Siding adaptor for nail guns

An adaptor for detachably mounting on a discharge tip of a powered nail gun, said adaptor being operable to facilitate the use of the powered nail gun to install siding panels onto a building structure, each siding panel having an upper lip structure, comprising:

• a body member having an upper surface, a lower surface and a side wall oriented perpendicularly to said lower surface and extending around said lower surface and defining a perimeter of said body;
• said body member being formed with a shaped recess into the upper surface, said recess having a floor and being shaped to conform to the discharge tip of said nail gun to permit said body member to be mounted onto said discharge tip with said discharge tip being positioned adjacent said floor of said recess;
• and
• a discharge passageway formed in a fixed diameter cylindrical projection extending from said floor of said recess and through said bottom surface, said discharge passageway being in alignment with said discharge tip of said nail gun to permit the passage of nails discharged from said nail gun through said adaptor, said discharge passageway being configured in a frusto-conical shape with a larger diameter of said frusto-conical shape being located at said floor to direct nails discharged from said nail gun through a distal smaller diameter of said frusto-conical shape defining a discharge opening at the terminus of said fixed cylindrical projection.

A method of attaching siding panels onto a building structure, each siding panel having an upper lip structure and upper connective structure along an upper edge and a lower connective structure along a lower edge configured to interengage with the upper connective structure of an adjacent siding panel, comprising the steps of:

• detachably securing an adaptor onto a discharge tip of a powered nail gun, said adaptor having a body member configured to conform to the discharge tip, said body member including a fixed diameter cylindrical projection extending below a lower surface of said body member and defining internally of said cylindrical projection frusto-conical discharge passageway terminating in a discharge opening for said adaptor;
• placing said circular projection into said upper connective structure in alignment with framework of said building structure;
• discharging a nail from said powered nail gun through the discharge opening in said circular projection of said adaptor to secure the upper connective structure to said framework of said building structure;
• displacing said nail gun along said upper connective strip to another point of alignment with said framework of said building structure;
• and
• further discharging another nail from said powered nail gun through said circular projection into said upper connective structure.