Abstract: An apparatus for installing a tack strip or the like providing a rigid frame having an adjustable guide which spaces the tack strip at a proper distance from a wall, baseboard, or other guide. An adjustable base on the apparatus varies the width of an open space in which a tack strip to be installed is positioned and located. The base gap width thus can be adjusted to position differing width tack strips as necessary. A central hammer equipped with an impact head is hit with a conventional hammer or the like, when the tack strip nailer is located above a spot in the tack strip where it is desirous to hammer a nail to secure the tack strip. The hammer can be equipped with a magnetic tip portion for holding and properly orienting nails to be installed. Additionally, the hammer is adjustable in its longitudinal position over the tack strip allowing the proper placement of the hammer to correspond with different tack strip widths.

Abstract: Nail set comprising in combination a punch holder and a punch or driver for use as an overhead device in driving nails into a workpiece, in particular an aluminum soffit such as encountered in providing aluminum siding on a house or other building. The nail set provides accurate setting of a nail into the soffit and underlying substructure, and eliminates damage to, and marring of, the aluminum soffit.

Abstract: A drilling and driving device provides, in combination, a drilling tool for drilling a borehole and a percussion attachment for driving fastening elements into the borehole. The drilling device includes a housing into which a drilling tool can be inserted. The percussion attachment is pivotally mounted on the housing so that it can be positioned over the drilling tool for driving the fastening element or it can be pivotally displaced so that the drilling tool can be used. In its displaced position, the percussion attachment can be loaded with a fastening element from a magazine located on the housing.

Abstract: A nail driver for driving nails into a receiving surface comprises a housing with a release member movable upwardly and downwardly in the housing having a lower end which is engageable with the receiving surface. A nail guide channel is defined in the housing and it is arranged in association with a magazine for feeding nails into the channel in succession. A nail driver bar is movable upwardly and downwardly in the channel over the nail. A compression spring is engaged between the lower end of the release member and the nail driver so that when the release member is pressed against a surface, it may move upwardly against the force of the compression spring. The control mechanism is actuated by displacement of the release member to effect driving of a windup drum for a drive tape which is wound around the drum and connected at its free end to the upper end of the nail driver.

Abstract: A nail driver having a rod that telescopes within a hollow elongated tube. One end of the rod is designed to strike the nails and a weighted handle is attached to the other end. The tube has at least one chamber for holding the nails in position to be struck by the driver, and the chamber has a slot for receiving the nails. There are means for feeding nails through the slot. Preferably there are two such chambers and two such feeding means, one chamber and feeding means adapted for flat headed nails and the other chamber and means adapted for finishing nails. The impacting end of the rod is bifurcated, and one portion is designed to drive finishing nails in one chamber and the other portion is designed to drive flat headed nails in the other chamber. The impacting end of the rod and the chamber are changeable so that the invention may be used to drive a wide variety of nail sizes and types.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a nail into a relatively inaccessible surface. The nail driver includes an elongated cylindrical housing having a bore extending between its front and rear ends, the rear end covered by an end cap. A rigid rod of lesser diameter than the bore of the housing is slidably received in the bore, with the rear end of the rod projecting rearwardly through the end cap when the front end of the rod is adjacent the front end of the housing. The rear end of the rod carries a weighted handle. The front end of the rod includes a magnetized end portion of about the same diameter as the bore of the housing. A first compression spring extends between the end cap and the weighted handle to absorb the momentum of the weighted handle at the forward end of a stroke, and a second compression spring surrounds the rod within the housing and extends between the end cap and the end portion of the rod for resiliently biasing the rod in a forward direction.

Abstract: An improved and versatile nailing tool comprised of parallel and spaced-apart ramrod and nail feeding tubes intersecting adjacent one end thereof. A plurality of foot attachments are provided for accomodating different nailing situations, the attachments being removeably connected to one end of the ramrod tube. A ramrod is reciprocally contained within the ramrod tube. A nail deposited in the distal end of the nail feeding tube is guided into the ramrod tube in a position to be driven home.

Abstract: A hand-held driver tool is disclosed for holding and aligning the axis of elongated fastener with another axis such as the axis of the tool or such as an axis through a pair of apertures in upper and lower belt fastener plates and an aperture in an underlying anvil support means. The preferred driver tool comprises a housing means with an elongated bore within one end of which there is received an expandable chuck means and within the other end of which there is slidably received a driver means. An elongated fastener such as a rivet-nail is inserted within the bore and into the chuck for being driven into a piece such as a belt upon an impact force being applied to the driver. A cone-shaped end on the lower end of the tool is inserted into a cavity in the belt fastener and a cooperating flange abuts the belt fastener to align coaxially the apertures and the axis of the elongated rivet-nail assembly.

Abstract: Window shade hanging apparatus includes a guide block formed of a synthetic plastics material and an elongated rod dimensioned to fit slidably within a through longitudinal bore in the block. The guide block has a vertical recess or channel in one end and a permanent magnet is mounted in the block and has an exposed face within the recess. The elongated rod has a permanent magnet affixed to one end whereby a support bracket for a window shade can be held within the recess of the block by its magnet and aligned with a vertical element of the window frame and a fastening element for the support bracket is held by the magnet on the elongated rod in position to be driven into an aperture in the support bracket and into the vertical window frame element for securement thereto.

Abstract: A tool for inserting thumb tacks comprising a handle having a neck-down portion near its one end with a recess in that end containing a magnet therein permitting picking up a thumb tack and holding it in a position for insertion, the neck-down portion of the tool permitting applying thumb pressure. The other end of the tool is rounded to allow application of additional pressure, if needed, with the heel of the hand. Also disclosed is a container for holding the thumb tacks in a manner that they can be easily picked up and also including a recess for the tool.

Abstract: Driver apparatus for precisely locating and driving nails or other similar pointed fasteners. Included is a base for locating the driver on the workpiece itself including a V slot entrance for locating the driver in driving relationship to a nail which may be already prelocated on the workpiece. The apparatus includes as its basic parts a nail driver, a holder including the base portion and a spacer which is interchangeably fixed to the lower contact end of the nail driver for presetting with precision the depth to which the nail is to be driven.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electric impact tool characterized by a pair of electric motor-driven counterrotating flywheels, at least one of which is movable relative to the other from a retracted inoperative position into an extended operative one closely adjacent the other flywheel whereby a ram is squeezed therebetween and impelled forward at high speed against a workpiece. The nosepiece of the tool frame is retractable although normally extended due to the spring bias urging it and the movable flywheel to which it is mechanically linked into disengaged position. These elements cooperate with one another and with a manually-actuated trigger such that the latter must be depressed and the nosepiece retracted in order to engage the high energy friction clutch defined by the flywheels so as to operate the ram. A flywheel speed control is provided for matching the ram impact to the workload.

Abstract: A hammer device having spaced guide runners to guide the percussion end of the device along a carpet strip to position the hammer member directly over the anchor nail of the carpet strip. The leg member of the guide runners are spring loaded so that the percussion end of the hammer device is manually pressed down against the bias of the spring to encapsulate the anchor nail so that the striking action of the hammer member drives the nail axially without damage to the adjacent barbs.

Abstract: A tube of nonmagnetic materials has magnets mounted on one end thereof. A nail held within the tube by the magnets is driven into a work piece by a weighted rod-shaped driver telescoped within the tube.

Abstract: A device for holding male and female mating snap members in alignment during a snap attaching operation has an elongated rigid barrel with a pin resiliently retractable into the leading end thereof. The pin is used as a centering means while the leading end of the barrel provides a driving device when the pin is retracted and the tool is struck at the opposite end of the barrel. The leading end of the barrel comprises a rim adapted to engage standard sized male and female mating snap members near their peripheries and the pin is adapted for maintenance of proper alignment of these members during attachment.

Abstract: An improved fastener driving tool having particular utility at locations that are otherwise inaccessible is disclosed. The fastener driving tool of this invention includes an elongated cylinder having one closed end. A ram is slidably mounted in the cylinder so that one end of the ram bears against the inside surface of the closed end of the cylinder. An axially displaceable rod is mounted on the outside surface of the cylinder and includes a clip that is adapted to hold the head of the nail against the outside surface of the closed end of the cylinder. With the nail so positioned the tool may be inserted behind a wall, for example through a pre-existing window opening, so that a header may be secured to a stud. By using the tool of the present invention, it is not necessary to remove any plaster or wallboard in order to expose the header and studs that are to be nailed. The ram is moved axially in two opposite directions within the cylinder until the nail is sufficiently started.