Stapler with illuminated stapling position

• Main Authors: RUIZ ERWIN, KCIUK JENNIFER A, BUZZELLI JOHN T
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.09.2007
• Subjects: COMBINED OPERATIONS; DOVETAILED WORK; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HAND TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; SLOTTING MACHINES FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TENONS; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS; WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK

With a stapler having a fixed stapling position of its stapling head, in which a set of sheets to be stapled is inserted and at least partially manually repositioned under the stapling head to control the actual staple insertion position, an externally visible illuminated line is provided on the set of sheets being repositioned under the staple head, which illuminated line is located directly at the fixed stapling position of the stapling head, irrespective of the manual repositioning of the sheets being stapled, to thereby provide a clearly visible and accurate indication of a selected staple insertion position before actual stapling.