Nail setting tool
OwnerFrank P. Rietveldinventor
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Abstract
Driver apparatus for precisely locating and driving nails or other similar pointed fasteners. Included is a base for locating the driver on the workpiece itself including a V slot entrance for locating the driver in driving relationship to a nail which may be already prelocated on the workpiece. The apparatus includes as its basic parts a nail driver, a holder including the base portion and a spacer which is interchangeably fixed to the lower contact end of the nail driver for presetting with precision the depth to which the nail is to be driven.
Claims6
A precision nail driver for driving a nail into the surface of a workpiece to a predetermined uniform depth comprising:
- a base having a lower surface slidably movable over the workpiece surface;
- a holder mounted on said base;
- a lower lateral cut out formed in said holder for providing an opening vertically extending from the base;
- said holder further having a central bore extending there through into registration with said cut out portion;
- a nail driver slidably movable downwardly and upwardly in said bore;
- a spacer means of predetermined length removably mounted on the lower end of said nail driver and engagable with the upper surface of said base to provide a lower limit to the stroke of said nail driver whereby each nail is partially driven into the workpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.