Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

A powder-actuated tool with power adjustment and angle-fire control

EP 0042485 B1 · Applicant: OLIN CORPORATION

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed May 11, 1981 and granted February 6, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 11, 2001.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by November 11, 2006.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMay 11, 1981
PublishedDecember 30, 1981
GrantedFebruary 6, 1985
Term endedMay 11, 2001
Application numberEP 81103566
Classification (CPC)B25C1/14 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedMay 11, 1981PublishedDec 30, 1981Patent grantedFeb 6, 1985Term endedMay 11, 2001

Sources & verification