Abstract: In the housing of a setting device for driving fastening elements, a belt-like magazine holding fastening elements in spaced relation is moved through a guide channel transversely of the path of a driving piston. A transport device positioned in the housing moves the magazine through the guide channel in a step-wise manner. A stop lever is pivotally mounted in the housing and is spring-biased at one end into the guide channel. When the magazine is located within the guide channel in the path of the stop lever, the transport device can be operated to move the magazine. When the magazine is moved out of the path of the stop lever, however, the stop lever extends further through the guide channel and its other end engages a pawl on the transport device blocking its operation so that the magazine cannot be moved through the guide channel.

Abstract: Stapler having a staple track locked in the base by means of a resilient plastic latch.

Abstract: A magazine for fastener-driving apparatus includes a guide on which the fasteners are located, a slide movable along the guide under the action of a spring to feed the fasteners into a driving position and a cover which fits over the guide. The cover is displaceable in a direction transverse to the feed direction into a release position to permit the introduction of fasteners into the magazine.

Abstract: There is disclosed a staple-feeding magazine for a stapler of the kind comprising a driving channel, a staple driver having work and return strokes within the driving channel and a staple-feeding magazine connected to the driving channel. In order to allow the rear-loading of the staples without involving any bulk problem, the magazine has the baseplate rearwardly extending with respect to the open rear end of the staple guiding channel so as to define a projecting end portion on which anchoring means for the pusher are provided. The anchoring means are made and arranged so that the pusher, when anchored thereto, is still within the overall space of the magazine but in a depressed position at which the rear end of the guiding channel is left clear for staple loading purposes.