Exhaust mechanism of pneumatic nailing machine

• US 5,878,936 A
• Filed: 06/07/1996
• Issued: 03/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Max Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Max Co Limited
• Inventors: Adachi, Michiaki, Kishi, Nobuo, Aihara, Yasunori, Ogawa, Tatsushi, Kosuge, Makoto, Hagiwara, Motomitsu, Takezaki, Mitsugu, Naito, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US08/657,882
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• Field of Search: 237/130, 237/8, 237/10
• US Class Current: 227/130
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 1/041 with fixed main cylinder

Abstract

An exhaust mechanism of a pneumatic nailing in which a striking cylinder is accommodated in a body and a striking piston in the striking cylinder is driven to drive a nail when compressed air is supplied to and exhausted from an upper portion of the striking cylinder, comprises: an inner cap arranged in the upper portion of the striking cylinder; a cylinder cap covering the inner cap; an exhaust chamber formed along inside the body between the inner cap and the cylinder cap; and a throttle hole formed in a lower portion of the exhaust chamber, wherein the exhaust air exhausted from the upper portion of the striking cylinder is discharged from the throttle hole via the exhaust chamber.

Claims

1. An exhaust mechanism for a pneumatic nailing device in which a striking cylinder-piston mechanism is accommodated in a body and a striking piston extends through a lower portion of the striking cylinder and is driven to drive a nail when compressed air is supplied to and exhausted from an upper portion of the striking cylinder, the exhaust mechanism comprising:

an inner cap arranged adjacent the upper portion of the striking cylinder;

a cylinder cap covering the inner cap and intersecting a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the striking cylinder, said plane also intersecting a portion of the striking cylinder;

an exhaust chamber formed substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the striking cylinder and along the body between the inner cap and the cylinder cap; and

a throttle hole formed in a lower portion of the exhaust chamber, wherein the exhaust air exhausted from the upper portion of the striking cylinder is discharged from the throttle hole via the exhaust chamber.

2. The exhaust mechanism according to claim 1, wherein size of the throttle hole is adjustable.

3. The exhaust mechanism according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cover made of rubber attached outside the upper portion of the striking cylinder.

4. An exhaust mechanism for a pneumatic nailing machine in which a striking cylinder-piston mechanism is accommodated in a cylindrical main body and the striking cylinder-piston mechanism has a striking cylinder and a striking piston accommodated therein, the exhaust mechanism comprising:

a cylindrical cylinder cap having a bottom to cover an upper portion of the striking cylinder-piston mechanism, and a lower end surface of the cylinder cap being butted to an upper end surface of the main body;

an inner cap arranged inside the cylinder cap, the inner cap accommodating a drive valve mechanism for changing over the connection of the striking cylinder between an air supply source and the atmosphere;

an exhaust chamber formed between the inner cap and the cylinder cap, the exhaust chamber diffusing exhaust air sent from the striking cylinder-piston mechanism;

a throttle hole for discharging exhaust air sent from the exhaust chamber, the throttle hole being formed inside at a lower end of the cylinder cap;

a plurality of protrusions, a wall thickness of which is larger than adjacent thin wall portions, said protrusions arranged on a circumferential surface of the main body; and

an exhaust cover having at least one exhaust port, the exhaust cover covering at least one of said thin wall portions, wherein an exhaust passage is formed between the exhaust cover and at least one of said thin wall portions, and an upper end of the exhaust passage is open to the throttle hole.

5. The exhaust mechanism according to claim 4, wherein size of the throttle hole is adjustable.

6. The exhaust mechanism according to claim 4, further comprising:

a cover made of rubber attached outside the upper portion of the striking cylinder.

7. An pneumatic nailing device, comprising:

a housing;

a piston and a cylinder accommodated in the housing, said cylinder having a compression chamber defined by sidewalls of the cylinder and an end cap of the cylinder, and said piston configured to drive a nail when compressed fluid is supplied to and exhausted from said compression chamber of said cylinder; and

an exhaust mechanism located on said housing and including a cylinder cap surrounding said end cap of said cylinder and a portion of said sidewalls of said cylinder to form an exhaust chamber located between said cylinder and said cylinder cap;

wherein fluid exhausted from said compression chamber enters said exhaust chamber and travels along said sidewalls of said cylinder before it is exhausted to atmosphere.

8. A pneumatic nailing device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a throttle hole formed between said cylinder and said cylinder cap such that the exhaust fluid exhausted from said compression chamber is discharged from said throttle hole via said exhaust chamber.

9. A pneumatic nailing device according to claim 8, wherein a size of said throttle hole is adjustable.

10. A pneumatic nailing device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a rubber cover located on an exterior portion of said compression chamber.

11. A pneumatic nailing device according to claim 7, wherein said cylinder cap includes a portion that is concentric with a portion of said sidewalls of said cylinder.