Abstract: A shingle gauge for use with a nail driving tool of the type having a magazine which feeds nails into a guide body to be driven through shingle elements into a roof structure and having a shingle element locating surface adjacent the guide body nose. The gauge comprises a mounting bracket fixed beneath the magazine and a gauge element slidably and pivotally supported on the bracket and shiftable therealong toward and away from the locating surface to adjust the distance therebetween to accommodate various sizes of shingle elements. A latch is attached to the gauge element and is capable of a locking engagement with the support bracket at any selected one of a plurality of predetermined positions therealong to locate and lock the gauge element at that selected position.

Abstract: A collated fastener strip for use in a pneumatic fastener driving tool of the type having a magazine containing parallel spaced grooves for accommodating the heads of fasteners as they are fed within the magazine. The strip comprises a plurality of headless fasteners with at least one headed fastener positioned near the end of the strip such that the strip may be used in a magazine designed for using headed fasteners.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An adjustable depth control for use with a fastener driving tool having an upper arm, a coupling, and a lower arm. The upper arm is rigidly attached within the coupling, while the lower arm is threaded into the other end of the coupling. The bottom of the coupling contains a cam surface which is biased by a spring against a mating cam surface on a retainer which holds the lower arm within the guide body, and prevents the coupling from rotating. The coupling is moved out of contact with the retainer and rotated to change the position of the lower arm with respect to the nose piece of the tool.

Abstract: An improved magazine for a fastener driving tool having a two piece back plate allowing easy access to the drive track for removing jammed fasteners from the tool. The magazine consists of a first fixed rail having a back plate section perpendicular to the rail, and a second rail slidable with respect to the fixed rail, having a second back plate section perpendicular to the rail. When the magazine is in the fastener driving position, the back plate sections provide extra support for the drive track.

Abstract: A portable power fastening tool for fastening flooring or the like using fastening members such as nails and staples also includes a driver member for the fasteners and a hammer member, both of which are propelled by an air motor to simultaneously compressively strike the flooring during the fastening operation, thereby to compress the flooring and eliminate gaps or voids. Preferably, the tool is mounted on a wheeled carriage which facilitates movement from one fastening location to another.

Abstract: A pneumatic gun having an improved firing valve is disclosed wherein the firing valve is sealingly secured to the housing of the gun by a pair of rolling diaphragm seals. On the underside of the firing valve, there is a deflector having a downwardly curled outer edge operative to direct air flow into the top of the cylinder upon opening of the firing valve. The firing valve is so configured that exposure of multiple differential areas of the valve to a common high pressure results in the valve being biased toward a sealed position relative to the cylinder of the gun while in the unfired position.

Abstract: An improved system for continuously producing wood pallets and the like. The system features improved tool mounts for the nailing tools of a pallet machine which are adapted to position the tools for the attachment of pallet pieces using two degrees of freedom; vertical travel and simultaneous rotation about a hinge point to allow accurate delivery of nails and to rotate slightly in the recoil direction as the tool recoils. The system also uses an improved hold down clamp which features a dampening material to contact the unassembled pieces of the pellet within the fixture to absorb vibration and accommodate irregularities in the top boards of the pallet.

Abstract: A machine for assembling a jamb member, two sides members, and a stop member into a finished door jamb. The individual members are placed into the machine, which positions and aligns members and transports them in the proper relationship to a fastening station which automatically fastens the members into a door jamb assembly. The machine automatically spaces the fasteners along the length of the assembly.

Abstract: A fastener magazine and guide device for use with a moveable fastening tool. The fastener magazine contains a coil of fasteners and is mounted in a fixed position in close proximity to the fastening tool. A guide is attached at its one end to the fastening tool by an angular tongue, while its other end is mounted near the fastener magazine such that the guide can move with the tool but does not transmit movement to the fastener magazine. The fastener magazine is mounted on an angle to allow for smooth feeding of the fasteners to the tool.

Abstract: Improvements in the guide body and nail feed mechanism of a nail driving tool, using wire collated nails, to eliminate the formation of loose pieces of collating wire and the trapping thereof under the heads of driven nails to form flags. The tool has a driver, a magazine containing a coil of nails joined together in spaced relationship by collating wires welded to each nail, a guide body providing a drive track for the driver and the nails, and a feed pawl which advances and retracts in guideways in the guide body and has fingers engaging nails of the coil to locate the forwardmost nail thereof in the drive track. As the forwardmost nail of the coil is driven into a workpiece the collating wires break near the forwardmost nail leaving forwardly extending wire segments on the next succeeding nail. The drive track is provided with windows positioned to receive the wire segments of the forwardmost nail and bend them upwardly along the nail shank as the nail is driven.

Abstract: A regulator for adjusting the amount of power generated by a pneumatic fastener driving tool of the type having a body connected to a source of air under pressure and containing a cylinder with a piston/driver assembly mounted therein and a main valve. The main valve is slidably supported above the cylinder on a centerpost affixed to a cap closing the top of that portion of the tool body surrounding the cylinder. The main valve is shiftable on the centerpost between a closed position engaging the upper end of the cylinder and shutting off the cylinder from the supply of air under pressure within the tool body and opening vent passages in the centerpost and cap to vent the cylinder volume above the piston to atmosphere, and an open position closing the vent passages and opening the upper end of the cylinder to air under pressure within the tool body to actuate the tool. The regulator comprises an adjustable stop mounted in the centerpost and extending thereabout.

Abstract: High-load fastener packs and magazine assemblies for otherwise conventional fastener driving tools to greatly increase the magazine capacity. Each fastener pack contains a plurality of fasteners arranged in strips. The magazine is provided on one side with an opening for communication with the fastener pack. The fastener pack is readily attachable to and detachable from the magazine. A spring device within the fastener pack urges the fastener strip nearest the magazine into the guiding channel of the magazine when the adjacent portion of the magazine channel is free of fasteners. A substantially conventional pusher element on the magazine urges the fastener strips forwardly and the forwardmost fastener into the drive track of the tool guide body. Alternatively, the guide body of the tool may be provided with a conventional pulling mechanism to advance the forwardmost fastener in the magazine into the drive track.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for advancing fasteners in a magazine to a fastening tool. A plate assembly includes a base plate rigidly connected to a feed track and a pivot plate pivotally connected in a parallel orientation to the base plate. A motor is mounted to the pivot plate in such a manner that the motor shaft projects through apertures near the center of each plate. A clutch assembly is mounted to the motor shaft and engages fasteners on the feed track. As the motor shaft rotates, the clutch assembly provides a friction force for advancing fasteners along the rack as each fastener is ejected. Between fastener ejections, the clutch assembly rotates and slips about the motor shaft.

Abstract: A pneumatically actuated tool for setting blind rivets of the type having a body, a head and breakaway pull mandrel. The tool comprises a body having a double-acting cylinder therein, a handle attached to the body, a guide body affixed to the body beneath the cylinder, a pull track in the guide body for the rivets and a bore in the body connecting the cylinder and the pull track, the cylinder, the bore, and the pull track being coaxial. The tool is provided with a rivet pickup and pull mechanism comprising a lower load piston having a downwardly depending tubular assembly slidable within the body bore and pull track and terminating in a nose piece, and an upper pull piston having a downwardly depending tubular assembly telescopicly and shiftably located within the lower load piston tubular assembly and terminating in a chuck provided with mandrel-engaging jaws. The tool has a magazine connected to the guide body and containing a strip of rivets.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool powered by internal combustion of an oxidizer/fuel mixture. The tool body contains a cylinder provided with a piston/driver assembly. The cylinder is surrounded by and connected to a return air chamber. A combustion chamber, provided with an ignition device, is located at the upper end of the cylinder.

Abstract: A tandem clip system comprising a driving tool and a magazine for push-on clips of the type adapted to engage the post of a workpiece extending through a perforation in an element to which the workpiece is to be fastened. The push-on clips are arranged in tandem fashion in a strip thereof. Each clip comprises an integral part of the next adjacent clip with a line of weakening therebetween. The driving tool is conventional, having a driver and actuating means therefor. The driver is provided with a modified tip for severing the forwardmost clip from its strip and driving it on its respecting work piece post. The tool has a modifed guide body with a drive track for the driver tip. The clip feed mechanism is affixed to the guide body and actuated by the driver tip to advance the forwardmost clip to the drive track after each tool actuation. The guide body also has a clip support assembly for supporting each clip in the drive track including the last clip of a strip.

Abstract: A portable self-piercing riveting system includes a pneumatically driven driver which forces a self-piercing rivet through a workpiece. An anvil carried on a pivotal clamp is moved into operative alignment with the driver on the blind side of the workpiece to receive and set a rivet. The clamp is part of a linkage mechanism which moves the anvil into and out of operative position. When the anvil is in an operative position to receive and set a rivet, the linkage mechanism is in a locked position whereby the impactive force received by the anvil is not transmitted to an actuator for the linkage mechanism.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool powered by internal combustion of an air/fuel mixture. The tool body contains connected upper and lower coaxial cylinders. The upper cylinder is provided with a piston assembly and is connected by a one-way valve to a combustion air chamber. The lower cylinder contains a piston/driver assembly and is surrounded by and connected to a return air chamber. The upper cylinder piston assembly and the lower cylinder piston/driver assembly, when in their normal unactuated positions, define therebetween a combustion chamber provided with an ignition device.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool powered by internal combustion of an air/fuel mixture. A tool body has located therein upper and lower coaxial cylinders containing upper and lower pistons, respectively, attached to a common driver and forming a piston/driver assembly shiftable between a normal retracted position and an extended fastener driving position. A combustion chamber at the upper end of the lower cylinder and having an ignition device therein. The tool body contains a combustion air chamber and at least one return air chamber, together with a source of gaseous fuel.