Fastening Tool Nail Stop
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsLarry E. Gregory, Michael P. Baron, Lee M. Brendel, Todd A. Hagan, Stuart E. Garber
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Abstract
A fastening tool having a nail stop which positions a nail for driving and is made at least in part of a contact material which can be investment cast and/or hardened. The contact material can resist wear from the action of driving the nail and the movement of a driver blade. The nail stop can be configured to align nails fed from a magazine and can be offset from the longitudinal centerline of the fastening tool. The nail stop can have a head contact length which is 0.5% to 95% of the length of the nail to be driven. The nail stop is used in methods for positioning a nail for driving.
Claims10
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A fastening tool, comprising:
- a motor configured to selectively drive a driver blade that drives a nail;
- a power supply that drives the motor;
- a nail length sensor providing a nail length data of a nail length of the nail;
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- a microprocessor configured to receive the nail length data and to execute machine readable code to process the nail length data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.