Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Easy grip tool-free depth-of-drive adjustment
- Patent Title (中): 易于握持无工具的驱动深度调节
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Application No.: US13030608Application Date: 2011-02-18
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Publication No.: US08408438B2Publication Date: 2013-04-02
- Inventor: Walter J. Taylor
- Applicant: Walter J. Taylor
- Applicant Address: US IL Glenview
- Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Current Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Glenview
- Agency: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.
- Agent Patty Chidiac; Mark W. Croll
- Main IPC: B25C1/18
- IPC: B25C1/18

Abstract:
An adjustable depth-of-drive assembly for use with a fastener-driving tool upper probe includes a workpiece contact element carried on the upper probe and having a contact end and an adjustment end, a stop configured for being secured to the upper probe and being moveable between an adjusting position in which the workpiece contact element is movable relative to the upper probe, and a locked position wherein the adjustment end is secured against movement relative to the upper probe, a biasing element associated with the stop and configured for urging the stop and the adjustment end into a selected locked position relative to the upper probe with a biasing force, and at least one camming element carried on the stop for selective camming engagement between the upper probe and the stop by means of a user's manual force to urge the stop into the adjusting position against the biasing element force.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120211541A1 EASY GRIP TOOL-FREE DEPTH-OF-DRIVE ADJUSTMENT Public/Granted day:2012-08-23
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