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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1983
Francis A Hebert, Schriever, LA (US);
Soloco, Inc., Lafayette, LA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a nail driving apparatus having a percussive air hammer driving a chisel. The apparatus has a base member, having guide means upstanding from each side of the base member. A cradle means is movable along the guide means and means carried by the cradle means is adapted to mount the air hammer securely to said cradle means. A nail barrel means is carried by the base member into which both nails to be driven and the chisel of the air hammer is positioned on the base member to be received and one of the guide means upstanding from the base member forms a nail chute having means for delivering nails singly to the barrel means beneath the chisel when the air hammer and cradle is raised. A nail chute transfer means is positioned to receive nails from a nail chute in one of the guide means and to direct nails into the nail barrel means through the intermediary of an antijamming chamber between said transfer chute and chisel causing a nail fed from said transfer chute means to be pivoted and hung by its head out of the way of the chisel until the chisel is raised clear of contact with the nail head permitting the nail to drop into the barrel in position to be driven by the chisel.