US 4,139,136 A · Nail driver

Abstract

A nail driver having a rod that telescopes within a hollow elongated tube. One end of the rod is designed to strike the nails and a weighted handle is attached to the other end. The tube has at least one chamber for holding the nails in position to be struck by the driver, and the chamber has a slot for receiving the nails. There are means for feeding nails through the slot. Preferably there are two such chambers and two such feeding means, one chamber and feeding means adapted for flat headed nails and the other chamber and means adapted for finishing nails. The impacting end of the rod is bifurcated, and one portion is designed to drive finishing nails in one chamber and the other portion is designed to drive flat headed nails in the other chamber. The impacting end of the rod and the chamber are changeable so that the invention may be used to drive a wide variety of nail sizes and types.

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Dependent claims

A nail driver comprising

a hollow elongated tube having at least one chamber for receiving and holding a nail,
a slot formed in the chamber wall parallel to the axis of the chamber for introducing nails into the chamber,
a driving rod movable along the axis of said tube and having an impacting end adapted to drive the nail,
a weighted handle secured to the end of said rod opposite the impacting end,
means independent of the position of said driving rod for mechanically feeding nails into said chamber
said means for feeding nails including:
at least one spring-loaded magazine adapted for holding a nail clip, and
a means for releasing one nail at a time from said magazine through said slot into said chamber.

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