Pneumatic tool having clockwise and counterclockwise rotation function
AssigneeBasso Industry Corp.
InventorChin-Cheng LEE
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Abstract
A pneumatic tool includes a housing, an air cylinder disposed in the housing, a valve unit, and a controlling unit. The air cylinder has an outer surface formed with a valve seat. A rotary valve of the valve unit is rotatable to allow compressed air to flow into the air cylinder through a selected one of first and second passages to thereby produce clockwise or counterclockwise rotation of the tool. The controlling unit includes a movable pin operable to move in the housing to drive rotation of the rotary valve. Preferably, the valve unit is disposed on the housing in a manner that the space occupied thereby in the housing is reduced.
Claims9
A pneumatic tool comprising:
- a housing having an intake passage adapted to be connected with a compressed air source;
- an air cylinder disposed in said housing and including a cylinder wall centered at an X-axis and defining an air chamber, a valve seat centered at a Z-axis perpendicular to said X-axis and connected to said cylinder wall, a first passage, and a second passage, said first and second passages being formed in said cylinder wall and being in fluid communication with said air chamber and said valve seat;
- a valve unit including a rotary valve that is disposed in said valve seat and that has an intermediate passage, said rotary valve being rotatable about said Z-axis between a first position whereat said intermediate passage is in fluid communication with said first passage in said air cylinder, and a second position whereat said intermediate passage is in fluid communication with said second passage in said air cylinder;
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- a controlling unit including a movable pin disposed movably on said housing and operable to move in said housing along a Y-axis perpendicular to said X-axis and said Z-axis to thereby drive rotation of said rotary valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.