A fastener driver includes a housing, a cylinder disposed within the housing, a piston positioned and moveable within the cylinder, and a driver blade. The driver blade includes a body defining a first end having an aperture defined therein and a second end opposite the first end. The aperture is sized to receive a fastener to attach the driver blade to the piston. The driver blade is moveable with the piston from a first position toward a second position along a longitudinal axis during a fastener driving operation. A nosepiece at least partially defining a fastener driving track through which fasteners are driven. A total length of the fastener driver as measured between a distal end of the nosepiece and a distal end of the cylinder is less than 11.4 inches (289.6 mm).

A fastener driver includes a magazine having a magazine cover and a magazine body. The magazine cover includes a top surface having an opening defined therein. The magazine body is slidably movable relative to the magazine cover from a closed position to an open position. A latch is coupled to the top surface of the magazine cover and extends through the opening in the top surface of the magazine cover. The latch includes a latch projection that defines a first contact surface. A pusher body is slidably coupled to the magazine body and includes an arm member that defines a second contact surface. A biasing member biases the pusher toward a nosepiece when the magazine body is in the closed position. The first and second contact surfaces are engageable to hold the pusher body in a latched position when the magazine body is in the open position.

A surgical stapler, or fastening instrument, may generally comprise a layer, such as a tissue thickness compensator, for example, releasably attached to a fastener cartridge and/or anvil by a flowable attachment portion. The flowable attachment portion may be indefinitely flowable. The flowable attachment portion may be flowable from the time that layer is installed to the fastener cartridge to the time in which the layer is implanted to patient tissue. The flowable attachment portion may comprise a pressure sensitive adhesive. The flowable attachment portion may comprise an adhesive laminate comprising a base layer comprising the tissue thickness compensator and an adhesive layer on at least a portion of a surface of the base layer comprising the pressure sensitive adhesive. Articles of manufacture comprising flowable attachment portion and methods of making and using the flowable attachment portion are also described.

The invention relates to a nail passage mechanism used for a nail gun. The nail passage mechanism comprises a muzzle member having a nail hole, a muzzle cover disposed above the muzzle member, a nail passing channel formed between the muzzle member and the muzzle cover permitting a striking member to pass therethrough for striking a nail. The muzzle cover comprises a clearance groove permitting more than one tooth blocks located on the striking member to pass therethrough, and the clearance groove locates on a first side of the nail passing channel.

An anvil-attachable layer for use with a surgical stapler, or fastening instrument, wherein a proximal end portion of the layer is attached to a staple cartridge assembly, for example. The layer may be attached to the staple cartridge assembly by an adhesive, weld, or a staple-cartridge-based clamp, wherein the attachment is weak enough to allow the layer to pull away from the staple cartridge assembly with stapled tissue. Alternatively, the layer can include two or more lateral slits that define a connector region that can be cut by a knife of a surgical stapler to release the layer.

A stapler comprises a base (1), a staple pin track (2), a top blade assembly (3), a hinge (4) and an upper cover (5). Tail ends of the staple pin track, the top blade assembly and the upper cover are all hingedly connected to a tail end of the base. A first guide part is disposed on a side wall of the upper cover, and one end of the hinge is slidably connected to the first guide part. The first guide part is set in a structure that when the upper cover is pressed, one end of the hinge can move to the tail end of the upper cover and press downwards. A second guide part is disposed on the side wall of the base, and the other end of the hinge is slidably connected to the second guide part. The second guide part is set in a structure that when the upper cover is pressed, the other end of the hinge can move to a front end of the base, and when the upper cover is opened, the other end of the hinge is separated from the base. A middle part of the hinge is hingedly connected to a middle of the top blade assembly, and the first guide part is close to the tail end of the upper cover. The present invention has a good labor-saving effect and makes it convenient to put in staple pins.

A holding and dispensing device may conveniently store fasteners and permits a user to easily and quickly retrieve and dispense fasteners, such as staples, one at a time, without the risk of fasteners falling out of the device, or protruding in a manner that may harm the user. Embodiments may be especially suitable for a core of staples. The present disclosure further relates to methods of holding fasteners in a fastener holder and methods of dispensing fasteners.

A stapler includes an elongated channel body pivotably attached to a base, and an elongated magazine track coaxially disposed in and movable relative to a channel of the channel body in a front-and-rear direction between first and second positions. One of the channel body and the magazine track has a bottom wall on which a resilient damping member is disposed, while the other one thereof has a bottom wall which is formed with a frictionless segment, a friction-increasing segment and a stop segment. A friction end of the damping member is disposed at the frictionless segment in the first position, and is slidably moved on and frictionally engaged with the friction-increasing segment and stopped on the stop segment in the second position.

Electrically powered fastening devices configured to drive staples suited to multiple applications. The fastening device includes an adjustable feeder and depth gauge, a hammer device with a mechanism for translating rotary power to linear striking force, and a staple guide configured to drive staples with selected, specialized profiles and configured with inner radii sized and shaped to conform to particular wire and sheathing diameters.

The present invention provides a multifunctional stapler including a housing, a nailing portion arranged at a front end of the housing, and a toggling device, a part of which being arranged inside the housing and a part of which extending to the outside of the housing. The nailing portion comprises: a staple feeding member arranged at a front end of the bottom of the housing, a staple feeding groove arranged on the surface at one side of the staple feeding member for receiving staples, a striking member, a part of which being inserted into the staple feeding groove, the toggling device controlling the striking member to strike the staples, and an adjusting device, a part of which being arranged outside the housing, for adjusting a depth of the staple feeding groove.