Patent ID: 6848607
Filing Date: 2005-02-01
Classification: B25C,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fastening tool and one or more fasteners for fastening an object to a substrate, said tool comprising: a housing; a driver mounted in said housing for reciprocal movement in a drive path; an actuator for actuating said driver; a magazine assembly associated with said housing, said magazine assembly containing said one or more fasteners including a forwardmost fastener, said magazine assembly having a nose end and a tail end spaced from said nose end; a pusher in said magazine assembly for urging said one or more fasteners towards said nose end such that said forwardmost fastener is aligned in said drive path; wherein the length of said drive path is predetermined to cause said driver to travel a predetermined distance in said drive path upon actuation of said actuator so as to drive said forwardmost fastener into said substrate and about said object and connect said object to said substrate while ensuring that said object is movable beneath said fastener.