# US 12,215,511 B2 · Binding machine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,215,511 B2 - Document ID: US12215511B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/967,404 - Filed: 2022-10-17 - Published: 2023-02-09 - Granted: 2025-02-04 - Earliest claimed: 2018-06-29 - Assignees: Max Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Max Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Akira Kawazoe - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12215511B2 ## CPC - B23D 29/002: {for cutting wire or the like} - E04G 21/123: {Wire twisting tools (bundling articles by twisting, e.g. wire B65B13/28; bundling rods, sticks, or like elongated objects with, e.g. wire B65B27/10; tying devices for hops, vines or trees with, e.g. wire A01G17/08)} - B65B 13/025: {Hand-held tools} - B23D: PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (making toothed gears or the like B23F; cutting metal by applying heat locally B23K; arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q) - E04G: SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A binding machine comprises a cutting portion which cuts the wire, a fixed blade in which a first wire passage through which the wire passes is formed; and a movable blade in which a second wire passage through which the wire passes is formed. The movable blade includes a blade portion provided on one side of the second wire passage and a passage forming member provided on the other side of the second wire passage, the second wire passage includes a guiding portion for guiding the wire after cutting in a movement when the movable blade moves from the movement finish position to the standby position, and the guiding portion is protrudes in a direction of the guide portion and blocks a portion between the movable blade and the guide portion in a non-wire-passing-through manner when the movable blade moves to the standby position. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A binding machine, comprising: a wire feeding portion which feeds a wire; a cutting portion which is provided on a downstream side of the wire feeding portion along a feeding direction of the wire fed by the wire feeding portion and cuts the wire; a first abutment portion which is provided between the wire feeding portion and the cutting portion and on a first side of a feeding path of the wire and capable of abutting on the wire from the first side; and a guide portion which is provided on a downstream side of the cutting portion and on a second side opposite to the first side with respect to the feeding path of the wire, includes a second abutment portion capable of abutting on the wire from the second side, and regulates an advancing direction of the wire and causes the wire to curl by making the second abutment portion abut on the wire in a state where the wire abuts on the first abutment portion, wherein the cutting portion includes: a fixed blade in which a first wire passage through which the wire passes is formed; and a movable blade in which a second wire passage is formed and which slides on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed blade and cuts the wire, the second wire passage being configured by an opening through which the wire passes, the movable blade configured to move between a standby position where the first wire passage and the second wire passage communicate with each other and a movement finish position where the first wire passage and the second wire passage do not communicate with each other by sliding on the outer peripheral surface of the fixed blade, the second wire passage includes a guiding portion for guiding the wire after cutting in a movement when the movable blade moves from the movement finish position to the standby position, the guiding portion including a recess configured such that a dimension, in the moving direction of the movable blade, of a downstream side end of the opening, in the feeding direction of the wire, is greater than a dimension of an upstream side end of the opening, in the feeding direction of the wire, the recess being configured to hold and contact the wire, and the guiding portion is located on the second side and is configured to protrude in a direction of the guide portion and blocks a portion between the movable blade and the guide portion in a non-wire-passing-through manner when the movable blade moves to the standby position. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A binding machine according to claim 1, wherein in the second wire passage, the dimension of the opening in the movement direction of the movable blade expands from the upstream side end to the downstream side end, the downstream side end of the opening is configured to face the guide portion, and the upstream side end of the opening is configured to face the fixed blade. ### Claim 3 A binding machine, comprising: a wire feeding portion which feeds a wire; a cutting portion which is provided on a downstream side of the wire feeding portion along a feeding direction of the wire fed by the wire feeding portion and cuts the wire; and a guide portion which is provided on a downstream side of the cutting portion along the feeding direction of the wire and causes the wire to curl by regulating an advancing direction of the wire, wherein the cutting portion includes: a fixed blade in which a first wire passage through which the wire passes is formed; a movable blade in which a second wire passage through which the wire passes is formed and which slides on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed blade and cuts the wire; and a driving member which is connected to the movable blade and drives the movable blade, the movable blade is configured to move between a standby position where the first wire passage and the second wire passage communicate with each other and a movement finish position where the first wire passage and the second wire passage do not communicate with each other by sliding on the outer peripheral surface of the fixed blade, the movable blade having a protruding portion protruding in a direction of the guide portion, the cutting portion suppresses a change in behavior of the wire between the protruding portion and the guide portion when the movable blade moves to the movement finish position, the second wire passage further includes a recess adjacent to the protruding portion and that is configured to hold and contact the wire.