Coated staple and fastening tool for the same
AssigneeAcme Staple Company, Inc.
InventorsVan Barlow, Onno Boswinkel, Robert Haynes, Richard Gold
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Abstract
Insulated or coated staple and a fastening tool for driving the same into a substrate. The tool includes a housing and a driver reciprocally mounted in the housing and moveable with respect to the housing, the driver having a driving surface for engaging a fastener such as a coated staple. A magazine assembly is associated with the housing for positioning and aligning the coated fastener in the path of the driver so that when actuated, the driver strikes the fastener and forcibly ejects it from the magazine into the substrate on which the object to be fastened is to be secured. Suitable fasteners include coated staples (of various sizes and configurations), nails, brads, rivets, etc.
Claims15
A fastening tool and fasteners for fastening an object to a substrate, said tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a driver mounted in said housing for reciprocal movement in a drive path;
- an actuator for actuating said driver;
- a magazine assembly associated with said housing, said magazine assembly containing one or more individual uniformly coated fasteners, including a forwardmost fastener, each individual fastener forming a unitary structure with said coating, said magazine assembly having a nose end and a tail end spaced from said nose end;
- a pusher in said magazine assembly for urging said plurality of fasteners towards said nose end such that said forwardmost fastener is aligned in said drive path.
An insulated staple for securing a wire to a substrate, comprising:
- a staple body formed into a bight portion;
- and a pair of legs extending from said bight portion, each leg terminating in a free end;
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- a dielectric coating uniformly coated on said staple body prior to formation into said bight portion and said pair of legs, said coating adhering to said bight portion and pair of legs after formation into said bight portion and pair of legs so as to form an integral unitary structure.
A method of fastening an article to a substrate, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a fastening tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a driver mounted in said housing for reciprocal movement in a drive path;
- a magazine assembly associated with said housing, said magazine assembly containing one or more individual uniformly coated fasteners, including a forwardmost fastener, each individual fastener forming a unitary structure with said coating, said magazine assembly having a nose end and a tail end spaced from said nose end;
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- b) properly positioning said fastening tool about said article to be fastened;
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- c) actuating said driver thereby causing said driver to strike said forwardmost coated fastener and propel said forwardmost coated fastener out of said housing and into said substrate about said article.
A method of forming an insulated staple for securing a wire to a substrate, comprising:
- providing a staple body adapted to be formed into a bight portion and a pair of legs extending from said bight portion, each leg terminating in a free end;
- providing a uniform coating on said staple body with a dielectric coating prior to formation into said bight portion and said pair of legs;
- forming said staple body into said bight portion and pair of legs, said coating adhering to said bight portion and said pair of legs after formation into said bight portion and pair of legs so as to form an integral unitary structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.