Plug tool and related method of use
AssigneeNational Nail Corp.
InventorRoger A. Vandenberg
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Abstract
A plug tool is provided that can retrieve, hold and/or install plugs in holes defined by a substrate such as a board. The tool can include a handle including an upper portion and a lower portion, a tube extending from the lower portion, the tube sized to receive a plug therein, and an ejector configured to eject a plug from the tube. A method of using the tool can include placing the tube over a plug having a plug face, a plug sidewall and a plug bottom such that the plug sidewall engages and is retained in the tube; moving the tool so that the tube is aligned with a hole defined by a recipient board, the hole bounded by a hole sidewall; and ejecting the plug from the tube so the plug sidewall engages the hole sidewall and is deposited in the plug hole.
Claims17
A method of moving a plug relative to a board, the method comprising:
- providing a tool including an elongated handle, an upper portion and a lower portion with a tube extending from the lower portion;
- placing the tube adjacent a plug having a plug face, a plug sidewall and a plug bottom such that the plug sidewall engages and is retained in the tube;
- moving the tool so that the tube is aligned with a hole defined by a recipient board, the hole bounded by a hole sidewall, the hole being at least partially occupied by a head of a fastener securing the recipient board to a substrate;
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- ejecting the plug from the tube so that the plug sidewall engages the hole sidewall and is deposited in the plug hole of the recipient board.
A method of moving a plug relative to a board, the method comprising:
- placing a tube of a tool over a plug having a plug face, a plug sidewall and a plug bottom such that the plug sidewall engages and is retained in the tube;
- moving the tool so that the tube is aligned with a hole defined by a recipient board, the hole bounded by a hole sidewall;
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- ejecting the plug from the tube so that the plug sidewall engages the hole sidewall and is deposited in the plug hole to conceal a fastener securing the recipient board to a substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.