Patent ID: 11938596
Assignee: NATIONAL NAIL CORP.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  E | IPC B  E

Claim 15:
16. A method of installing a fastener with a tool, the method comprising:
placing a first workpiece adjacent a second workpiece and over a substrate;
providing a tool including a spacer that extends downwardly, a first guide defining an angled bore extending along an axis adapted to be placed at a non-orthogonal angle relative to a first side surface of the first workpiece, the angled bore adapted to guide a fastener from the angled bore immediately adjacent the first side surface of the first workpiece, the tool including a pusher block that extends downwardly distal from the spacer, the pusher block including a pusher block width;
urging the first workpiece toward the second workpiece with the pusher block, with the spacer located between the first workpiece and the second workpiece so as to set a gap between the first workpiece and the second workpiece equal to a spacer width of the spacer, but not the pusher block width;
advancing the fastener along the axis of the angled bore so that the fastener enters the first side surface and advances at least partially through the first workpiece and into the substrate to join the first workpiece to the substrate adjacent the second workpiece,
wherein the pusher block width is greater than the spacer width so that the pusher block is incapable of setting the gap or fitting into the gap between the first workpiece and the second workpiece equal to the spacer width after said advancing step.