US 12,466,042 B2
Nail gun and methods for sequentially driving nails into a substrate or a structure
Mark Joseph Bellissimo, Wellington, FL (US); Stanley Clark Beard, Jr., Hendersonville, NC (US); Caleb Robert Boothe, Inman, SC (US); Zachary Tarshel Peek, Shelby, NC (US); Robert Charles McNaughton, Forest City, NC (US); and Robert James Hellner, Zirconia, NC (US)
Assigned to Buildz, LLC, Forest City, NC (US)
Filed by Buildz, LLC, Forest City, NC (US)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/593,576.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/449,447, filed on Mar. 2, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/458,540, filed on Apr. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0293922 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. B25C 1/04 (2006.01); B25C 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25C 1/047 (2013.01) [B25C 1/003 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nail gun configured to repeatedly drive nails into a substrate, the nail gun comprising:
a drive assembly having a longitudinal axis;
a feed head assembly attached to the drive assembly and configured to provide the nails to an output segment;
a hammer configured to reciprocate along the longitudinal axis of the drive assembly to drive the nails into the substrate;
a reservoir assembly configured to provide compressed air to the drive assembly to reciprocate the hammer and drive a nail into the substrate; and
a sensor configured to detect when a nail is within the output segment, wherein the hammer is triggered to drive the nail out of the output segment when the sensor detects the nail is within the output segment.