Air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun
11583986 ยท 2023-02-21
Assignee
Inventors
- I-Tsung Wu (New Taipei, TW)
- Chia-Sheng Liang (New Taipei, TW)
- Hai-Lun Ma (New Taipei, TW)
- Kai-Peng Hsien (New Taipei, TW)
Cpc classification
International classification
Abstract
An air-path structure of a pneumatic nail gun includes a main chamber formed in a gun body, a piston driving chamber and a timekeeping chamber that continuously releases pressurized air to the outside. The gun body is equipped with a trigger valve and a bar valve, and a security chamber and an auxiliary chamber are formed in the trigger valve; the trigger valve controls the pressurized air in the piston driving chamber to be discharged to the outside; and the bar valve controls the pressurized air in the main chamber to go into the piston driving chamber, the timekeeping chamber and the auxiliary chamber. The security chamber is permanently connected to the main chamber for concentrating upon the pressurized air, and the bar valve controls the pressurized air in the main chamber to be discharged into the timekeeping chamber, so as to improve the safety of pneumatic nail gun when used.
Claims
1. An air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun, comprising: a gun body, a main chamber located inside the gun body and configured to concentrate pressurized air, a piston driving chamber and a timekeeping chamber that is configured to continuously release the pressurized air to the outside; a trigger valve, configured on the gun body, wherein the trigger valve comprises a ring-shaped shuttle valve, a security chamber and an auxiliary chamber, the two ends of the ring-shaped shuttle valve are respectively exposed in the security chamber and the main chamber, and the ring-shaped shuttle valve goes through the auxiliary chamber, the pressurized air inside the security chamber forms a first thrust, the pressurized air inside the main chamber forms a second thrust, the pressurized air inside the auxiliary chamber forms a third thrust; the first thrust, the second thrust and the third thrust respectively act on the ring-shaped shuttle valve, and the second thrust and the third thrust are respectively in a direction opposite to the direction of the first thrust, the trigger valve is configured to control the pressurized air inside the piston driving chamber to be released out of the gun body through the ring-shaped shuttle valve; a bar valve, configured on the gun body, wherein the bar valve is configured to control the pressurized air inside the main chamber to enter the piston driving chamber, the timekeeping chamber and the auxiliary chamber; wherein, the security chamber is permanently connected to the main chamber and is configured to concentrate the pressurized air, and when the bar valve is configured to control the pressurized air inside the auxiliary chamber to go to the timekeeping chamber and to be released continuously to the outside, the first thrust is configured to be larger than the sum of the second thrust and the third thrust, so as to drive the ring-shaped shuttle valve to move to a security unlock-position; when the pressurized air inside the main chamber goes to the auxiliary chamber through the bar valve, the sum of the third thrust and the second thrust formed by the pressurized air concentrated inside the auxiliary chamber is configured to be larger than the first thrust, so as to drive the ring-shaped shuttle valve to move from the security unlock-position to a security lock-position.
2. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 1, wherein the inside of the gun body is formed with an intake path extending between the main chamber and the security chamber, and the intake path is configured to guide the pressurized air from the main chamber to the security chamber.
3. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 2, wherein the trigger valve also comprises a trigger valve seat and a trigger valve stem, the trigger valve seat is located at the bottom of the trigger valve, and is fitted on the gun body, the trigger valve stem goes through the trigger valve seat and is planted into the ring-shaped shuttle valve, the security chamber is formed between the ring-shaped shuttle valve and the trigger valve seat, the auxiliary chamber is formed between the gun body and the ring-shaped shuttle valve.
4. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 3, wherein the ring-shaped shuttle valve has a first surface, a second surface and a third surface, the first surface is exposed in the security chamber, the second surface is exposed in the main chamber, the third surface is exposed in the auxiliary chamber, the first surface has a thrust area contacting the pressurized air relatively larger than that of the second surface, and the sum of the thrust area of the second surface and the third surface contacting the pressurized air is relatively larger than the first surface.
5. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 3, wherein between the ring-shaped shuttle valve and the trigger valve stem, a first valve part of the trigger valve and a second valve part of the trigger valve are formed, the ring wall of the ring-shaped shuttle valve is formed with a first hole that is connected to the bar valve, a second hole that is connected to the outside, a third hole that is connected to the bar valve and a fourth hole that is connected to the bar valve, the time of connection between the first hole and the second hole is controlled by the first valve part of the trigger valve, and the time of connection between the third hole and the fourth hole is controlled by the second valve part of the trigger valve.
6. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 5, wherein the first valve part of the trigger valve and the second valve part of the trigger valve are respectively formed between the ring-shaped shuttle valve and the trigger valve stem sequentially along the axial direction of the ring-shaped shuttle valve, the first hole, the second hole, the third hole and the fourth hole are respectively formed on the ring wall of the ring-shaped shuttle valve sequentially along the axial direction of the ring-shaped shuttle valve.
7. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 1, wherein the inside of the gun body is formed with a bar valve chamber, the bar valve comprises a safety bar slidably fitted in the bar valve chamber, one end of the safety bar protrudes out of the gun body, and the other end of the safety bar is planted inside the main chamber.
8. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 7, wherein between the bar valve chamber and the safety bar, a first valve part of the bar valve, a second valve part of the bar valve and a third valve part of the bar valve are respectively formed, the wall surface of the bar valve chamber is formed with a first path connected to the piston driving chamber, a second path connected to the trigger valve, a third path connected to the timekeeping chamber, a fourth path connected to the trigger valve and a fifth path connected to the main chamber, the time of connection between the main chamber and the first path is controlled by the first valve part of the bar valve, and the time of connection between the first path and the second path is controlled by the first valve part of the bar valve, the time of connection between the third path and the fourth path is controlled by the second valve part of the bar valve, the time of connection between the third path, the fourth path and the fifth path is controlled by the third valve part of the bar valve.
9. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 8, wherein the first valve part of the bar valve, the second valve part of the bar valve and the third valve part of the bar valve are respectively and sequentially formed between the bar valve chamber and the safety bar along the axial direction of the bar valve chamber, the first path, the second path, the third path, the fourth path and the fifth path are respectively and sequentially formed on the wall surface of the bar valve chamber along the axial direction of the bar valve chamber.
10. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 1, wherein one end of the gun body is formed with a decompress hole connected to the timekeeping chamber, and the timekeeping chamber is configured to continuously release the pressurized air to the outside through the decompress hole.
11. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 10, wherein the sectional area of the timekeeping chamber is relatively larger than the decompress hole.
12. The air-path structure of pneumatic nail gun defined in claim 10, wherein one end of the gun body is also formed with an exhaust hole connected to the timekeeping chamber and a press-bar that is configured to control the connection of the exhaust hole to the outside, the sectional area of the exhaust hole is relatively larger than the decompress hole.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
(6) Referring collectively to
(7) The gun body 10 is configured with a cylinder 12, and the cylinder 12 is configured with a firing valve 13 capable of sliding. The firing valve 13 separates the inside of the cylinder 12 into a top cylinder chamber 121 and a bottom cylinder chamber 122 with changeable volumes; the top part of the cylinder 12 is configured with a flexible disc piston 14 loaded with spring force. It is not necessary that the disc piston 14 is in the shape of a round disc, it can also be, for example, rectangular or in other shapes; specifically, as long as it is used to control the time when the pressurized air inside the gun body 10 to enter the cylinder 12 (including the top cylinder chamber 121 or the bottom cylinder chamber 122), and to appropriately drive the firing valve 13 to shoot nails, it is covered by the definition of the disc piston 14 of the present invention. The top part of the disc piston 14 is formed with a piston driving chamber 141, the gun body 10 is formed with a main chamber 11 for concentration of the pressurized air, the main chamber 11 surrounds the periphery of the cylinder 12 and the disc piston 14; the inside of the gun body 10 is also formed with a timekeeping chamber 40, the timekeeping chamber 40 can continuously release the pressurized air to the outside.
(8) Referring to
(9) Further, the ring-shaped shuttle valve 21 has a first surface 21a, a second surface 21b and a third surface 21c, the third surface 21c is located between a first surface 21a and a second surface 21b, wherein the first surface 21a is exposed in the security chamber 23, the second surface 21b is exposed in the main chamber 11, and the third surface 21c is exposed in the auxiliary chamber 24. The ring-shaped shuttle valve 21 can be driven by the pressurized air inside the security chamber 23 received by the first surface 21a and move along the axial direction of the trigger valve stem 25 to a security unlock-position 21d, or driven by the pressurized air inside the main chamber 11 received by the second surface 21b and driven by the pressurized air inside the auxiliary chamber 24 received by the third surface 21c and move along the axial direction of the trigger valve stem 25 to a security lock-position 21e.
(10) In actual implementation, the pressurized air inside the security chamber 23 forms a first thrust F1 (as shown in
(11) Referring to
(12) One side of the gun body 10 is formed with a decompress hole 41 connected to the timekeeping chamber 40, the timekeeping chamber 40 is connected to the outside through the decompress hole 41. The sectional area of the inside of the timekeeping chamber 40 must be relatively larger than the decompress hole 41. Thus, the pressurized air concentrated inside the timekeeping chamber 40 can be continuously released to the outside. Moreover, the timekeeping chamber 40 is also configured with an exhaust hole 42 and a press-bar 43 that controls the connection of the exhaust hole 42 to the outside, the sectional area of the exhaust hole 42 is relatively larger than the decompress hole 41. When the user presses on the press-bar 43, the pressurized air inside the timekeeping chamber 40 can be quickly released to the outside through the exhaust hole 42.
(13) Referring to
(14) Further, between the inner wall of the ring-shaped shuttle valve 21 and the stem wall of the trigger valve stem 25 can be configured with three O-rings 27a, 27b, 27c, distributed concentrically along the axial direction with appropriate intervals, wherein, between the inner wall of the ring-shaped shuttle valve 21, the stem wall of the trigger valve stem 25, O-ring 27a and O-ring 27b, the first valve part of the trigger valve 261 is formed, and between the inner wall of the ring-shaped shuttle valve 21, the stem wall of the trigger valve stem 25, O-ring 27b and O-ring 27c, the second valve part of the trigger valve 262 is formed. The time of connection between the first hole 211 and the second hole 212 is controlled by the first valve part of the trigger valve 261, and the time of connection between the third hole 213 and the fourth hole 214 is controlled by the second valve part of the trigger valve 262.
(15) Referring again to
(16) Further, between wall surface of the bar valve chamber 31 and the stem wall of the safety bar 32, 4 O-rings 34a, 34b, 34c, 34d can be configured concentrically along the axial direction with certain intervals, wherein, the wall surface of the bar valve chamber 31, the stem wall of the safety bar 32, O-rings 34a and O-ring 34b constitute the first valve part of the bar valve 331, the time of connection between the main chamber 11 and the first path 311 is controlled through the first valve part of the bar valve 331, the time of connection between the first path 311 and the second path 312 is controlled by the first valve part of the bar valve 331. In other words, through the control by the first valve part of the bar valve 331, the main chamber 11 and the first path 311 can be interconnected, or the first path 311 and the second path 312 can be interconnected; the wall surface of the bar valve chamber 31, the stem wall of the safety bar 32, O-ring 34b and O-ring 34c constitute the second valve part of the bar valve 332. The time of connection between the third path 313 and the fourth path 314 is controlled by the second valve part of the bar valve 332. In other words, the third path 313 and the fourth path 314 can be interconnected by the second valve part of the bar valve 332. The wall surface of the bar valve chamber 31, the stem wall of the safety bar 32, O-ring 34c and O-ring 34d constitute the third valve part of the bar valve 333. The time of connection between the third path 313, the fourth path 314 and the fifth path 315 is controlled by the third valve part of the bar valve 333. In other words, through the control by the third valve part of the bar valve 333, the third path 313, the fourth path 314 and the fifth path 315 can be interconnected.
(17) Referring sequentially to the figures from
(18) Further, when the user presses the safety bar 32 (as shown in
(19) Then, after the user presses the safety bar 32 and keeps the pressing while further pressing the trigger valve stem 25 (as shown in
(20) At last, when the user presses the trigger valve stem 25, keeps the pressing and releases the safety bar 32 (as shown in
(21) Referring sequentially to the figures from
(22) Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.