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

Claim 8:
9. A method of installing a fastener with a tool, the method comprising:
providing a first workpiece including an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface and substantially parallel to the upper surface, and first and second side surfaces joined with the upper surface and the lower surface, the first and second side surfaces being substantially perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces, the first and second side surfaces being positioned on opposite sides of the first workpiece;
placing the lower surface of the first workpiece adjacent a substrate;
placing the first workpiece adjacent a second workpiece which is disposed adjacent the substrate, the second workpiece having a third side surface and a fourth side surface, so that the second side surface is near the third side surface;
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;
placing the pusher block adjacent the first side surface;
clamping the first workpiece between the pusher block and the spacer;
urging the first workpiece toward the second workpiece with the pusher block, with the spacer located between the second side surface and the third side surface so that the spacer sets a first gap between the first workpiece and the second workpiece equal to a spacer width of the spacer; and
advancing the fastener within 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 is of a pusher block width that is greater than the spacer width so that the pusher block is incapable of setting the first gap between the first workpiece and the second workpiece equal to the spacer width after said advancing step.