Abstract: A strip includes a number of holes for engaging with fasteners and includes a number of shoulders formed around the holes for decreasing the contact area between the strip and the fasteners and for increasing the resilience applied to the fasteners. The strip includes a number of cylindrical walls for forming the holes and includes a number of slits formed in the shoulders and ending at the cylindrical walls for increasing a resilience of the shoulders. The strip includes a number of openings communicating with the slits for increasing the resilience of the shoulders.

Abstract: A staple fastener is provided with filler material disposed between its leg portions for filling a cavity in a substrate, which cavity is formed above a head of the staple when the staple is driven into the substrate. The filler material extrudes from the staple as it is driven into the substrate. In accordance with the preferred method, the staple fasteners are driven into the substrate with a power tool applicator to form the cavity and then a tampering plunger tamps the extruded filler material to conform to the surface of the substrate. In the preferred method, a first plunger is actuated first to drive the staple; and a second tamping plunger at an angle to the first plunger is actuated after the first plunger is retracted to tamp the material into cavity and then to smooth the exterior surface of the filler material to conform to the adjacent surface.

Abstract: A staple for maintaining netting in an installed position on a ground surface, which netting is used to enhance the growing of turf or sod. The staple has a pointed end and a medial portion extending to a distant end. The distant end has a head portion which is of a width that is greater than the width of the pointed end and the medial portion and is likewise wider that the smallest distance defining the opening in the netting. A method and apparatus for installing the staple is also disclosed.

Abstract: A fastener assembly, such as a nail assembly, includes a row of fasteners held together and maintained in position by an extrudable thermoplastic adhesive composition containing a particulate filler, an extrudable thermoplastic resin reacted with a polar compound, and optional quantities of an additional thermoplastic resin. The adhesive composition provides the fastener assembly with increased rigidity, reduced bending and buckling, and reduced shearing requirements for separating an individual fastener from the row. The invention also includes an adhesive composition useful in the fastener assembly.

Abstract: A screw stay, injection-molded from plastics, including a longitudinal series of equally spaced screw mounting holes for mounting a respective screw, pairs of side notches made along two opposite long sides thereof between each two adjacent screw mounting holes, a plurality of annular flanges extending downwards from a bottom side thereof around each screw mounting hole, a plurality of splits extending from the top side through the border of each screw mounting hole into a part of each annular flange, sets of radial ribs respectively raised from the top side of the screw strap around each screw mounting hole and sloping outwardly upwards from each split for guiding the head of each screw into each screw mounting hole respectively, and sets of radial webs arranged under and aligned with respective ribs.

Abstract: A collated fastener strip for use in a pneumatic fastener driving tool of the type having a magazine containing parallel spaced grooves for accommodating the heads of fasteners as they are fed within the magazine. The strip comprises a plurality of headless fasteners with at least one headed fastener positioned near the end of the strip such that the strip may be used in a magazine designed for using headed fasteners.

Abstract: A continuous nail pack made of ultra-high strength plastic composite materials, for example, thermoplastic or thermoset materials for use in standard nailing machines. The individual nails have sufficient compressive strength and a flexural modulus such that the nail may be used for nailing into commodity woods for construction, furniture making, or for building boats. Further, this nail pack is non-corrodible and provides plastic nails having a length/diameter ratio of a working nail heretofore unavailable.

Abstract: A screw band of an elongate tape shape having one or two longitudinal sides provided with transporting notches space apart equidistantly, screw holes spaced equidistantly through its thickness, four spaced notches provided around the wall defined by each screw hole, a circumferential wall extending down from the round screw hole wall and having a cone shape or an annular shape, an annular small diameter wall extending down from the circumferential wall, the cone-shaped wall conforming to a sloping wall of a head of a screw for said screw head to rest on an inner surface of the cone-shaped wall, the annular wall having an inner hole just sized only a little larger than a threaded rod portion of the screw to fit through.

Abstract: A strap supports a number of screws for supplying the screws into a screwing gun device. The strap include a number of holes for engaging with the screws and includes a number of resilient blades for retaining the screws in place. The strap includes a number of notches of different depth formed in the two side edges so as to allow bending of the strap from the one side edge toward the other side edge and so as to prevent the strap from affecting the operation of the screwing gun device.

Abstract: A nail with offset reinforced head, adapted to be formed into a strip of similar collated nails, comprises a nail shank, an integral nail head disposed in an offset relationship with the nail shank, at least one reinforcing ridge member provided integrally on a lower surface of the head and extending from the shank to an edge portion of the head. The ridge member and a lower surface of the head define a recess for receiving an overlapping head portion of a collated nail.

Abstract: A collated screw package is formed with a plurality of parallel screws secured to each other with two wires which are sufficiently friable to permit the screws to be singly detached from the package as the screw is driven by a rotary drilling device. The wires are preferably spot welded to unthreaded portions of each screw which prevents fragments of the wires and fragments of the spot welded joints from interfering with the screw threads. To form the unthreaded portions, the thread of each screw is interrupted for a portion to allow at least one of the wires to be secured to the screw shank at the interruption. The interruption is formed by a relief in a continuous surface of thread forming tooling.

Abstract: A strip of collated fasteners is disclosed, which comprises a plurality of fasteners and a carrier molded from a polymeric material. Each fastener has an elongate shank, which has a pointed end, and a head. The shank of each fastener defines an axis and has two portions of different diameters, namely a thicker portion adjoining the head and a thinner portion adjoining the pointed end, and a shoulder joining the thicker and thinner portions. The carrier comprises a separate sleeve associated with each fastener and is frangible between the separate sleeves. A representative sleeve is disposed around the shank of the associated fastener and has an initial axial length, which the representative sleeve assumes when disposed around the shank of the associated fastener but not compressed axially, and a critical axial length, at which the representative sleeve splits when disposed around the shank of the associated fastener and compressed axially.

Abstract: A coated fastener includes a coating comprised of one-hundred percent dry solids which is virtually free of solvent emissions when applied and during curing, covers substantially the entire exterior of the fastener, provides a protective coating to the fastener against corrosion, enables the fastener to be adhered to at least one other fastener, and provides increased holding power of the fastener after the fastener is driven into a desired surface.

Abstract: A nail for use in a nailing strip, having a non-circular head defined by at least two dissimilar convex curved shapes, the nail having; a nail shank with a point at one end, shank; a first nail head portion at the other end of the shank, lying substantially in alignment with the shank axis, and extending outwardly therefrom on either side of the shank, a second nail head portion formed integrally with the first nail head portion, the second nail head portion being substantially offset relative to the shank, the first nail head portion defining a first generally convex curved shape, and having a central point coincident with an edge of the shank, so that the nails may lie in closely collated relation in a strip, and, the second nail head portion defining a generally convex curved shape extending away from the shank.

Abstract: A system for attaching a rod, pipe or tube to a support surface in a spaced relationship thereto using plastic mounting devices, each of which has a central body portion, integral spaced apart leg portions and an inner arcuate surface greater than 180 degrees and having terminal end portions spaced from end surfaces of the leg portion, in an automated process wherein the leg portions are restrained from pivotal movement relative to the central body portion so that the portions of the mounting device adjacent to the terminal end portions will deform as they move over the rod, pipe or tube and then resile to move the rod, pipe or tube into the inner arcuate surfaces.

Abstract: A coated metal fastener and a coating composition that has particular affinity for plaster materials and the like is disclosed. The composition that is applied to the fastener contains a copolymer of styrene and maleic anhydride and a thermoplastic resin, preferably polyvinyl acetate, in an inert organic solvent. The organic solvent can be an aromatic solvent, a ketone, a chlorohydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof. The composition is applied to the fastener by conventional methods and cured thereon at about ambient temperature.

Abstract: A nail containing a predetermined unit weight of metal equivalent to a cylindrical nail having a predetermined diameter and having a shank of regular shape, a point at one end, at least two reduced portions formed in the shank longitudinally parallel to the central axis of the shank, having cross section reduced with respect to such a diameter, and a like plurality of ridges formed between the grooves, planar surfaces lying in planes parallel to one another, and, a head on one end of the nail, and at least two of ridges having ridge crests spaced apart a distance greater than the diameter of the equivalent cylindrical nail.

Abstract: A strip of collated nails wherein, upon each side of the strip, a tape extends across and is adhered to a flat surface defined by means of a tape recess of the shank of each nail, and between two end surfces defined thereby. Each tape is adhered by means of an adhesive layer between such tape and the flat surfaces upon each side of the strip, at an acute angle relative to two axially extending sides of the flat surfaces upon each side of the nail shank.

Abstract: A wire nail with a head having a circumferential edge conforming to a complete circle and disposed in a radially offset relationship with respect to a shank. A flat surface on defined upon the shank provides a datum indicating where the shank is located. A flat surface on the shank provides a datum for orienting such nail and similar nails. In some embodiments, a tangent plane defined by means of a lower or underside portion of the head is oriented at an acute angle (75.degree. to 85.degree.) relative to the shank. In a strip of such (collated) nails, the flat surfaces defined upon the shanks define an open channel, which coacts with a rib integrally provided upon one wall of a nail-feeding mechanism. In a nail-making machine, two gripping members defining an annular recess and a punch are used to form such a nail from a wire of a malleable metal.

Abstract: A carrier strip (1) for explosive powder charge operated setting tools holds fastening elements or nails (2) in receiving bores (3) equidistantly spaced apart in the strip. Disks (6, 7) hold and guide the nails (2) in the receiving bores (3). Stops (8, 9) are formed in and extend radially inwardly from the inside diameter of the receiving bores (3). The stop (8) leading in the driving direction out of the receiving bores (3) can be overcome for driving the nail out of the bore.

Abstract: A nail retaining strip for feeding nails into a fastening element driving tool where the nails are driven individually out of the tool by a drive piston includes guide bushings for the nails. Adjacent guide bushings are separably interconnected by connecting webs. The guide bushing extends in the axial direction of the nail shank and has axially and circumferentially extending circular guide surfaces for supporting the nails within the muzzle bore of the driving tool. The connecting webs extend radially outwardly from the guide surfaces so that the guide surfaces on adjacent guide bushings are in spaced relation. The connecting webs retain the nails in the axial direction of the muzzle bore by engagement in a receiving recess in the bore located opposite a passage through which the nails are inserted into the bore. Such axial retention permits complete utilization of the nail strip down to and including the last nail.

Abstract: A nail strip for use in association with a power-operated nailing device having strip feeding pawls and having a plurality of nails arranged in parallel spaced-apart relation, thermoplastic collars formed around the nails, webs extending between adjacent collars formed integrally, of a like thermoplastic material, engagement surfaces defined by asymmetric shoulders formed on the collars for engagement by the strip feeding pawls, and, the webs lying in a common plane spaced to one side of the plane containing the shoulders.

Abstract: A strip of collated nails for use with a rapidly acting, nail-driven tool. The shank of each nail has a cylindrical portion adjoining the head and a ringed portion and having an axial array of annular rings of an outer diameter greater than the diameter of the cylindrical portion. The nails are collated by a pair of tapes, each tape extending across and being adhered to a respective one of diametrically opposed areas on the cylindrical portion of the shank of each nail by an adhesive layer. Each tape and the adhesive layer adhering such tape have a combined thickness covering, on one side of the nail shanks, less than one-half of the difference between outer diameter of the rings and the diameter of the cylindrical portion or cylindrical portions, whereby a nail driven from the strip into a workpiece tends to carry into the workpiece, along with the driven nail, such portions of the tapes and the adhesive layes as are torn from the strip with the driven nail.

Abstract: A stack of fasteners cooperatively define a lateral groove which cooperates with an elongate rib to orient the stack in a magazine of a driving machine.

Abstract: Interlocking means are provided on the front and rear surfaces of adjacent clips to restrain relative movement between adjacent clips in one direction and to permit relative guided movement between adjacent clips in another direction and wherein the restraint of the relative movement is maintained for at least a substantial portion of the movement of the one of the adjacent clips toward a secured position on the support surface. Also, each clip has at least one bore means having first and second cross-sectional configurations so as to provide a shoulder and a surface penetrating fastening device having an enlarged head portion located in the bore means so that, when a force is applied to the surface penetrating fastening device to drive the surface penetrating fastening device into the support surface, the enlarged head will contact the shoulder so that the clip is firmly held in position on the support surface.

Abstract: A system for fastening cable to a support system using an insulated, protective housing that has surface penetrating fastening devices mounted thereon in such a manner so as to allow a multiplicity of housings to be positioned, discharged and applied in a uniform automated process. The applicator has a base plate with a slot that cooperates to position the housings slightly above the support surface with a portion of the cable passing through the slot.

Abstract: A panel nail construction adapted to be assembled on a backing material used in making shaped, upholstered panels employed in the making of furniture, and the like. The panel nail construction is provided with backing material-retaining means which enable it to be attached on a backing material. The panel nail construction advantageously is used in the form of a strip comprised of panel nails integrally, but separably, interconnected along the adjacent transverse margins of the head portion of each of the panel nails. In this form, the panel nail construction can be rapidly, and selectively, assembled on a backing material with an automatic machine or tool.

Abstract: A guide strip for holding a succession of fittings which are to be hammered into box-shaped containers in a studding machine and for conveying such fittings into the machine, the strip being constituted by a tape-like foil presenting a succession of nests for holding such fittings.

Abstract: An adhered strip of nails that are held together, including a filament disposed under compression between the nail shanks to maintain the spacing between the shanks. The nails are also adhered by at least one adhesive tape extending across the shanks of the nail, which tape covers the filament and leaves an open area between the nail shanks other than the tape and said filament.

Abstract: A coherent surgical-staple stack comprising a plurality of staples, bonded together in a parallel contiguous relationship by a biodegradable, absorbable plastic.

Abstract: Presented is a fastener device of the staple-type which includes depending legs for penetration of an article to be fastened, and overlapping relatively movable interlockable web portions which assist in preventing inadvertent withdrawal of the fastener.