Feed assembly for a fastener driving tool
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United States of America Patent
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Jun 30, 1998
Grant Date -
N/A
app pub date -
Mar 29, 1996
filing date -
Mar 29, 1996
priority date (Note) -
Expired
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Importance
Abstract
A pawl-type assembly for pulling a coiled strip of nails form a canister-type magazine of a nail driving tool and introducing the forwardmost nail of the strip into the drive track of the tool to be driven by the tool driver into a workpiece. The guide body of the tool defines the drive track and has a fixed wall and an openable wall forming there between a passage for the strip of nails from the canister-type magazine to the drive track. The pawl is shiftable by the piston rod of an air cylinder between a rearward position wherein it engages a nail near the forwardmost nail of the strip and a forward position wherein the nearby forwardmost nail of the strip is located in the drive track ready to be driven. The pawl is provided with ledge-like surfaces which, when the pawl is in its forwardmost position, engage the fixed wall of the guide body in such a way as to prevent pawl displacement during the fastener driving portion of the tool cycle.
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