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AssigneeSenco Products, Inc.
InventorCharles J. Moorman
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A fastener driving tool capable of locating a preformed hole in a first workpiece, aligning the drive track of the tool with the hole, and thereafter driving a fastener, such as a nail, through the hole and into a second workpiece to attach the first workpiece to the second workpiece. The tool has a magazine comprising an outer portion affixed to the tool and its drive track containing guide body, and an inner portion containing a strip of nails and pivoted at its rearward end to the rearward end of the outer magazine portion. The inner magazine portion is pivotable within the outer magazine portion between a first position wherein the forwardmost nail of the strip extends well beyond the nose of the guide body serving as a probe to locate and enter the workpiece hole, and a second position wherein the forwardmost nail of the strip is still engaged in the workpiece hole and is properly aligned in the drive track to be driven by the tool driver through the first workpiece hole and into the second workpiece. The inner magazine is operatively connected to safety trip which is shiftable between a first, disabling position when the inner magazine portion is in its first position and a second enabling position allowing the tool to be actuated when the inner magazine is in its second position. The inner magazine portion and the safety trip are biased to their first positions.
A fastener driving tool capable of locating a preformed hole in a first workpiece and of driving a fastener therethrough to join said first workpiece to a second workpiece, said fastener driving tool having a main body, a fastener driver in said body, a guide body attached to said main body, a drive track in said guide body for said driver, a magazine connected to said guide body and communicating with said drive track, a plurality of fasteners in said magazine in a tandem row including a forwardmost fastener and a fastener adjacent thereto, a feeder device to locate a forwardmost one of said fasteners into said drive track and a mechanism to actuate said driver through a drive stroke and a return stroke, said magazine having a fastener carrying portion, said magazine fastener carrying portion having a forward end adjacent said drive track, said magazine fastener carrying portion being shiftable between a first position wherein said forwardmost fastener is positioned to act as a probe to find and enter said preformed workpiece hole aligning said drive track and said hole, and a second position wherein said hole and said drive track remain aligned, said forwardmost fastener remains in said hole and said forwardmost fastener is properly positioned within said drive track to be driven by said driver through said preformed hole.
A magazine for a nail driving tool, said magazine comprising an outer magazine portion having forward and rearward ends and an inner magazine portion having forward and rearward ends and being located within said outer magazine portion, said inner magazine portion carrying a strip of nails arranged in a tandem row and including a forwardmost nail of said row, said rearward end of said inner magazine portion being pivotally attached to said rearward end of said outer magazine portion, said inner magazine portion being shiftable about said pivotal attachment between a first position wherein said forwardmost nail is in an extended probe-like position with respect to outer magazine portion and a second position wherein said forwardmost nail is positioned to be driven.
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