US 2014/0042203 A1Published application

Fastening device

AssigneePlus Corporation

InventorShinya ABE

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Abstract

As a fastening device in which legs of a staple can be bent properly even when a large number of sheets of paper or sheets of hard paper are attempted to be fastened together, a fastening device is provided which includes a magazine portion accommodating staples and a housing portion including a staple driving blade between a handle portion and a base portion, wherein a pushing rod biased so that part of a distal end contacts a magazine front central inner surface is incorporated in a bottom central position of the magazine portion, and wherein the pushing rod defines a space for insertion of a staple between the magazine front central inner surface and an upper portion of the distal end and includes an inclined portion for contact of the pushing rod with the magazine front central inner surface at a lower portion of the distal end thereof.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A fastening device comprising:

a magazine portion which accommodates a strip of staples and a housing portion which includes a staple driving blade for driving out a staple, between a handle portion and a base portion,
wherein the magazine portion incorporates a staple presser for pressing a staple against a front inner surface of the magazine portion and incorporates a pushing rod in a bottom central position of the magazine portion and the pushing rod being biased so that part of a distal end thereof is brought into contact with a magazine front central inner surface, and
wherein the pushing rod defines a space where a staple of the strip of staples is inserted between the magazine front central inner surface and an upper portion of the distal end thereof and includes an inclined portion which brings the pushing rod into contact with the magazine front central inner surface at a lower portion of the distal end thereof.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.