Collations for fasteners of various lengths

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8893943
SERIAL NO

12761602

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A collation comprises a plurality of sleeves for supporting and carrying a plurality of fasteners through a magazine, wherein each of the plurality of sleeves have a front and a predetermined length of between about ¼ and about 0.4 inch, each of the plurality of fasteners have a predetermined length of between about ¾ inch and about 1 ½ inch and a tip located at a predetermined position from about 0.05 inch behind the sleeve front to about ¼ inch beyond the sleeve front, frangible bridges integrally connecting the plurality of sleeves together in a serial array and facilitating the separation of a leading one of the plurality of sleeves from remaining ones of the plurality of serially arranged sleeves when a drive member of the fastener driving tool drives a leading one of the fasteners disposed within the leading one of the sleeves, and a plurality of protrusions from the sleeves for engaging the rails in the magazine.

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ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCILLINOIS AMERICA ILLINOIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Urban, Richard Prospect Heights, US 7 52
Wywialowski, Bruce Elmhurst, US 1 2

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