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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2004
Sliding rail containment device for flexible collated screws used with a top feed screw driving tool
William H. Hoffman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William H. Hoffman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Senco Products, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A portable hand-held screw driving tool is provided for use with collated strips of screws. A collated strip of screws enters from an upper-rear area of the tool and runs through a pathway or slot in an elongated, movable upper guide mounted at the tool's upper housing, then to a movable slide body having that receives and indexes the collated strip so a screw can be driven by the tool. The upper guide provides containment that prevents the flexible collated strip becoming substantially misaligned while moving through the guide's slot. When the tool is actuated to drive a screw into an object, the sliding guide moves longitudinally along the top of the tool, along with the tool's front-end screw-driving mechanism. Thus the flexible collated strip is always in a relatively fixed orientation as compared to the movable front end portion of the tool.