Collations for fasteners of various lengths

A collation for transporting fasteners along rails disposed within a magazine of a fastener driving tool, comprising:

• a plurality of sleeves for supporting and carrying a plurality of fasteners through said magazine, each of said plurality of sleeves having a front and a rear with a predetermined length therebetween of between about ¼ and about 0.4 inch, each of said plurality of fasteners having a predetermined fastener length of between about ¾ inch and about 1½ inch and a tip located at a predetermined position from behind said front to about ¼ inch beyond said front;
• said plurality of sleeves being connected together in a serial array permitting the separation of a leading one of said plurality of sleeves from remaining ones of said plurality of serially arranged sleeves when a drive member of said fastener driving tool drives a leading one of the plurality of fasteners disposed within said leading one of said plurality of sleeves, and
• a plurality of protrusions which include contact tip regions for engaging surface portions of said rails;
• wherein said sleeves are substantially symmetrical about a plane bisecting said predetermined length.

A collation for transporting fasteners along rails disposed within a magazine of a fastener driving tool, comprising:

• a plurality of sleeves for supporting and carrying said plurality of fasteners through said magazine, each of said plurality of sleeves having a front and a rear with a predetermined length therebetween of about 0.32 inch, each of said plurality of fasteners having a predetermined fastener length of about ½ inch and a tip located at a predetermined position from behind said front to about ¼ inch beyond said front;
• and wherein each fastener has a head spaced from said rear by between about 0.001 inch and about 0.02 inch;
• said plurality of sleeves being connected together in a serial array permitting the separation of a leading one of said plurality of sleeves from remaining ones of said plurality of serially arranged sleeves when a drive member of said fastener driving tool drives a leading one of the plurality of fasteners disposed within said leading one of said plurality of sleeve;
• wherein said sleeves are substantially symmetrical about a plane bisecting said predetermined length.