133results about "Nailing" patented technology

A device for dispensing an individual plastic fastener from a supply of fastener stock to couple together two or more objects. The supply of fastener stock includes a plurality of equidistantly spaced cross links which are coupled at one end to a continuous side rail. The fastener dispensing device includes a hollowed sharpened needle shaped to define a longitudinal bore and a feed mechanism for advancing the continuous side rail of the fastener stock into direct axial alignment behind the longitudinal bore of the hollowed needle. The feed mechanism includes a rotatably mounted feed shaft, a pair of feed wheels fixedly mounted on the feed shaft, each feed wheel comprising a plurality of sprockets which are sized and shaped to engage the supply of fastener stock, and first and second clutch wheels which are releasably matingly engageable with one another, the first clutch wheel being fixedly mounted on the feed shaft and the second clutch wheel being rotatably mounted on the feed shaft, each of the first and second clutch wheels including a plurality of ratchets. As a feature of the invention, the number of ratchets on each clutch wheel is at most equal to the number of sprockets on each feed wheel.

A stapler unit has a staple section, a cutter section, and a receiving section. A stapling device further includes a staple recovery box which is disposed at a staple discarding position and which recovers the tip ends to be discarded from the receiving section; and a staple discarding mechanism which delivers the tip ends received in the receiving section of the stapler unit to the staple recovery box. One of the plural stapling positions is identical with the staple discarding position.

A stapler has a main base, a pivotal base, a recoiling device, a stapling device, a connecting device and a leg-cutting device. The leg-cutting device is mounted between the main base and the pivotal base and has an upper base, a lower base, two arm holders, two pushing arms, a cutting pad, two cutting blocks, two guiding blocks and two biasing members. The lower base has an arm-lifting top surface. The pushing arms are pivotally connected to the arm holders and each has a sliding end slidably attached to the arm-lifting top surface of the lower base and a pushing end. The cutting blocks are attached respectively to the pushing ends of the pushing arms. The guiding blocks are slidably mounted on the pivotal base and are driven by the cutting blocks.

According to one embodiment, the plastic fastener comprises a flexible filament having a length of about 4.3 mm and a tensile strength of about 2 pounds, a first transverse bar located at one end of the flexible filament, and a second transverse bar located at the opposite end of the flexible filament. The fastener clip, which preferably does not contain a runner bar, comprises a plurality of identical fasteners of the aforementioned type, each of the fasteners being arranged in a parallel, side-by-side, spaced relationship. A connector post connects the first transverse bars of adjacent fasteners, and a connector post connects the second transverse bars of adjacent fasteners. An extra transverse bar is connected by a connector post to the first transverse bar of the last fastener, and another extra transverse bar is connected by a connector post to the second transverse bar of the last fastener, the extra transverse bars not being interconnected by a flexible filament.

The invention relates to an insole nail striking device, in particular to a fast insole nail striking device for shoe production, and aims at solving the technical problem of providing a fast insole nail striking device which is used for shoe production and is low in manufacturing cost and easy to operate and high in working efficiency in the processing of striking a nail into an insole. For solving the technical problems, the fast insole nail striking device for shoe production comprises a bottom plate, a first sliding rail, a first support rod, a T-shaped support, a first sliding block, a first spring, a second support rod, a carrying plate, a second sliding rail, a pulley, a second sliding block, an arc-shaped connecting rod, a first striking block, a pulling rope, a motor, a fan-shaped gear, a connecting rod, a rack, a second striking block, a swing rod, a disc, a roller and the like. According to the fast insole nail striking device for shoe production, the nail more quickly enters the insole by adopting the mode of combining the first striking block with the second striking block.

A stapler includes a base, a cover put movably on the base, a feeding device for feeding staples, and a bending and cutting device provided between the base and the cover for bending and cutting the legs of each staple. The cutting device includes a seat provided on the base and a housing attached to the cover. The seat includes two wedges formed thereon and a pusher formed thereon. A stationary cutting element is provided in the housing. Two movable cutting elements are provided movably in the housing and on the two wedges so that they are moved towards the stationary cutting element in order to cut the legs of each staple as they are moved towards the seat together with the housing. A spring is put between the movable cutting elements in a tendency to push the movable cutting elements from the stationary cutting element. Two bending elements are provided movably and pivotally in the housing above the movable cutting elements so that they are pushed by the pusher in order to bend the legs of each staple after the stationary cutting element and the movable cutting elements cut the legs of each staple.

A device for dispensing individual plastic fasteners from a continuous supply of 0.1875 inch pitch ladder stock includes a head assembly that is designed to receive the supply of ladder stock, sever an individual fastener from the supply ladder stock and eject the individual fastener during a single stroke of its actuation cycle. The device also includes a stepper motor for driving the head assembly through its actuation cycle, a DC power switching supply for regulating the power supplied to the stepper motor from an AC input power source, and a controller for collecting historical data relating to usage of the device and for regulating operation of the stepper motor. The controller is programmed to enable certain operational characteristics, such as stroke speed and mode, to be regulated through a user interface which includes a screen display and a plurality of control buttons.

A needle (51) particularly well-suited for use in the dispensing of plastic fasteners (21) of the type comprising a filament (15) having a cross-bar (23-1, 23-2) at a first end thereof, each of the cross-bar (23-1, 23-2) and the filament (15) including a first flat side, the first flat sides of the cross-bar (23-1, 23-2) being coplanar. The needle (51) includes a stem portion (53). The stem portion (53) terminates in a tip (57) at its front end and is shaped to define a longitudinal bore (59) and a longitudinal slot (61) for receiving the filament (15) and the cross-bar (23-1, 23-2). The longitudinal bore (59) has a first flat side, and the longitudinal slot (61) has a first flat side, wherein the flat sides are coplanar.

The invention relates to a leather shoe nailing device, in particular to a leather shoe rapid nailing device for shoe production. The leather shoe rapid nailing device for shoe production has the advantages of good fixing effect, high nailing efficiency and simple operation. The leather shoe rapid nailing device for shoe production comprises a bottom plate, a rolling shaft, a conveying device, a 7-shaped support, a sector gear, a first gear, a spring, a first belt wheel, a cross plate, a first motor, an L-shaped rod, a bearing base, a slide rail, a second belt wheel, a flat belt, a disc, a first connecting rod, a strut, an arc-shaped connecting rod, a cylindrical cam, a ball, a hammer, a rotating shaft, a slider, a rack, a lifting rod, a second motor and an electromagnet. The leather shoe rapid nailing device for shoe production employs an inclined plate located on the bottom plate and the lower portion of the 7-shaped support; the top end of the inclined plate is fixedly connected with the lower portion of the 7-shaped support.

An automated press feeds a string of tack pins loaded on a reel. The press shears the part from the string of fasteners and delivers each part individually to a punch for installation. The string of fasteners is pulled from the reel by a sprocket which includes peripheral teeth for engaging the fasteners and for feeding them in a vertical column to a shear station. A horizontally reciprocal shear block severs individual fasteners one-at-a-time from the end of the fastener string at the shear station, each fastener being indexed to the next shear position by incremental rotation of the sprocket. The punch includes vacuum retaining means for lifting each fastener from the shear block.

A device for dispensing a plastic fastener from a supply of ladder-type fastener stock includes a pair of separate modules that are independently pneumatically powered by a common air source. Each module is adapted to receive and index a corresponding side rail of the fastener stock, separate a cross-bar therefrom and eject the separated cross-bar out through a sharpened needle. As a feature of the invention, the pair of modules ejects the cross-bars of the dispensed fastener in an offset relationship to minimize fastener stress. As another feature of the invention, the pair of modules is independently slidably coupled to a common mounting plate. In this manner, the spacing and angular orientation between the modules are adjustable. As another feature of the invention, the feed mechanism includes a feed pawl that selectively engages outwardly facing notches formed in the side rail to ensure accurate alignment prior to the severing process.

A device for safely tagging and releasing large fish includes a long pole to which is attached at its distal end a holder body for retaining therewithin an axially extending cutting blade and, at its tip portion, a tag applicator.

This document discloses, among other things, a long reach, side ejecting fastener placement apparatus suitable for use in nasal septal surgery. A first linear member carries a fastener body and a second linear member delivers a fastener retainer or provides support for placement of the fastener body. In various examples, the fastener includes a single stud rivet or includes a two legged staple. A mechanical linkage coupled to the handle provides a linear force for placement and deployment of a fastener.

A stapler 1 is provided with a cutter unit 12 for cutting a leading end portion of a staple leg projected to a back face side of sheets. A staple cartridge 20 containing a number of staples is formed with a chip containing portion 23 for containing a chip of the staple leg. The chip of the staple leg cut by the cutter unit 12 is guided into the chip containing portion 23 of the staple cartridge 20 by a chute 22 formed on the cutter unit 12. The chip of the staple leg is collected in the staple cartridge 20.

Stapler (1) for using a staple (6) to staple together a workpiece (24), e.g. a sheaf of papers, by the staple being driven through the workpiece, by a driver (11) fitted in the stapler, from a staple magazine (5) to a position in which the staple legs penetrate the workpiece, which stapler comprises also a clipping arrangement (14), which moves reciprocatingly relative to the staple magazine in a defined direction (H) between a working position and a position of rest so that the clipping arrangement in the working position clips off surplus lengths of the staple legs when they have penetrated the workpiece, and a container (12) for gathering the staple leg clippings by their being conveyed via a channel (15) which runs in a defined longitudinal direction (A-A) between the clipping arrangement and the container, which channel (15) is attached pivotably to the stapler by means of a connecting device (16).

A method for inspecting the inside of a shoe, comprising the following steps: a. arranging at least one inflatable body within the shoe (1,4,101a,101b,101c,104); b. inflating, by means of a controlled amount of fluid, said inflatable body within the shoe (9,10) until the inflatable body, or a part thereof, is substantially rested on at least a portion of an inner wall of the shoe; c. after inflation, measuring and/or evaluating the internal pressure of the inflatable body and/or the force applied by said portion of an inner wall of the shoe against said inflatable body, or vice versa.

A loop pin connecting device for causing mutual mating between a insertion head portion and a socket portion of a filament has a first feeding means, which feeds out the insertion head portion in front of the loop pin connecting device, and a second feeding means, which feeds out the socket portion in front of the loop pin connecting device, wherein along one stroke from a position at which the insertion head portion and the socket portion of the individual loop pins are set into the device such that the insertion head portion and socket portion are moved up to a position at which there is mutual mating therebetween, at least the first feeding means has a operation interruption mechanism capable of temporarily stopping the feeding operation at an arbitrary position during the stroke.

A fastening tool applies parts, in particular plastic parts, to objects. The plastic parts are supplied in the form of a belt in which the plastic parts are linked together by at least one flexible web. The fastening tool transports the belt by a feed mechanism such that one plastic part at a time is delivered to a fastening position. The feed mechanism has a fluid drive that is coupled by a translation-rotation converter to a transport gear rotatably mounted on the fastening tool and designed to positively or nonpositively engage the belt in order to transport it. The translation-rotation converter has an overrunning clutch whose driving gear is kinematically coupled to the fluid drive and whose driven gear is coupled to the transport gear in a rotationally fixed manner.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for replacing a knotter in a tag fastener, wherein the knotter is mounted on a separate base plate and the hub of the pinion of the knotter is inserted vertically from the bottom of a side plate of the tag fastener body. The pinion protruding onto the outside of the base plate is mounted onto a side of the body by the base plate and engaged with the driving gear arranged on the outside of the body of the tag fastener. A tag is fastened by the tag fastener while the knotter, working in conjunction with the mechanism in the body, knots a looped thread and cuts the knotted loop. The knotter can be separated easily from the body of the tag fastener for repair or replacement without disassembling the body of the tag fastener.

Flocking fibers are applied to the outsole of a shoe by placing the fibers in a chamber within a housing and placing the outsole over an opening in the housing after applying an adhesive to a surface of the outsole which is to receive the flocking. A pressurized gas jet is activated to increase the pressure in the housing thereby causing the fibers to exit the chamber and collide with the adhesive surface of the outsole. The outsoles may be supported on screens within openings in a tray which is removably mountable on the housing over the opening therein.

The invention discloses automatic nail pulling equipment for shoemaking. The automatic nail pulling equipment for shoemaking comprises a machine frame, a fixed mechanism and a nail pulling mechanism; the fixed mechanism comprises a fixed block and a fixed strip; a fixed ring is fixed on the fixed strip; a locking mechanism is arranged on the machine frame; and after the head of a shoe tree is inserted into the fixed ring, the locking mechanism locks the fixed strip on the tail part of the shoe tree and the fixed strip presses against the tail part of the shoe tree, so that the shoe tree is fixed on the machine frame. When a nail is pulled, an operator inserts the head of the shoe tree fixed with a vamp into the fixed ring and then moves the fixed block to enable the fixed block to press against the tail part of the shoe tree, and the operator uses the locking mechanism to fix the fixed block on the machine frame so as to fix the shoe tree with the vamp on the machine frame, and then the nail pulling mechanism pulls out the shoe nail from the shoe tree to complete the nail pulling operation. Compared with the existing operation of pulling out the shoe nail through manual operation, the automatic nail pulling equipment for shoemaking realizes the function of automatically pulling the shoe nail, reduces manual operation and improves nail pulling efficiency.