Nailing machine

A nailing machine comprising:

• a body;
• a driver guide mounted on said body and having therein a nail guide channel through which a driver for driving nails is reciprocally driven;
• a nail feeding channel member having therein a nail feeding channel connected to said nail guide channel for feeding a nail-carrying strip stored in a magazine to said nail guide channel, the nail-carrying strip including strip and a plurality of nails carried thereon by a predetermined pitch, the strip having a plurality of engaging holes spaced from each other by the same pitch as the nails;
• nail feeding means for feeding the nail-carrying strip into said nail guide channel;
• a door member mounted on said nail feeding channel member for closing and opening said nail feeding channel;
• and
• an engaging pawl and a strip-retaining pawl mounted on said door member:
• said engaging pawl being operable to engage one of said engaging holes of the nail-carrying strip set in said nail feeding channel, as said door member is closed, for preventing movement of the nail-carrying strip in a direction opposite to the feeding direction of the nail-carrying strip;
• and
• said strip-retaining pawl being operable to abut en the nail-carrying strip prior to engagement of said engaging pawl with said one engaging hole, as said door member is closed, for preventing floating of the nail-carrying strip.