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AssigneeSenco Products, Inc.
InventorsWilliam H. Morrison, Jr., Dennis E. Stivers
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A canister-type magazine for a fastener driving tool using a coil of tandemly arranged fasteners. The magazine comprises a substantially cylindrical body having a top, a bottom and side walls. The magazine is openable, providing access to the interior thereof. A cylindrical magazine post extends upwardly from the center of the magazine bottom. A pair of latch members are located in diametric openings in the magazine post near the upper end thereof. The latch members are shiftable between a first position wherein they extend beyond the peripheral surface of the magazine post and a second position wherein they are within the confines of the peripheral surface of the magazine post. The latch members are biased to their first position. A fastener coil supporting platform is provided having a hollow center post with an interior diameter sized to slidingly receive the magazine post. The platform post has at least two pairs of diametric openings in its cylindrical side wall. Each pair of openings in the support post are adapted to be located coaxially with the pair of openings of the magazine post and to receive the latch members in their first extend positions whereby the platform is lockable in at least two positions along the magazine post to accommodate coils of fasteners of at least two different lengths.
A canister-type magazine for a fastener driving tool using a coil of tandemly arranged fasteners, said magazine comprising a substantially cylindrical body having a top, a bottom, side walls and being made up of a fixed body part and a movable body part, said fixed body part having forward and rearward ends attached to said tool body, said fixed body part comprising a first side wall and said bottom of said magazine, said movable body part having forward and rearward ends and comprising a top portion and a second side wall of said magazine, said movable body part being operatively attached to said fixed body part near said rearward ends of said fixed and movable body parts, said movable body part being pivotable with respect to said fixed body part between a closed position wherein said bottom is not accessible and an open position wherein said bottom is accessible, a magazine post having a top surface and a peripheral surface extending perpendicularly with respect to said bottom and centrally thereof, a locking means including at least one latch element being located in at least one opening in said magazine post, said at least one latch element being shiftable between a locking position wherein a portion of said at least one latch element extends beyond the peripheral surface of said magazine post and an unlocking position wherein said portion is within the confines of the peripheral surface of said magazine post, said at least one latch element being biased to said locking position, a fastener coil supporting platform locatable within said magazine, said supporting platform having a hollow center post with a side wall extending perpendicularly with respect to said supporting platform, said platform post being adapted to telescopically receive said magazine post, said platform post side wall having at least two openings formed therethrough at positions differing in distance from said support platform, each of said at least two platform post openings being alignable coaxially with said at least one magazine post opening to receive said at least one latch element, whereby said platform is lockable at each of said positions on said magazine post to accommodate coils of fasteners of different lengths, wherein said locking means, in said unlocking position, is nested completely within said peripheral surface and below said top surface of said magazine post.
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