Abstract: In a fastener-driving tool having a reciprocating driver blade for driving fasteners into a workpiece, a magazine configured for storing and feeding at least one collated strip of fasteners to the driver blade, including a housing defining a feed end, a driving end and a guidance portion disposed between and contacting the two ends, the guidance portion having at least two guidance formations, a first guidance formation configured for engaging the fastener strip at a first location, and the second guidance formation configured for engaging the fastener strip at a second location. In a preferred embodiment, the fastener strip is supported only by the first guidance formation in a first zone of the magazine, and only by the second guidance formation is a second zone of the magazine.

Abstract: A self-cutting expansion anchor and system having a sleeve member with a plurality of expandable sections disposed about a shaft, the expandable sections having an end portion disposed toward a generally conical portion of the shaft, a heat hardened cutting portion protruding from at least some of the expandable sections of the sleeve member, the hardened cutting portions and the corresponding expandable sections are unitary members, and a threaded sleeve member having a driving end disposed about the threaded shaft toward a driving end of the sleeve.