Patent ID: 8505187

Claim:
A guide and setting device for an element, comprising a hollow guide piece, a plunger axially displaceably arranged within the guide piece and first holding members which are displaceably guided perpendicular to the plunger and biased in the direction towards a longitudinal axis of at least one of the plunger and the guide piece wherein, in the retracted loading position of the plunger, one element can be inserted between the holding members and the free end of the plunger, wherein the holding members can be opened as a result of the axial advance movement of the plunger and the respective element moved in the axial direction past the holding members, in that further holding members following the first holding members are provided which hold the element during a setting stroke and in that latching elements are provided which prevent opening of the further holding members during the setting stroke but after the completion of the setting stroke allow the opening of the further holding members to release the element.