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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2005
Craig A. Schell, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ashok S. Baskar, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Keven E. Miller, Forest Hill, MD (US);
Thomas E. Miller, Spring Grove, PA (US);
Charles R. Frohlich, Iii, Columbia, MD (US);
John E. Buck, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Craig A. Schell, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ashok S. Baskar, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Keven E. Miller, Forest Hill, MD (US);
Thomas E. Miller, Spring Grove, PA (US);
Charles R. Frohlich, III, Columbia, MD (US);
John E. Buck, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A magazine is connectable to the nosepiece of a fastener tool having a driving mechanism for driving a fastener into a workpiece. The magazine defines a fastener channel for storing one or more fasteners, and a pusher channel that receives a pusher assembly for pushing the fasteners towards the nosepiece. The pusher assembly slides along the pusher channel and includes a pusher for contacting the fastener and pushing the fastener towards the nosepiece, and a spring for biasing the pusher towards the fastener channel. The pusher has a camming surface to bypass fasteners inserted into the magazine assembly when the pusher assembly is moved towards the end of the magazine assembly farthest from the nosepiece. The magazine also has a locking mechanism near the end of the magazine assembly farthest from the nosepiece for latching the pusher.