US 11,865,686 B2
Stapling device
Benjamin Hubschmid, Buchs (CH); Dimitrios Takidis, Dübendorf (CH); and Michael Wettstein, Lenzburg (CH)
Assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed by Signode Industrial Group LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,951.
Application 17/728,951 is a continuation of application No. 16/588,368, filed on Sep. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,311,995.
Application 16/588,368 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2018/000458, filed on May 3, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 00591/17 (CH), filed on May 3, 2017; application No. 00592/17 (CH), filed on May 3, 2017; application No. 00593/17 (CH), filed on May 3, 2017; application No. 00594/17 (CH), filed on May 3, 2017; and application No. 00595/17 (CH), filed on May 3, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250223 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B25C 5/02 (2006.01); B25C 5/15 (2006.01); B25C 5/16 (2006.01)
CPC B25C 5/0207 (2013.01) [B25C 5/0285 (2013.01); B25C 5/15 (2013.01); B25C 5/1624 (2013.01); B25C 5/1637 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A stapling device comprising:
a drive wheel;
a slide comprising a first slide segment and a second slide segment, wherein the first slide segment and the second slide segment form an oblique angle;
a drive shaft receivable by the slide, wherein the drive shaft is coupled to and drivable by the drive wheel such that rotation of the drive wheel in a first rotational direction moves the drive shaft from the first slide segment to the second slide segment back to the first slide segment;
a lifting element, wherein the lifting element defines the slide and is drivable by the drive shaft; and
an ejector coupled to the lifting element and drivable by the drive shaft, wherein movement of the drive shaft from the first slide segment to the second slide segment moves the ejector and the lifting element along an axis from a home position to an ejection position, and wherein movement of the drive shaft from the second slide segment back to the first slide segment moves the ejector and the lifting element along the axis from the ejection position back to the home position.