Directional clinching tool and nails
AssigneePneuTools, Incorporated
InventorFrederick William Lamb
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Abstract
A clinch nailer tool system. The system includes a clinch nailer tool body, coil magazine disposed in a bottom of the clinch nailer tool body and configured to hold a coil of nails, clinch arm pivotally connected to the clinch nailer tool body at a proximal end of the clinch arm, clinch nailer tool nose disposed in a front portion of the clinch nailer tool body, wherein the clinch nailer tool nose includes an opening in a lower portion thereof for receiving a nail from the coil magazine; and clinch plate disposed on a distal end of the clinch arm, wherein the clinch plate is configured to bend a nail from the clinch nailer tool nose.
Claims10
A clinch nailer tool system comprising:
- a clinch nailer tool body:
- a coil magazine disposed in a bottom of the clinch nailer tool body and configured to hold a coil of nails;
- a clinch arm pivotally connected to the clinch nailer tool body at a proximal end of the clinch arm;
- a clinch nailer tool nose disposed in a front portion of the clinch nailer tool body, wherein the clinch nailer tool nose includes an opening in a lower portion thereof for receiving a nail from the coil magazine;
- a clinch plate disposed on a distal end of the clinch arm, wherein the clinch plate is configured to bend the nail from the clinch nailer tool nose;
- and
- an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the angle of the clinch nailer tool;
- wherein a first portion of the adjustment mechanism is attached to a tool housing of the tool body and a second portion of the adjustment mechanism is attached to a clinch mechanism which includes the clinch arm, wherein the angle adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the angle of the clinch nailer tool body with respect to the clinch arm;
- wherein the adjustment mechanism comprises two oppositely disposed bolts in a threaded tensioner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.