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Class Number: 227 Class Title: ELONGATED-MEMBER-DRIVING APPARATUS Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING OR DISABLING MEANS 2 WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SENSED CONDITION 3 .Responsive to work feed means 4 .Responsive to position of work support or anvil 5 .Work-responsive 6 ..Position of work 7 ...Control initiates driver-actuation 175 SURGICAL STAPLERS 176 .With magazine 177 ..Including biasing means 178 .Multiple driving means 179 ..Tubular driving path 180 .With cutting means 181 .With means to position a mating-member in alignment with driver 182 .With means to prevent partial drive cycle 8 WITH INTERLOCK MEANS 9 EXPLOSIVE-TYPE DRIVING MEANS 10 .With plunger 11 .With protective shield 12 STRETCHING TOOL WITH MEANS TO FASTEN FLACCID WORK TO RIGID BASE 13 .Including mechanical means to apply force to stretching tool 14 WITH MEANS TO CEMENT WORK OR MEMBER 15 WITH MEANS TO POSITION "MATING-MEMBER" IN ALIGNMENT WITH DRIVER 16 .Strip-type "mating-member" 17 .With means to form "mating-member" 18 .Comprising feed means for "mating-member" 19 WITH MEANS TO ASSEMBLE PLURAL PIECES OF WORK 20 .With means to deform work 21 ..Including cutting means 22 ..Including means to rotate work 23 ...With die-shaping means 24 ...With end-inserting or clamping means 25 ..Means to buckle flaccid work 26 .With means to place member between workpieces (e.g., dowels, etc.) 27 .With drilling or punching means 28 .With means to sequentially secure layers (e.g., heels, etc.) 29 ..With work clamp 30 .With driver acting through clamp jaw 31 .Bight attaching means (e.g., buttons, etc.) 32 ..Including means to insert member in bight 33 ...With member-forming means 34 ...After member is applied to a workpiece 35 ....Single pointed member 36 ....With work feed means 37 ..With work feed means 38 ...With means to actuate driver 39 .Work conveyer means 40 ..Including common means to shift and clamp work 41 ..Pivoted work carrier 42 ...Plural pivotal axess 43 ..Including means to align member-aperture with member 44 ..Endless conveyer 45 ...Including magazine-type work supply means 46 ...With reel-type work supply means 47 ....Including work cutting means 48 ..Including magazine-type work supply means 49 ...With means to rotate work 50 ...With means to move assemblage to fastener station 51 WITH MEANS TO HEAD MEMBER 52 .Driver or heading means located within tubular work 53 .Common tool to drive and head member 54 .Pointed or edged tool 55 .Heading tool extends within hollow portion of member 56 ..Simultaneously used heading tools 57 ..With work feed means 58 ..With means to form opening in work for member 59 ...Heading means also acting as opening former 60 ..With pilot pin 61 .Anvil 62 ..Die 63 WITH MEANS TO WITHDRAW MEMBER 64 WITH MEANS TO SHAPE WORK OR CUT PRODUCT 65 .Buckling of flaccid work 66 .Deforming means with rectilinear reciprocating motion 67 .Means to form opening in work for member 68 ..Driver also acting as punch 69 ..Rotatable cutting tool 70 ..Plural cutting tools (e.g., awls, etc.) 71 ...For dual openings 72 ...With pivoted tool carrier 73 ..Including work-feeding means 74 ...Cutting tool having work-feeding motion 75 ....With pivoted tool carrier 76 .Cutting means 77 WITH MEANS TO DEFORM MEMBER REMOTE FROM THE WORK SURFACE AFTER WORK PENETRATION 78 SELECTIVE ALTERNATIVE APPLYING MEANS 79 WITH MEANS TO CUT MEMBER AFTER PENETRATION 80 .From material of indefinite length 81 DRIVING MOTION OF DRIVER HAS COMPONENT IN DIRECTION OF MOVING WORK (I.E., FLYING DRIVER) 82 WITH MEANS TO FORM MEMBER PRIOR TO PENETRATION OF WORK 83 .Deflector 84 .With means to vary length of members 85 .With offset tools to deform members (e.g., bending, drawing, etc.) 86 ..With cutting edge on driver 87 ..With driver acting through offset tools 88 ...Including retractable forming bar 89 ....With movable member-holder 90 ....Pivoted 91 ...Including diverse means to sever and apply member 92 .With opposed tools to form member (e.g., forging, swaging, etc.) 93 .Severing means sole member former 94 ..Including plural diverse severing operations 95 ..With feed means for concatenated members 96 ...Pivoted feed meanss 97 ..Severing means moves member to driver 98 ..With reciprocating member carrier to driver 99 WITH MEANS TO CONVEY WORK OR PRODUCT RELATIVE TO DRIVING STATION 100 .Interrelated conveying and driver-actuating means 101 ..With means to move both the conveyer and a driver carriage 102 ..With means to vary timed relationship between conveyer movement and driver actuating means 103 ..Plural conveying means 104 ..With compound movement of work holder 105 ..With rotary movement of work holder 106 .Work holder moves in curved path 107 WITH MEANS TO MOVE OR GUIDE MEMBER INTO DRIVING POSITION 108 .With work-penetrating clenching tools 109 .Adaptable to dispense different sizes or quantities of members 110 .With positionable driver 111 ..Including means to move driver carriage 112 .Fluid-contact member-feed means 113 .Magnetic member-feed and/or holding means 114 .Including means other than the driver to separate leading member from a supply 115 ..Interrelated separator elements 116 ..Rectilinear motion 117 ..Rotary 118 ...Oscillating separator 119 .With means to assure correct orientation of member(s) 120 .Including supply magazine for constantly urged members 121 ..With means to prevent partial drive cycle 122 ..With means to cut jammed member 123 ..With removable or resiliently urged (antijam) noseplate 124 ..With interrelated driver and work clamp 125 ..With means to disable urging means 126 ...By lock means 127 ..With magazine closure 128 ...Pivoted magazine cover 129 ..With means to actuate driver 130 ...Fluid pressure means 131 ...Magnet or solenoid 132 ...Spring 133 ...Inertia means 134 ..Spring-retracting means 135 .Including carrier feed means for a plurality of members 136 ..With means to feed strip-type carrier 137 ..Rotary 138 .Driver actuates member-feed means 139 .With means to guide member 140 WITH MEANS TO SUPPORT MEMBER AND/OR WORK RELATIVE TO DRIVER 141 .Driver moves work, member held stationary 142 .With means to vary the length of the tool stroke 143 .With means to move elements of tool-pair during driving 144 ..Pivoted tool element 145 .Curved driver path 146 .Spring-actuated driver 147 .Impact-type driver 148 .Comprising means to angularly orient member 149 .Bias-type member holder 150 .Means to guide moving work 151 .Work immobilizerr 152 ..Means to clamp work 153 ...Interrelated with driver-actuation 154 .Work support 155 ..Including clenching means 156 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 901 SURGICAL CLIP APPLIERS 902 SURGICAL CLIPS OR STAPLES