EP0931626B1 - Befestigungsgerät mit durch Druckluft angetriebenem Kolben - Google Patents

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EP0931626B1
EP0931626B1 EP99400187A EP99400187A EP0931626B1 EP 0931626 B1 EP0931626 B1 EP 0931626B1 EP 99400187 A EP99400187 A EP 99400187A EP 99400187 A EP99400187 A EP 99400187A EP 0931626 B1 EP0931626 B1 EP 0931626B1
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Frédéric Nayrac
Guy Jaillet
Patrick Herelier
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25C—HAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS
    • B25C1/00—Hand-held nailing tools; Nail feeding devices
    • B25C1/08—Hand-held nailing tools; Nail feeding devices operated by combustion pressure

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  • the invention relates to a piston pad fixing device powered by compressed gas comprising a buffer guide, a cylinder in which is mounted the piston, a combustion chamber sleeve intended to close the chamber at the rear with a cylinder head and at the front with the piston and the cylinder, a sensor for closing the chamber, an injection pipe for compressed gas in the chamber from a compressed gas cartridge and ignition means intended to explode the gas contained in the combustion chamber during a shot.
  • document EP-0 788 863 proposes an apparatus of the type defined above, in which the buffer guide makes probe function for pressing and closing the chamber combustion, and comprising mechanical isolation springs arranged between the cylinder and a pad guide holder integral with the pad guide, the cylinder can move forwards with respect to the pad guide holder, against the action of the insulation springs.
  • the cylinder is driven forward and compresses the springs then, on firing, under the action of the recoil force, the cylinder moves back and releases the springs, the buffer guide thus being held in abutment against the material thanks to the insulation springs.
  • Such an apparatus has a relatively complex structure. Furthermore, when when the device is pressed down, an operator must try to compress the insulation spring.
  • the present invention proposes to solve these problems.
  • the invention relates to a tampon fixing device in a support, with piston propelled by compressed gas comprising a cylinder in which is mounted the piston, a combustion chamber, a sleeve combustion chamber intended to close the chamber, at the rear, with a cylinder head and, at the front, with the piston and the cylinder, a buffer guide making probe function for pressing and closing the chamber combustion, apparatus characterized in that it comprises a surface of thrust and a bearing surface, respectively integral with the buffer guide and of the sleeve and arranged to join in translation backwards, when the buffer guide is pressed, in order to close the combustion, and to dissociate when the device recedes in reaction to a shot, in order to maintain the support of the buffer guide against the support.
  • the sleeve and the feeler pad guide cooperating with a single press may retreat, on retreat in reaction to the explosion of compressed gas in the combustion chamber, without driving the buffer guide.
  • the device comprises means for driving towards the rear of the sleeve, integral with the sleeve, and which are integral said front bearing surface.
  • the drive means comprise at least an integral drive arm, at one of its ends, a support finger provided with said front bearing surface.
  • the buffer guide may include a groove for receiving the support finger, provided with a front wall acting as a pushing surface.
  • the device comprises a housing which is secured to the cylinder and a pad guide holder secured to the cylinder, in which the buffer guide is slidably mounted.
  • the cylinder could move relative to the door pad guide integral with the pad guide, while in the invention, the cylinder is integral with the buffer guide door in which is mounted sliding the pad guide, which turns out to be a simpler structure to achieve.
  • the fixing device may also include means for returning to the front of the drive means, in order to recall the buffer guide towards the front, in a rest position, when removed from support.
  • the fixing device shown comprises, conventionally, in a case 1, rear cylinder head 2, combustion chamber 3, sleeve combustion chamber 4, a cylinder 5, a piston 6, a buffer guide 8 and a door of the buffer guide 7. All these elements of the apparatus are of axis 9.
  • the piston 6, provided with a rear head, is slidably mounted in the cylinder 5 which is integral with the housing 1.
  • the sliding of the pad guide 2 in the pad guide holder 7 is limited by a bush 42, integral with the pad guide holder 7, comprising a part front 13 mounted around the pad guide holder 7 and a part posterior 44, narrowed, surrounding the buffer guide 8, in line with a opening 47 made in the buffer guide holder 7.
  • the rear part 44 of the sleeve 42 is slidably mounted on the buffer guide 8 between front 45 and rear 46 stops of the buffer guide 8 in order to limit the relative sliding of the latter relative to the buffer guide holder 7.
  • the combustion chamber sleeve 4 is slidably mounted on the cylinder 5 and comprises, at the rear, a neck 10 provided with an annular rim rear 11 and intended to be fitted around a corresponding part 12 of the cylinder head 2 until the flange 11 abuts against a surface corresponding 13 of the cylinder head 2, in order to close the combustion chamber 3 at the back.
  • Part 12 includes an external annular groove carrying a seal 14.
  • the sleeve 4 is also intended to close the combustion 3, at the front, with the piston 6 and the cylinder 5 which saves rear an external annular groove carrying a seal 15. Seals 14 and 15 are intended to seal respectively between the sleeve 4 and the cylinder head 2 and between cylinder 5 and sleeve 4.
  • the head of piston 6 houses two external peripheral annular grooves bearing seals 6 ', 6 "intended to ensure the seal between the cylinder 5 and the piston head 6.
  • the apparatus further comprises a housing for receiving a cartridge of compressed gas, not shown.
  • An injection pipe connected to the cartridge compressed gas, opens into the combustion chamber 3, through the cylinder head 2, for injecting the compressed gas into chamber 3.
  • the injection pipe is not shown.
  • the cylinder head 2 carries a mixing fan 16, a firing device, not shown, and a switch 17 for controlling the fan 16 intended to be actuated by the rear edge 11 of the neck 10 when the latter comes into abutment against the surface 13 of the cylinder head 2.
  • the cylinder 5 contains at the front a shock absorber 18, integral with the cylinder 5, against which the head of the piston 6, propelled forward during a shot, is intended to come up against.
  • a buffer supply magazine 19 communicates with the buffer guide 8, for loading the buffer into the buffer guide 8.
  • Two arms 20, 21 for driving towards the rear of the sleeve 4, symmetrical from each other with respect to the axis 9, extend substantially along and at the outside of the buffer guide holder 7 and of the cylinder 5 and are secured, here by screwing, from the sleeve 4, at their rear ends.
  • the two drive arms 20, 21 are connected to each other by a part link 22, at their anterior ends.
  • the finger 23 extends through a light 27, formed in the buffer guide holder 7, and is received in a groove 25 external formed in the buffer guide 8 and parallel to the axis 9.
  • connection part 22 household a lumen 48 for passing the screws 41 extending parallel to the axis 9 and allowing the finger 23 and the set of two arms 20 to be offset axially, 21 and part 22, depending on the desired penetration of the tampon into the support.
  • the buffer guide 8 acts as a pressing and closing feeler of the combustion chamber 3, via the drive arms 20, 21.
  • Each of the drive arms 20, 21 comprises, in the vicinity of its rear end, a thrust pin 24, 26 folded towards the cylinder 5, substantially at right angles.
  • the two push fingers 24, 26 are mounted sliding on cylinder 5 respectively against the action of two springs 35, 36 forwards forward which are in support, at the rear, against two bearing surfaces 37, 38 of the cylinder 5 and, at the front, against the fingers 24, 26.
  • the springs 35, 36 are intended to return towards the front, in the position of rest, the drive arms 20, 21 and therefore the sleeve 4, when from the support outlet of the device, as will be explained in the description of the device's operation.
  • the cylinder 5 further comprises two external front stops 39, 40, for the fingers 24, 26, symmetrical to one another with respect to the axis 9, intended to limit the forward sliding of the arms 20, 21 relative to the cylinder 5.
  • the buffer guide 8 When the device presses against the support 100, the buffer guide 8 is driven rearward relative to the buffer guide holder 7, to the cylinder 5 and the housing 1.
  • the thrust surface 30 of the buffer guide 8 and the surface support 29 integral with the drive arms 20, 21, bearing one against the other, are integral in rearward translation. Therefore, under the action of moving the buffer guide 8, the drive arms 20, 21 drive the sleeve 4 towards the rear, until the rear edge 11 of the neck 10 of sleeve 4 comes to abut against surface 13 of cylinder head 2.
  • the combustion chamber 3 In this position of the sleeve 4, the combustion chamber 3 is closed at the rear by the cylinder head 2 and, at the front, by the head of the piston 6 and the cylinder 5 ( Figures 3 and 4).
  • the firing device On firing, the firing device explodes the compressed gas contained in combustion chamber 3, which creates pressure inside the chamber 3 under the action of which the piston 6 is propelled forward. A buffer having been placed in the buffer guide 8, the piston 6 comes strike the tampon which is propelled forward and fixes itself in the support 100. At the end of the stroke, the head of the piston 6 abuts against the damper 18.
  • the shot causes in reaction a recoil force which tends to recoil the device.
  • the bearing surface 29 of the finger 2 secured to the arms 20, 21 is detached from the pushing surface 30 of the buffer guide 8 so that the buffer guide 8 does not move back and the supporting finger 23 slides backwards in the throat of reception 25. Thanks to this, the buffer guide 8 is held in abutment against the support 100, despite the decline in the cylinder head-housing-cylinder-door assembly buffer guide-sleeve-drive arm 2, 1, 5, 7, 4, 20, 21.
  • the combustion gases escape from the cylinder 5 and the combustion chamber 3, in a known manner, by a valve exhaust.
  • the piston 6 is driven rearward by vacuum and returns to the rest position.
  • the return springs 35, 36 relax and drive forward the drive arms 20, 21, the buffer guide 8 and the sleeve 4 which return to the rest position.
  • the combustion chamber 3 thus opens again at the rear.

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  1. Vorrichtung zur Befestigung von Befestigungselementen in einer Unterlage (100), mit einem durch Druckgas angetriebenen Kolben (6), der einen Zylinder (5) umfasst, in dem der Kolben (6) angebracht ist, einem Verbrennungsraum (3), einer Verbrennungsmuffe (4), die dazu ausgelegt ist, die Kammer hinten mit einem Verschluss (2) und vorn mit dem Kolben (6) und dem Zylinder (5) zu verschließen, wobei eine Befestigungselementführung (8) als Anlage- und Verschlussfühler für den Verbrennungsraum (3) fungiert,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Vorrichtung eine Schubfläche (30) und eine Anlagefläche (29) umfasst, die jeweils mit der Befestigungselementführung (8) und der Muffe (4) fest verbunden und so ausgelegt sind, dass sie sich beim Anlegen der Befestigungselementführung (8) nach hinten verschiebend fest verbinden, um den Verbrennungsraum (3) zu schließen, und um sich beim Rückschub der Vorrichtung in Reaktion auf einen Abschuss voneinander zu trennen, um sicherzustellen, dass die Befestigungselementführung (8) an der Unterlage (100) weiter in Anlage bleibt.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    sie zum mitnehmen der Muffe (4) nach hinten, Mitnahmeeinrichtungen (20, 21) umfasst, die mit der Muffe (4) fest verbunden sind, und die mit der Anlagefläche (29) fest verbunden sind.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Mitnahmeeinrichtungen mindestens einen Antriebsarm (20, 21) umfassen, der an einem seiner Enden fest mit einem Anlagezapfen (23) verbunden ist, der mit der Anlagefläche (29) versehen ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Befestigungselementführung (8) eine Aufnahmekehle (25) für den Anlagezapfen (23) umfasst, die mit einer vorderen Wandung versehen ist, die als Schubfläche (30) dient.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    sie ein Gehäuse (1), mit dem der Zylinder (5) fest verbunden ist, und eine Befestigungselementführung (7) umfasst, die mit dem Zylinder (5), in dem die Befestigungselementführung (8) verschiebbar angebracht ist, fest verbunden ist.
  6. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    sie Einrichtungen (35, 36) zur Rückstellung der Antriebseinrichtungen (20, 21) nach vorn umfasst.
  7. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, bei der die Rückstelleinrichtungen (35, 36) hinten in Anlage am Zylinder (5) und so ausgelegt sind, dass sie vorn mit mindestens einem Zapfen (24, 26), der mit den Antriebseinrichtungen fest verbunden ist, zusammenwirken, um die Muffe (4) nach einem Abschuss zum Ausgang der Anlage der Vorrichtung nach vorn zurückzustellen.
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