Powder actuated tool
CA 1099052 A · Owner: Itt Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Pomeroy, Raymond V.
Overview
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A tool for driving nails into hard surfaces wherein the driving power is provided by cartridges of explosive powder. The cartridges are contained in strips with a single strip containing a multiple of cartridges in, the order of ten. The improvement comprises the mechanism for feeding the strip of cartridges in increments automatically through the tool and for retaining the tool piston in its ready to be fired position. The feeding of the cartridges is accomplished by a camming finger connected to the barrel of the tool which progressively engages successive following lugs on the strip to move successive cartridges of the strip into place within the firing chamber as the tool is repeatedly …
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- Granted April 14, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 14, 1998.
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