Abstract: A plank top set tool for driving hardwood staples including a body having an underside base surface which contacts a base top and an angled stop surface fitting over the vertical surface leading to the tongue base. Extending at a 45 degree angle through the block is a staple slot bore having a staple slot width. A rod is insertable into the bore and has a first end acting as a hammering head to receive an impact force and a second end configured to receive a staple head and transfer the force.

Abstract: A nail gun includes a body, a handle, a nail ejection member, and a nail magazine unit. The nail magazine unit includes two parallel cranks connected pivotally to the nail ejection member, and a link having two ends connected respectively and pivotally to free ends of the cranks.

Abstract: A nailing machine is provided with a nailing machine body 1 in which a contact arm 16 is arranged so as to slide along a nose portion 10, and a plurality of contact noses 2(3) having different inside diameters. The contact noses 2(3) can be mounted to and dismounted from a lower end of the contact arm 16, and nails having different diameters can be used by exchanging the contact noses 2(3). The inside diameter of the nose portion 10 is so formed as to fit to a large nail 21 having the largest head diameter among the nails to be used. A diameter of a driver 5 is so formed as to fit to the contact nose 2(3) for a small nail 22 having the smallest head diameter. A conical pipe portion 25 which is upwardly enlarged in diameter for guiding a nail tip is formed in an upper part of the contact nose 2(3). An upper end of this conical pipe portion 25 is so formed as to have a larger diameter than that of the nose portion 10.

Abstract: A semi-automatic machine for affixing an anti-theft device, such as an EAS marker, to an article of clothing or the like. The anti-theft device is of the type made up of two elements that are to be snapped together through the article of clothing. Each of the two kinds of elements is stored in a respective vibrating bowl and transferred to an assembly station by a respective vibrating conveyor. One of the two elements is positioned on a working surface at the assembly station. The second element is taken up by a snap-connection mechanism. A laser provides a reference mark at the working surface so that an operator can precisely position a desired part of the article of clothing for receiving the anti-theft device. After the article is positioned in accordance with the reference mark, the snap-connection mechanism is actuated to insert the second element into the first element through the article of clothing.

Abstract: An electric stapler includes a stapler main body and a driver assembly which is attachable and detachable with respect to the stapler main body. The driver assembly includes a forming portion having a forming plate for forming a staple into a U shape, a driver portion having a driver plate for striking the U-shaped staple into papers, a slide block portion which slidably guides the driver portion, and a slide guide case portion. The slide block portion, the driver portion and the forming portion are integrally incorporated in the slide guide case portion.

Abstract: A hand-held setting tool for driving fastening elements in a workpiece includes a drive-in ram (12) displaceable in the guide (15) in which a receptacle (16) for the fastening elements (23) is located and which has a feeding opening (17) for the fastening elements (23) and located in a region of the receptacle (16), and a displacement device (30) for displacing the fastening elements (23) into the receptacle (16) and controlled by the drive-in ram (12).

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a driving machine including: a driver blade for striking a fastener formed into an U-shape; a nose in which a launching passage is formed; and a magazine for feeding the fastener into the launching passage, wherein the magazine has a feeder for urging the multiple fasteners toward the launching passage, and the feeder has first and second convex sections each making contact with and urging respective needle of the U-shaped fastener; the nose has a blade guide for slidably guiding the driver blade; and the blade guide has first and concave sections for accommodating the first and second convex sections, the first and second concave sections being disposed alternately in the sliding direction of the driver blade.

Abstract: A combustion-powered driving tool for propelling fasteners into a workpiece includes a housing, a power source located in the housing, a nosepiece associated with a lower end of the power source, a magazine associated with the housing and constructed and arranged for storing and sequentially feeding a plurality of fasteners to the nosepiece, and a workpiece contact element associated with the nosepiece and including at least one tooth extending from the workpiece contact element and being constructed and arranged for engaging the workpiece to enable the tool to actuate when the magazine is arranged generally parallel to the workpiece.

Abstract: A fastening tool can include a housing and a motor assembly in the housing. The motor assembly can include an output member and a motor for translating the output member. A contact trip assembly can include a contact trip slidably disposed relative to the housing between an advanced position and a retracted position. The contact trip assembly can be operable to activate a contact trip switch in the retracted position. A lock-out mechanism can include a paddle rotatably fixed relative to the housing between a disengaged position wherein the contact trip is permitted to slide between the advanced and retracted position and an engaged position wherein the contact trip abuts the paddle thereby precluding movement of the contact trip to the advanced position.

Abstract: A magazine includes guide portions formed at a pair of side walls to be opposed to each other for introducing to guide a portion of a nail shaft portion, an opening portion formed on a base end side of a nose portion relative to the guide portion of one of the side walls, a first attaching portion formed on a front end side of the nose portion relative to the guide portion of the one side wall, a second attaching portion formed on the base end side of the nose portion relative to the guide portion of the other side wall, and a notched portion formed on the front end side of the nose portion relative to the guide portion of the other side wall.

Abstract: A magazine for a fastening tool drives one or more fasteners into a workpiece. The magazine generally includes an outer case and an inner rail movable relative to the outer case. The inner rail is extendable from the outer case to permit adding the one or more fasteners to the magazine. A bar extends between a front end and a rear end of the inner rail. A pusher bearing slidably receives the bar. A spring biases the pusher bearing toward the front end. A pusher block is coupled to the pusher bearing and disposed over the bar. The pusher block is operable to rock about the pusher bearing as the pusher block is sliding through the inner rail to urge the one or more fasteners toward the front end.

Abstract: A stapler for stapling together a workpiece, primarily a sheaf of papers, in which the stapler comprises a stapling unit and an anvil, which interacts with the stapling unit and on which the workpiece is placed, and against which stapling is performed, which stapling unit and an anvil are, driven relative to each other in a reciprocating stapling movement, during which movement stapling takes place, the stapling unit comprises a frame and a staple cassette which houses staple blanks and which is exchangeable, and which is detachably connected to the frame by attachment devices, and the staple blanks are fed one by one to an outlet channel by a feeding device incorporated in the stapler.

Abstract: A nail-driving device includes a body having a nail ejection portion, a nail-striking member, an activation switch, a trigger mechanism, a force-transmitting member, and a safety mechanism. The force-transmitting member is connected pivotally to the safety mechanism. When the safety mechanism is limited in a first position, and when the trigger mechanism is actuated, the force-transmitting member activates the activation switch to thereby move the nail-striking member relative to the body. When movement of the safety mechanism relative to the body is allowed, and when the trigger mechanism is actuated, the force-transmitting member moves the safety mechanism from the first position to a second position such that a contact portion of the activation switch serves as a fulcrum.

Abstract: An adaptor (10) for a fastening tool (12) having an attachment portion (18) for coupling the adaptor (10) to the fastening tool and a support (14, 16) for coupling a mounting bracket (26) to the adaptor (10), arranged so as to hold the mounting bracket (26) relative to a substrate and allow a fastener from the tool to be driven through the mounting bracket to secure the mounting bracket to the substrate (52). A holder for holding an item to facilitate attachment of said item to a substrate by a fastener, wherein the holder magnetically retains the item in a position to receive the fastener from a fastener tool.

Abstract: A hand-held drive-in tool for driving fastening elements (60) in a workpiece (U) includes a drive-in ram (13) for driving the fastening elements (60) in the workpiece (U), at least one drive spring member (31) for driving the drive-in ram (13), a preloading device (70) for the drive-in ram (13) and the drive spring member (31), a locking device (50) which retains the drive-in ram (13) and the drive spring member (31) in a preloaded position (33) when the locking device is located in its locking position (54), an actuation switch (19), for initiating the drive-in process for displacing the locking device (50), and into a release position (55) thereof, and at least one further switch for displacing the locking device (50) in the release position thereof (55) independent from actuation of the actuation switch (19).

Abstract: In a gas combustion type striking tool which strikes a fastener supplied in a nose portion into a member to be fastened by burning mixed gas inside a combustion chamber above a striking cylinder in accordance with a pulling operation of a trigger lever to drive a striking piston and a driver by a pressure of the combustion gas thus generated, a topper is disposed so as to be able to protrude into a path of a feed pawl or a feed piston, and a stopper engaging member, which extends downward from the striking cylinder and is movable in a vertical direction, engages with the stopper when the stopper engaging member moves downward, thereby retracting the stopper from the path.

Abstract: A fastener driving device includes a nose assembly carried by a housing that has a reservoir. The nose assembly has a fastener drive track. At least a portion of the fastener drive track is defined by a movable portion of the nose assembly. A fastener driver is movably mounted in the housing and configured to enter the drive track and drive successive leading fasteners into a workpiece. A head valve is constructed and arranged to be actuated so as to allow the pressurized gas to move the fastener driver through an operating cycle. An actuator is constructed and arranged to actuate the head valve. The actuator includes a trigger valve constructed and arranged to allow passage of the pressurized gas from the reservoir to a chamber above the head valve, and a contact valve operatively connected to the movable portion of the nose assembly.

Abstract: A flat-type stapler is provided which can fasten a large number of sheets of paper with a small force and in a smooth fashion. The stapler includes a base portion, a magazine portion, a push-down member, handle supporting members, and a handle portion. The handle portion causes the push-down portion to descend by virtue of the principle of the lever with the handle shaft made to act as a movable fulcrum. A portion of the handle may be used to apply force, and the connecting shaft may be used as a point of action.

Abstract: A nail gun includes a housing having a first locking element, an opposite second locking element, and a sliding groove, a safety mechanism including an actuation member in the sliding groove, the actuation member having an end nose, and a nail alignment adjustment mechanism including a lever pivotably secured to the housing, a spring having a first end secured to the other end of the lever and a second end affixed to the actuation member, and a spring-biased selector including a shank passing the lever, and a knob secured to the shank. Pivoting the knob from a first position to a second position will cause the nose to contact a first workpiece. Pivoting the knob from the second position to the first position will cause the nose to dispose above a second workpiece and align a nail with a through hole of the second workpiece.

Abstract: A cordless nailer is provided having a magazine assembly with improved features. A pusher assembly is provided having a simplified and efficient construction. A nail retention feature is provided to allow easy loading and unloading of nails into the nailer.

Abstract: A cap feeder for a fastener gun. The gun includes a footplate, a fastener magazine holding a supply of fasteners such as staples, a nose, an upright cap magazine for holding a stacked assembly of caps, a cap pusher mounted for reciprocation with respect to the footplate, and a pneumatic-powered driver for driving a fastener from the nose, through the cap while the cap is in a fastening position beneath the nose, and into a workpiece. The cap magazine is mounted proximate the nose. The cap feeder includes a reciprocator for moving the cap pusher. The cap feeder includes a grip finger mounted to the cap pusher and extending beyond a cap-engaging portion of the cap pusher. The grip finger extends under an edge of the cap and engages the underside of the cap. The reciprocator preferably includes a piston pneumatically coupled to a piston of the driver.

Abstract: A nailing machine for striking a nail supplied into an injection port formed at a nose portion by a driver to strike out from inside of the injection port is provided with a nail guide member on a front side of the injection port. The nail guide member is provided with a guiding guide groove for guiding a front end portion of the nail struck out from inside of the injection port at an inner side face thereof, provided with a projected portion an outer diameter shape of which is formed in a half cut converging taper shape, and provided with a bulged portion brought into contact with a surface of a construction metal piece on an upper side of the projected portion. The nailing machine is positioned by inserting the projected portion into a nail hole formed at a construction metal piece. The bulged portion constitutes a fulcrum of rotation by which the nailing machine is inclined when the nailing machine is inclined to a front side.

Abstract: A clincher device is provided with a thin plate piece disposed between a guide surface of a clincher member for bending and guiding legs of a staple and a rear surface of sheets of paper. The legs of the staple penetrating through the sheets of paper are guided and bent along a lower surface of the thin plate piece. The clincher device is further provided with an operation piece protruded upward from the clincher device. The operation piece is operated via the sheets of paper by a staple driving portion which is operated to approach toward and separate from the clincher device. The operation piece moves the thin plate piece relative to the staple after a completion of a binding operation of the sheets of paper so that the thin plate piece sandwiched by the legs of the staple is pulled out from the legs of the staple.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an insertion tool and a guide wire. The insertion tool has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion of the insertion tool is configured to retain a bone fixation device. The proximal end portion of the insertion tool defines a threaded opening. The guide wire has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. At least a portion of the guide wire is configured to be disposed within the insertion tool such that the distal end portion of the guide wire is disposed outside of and spaced apart from the distal end portion of the insertion tool. The proximal end portion of the guide wire includes a threaded portion configured to be disposed within and engage the threaded opening of the insertion tool.

Abstract: A nailing machine includes a magazine for storing nails, an injection port, a drive mechanism, and a nail detecting lever. The nail detecting lever formed with a detecting end capable of advancing to inside of a nail containing portion is rotatably arranged between a downwardmost pusher and a pusher thereabove on one side of the magazine. An idle striking preventing arm has an upper end arranged at a vicinity of a starter, and a lower end arranged to be opposed to an end portion on a side opposed to a detecting end of the detecting lever and which is operated to start a nailing machine in cooperation with the starter. Further, the other side of the magazine is formed with a detecting end containing portion for containing the detecting end of the nail detecting lever.

Abstract: A positioning device for a hand-held setting tool (10) includes an actuating switching device having an actuation element (24), a switching link (30) for connecting an actuation element (24) to the actuation switch (13) of the setting tool (10) and having a switching member axially displaceable relative to a stationary, with respect to the holder, structural component. The device further includes a safety device (50) for preventing actuation of the actuation switch (13) at a predetermined orientation of the setting tool (10). The safety device (50) includes a displaceable blocking element (55), first and second annular recesses (51, 52) for receiving the blocking element and extending radially circumferentially about the structural component and about the switching member, respectively. The first (51) and the second (52) annular recesses are open toward the switching member and the structural component, respectively.

Abstract: A safety is incorporated in a nailing device, which ensures operation safety of the nailing device. The nailing device includes a housing in which a striker plate is mounted and movable to a ready-to-strike position for subsequently striking a nail out of the housing. The safety includes a retainer pivoted to the housing with an inner end engaging the striker plate to retain the striker plate against movement to the ready-to-strike position and an opposite outer end engaging a release plate that is biased by a spring to partially projecting beyond the housing. When the nailing device is properly set on a work piece, the release plate is forced against the biasing spring back into the housing and the inner end of the retainer is caused to disengage from and thus freeing the striker plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheathing device for the staple channel of stapler, and more particularly to one which could provide sufficient protection for the staple channel of powerful stapler under continuous strong friction and impact force of the rivet; it is mainly characterized in that, a U-shaped depressed zone is formed within the staple channel of the stapler, and a U-shaped steel sheet is embedded correspondingly; with direct contact of U-shaped steel sheet and the rivet, it is possible to prevent efficiently rupture of the main body of the stapler and poorer stapling performance arising from impact force and friction.

Abstract: An abutment adjusting device for a nail gun has a horizontal sliding rail disposed on a bottom side of a nail cartridge of the nail gun. The sliding rail has multiple positioning grooves. An abutment having a containing groove opening upward is disposed on the sliding rail. The containing groove has two groove sidewalls, each of which has at least a vertical guiding channel for slidably disposing a sliding block in the containing groove. The sliding block has a top having at least a protruding part corresponding to the positioning grooves. A first elastic unit is disposed in the containing groove for driving the sliding block to move upward and further drive the protruding part to be engaged into the positioning grooves so as to position the abutment.

Abstract: A safety is incorporated in a nailing device, which ensures operation safety of the nailing device. The nailing device includes a housing containing a striker plate movable to a ready-to-strike position for subsequently striking a nail. The safety includes a retainer having an inclination engageable with a mated inclination formed on a release plate that is normally biased to partially project out of the housing, so that a stop of the retainer is set at a position to block the striker plate from moving toward the ready-to-striker position. When the nailing device is properly set on a work piece, the release plate is forced by the work piece back into the housing and the retainer is rotated by the camming action between the mated inclination faces so as to move the stop aside to allow the striker plate to move to the ready-to-strike position.

Abstract: A stapler includes a housing having a hand grip portion constructed and arranged to be manually grasped by an operator, a staple drive track disposed in the housing, a staple feed track leading to the staple drive track configured to guide staples toward the drive track, and a staple driver mounted within the staple drive track, the staple driver configured to drive staples into a workpiece. The stapler further includes a guide pivotally mounted in a body portion of the housing. The guide has an elongated member receiving region. The guide is configured to pivot between a stored position in which the guide is disposed within the housing and a deployed position in which the guide extends out of the housing.

Abstract: A nail pusher locating device for a magazine assembly has a nail pusher slidingly disposed in the magazine assembly; and a first elastic element between the magazine assembly and the nail pusher for driving the nail pusher to move toward a top end of the magazine assembly. The nail pusher has at least one bended-shaped guiding groove. The guiding groove has an entrance, an exit, and a capturing notch, opening to the top end, and a ridge protruding from an inner sidewall thereof, opposite to the capturing notch. The nail pusher further has a guiding flange slantwise extending to the entrance. The magazine assembly has a sway arm pivotally disposed at a tail end thereof, which has at least one guiding pole corresponding to the guiding flange. In addition, a second elastic element is provided between the tail end and the sway arm.

Abstract: A cassette of a cassette type stapler, having a holder structural body (1), staple guides (8), and a spring engaging device (9) of the holder structural body molded integrally with each other, with a spring is fitted to a spring engaging device (9) of the holder structural body and the feeder projection (21) of a feeder (20), which is configured to push a staple forward.

Abstract: A jam-resistant tacker apparatus is invented, comprising a slit for engagement with an upper pin at the upper ends of a plurality of pin guides mounted to a magazine cover and forming a seating recess for receiving the upper pin at a predetermined position of the magazine so that the forward and backward movement range of the pin guides is increased, and by providing a spring having less elasticity than the spring of a pusher at the upper rear ends of the plurality of pin guides so that a tacker pin and the pusher can be guided while remaining in close contact. The present tacker apparatus is able to prevent of the problem of jammed tacker pins, by applying a horizontal elasticity for stably guiding the tacker pin horizontally in addition to an upward elasticity for moving the tacker pin upward.

Abstract: One example of the invention is a holding bracket for attachment to a fastening tool, the fastening tool having a barrel for firing a fastener, the tool defining a major axis, the holding bracket for holding overlapping portions of two members to be fastened to one another. An example holding bracket comprises a mounting portion configured for attachment to the tool and an extension portion extending from the mounting portion. A holding arm is attached to the extension portion and spaced apart from the mounting portion in the direction of the tool major axis to define a gap between the holding arm and the mounting portion, the gap for holding the overlapping portions of the two members for insertion of a fastener ejected from the barrel.

Abstract: A driving machine has a work contact portion with an end face to be contacted with a member to be fastened that is provided in a push lever, and a probe movably provided on the work contact portion, wherein the probe is energized in the driving direction by a spring to thereby project its leading end portion from the end face of the work contact portion. When the main body of the driving machine is pressed against a work, the probe is retreated from the driving passage of a fastening member when a tripper switch is operated.

Abstract: A method of urging one or more fasteners toward a nosepiece of a fastening tool generally includes placing one or more fasteners into a magazine and moving a pusher block that is pivotally mounted on a pusher bearing toward the one or more fasteners. The method also includes rocking the pusher block about the pusher bearing as the one or more fasteners are fed sequentially into the nosepiece to maintain a pushing surface of the pusher block in substantial abutment with a surface of a last fastener of the one or more fasteners.

Abstract: An idle driving operation preventing device (40) includes an engaging member (45) disposed on a pusher (31). The engaging member (45) can engage a stopper member (47) coupled to an operation member (5a), so that the movement of the operation member (5a) for driving the fastener (n) can be inhibited. The engaging member (45) is biased by a biasing force that is smaller than a biasing force applied to the pusher (31).

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: A nail gun includes a body, a handle connected fixedly to and extending laterally from the body, a nail ejecting member disposed on the body and formed with a nail discharging passage having opposite inlet and outlet ends, a magazine member connected to the nail ejection member, and an elongated nail guiding plate disposed within the nail discharging passage, and a driving member. The nail guiding plate has a pivot end disposed pivotally within the inlet end of the nail discharging passage, a free end disposed within the outlet end of the nail discharging passage, and a driven portion disposed between the pivot end and the free end. The driving member is connected to the driven portion of the nail guiding plate for driving the free end of the nail guiding plate to pivot between first and second positions.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool capable of driving a fastener in a direction orthogonal to a surface of a workpiece. A fastener driving operation is performed upon manipulation of a trigger and pressing a push lever against a surface of the workpiece. The push lever is slidably movable along a nose, and is biased by a spring in a fastener driving direction. The spring is positioned offset from a center of a fastener driving tool. The push lever is slidable in a sliding axis inclined by an angle ?? relative to the center of the fastener driving tool. The push lever is configured to provide an angle defined between the sliding axis and the surface of the workpiece in a range of more than 90 degrees, i.e., 90 degrees plus ??.

Abstract: A driver guiding set for a power nail gun includes a forward plate fixedly disposed at a bottom portion of the gun body, with a surface entirely being flat for supporting the striking blade from one side; a first rearward plate fixedly mounted to the forward plate for supporting the striking blade from the other side; a first magazine rail fixedly disposed on the first rearward plate; a second magazine rail slidably disposed on the first magazine rail; a second rearward plate fixedly mounted to the second magazine rail, which is capable of locating at a first position to engage with the first rearward plate and contact on the forward plate, and locating at a second position to be separated from the forward plate and the first rearward plate, so that the second rearward plate is capable of moving between the first and second positions; and a nail guiding track formed between the first and the second rearward plates when the second rearward plate is located at the first position, for guiding the striking blade

Abstract: A positioning device for a hand-held setting tool (10) includes an actuating switching device having an actuation element (24), a switching link (30) for connecting an actuation element (24) to the actuation switch (13) of the setting tool (10) and having a switching member axially displaceable relative to a stationary, with respect to the holder, structural component, and a safety device (50) for preventing actuation of the actuation switch (13) at an orientation other than a predetermined orientation of the setting tool (10) and including at least three blocking members (55a, 55b, 55c) displaceable in at least three separate channels (56) respectively, and receivable in a recess (51) formed in the switching member (34) and open toward the structural component, with the channels (56) being inclined with respect to a plane (E) extending perpendicular to a longitudinal axis (A) of the positioning device, and with at least three channels (56) intersecting, in some regions, an axial projection of the switching m

Abstract: An adjustable adapter configured to position a fastening tool for driving a fastener into tongue-and-groove flooring material in order to secure the flooring material to a subfloor is disclosed. The adapter comprises a fastening tool mounting plate, a base slidably mounted to the bottom of the mounting plate and a support plate slidably mounted to the top of the mounting plate. A nose plate of the fastening tool is secured to the mounting plate between the mounting plate and the support plate and a safety actuator arm is disposed between the mounting plate and the nose plate. The base and the support plate are movable such that the adapter can be configured to engage the tongue and the top surface of various sizes and configurations of tongue-and-groove flooring materials in order to maintain a desired fastener driving angle and insertion location.

Abstract: A stapler (1) for stapling together a workpiece (7), primarily a sheaf of papers, in which the stapler comprises a stapling unit (3) and an anvil (2), which interacts with the stapling unit and on which the workpiece is placed, and against which stapling is performed, which stapling unit and an anvil are, by means of a drive means (4), driven relative to each other in a reciprocating stapling movement (P), during which movement stapling takes place, wherein the stapling unit comprises a frame (8) and a staple cassette (9) which houses staple blanks (32) and which is exchangeable, and which is detachably connected to the frame by attachment devices (10), wherein the staple blanks are fed one by one to an outlet channel (56) by a feeding device (13) incorporated in the stapler, through which outlet channel a staple (35) which has been fed and formed into staple shape during the stapling movement is driven, by a blade-shaped driver (45) incorporated in the stapler, to staple the workpiece, which driver is driven

Abstract: Placing device for placing a fastener. The device includes a housing, a mounting surface for a fastener and comprising an opening, a drive mandrel comprising a rotation axis and a portion which passes through the opening and that is structured and arranged to engage the fastener, and a fork-shaped receptacle arranged at least one of in an area of the mounting surface, adjacent the mounting surface, and associated with the mounting surface.

Abstract: The multiple-impact adapter for a hammer tool includes a shroud for removably mounting on the hammer tool. A bore is formed through the shroud between the ends. The shroud has front portion and a rear portion for removably receiving a portion of the hammer device. A drive punch is positioned in the bore for being impacted by the hammer tool and a forward end for impacting an object to be driven. A guide bushing extends forwardly from the shroud. A channel extends through the bushing for receiving a portion of the object to be driven. The guide bushing is slidably mounted on the front portion of the shroud such that the guide bushing is movable between an extended position and a retracted position.

Abstract: A nail-guiding device comprising a sleeve having a linear passage therethrough, the linear passage having a first end at least partially covered by a flexible membrane with an opening, the membrane operative to engage and hold the nail, and a piston slideably engaged in the linear passage and operative to transfer the impact of the driver to the nail in a drive-in operation.

Abstract: A fastening element guide device for a power drive-in tool includes a coupling section (14) having a chamber (17) for receiving a matching coupling section (41) of power drive-in tool (40) at least one locking member (21, 22) displaceable between a locking position (28) in which its locking section (23) projects into the receiving chamber (17) for engaging a recess (43) provided on the matching coupling section (41) of the power drive-in tool (40) for lockingly secure the guide device (10) on the power drive-in tool (40), and a release position (29) in which the locking section (43) is withdrawn from the receiving chamber (17) a spring (25) for biasing the at least one locking member (21, 22) to its locking position (28), and an actuation section (24) accessible from outside for manually displacing the at least one locking member (21, 22) from the locking position (28) to the release position (29).

Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-misfit structure for a nail cartridge, which resolves the problems of a typical nail cartridge. For example, when a short collated nail is mistakenly inserted, it is likely lead to different triggering strength, and easier swinging and jamming of nail bodies against stability and safety. The swinging end of the spring of the nail cartridge is provided with a stopper. So, when the nailer head of a short collated nail is mistakenly inserted into the long nailer head dent, the stopper blocks the collated nail, thus preventing any misalignment and subsequent triggering of a nailer for higher stability and safety.