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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1999
Gebhard Gantner, Nenzing, AT;
Markus Sprenger, Eschen, LI;
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Schaan, LI;
Abstract
A delivery device for a setting tool has a guide tube (,), a guide rail (,) projecting from the guide tube (,) substantially transverse thereto and having a guide channel (,) for receiving fastening elements (,), a slide (,) for transporting the fastening elements in a direction toward the guide tube (,), and a locking member (,) pivotable into an interior of the guide channel (,) for limiting the displacement of the fastening elements (,) located in the guide channel (,) in the direction opposite to the setting direction. The locking member (,) has a guide region (,) displaceable through a through-opening (,) formed in a side of the guide rail (,) extending parallel to the setting direction, and into the interior of the guide channel (,) into a locking position in which the guide region (,) formlockingly cooperates with the spaced from each other, stop edges of several fastening elements provided on stems of the elements.