a clip magazine which can be pivoted to a limited extent about a transverse axis on a bearing block in the rear area of the bottom part, with a clip guide guided in a slide guide of the clip magazine and spring-supported towards the head part thereof Clip slide, with a cap part which can be pivoted to a limited extent about the transverse axis with respect to the clip magazine and the base part, forming or having a magazine cover and having a driver which engages in the head part of the clip magazine, the cap part and the clip magazine taking the clip slide from an operating position into an operating position Loading position are displaceable relative to each other, and with a locking mechanism for releasably displaceably connecting the cap part to the clip magazine in the operating position.
  • Staplers of this type are known (DE-A 44 47 079), which have a spring magazine, in which a magazine insert can be displaced from the operating position into the loading position relative to the base part and the cap part.
  • the magazine insert which is under the action of a spring, is pressed out of the top part of its top position by pressing a push button or a button into its loading position.
  • Spring specialist devices are somewhat more complex to construct than so-called upper loader rate, for which the cap part is folded around the transverse axis into a loading position opened by 180 ° and the clamp slide is taken against the spring force in the slide guide of the clamp magazine.
  • the slider is retracted either via a tension spring or a pull tab.
  • the cap part is under the direct or indirect action of the spring acting on the clamp slide, which tries to pivot the cap part back into its closed position.
  • it is releasably latched to the base part in its opened loading position by means of a latching mechanism.
  • the object of the invention is to develop a stapler of the type specified at the outset, which has a loading mechanism which is easy to handle and manufacture.
  • the solution according to the invention is based on the idea that the staple magazine is connected to the base part so as to be displaceable, and that the cap part can optionally be displaced together with the magazine cover in a magazine guide and / or a bottom part fixed slide guide relative to the bottom part. With these measures it is achieved that the clip magazine for the refilling process can be opened by moving the cap part over the rear transverse axis.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides that the locking mechanism is designed as a latching mechanism arranged between the clip magazine and the cap part or magazine cover.
  • the latching mechanism can have a button arrangement which can be operated directly or indirectly via the cap.
  • the thrust guide comprises at least one guide link on the magazine side, in which the cap part and / or the magazine cover connected to it with displacement engages with at least one sliding block arranged on the driver side.
  • the driver-side sliding blocks are expediently designed as pins projecting laterally beyond the magazine cover, which engage in the guide slots of the clip magazine, which are open toward the inside.
  • the guide links expediently have a sliding section aligned parallel to the direction of displacement and an end section aligned parallel to the direction of ejection of the driver, wherein the sliding section can merge into the end section via a latching curve.
  • the thrust guide comprises at least one cap-side guide link, in which at least one link block or magazine-side link block, preferably arranged at a radial distance from the pivot axis, engages.
  • the cap-side guide link expediently has a sliding section aligned parallel to the direction of displacement and a pivoting section connected to it and formed concentrically to the pivot axis in the operating position of the cap.
  • the swivel section ensures that the cap part and the clip magazine can be swiveled together about the swivel axis of the bottom part into a tacker position.
  • two guide and securing cams can be provided on the base part diametrically opposite one another with respect to the pivot axis and arranged at the same radial distance from the pivot axis.
  • the guide link in the region of the swivel section has a flank pointing to the transverse axis and open on one side against the direction of displacement.
  • the magazine cover in the operating position of the cap part on the clip magazine can preferably be snapped in with the aid of a latching mechanism. Furthermore, in the operating position, the cap part can be pivoted to a limited extent in the direction of ejection of the driver, counter to the force of a spring, in relation to the magazine cover which is locked onto the clip magazine.
  • a tension spring is arranged between the driver-side end of the cap part or the magazine cover on the one hand and the clamp slide on the other hand, which is used, for example, as a helical spring or as a roller spring can be formed.
  • This measure ensures that the cap part can be moved into the loading position together with the tension spring, which may be relaxed, and the clamp slide.
  • 1 a and b a side view of a sliding loader stapler in the operating position and in the loading position;
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the stapler of Figure 1 without a base plate, cap part and anvil.
  • FIG. 3 shows a detail from the rear area of the cap part in a partially cut, perspective representation
  • FIGS. La and b show various sectional representations along the sectional lines AA, BB, CC, DD, EE of FIGS. La and b in an enlarged representation;
  • Fig. 5 is an illustration corresponding to Figure 2 for a modified stapler.
  • Fig. 6 is a sectional view corresponding to Fig. 4e for the stapler of Fig. 5;
  • FIG. 7a to d show a side view of the sliding loader staple device in the operating position, staple position, loading position and a possible intermediate position.
  • the staple device shown in the drawing consists essentially of an elongated, in its front area having an anvil 10 and in its rear area a bearing block 12 carrying bottom part 14, on the bearing block 12 about a transverse axis 16 from a rest position lifted from the bottom part with its head part 20 in the direction of the anvil against the force of a spring 18 to a limited extent pivotable clamp magazine 22, a clamp slide 28 guided in a slide guide 24 of the clamp magazine 22 and supported in the direction of the head part 20 by a tension spring 26 designed as a coil spring in the exemplary embodiment shown, and a clamp slide 28 about the transverse axis 16 the clip magazine 22 and the bottom part 14 limited pivotable, one in the
  • Head part 20 of the insertable driver 30 insertable cap part 32 of the clip magazine.
  • the clip magazine 22 is overlapped by a magazine cover 34 against which the cap part is supported by a spring 36 which is integrally connected to the driver 30 in the exemplary embodiment shown.
  • the driver 30 is together with its spring 36 positively anchored to a cap-side driver holder 38.
  • the clip magazine 22 is connected to the bottom part 14 so as to be displaceable, while the cap part 32 together with the magazine cover 34 takes the clip slide 28 and the spring 26 from an operating position (FIG. la) in a loading position relative to the clip magazine 22 and to the bottom part 14 in a loading position (Fig. 1b).
  • the staple magazine 22 can be refilled with staples from above.
  • the spring 26 is clamped between the magazine cover 34 and the clamp slide 28 in the manner of a tension spring in such a way that when the cap part 22 and the magazine cover 34 are closed, the clamp slide 28 is carried along by the spring 26 in the direction of the head part and against the clamps located in the magazine the headboard presses.
  • the spring 26 is free of prestress, so that the cap part remains in its loading position even without a locking mechanism.
  • a push guide 40 is provided.
  • the slide guide 40 comprises two guide links 44, which are arranged in mirror image to one another in the side flanks 42 of the clip magazine 22, into which the magazine cover 34, which is fixedly connected to the cap part 32, engages, each with a link block 46 arranged on the driver side.
  • the guide links 44 each have a parallel to the direction of displacement th displacement section 48 and an end section 50 oriented perpendicularly to this and parallel to the ejection direction of the driver 30.
  • the displacement section 48 merges into the end section 50 via a locking curve 52.
  • the displacement sections 48 are formed by two grooves in the side flanks 42 of the clip magazine 22 which are open towards the inside of the magazine and also serve as a slide guide 24 for the clip slide 28.
  • the magazine cover 34 is raised over the cap part 32 at the driver end so that the latching cams 56 disengaged from the latching recesses 54 and the sliding blocks 46 in the end sections 50 of the guide slots 44 are lifted over the latching curves 52 and moved into the shifting sections 48 will.
  • the latching cams 56 come out of the engagement area with the side flanks 42 of the clip magazine into an area above the upper edges 58 of the side flanks 42.
  • the slide guide 40 furthermore has two guide links 62, which are arranged on the side flanks 60 of the cap part 32 and are designed as inwardly open grooves and are arranged in mirror image with respect to one another, into each of which a bottom guide arranged at a radial distance from the transverse axis 16 partially engages guide cam 64.
  • the guide elements 62 on the cap part side have a displacement section 66 aligned parallel to the direction of displacement and a pivoting section 68 connected to the latter, which is formed concentrically to the transverse axis 16 in the operating position of the cap part 32.
  • the flanks 70 of the guide link 62 facing the transverse axis 16 are interrupted by a gap 72 in the transition region between the sliding section and the pivoting section 68 for reasons of assembly and are open towards the transverse axis 16 against the direction of displacement.
  • the latter enables the cap part 32 to be displaced across the transverse axis 16. Since the transverse axis 16 is located outside and the guide cams 64 are located within the flanks 70 of the guide link 62 in each displacement position between the operating position and the loading position, the cap part 32 is locked against pivoting in the displacement position.
  • the driver-side sliding blocks 46 and the locking cams 56 also contribute to this blocking.
  • two further securing cams 74 which are diametrically opposite with respect to the transverse axis 16 and the guide cams 64 at the same radial distance from the transverse axis 16, are provided on the base part 14, which engage in the pivoting section 68 of the guide links 62 intervention. It is thus possible to pivot the staple magazine 22 together with the cap part 32 from the operating position of the staple device shown in FIG. 1 a into a so-called staple position with respect to the bottom part 14 about the transverse axis 16 without there may be a displacement between the cap part 32 and the clip magazine 22.
  • the exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 differs from the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 2 to 4 primarily in that the guide and securing cams 64, 74 fixed to the base part are missing and instead tab-shaped guide cams 64 'formed on the chamber magazine 22 are provided which engage in the guide link 62 'of the cap part 32.
  • the invention relates to a staple device with a base part 14, with a clip magazine 22 which can be pivoted to a limited extent about a transverse axis 16 on a bearing block of the base part 14, with a clip part guided in a slide guide of the clip magazine, towards the head part 20 thereof spring-supported clip slide 28 and with a cap part 32 which can be pivoted to a limited extent about the transverse axis 16 with respect to the clip magazine 22 and the base part 14 and forms or has a magazine cover 34 and carries a driver 30 which engages in the head part of the clip magazine.
  • the staple magazine 22 with the Bottom part 14 connected, while the cap part 32 together with the magazine cover 34 along a slide guide relative to the clip magazine 22 and the bottom part 14 is displaceable.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Portable Nailing Machines And Staplers (AREA)
  • Nonmetallic Welding Materials (AREA)
EP99934584A 1998-07-09 1999-07-06 Agrafeuse Expired - Lifetime EP1094920B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DE19830603 1998-07-09
DE19830603 1998-07-09
PCT/EP1999/004694 WO2000002712A1 (fr) 1998-07-09 1999-07-06 Agrafeuse

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EP1094920A1 true EP1094920A1 (fr) 2001-05-02
EP1094920B1 EP1094920B1 (fr) 2003-05-28

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US (1) US6494356B1 (fr)
EP (1) EP1094920B1 (fr)
AT (1) ATE241445T1 (fr)
AU (1) AU740325B2 (fr)
DE (2) DE19931037A1 (fr)
ES (1) ES2200531T3 (fr)
TW (1) TW449537B (fr)
WO (1) WO2000002712A1 (fr)

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TW449537B (en) 2001-08-11
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DE19931037A1 (de) 2000-01-13
AU740325B2 (en) 2001-11-01
AU5031799A (en) 2000-02-01
ES2200531T3 (es) 2004-03-01
US6494356B1 (en) 2002-12-17
DE59905758D1 (de) 2003-07-03

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