Patent ID: 9573260
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B25C,Y10T

Claim:
1. A device, comprising: a driving mechanism having an actuation component for driving each of a plurality of fasteners, each fastener having a single shaft with a first head and a second head connected to the single shaft; and a magazine attached to the driving mechanism, the magazine having an outlet end adjacent the driving mechanism and an inlet end at an opposite end, spaced from the outlet end, the outlet end configured to output each of the plurality of fasteners to the driving mechanism; a first channel located inside the magazine and extending from the outlet end to the inlet end along a first direction; a second channel spatially separated a selected distance from the first channel in a direction generally perpendicular to the first direction and extending from the outlet end to the inlet end in the first direction, the first channel being positioned to receive the first head of each of the plurality of fasteners and the selected distance for the second channel being of the distance to receive the second head of the same fastener for each of the plurality of individual fasteners; a fastener receiving component attached to the inlet end of the magazine, the fastener receiving component having an opening with a first slot and a second slot, the first slot in communication with the first channel of the magazine and the second slot in communication with the second channel of the magazine, the fastener receiving component receiving the fastener with the single shaft and having the first head and the second head connected to the single shaft; and a nose section having only a single elongated opening that extends from a top region of the nose section to a bottom region of the nose section, the single elongated opening having four different sections of different widths spaced apart from each other along the length thereof, a first width that is sufficiently wide to permit the first head of the nail of the fastener to pass therethrough, a second width that is too narrow to permit the first head of the nail to pass therethrough but is sufficiently wide to permit the single shaft to pass therethrough, a third width that is sufficiently wide to permit the second head of the nail of the fastener to pass therethrough, and a fourth width to permit the shaft of the nail below the second head to pass therethrough but is too narrow to permit the second head of the nail to pass therethrough, the nose section being coupled to the outlet end of the magazine and being directly adjacent to and feeding the actuation component of the driving mechanism, the nose section having the first width aligned with the first channel of the magazine and that receives the first head of the fastener and the third width aligned with the second channel and that receives the second head of the same fastener.