Patent ID: 9643305
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B25C

Claim:
1. A magazine for a fastening device, comprising: a nail track disposed along a longitudinal length of said magazine; a pusher assembly adapted to have an engaged state and a retracted state, said pusher assembly adapted to move in a lateral direction into said nail track when said pusher assembly is in said engaged state and in a lateral direction out of said nail track when said pusher assembly is in said retracted state, said pusher assembly having: a recess, in said magazine, into which said pusher is reversibly retracted when said pusher assembly knob is moved to reversibly retract said pusher at least in part into said recess to achieve said retracted state, said recess being located at an end of said magazine opposite to said nosepiece; and a detent adapted to reversibly maintain said pusher assembly in said retracted state out of said nail track and in said recess, said detent comprising a raised portion configured to extend toward at least a portion of said pusher assembly knob and be configured to reversibly mate with said pusher assembly knob, wherein said pusher assembly knob has a mated state in which said pusher assembly knob is reversibly mated with said detent in said retracted state, and an unmated state in which said pusher assembly is in said engaged state, wherein said mated state has at least a portion of said pusher assembly knob reversibly fixed in place by mating said pusher assembly knob with said detent.