US 12,083,656 B2
Fastener driving device with mechanisms to limit movement of nails
Prudencio S. Canlas, Jr., North Kingstown, RI (US); Jeff Peng, Taichung (TW); Hao Chang, Taichung (TW); and Adam C. Tillinghast, South Kingstown, RI (US)
Assigned to STANLEY FASTENING SYSTEMS, L.P., North Kingstown, RI (US)
Filed by STANLEY FASTENING SYSTEMS, L.P., North Kingstown, RI (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/344,768.
Application 14/175,711 is a division of application No. 11/874,621, filed on Oct. 18, 2007, granted, now 8,684,245, issued on Apr. 1, 2014.
Application 17/344,768 is a continuation of application No. 14/175,711, filed on Feb. 7, 2014, granted, now 11,161,230.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/852,993, filed on Oct. 20, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2021/0299834 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B25C 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25C 1/005 (2013.01) 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fastener driving device for providing a fastener into a workpiece, comprising:
a housing assembly;
a nose assembly connected to the housing assembly, the nose assembly having a drive channel;
a magazine for carrying one of a supply of first fasteners and a supply of second fasteners through a feed channel along a feed direction to the nose assembly,
wherein the feed channel includes a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the feed direction,
wherein the nose assembly and the magazine are constructed and arranged to allow receipt of the first fasteners having a first length and the second fasteners having a second length different from the first length,
wherein the first length of the first fastener and the second length of the second fastener extend along the longitudinal axis of the feed channel,
at least one nail stop provided along an upper portion of the nose assembly, the at least one nail stop configured to engage and limit the first fasteners having the first length from receding into the nose assembly; and
a movable nail stop having a distal end provided along a lower portion of the nose assembly and extending into the feed channel to engage and prevent the second fasteners having the second length from receding into the nose assembly,
wherein the distal end of the movable nail stop is positioned for contact by the first fastener having the first length, and
wherein, along the longitudinal axis of the feed channel, the lower portion of the nose assembly is positioned below the upper portion of the nose assembly.