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US 9,021,672 B2Granted
Fastener and material remover
OwnerJeff David Browninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for removal of fasteners. The apparatus comprises a motor, a rotary drive shaft, a striker mechanism operable to convert rotary motion into reciprocating linear motion and a reciprocating shear blade shaped and sized to shear off fasteners or split materials.
Claims14
An apparatus for removing fasteners comprising:
- a motor having a motor frame and an output shaft;
- a drive shaft, operably connected to the output shaft of the motor;
- a striker retention frame, fixed to and disposed about the drive shaft;
- an array of rolling strikers disposed in the striker retention frame;
- an axially-translatable strike plate, disposed adjacent to the rolling strikers;
- an array of fixed strikers, disposed on the strike plate;
- and
- a shear blade, operably connected to the strike plate.
5 more elements
An apparatus for removing fasteners comprising:
- a motor;
- a flywheel, driven by the motor;
- a rotating striker retention frame, fixed to the flywheel;
- a first array of rotating strikers disposed in the rotating striker retention frame;
- a frame, disposed adjacent to the flywheel and axially-translatable with respect thereto;
- an array of non-rotating strikers, disposed on the frame;
- and
- a shear blade, operably connected to the frame.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.