1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a pneumatic driving tool, and more particularly to a pneumatic driving tool having a pressure releasing device for suitably releasing the air or the air pressure within the pneumatic driving tool, and for preventing the pneumatic driving tool to continuously drive the fasteners even after the fasteners have been completely or tightly driven onto the objects to be fastened.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Typical pneumatic tool comprise a fan device or a rotor rotatably received within a housing and including a shank extended out of the housing, for engaging with and for driving fasteners or tool extensions or other tool members, and an air inlet for receiving and guiding a pressurized air toward the rotor device, in order to rotate or to drive the rotor device and thus to drive the fasteners or the tool extensions or other tool members.
For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,827,834 to Kakimoto discloses one of the typical pneumatic tools comprising a van type rotor rotatably received within a motor cylinder, and including a drive shaft extended out of the motor cylinder, for engaging with and for driving fasteners or tool extensions or other tool members. A pressurized air is supplied into the motor cylinder and guided toward the rotor, in order to rotate or to drive the rotor and thus to drive the fasteners by such as the tool extensions or other tool members.
However, when or after the fasteners have been completely or tightly driven onto the objects to be fastened, or after a predetermined driving torque has been applied onto or against the fasteners or the tool extensions or other tool member, the pressurized air may still be or may continuously be supplied into the motor cylinder and may further rotate or to drive the rotor and the fasteners or the tool extensions or other tool member, such that the rotor and the fasteners or the tool extensions or other tool member may be damaged by the typical pneumatic tools.
The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate the afore-described disadvantages of the conventional pneumatic tool devices.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tool including a pressure releasing device for suitably releasing the air or the air pressure within the pneumatic driving tool, and for preventing the pneumatic driving tool to continuously drive the fasteners even after the fasteners have been completely or tightly driven onto objects.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a pneumatic tool comprising a housing including a chamber formed therein, a rotor rotatably received in the chamber of the housing, a driving shank coupled to the rotor, for being rotated by the rotor, and including one end for driving a fastener, the housing includes a conduit formed therein, for receiving and for guiding a pressurized air to drive the rotor to rotate relative to the housing, and a pressure releasing device may further be provided for releasing the pressurized air after the fastener has been tightly threaded onto an object to be fastened.
The housing includes a container rotatably received therein and coupled to the rotor, for being rotated in concert with the rotor, the container includes a chamber formed therein for receiving a fluid therein, and for partially receiving the driving shank.
The driving shank includes at least one paddle attached thereto for being frictionally driven by the container by the fluid, and includes at least one spring member disposed therein and engaged between the driving shank and the paddle, to bias the paddle against an inner peripheral surface of the container.
The pressure releasing means includes a pole slidably engaged through the rotor, the container includes a slot formed in an outer peripheral portion thereof and at least one orifice formed therein and communicating with the chamber and the slot thereof, for allowing the fluid to flow from the chamber into the slot via the orifice of the container, and to selectively force the pole to move relative to the housing and the rotor.
The housing includes a bore and a valve seat provided therein, and a spring-biased ball disposed in the bore of the housing and biased to selectively engage with and to block the valve seat of the housing, the pole is engaged with the ball, to selectively disengage the ball away from the valve seat of the housing when the fastener has been tightly threaded onto the object.
The housing includes a block disposed therein and having the bore and the valve seat provided in the block. The block includes a pathway formed therein, the housing includes a piston slidably disposed therein, and arranged to selectively block the pathway of the block.
The piston includes a longitudinal orifice and a transverse aperture formed therein, for selectively receiving the pressurized air flown into the housing, and the housing includes a release perforation formed therein, for selectively aligning with the transverse aperture of the piston when the piston blocks the pathway of the block.
The housing includes a first peripheral channel and a second peripheral channel formed therein and communicating with the chamber thereof, and a receptacle secured in the chamber of the housing for rotatably receiving the rotor therein, and the receptacle includes a first aperture and a second aperture formed therein and communicating with the first and the second peripheral channels of the housing respectively, and arranged to guide the pressurized air to drive the rotor to rotate in different direction relative to the housing, the first peripheral channel of the housing is communicating with the pathway of the block.
The container includes a rod slidably received in the slot thereof, and arranged to selectively block the orifice of the container, to adjust a flowing of the fluid through the orifice of the container, and thus to adjust a force of the fluid applied against the pole.
The container includes a duct formed therein for partially receive the pole, the rod includes a peripheral recess formed therein, and includes a transverse aperture and a longitudinal orifice formed therein for communicating the chamber and the orifice of the container with the duct of the container, and to allow the fluid to force and to move the pole relative to the rotor and the housing.
The rod includes a screw hole formed in one end thereof, and threaded with an adjusting screw, to move and to adjust the rod relative to the container when the adjusting screw is rotated relative to the container. The housing includes an orifice formed therein, for selectively communicating with the slot of the container, and thus for rotating the adjusting screw rotated relative to the container to adjust the driving torque of the driving shank against the fastener.
The container includes an inner peripheral surface, the rotor includes a plurality of blades slidably received therein, for engaging with the inner peripheral surface of the container when the rotor is rotated relative to the container. The rotor includes a plurality of cavities formed in an outer peripheral portion thereof and facing radially and outwardly therefrom, for slidably receiving the blades therein respectively.
Further objectives and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from a careful reading of the detailed description provided hereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring to the drawings, and initially to
The handle 11 includes a cap 16 attached to the rear portion thereof, for enclosing the chamber 12 thereof, and includes an inlet 17 formed therein, for coupling to such as a pressurized air reservoir, for receiving the pressurized air therefrom, and includes an outlet 18 formed therein, for releasing the pressurized air. The housing 10 includes a conduit 19 formed therein (
A receptacle 20 is received or secured within the chamber 12 of the housing 10 and includes one or more apertures 21, 22, 23 formed therein and communicating with the peripheral channels 13, 14 and the passage 15 of the housing 10 respectively, and includes a rotor 24 rotatably received therein. As best shown in
The blades 26 may be forced to slide radially and outwardly relative to the rotor 24, to engage with an inner peripheral surface 27 of the receptacle 20, by an eccentric force, when the rotor 24 is rotated relative to the receptacle 20. As shown in
The cap 16 or the housing 10 includes an insert or a block 30 disposed or secured therein, and includes a pathway 31 formed therein (
The housing 10 includes a passageway 32 formed therein (
A valve member 43 is rotatably disposed within the sleeve 40, and includes an opening 44 formed therein for selectively communicating with the holes 41, 42 of the sleeve 40 and thus the conduit 19 and passageway 32 of the housing 10 respectively (FIGS. 10-12), in order to selectively guide the pressurized air to flow into either the apertures 21 or the apertures 22 of the receptacle 20 (
The valve member 43 further includes two openings 46, 47 formed therein (
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A piston 50 is slidably disposed in the housing 10, such as slidably disposed between the block 30 and the cap 16 of the housing 10, and includes an extension 51 extended therefrom and slidably engaged into the bore 34 of the block 30, for engaging with the spring member 37, and includes a longitudinal orifice 52 and a transverse aperture 53 formed therein and intersecting or perpendicular to each other, for selectively receiving the pressurized air that flows into the conduit 19 of the cap 16 or of the housing 10 (
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A driving shank 70 includes one end 71 rotatably received in the chamber 61 of the container 60, and an engaging hole 72 formed in the other end thereof for receiving a tool bit 73 or other tool members 73 (
In operation, as shown in
When the fasteners to be driven have been completely or tightly driven onto the objects to be fastened, or after the driving shank 70 and the tool member 73 has applied a predetermined driving torque against the fasteners to be driven, or when the fasteners may no longer be rotated or driven by the driving shank 70 and the tool member 73, or when the driving shank 70 and the tool member 73 are stopped by the fasteners, the hydraulic oil or fluid 62 contained within the chamber 61 of the container 60 may be forced by the paddles 75 to flow into the slot 63 via the orifices 64 of the container 60, and then to flow into the duct 65 of the container 60, in order to actuate the pole 28 (
As described before, the ball 36 may then be moved away from the valve seat 35 of the block 30 or the cap 16 or the housing 10, against the spring member 37 by the pole 28, to allow the pressurized air to flow through the longitudinal orifice 52 of the piston 50 and then to flow out through the release perforation 38 of the block 30 or the housing 10, in order to release the pressure within the chamber 12 of the housing 10 and the pathway 31 of the block 30 or of the housing 10. The pressurized air flowing into the conduit 19 of the housing 10 may then force the piston 50 to block the pathway 31 of the block 30 or of the housing 10, until the transverse aperture 53 of the piston 50 is aligned with the other release perforation 39 of the block 30 or the housing 10 (
When the pressurized air flows out through either or both of the release perforations 38, 39 of the block 30 or the housing 10, the users or the operators may thus know that the fasteners to be driven have been completely or tightly driven onto the objects to be fastened, and may thus actuate the trigger 49 to stop or to turn off the pressurized air, and to prevent the pressurized air from being continuously supplied to the housing 10.
When the valve member 43 is rotated relative to the sleeve 40, to align the opening 44 thereof with the hole 42 of the sleeve 40 and thus the passageway 32 of the housing 10 (
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The rod 80 further includes a screw hole 85 formed in one end thereof for threading with an adjusting screw 86 which may be rotatably received or retained within the container 60, to prevent the adjusting screw 86 from sliding relative to the container 60. When the adjusting screw 86 is rotated relative to the container 60 and the rod 80, the rod 80 may be moved relative to the container 60, to adjustably blocking the orifices 64 of the container 60, and thus to adjust the force of the hydraulic fluid 62 applied against the pole 28, in order to adjust the driving torque applied onto or against the fasteners or the tool extensions or other tool member by the driving shank 70.
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Accordingly, the pneumatic tool in accordance with the present invention includes a pressure releasing device for suitably releasing the air or the air pressure within the pneumatic driving tool, and for preventing the pneumatic driving tool to continuously drive the fasteners even after the fasteners have been completely or tightly driven onto objects.
Although this invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is to be understood that the present disclosure has been made by way of example only and that numerous changes in the detailed construction and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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093207478 | May 2004 | TW | national |