Ejection force adjustable stapler

• US 6,367,676 B1
• Filed: 06/28/2001
• Issued: 04/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samuel Opland, Yeh, Lun-Hai
• Original Assignee: Samuel Opland, Yeh, Lun-Hai
• Inventors: Yeh, Lun-Hai, Opland, Samuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US09/894,411
• Time in Patent Office: 285 Days
• Field of Search: 227/123, 227/127, 227/128, 227/156, 227/120
• US Class Current: 227/123
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 5/11 operated by manual or foot power
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 5/161 employing a spring-loaded puller
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 5/1665 with means for preventing jamming or aiding unjamming within the drive channel
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 5/1696 Staple support displaceable relative to the tool to allow re-loading

Abstract

A stapler includes a casing having a grasp hole defined therethrough and a staple receiving frame is received in the casing. A staple pushing device is engaged with the frame and a groove is defined in a periphery of the grasp hole so that a pressing rod is movably engaged with the groove. Two resilient plates each have an end fixedly connected to the casing and the pressing rod presses on the resilient plates. A staple ejection device is connected to the casing and is connected to the resilient plates. A handle is pivotally connected to the casing and disengagably connected to the staple ejection device. An outer cover is mounted to the casing and a front cover is removably connected to the casing.

Claims

1. A stapler comprising:

a casing having a grasp hole defined therethrough and a staple receiving frame received in said casing, a staple pushing device engaged with said frame and including a push plate slidably mounted to said staple receiving frame, a groove defined in a periphery of said grasp hole and a pressing rod movably engaged with said groove;

two resilient plates each having an end fixedly connected to said casing and said pressing rod pressing on said resilient plates a horizontal plate located in said casing and having two slots;

a staple ejection device connected to said casing and having a base plate and an ejection plate, said base plate and said ejection plate both connected to said resilient plates;

a handle pivotally connected to said casing and disengagably connected to said staple ejection device;

an outer cover mounted to said casing, and

a front cover having a guide member and a grasp member which is pivotally connected to said guide member, said guide member having two hooks which are engaged with said two slots of said horizontal plate in said casing, said grasp member engaged onto said outer casing.

2. The stapler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said staple receiving frame has a hole and said staple pushing device has a press plate pivotally connected thereto, a protrusion extending from said press plate and engaged with said hole in said staple receiving frame, a spring biased between said press plate and said staple push device.

3. The stapler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said outer cover has two holes and a pin extends through said holes in said outer cover, said casing and said handle.

4. The stapler as claimed in claim 3, wherein said pin has a flat end on a first end thereof and a groove is defined in a second end of said pin, a C-shaped clip engaged with said groove in said pin.

5. The stapler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ejection plate has a hole and said base plate has a tongue and a ridge, an end of said ejection plate being pressed by said tongue and said ridge being engaged with said hole in said ejection plate.

6. The stapler as claimed in claim 1, ther comprising two pawls extending frame said grasp member and engaged with two sides of said outer cover.