Stabilized clincher for stitcher
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorKenneth W. Lowell
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Abstract
Apparatus for stapling documents. The apparatus includes: a pair of side plates; a stitch head mounting bar secured to the side plates; a clincher mounting bar secured to the side plates; a stitch head mounted on the stitch head mounting bar; a clincher mounted on the clincher mounting bar; a pair of fixture plates secured to the side plates; a clincher actuating bar slidingly engaging the pair of fixture plates; a shaft seated in the fixture plates; a clincher actuating arm rotatably mounted on the shaft and engaging the clincher actuating bar; and a device for rotating the clincher actuating arm whereby the clincher is moved up into clinching position and down away from the clinching position.
Claims5
Apparatus for stapling documents, comprising:
- a pair of side plates;
- a stitch head mounting bar secured to said side plates;
- a clincher mounting bar secured to said side plates;
- a stitch head mounted on said stitch head mounting bar;
- a clincher mounted on said clincher mounting bar;
- a pair of fixture plates secured to said side plates;
- a clincher actuating bar slidingly engaging said pair of fixture plates;
- a shaft seated in the fixture plates;
- a clincher actuating arm rotatably mounted on said shaft and engaging said clincher actuating bar;
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- means for rotating said clincher actuating arm whereby said clincher is moved up into clinching position and down away from said clinching position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.