Abstract: An improved tin tag dispensing and nailing tool includes an operating member that is adapted for connection with a roofer's nailing gun, which operating member is guided by a pair of spaced vertical guide rods for vertical sliding displacement relative to the tool housing between an upper retracted position and a lower nailing position. The operating member is formed from a synthetic plastic material and contains vertical though bores that respectively receive the guide rods. Tubular oil-impregnated bushings are mounted in the through bores concentrically about the guide rods. A linkage arrangement connects the operating member with a shuttle plate that is displaced between a loading position adjacent the tin tag supply station and a discharging position adjacent the tin tag nailing station. An integral punched-out tongue portion extends upwardly at an acute angle from the shuttle plate for engagement with the lowermost tin tag of a stack.

Abstract: An improved tin tag dispensing and nailing tool includes an operating member that is adapted for connection with a roofer's nailing gun, which operating member is guided by a pair of spaced vertical guide rods for vertical sliding displacement relative to the tool housing between an upper retracted position and a lower nailing position. The operating member is formed from a synthetic plastic material and contains vertical through bores that respectively receive the guide rods. Tubular oil-impregnated bushings are mounted in the through bores concentrically about the guide rods. A linkage arrangement connects the operating member with a shuttle plate that is displaced between a loading position adjacent the tin tag supply station and a discharging position adjacent the tin tag nailing station. An integral punched-out tongue portion extends upwardly at an acute angle from the shuttle plate for engagement with the lowermost tin tag of a stack.

Abstract: A tin tag dispensing attachment for roofing guns and the like includes a housing containing a chamber for receiving a cylindrical cartridge containing a stack of disk-shaped tin tags. The cartridge includes a vertical tubular resilient wall containing a longitudinal slit running the length thereof, the bottom end of the cartridge being expandable by an expansion device carried by the housing, thereby to release the tin tag stack for longitudinal displacement relative to the cartridge wall from a supported position to a released position, whereupon the lowermost tin tag of the released stack is positioned for displacement from the tag feeding station to the tag nailing station.

Abstract: A roofing gun attachment for dispensing tin tags includes a base, a supply chamber mounted on the base which receives a cartridge containing a plurality of stacked planar tin tags, a shuttle slidably disposed within the base for individually displacing the tin tags from a feeding station located below the supply chamber to a nailing station where the tin tag is pierced by a nail discharged from a nailing gun, and a pair of cam arms each connected with a slide member for moving the shuttle between the feeding station and the nailing station when the nailing gun is pressed against a nailing surface and lifted therefrom. The supply chamber includes an access door which allows the tin tag cartridge to be easily replaced and further includes a manually-actuated spring-loaded plunger which biases the tin tags toward the feeding station.

Abstract: A tin tag dispensing apparatus for a nailing gun includes a support member having a tin tag dispensing groove, a shuttle slidably disposed within the support member, a tube receptacle containing a plurality of stacked tin tags, a slide member slidably mounted on the tube receptacle, a linkage assembly connecting the slide member with the shuttle, and a mounting plate for connecting the apparatus to the nailing gun. When the gun is lifted, the slide member slides upward along the tube receptacle and causes the shuttle, through the linkage, to engage and displace a single tin tag resting in the tin tag dispensing groove to a nailing station where it is retained until pierced by a fastener discharged from the nail gun.