US 12,358,670 B2
Binding machine
Masatoshi Asai, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/409,513.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-004108 (JP), filed on Jan. 13, 2023; and application No. 2023-190917 (JP), filed on Nov. 8, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0239536 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 13/02 (2006.01); A01G 17/08 (2006.01); B65B 13/30 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 13/305 (2013.01) [B65B 13/025 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A binding machine comprising:
a magazine configured to hold a staple that has a main body portion, a first leg portion and a second leg portion and that is opened between the first leg portion and the second leg portion, wherein the main body portion connects the first leg portion and the second leg portion;
a driver configured to push the staple held in the magazine in a forward direction with an opening portion facing forward and configured to move the first leg portion and the second leg portion in the forward direction of the magazine; and
a displacement portion configured to engage the first leg portion and the second leg portion with a first object and to bind a second object inserted between the first leg portion and the second leg portion, by displacing the first leg portion and the second leg portion moved in the forward direction of the magazine, wherein
the displacement portion is configured to displace the first leg portion to intersect the second leg portion in a top view, the top view corresponding to a direction perpendicular to a plane penetrating through the first leg portion, the second leg portion and the main body portion before binding,
the magazine is positioned rearward of an intersection point where the first leg portion and the second leg portion intersect each other in a rearward direction opposite to the forward direction,
the displacement portion is configured to engage the first leg portion and the second leg portion with the first object in a first region forward of the intersection point in the forward direction, and
the displacement portion is configured to bind the second object inserted between the first leg portion and the second leg portion in a second region rearward of the intersection point in the rearward direction.