Nosepiece assembly with a passage for ejecting debris

A powered fastening device nosepiece assembly comprising,

• a drive channel defined by a first nosepiece portion and a second nosepiece portion, the drive channel extending longitudinally between the first nosepiece portion and the second nosepiece portion and being adapted to receive a drive blade that moves longitudinally in the drive channel toward a workpiece contacting nose to cause a first fastener of a collated strip of fasteners to be driven from the nosepiece assembly through a fastener ejection aperture of the workpiece contacting nose and into a workpiece,
• wherein the first nosepiece portion and the second nosepiece portion define a debris ejection passage that is in communication with the drive channel and positioned outward therefrom such that debris located in the drive channel exits from the nosepiece assembly in a direction outward from the drive channel through a debris ejection aperture of the debris ejection passage;
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• wherein the debris ejection aperture is spaced away from the workpiece contacting nose of the nosepiece assembly.