Dual-mode stapler
AssigneeSDI Corporation
InventorCheng-Yu Pai
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Abstract
A dual-mode stapler has a first base, a second base, a magazine assembly, a hammer assembly, and a fastening mechanism. The second base, the magazine assembly, and the hammer assembly are pivotally connected with the first base. The fastening mechanism has an operating unit and an elastic unit disposed on one of the first and the second bases. The operating unit is configured to slide between a locking position and an unlocking position. When the operating unit is at the locking position, the operating unit is engaged with the other one of the first and the second bases to maintain the stapler in a staple-folding mode. When the operating unit is at the unlocking position, the second base pivots away from the magazine assembly to an open state to switch the stapler to a tacking mode.
Claims20
A dual-mode stapler comprising:
- two bases respectively being
- a first base;
- and
- a second base pivotally connected with the first base;
- a magazine assembly pivotally connected with the first base and spaced from the second base;
- a hammer assembly pivotally connected with the first base and spaced from the second base;
- and
- a fastening mechanism having
- an operating unit disposed on one of the two bases and configured to slide between a locking position and an unlocking position along a sliding direction;
- and
- an elastic unit disposed between the operating unit and the base on which the operating unit is disposed, and the elastic unit being elastically deformable to drive the operating unit toward the locking position;
- wherein
- when the operating unit is at the locking position, the operating unit is engaged with the other one of the two bases;
- when the operating unit is at the unlocking position, the operating unit is withdrawn from said the other one of the two bases so as to allow the second base to pivot relative to the first base away from the magazine assembly to an open state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.