Patent ID: 6871568
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: B25C

Abstract:
1. A hand-held framing tool comprising: a handle having a coupling portion at an end thereof and a bar member protruded outwards from said coupling portion, a spring extending along the length of said bar member; a cover shell having a chamber and a guide hole formed at a bottom end of said chamber, said guide hole communicating with said chamber and running through a first end of said cover shell, a second end of said cover shell being connected with said coupling portion of said handle so that said bar member extends out from the first end of said cover shell; an elongated tubular guide member having a cylindrical hollow space which has a plurality of guide ditches extending longitudinally along an inner periphery thereof at a first end of said guide member, said guide ditches being provided to engage and guide sides of a nail having a V-shaped cross-section which fixes abutting end portions of a frame together, said guide member being fitted in said guide hole of said cover shell so that said bar member of said handle runs through the hollow space of said guide member, said spring has two ends respectively contacting against a second edge of said guide member and said coupling portion, and wherein said bar member comprises a magnet at a free end thereof.