Patent ID: 6711809
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: B25B,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
An installation tool for serially installing individual fasteners upon a support member, comprising:a magazine for housing a plurality of fasteners, said fasteners being effectively locked together to form a nested array for insertion into said magazine, each fastener being adapted and configured to mechanically lock itself to an adjacent fastener; a driving assembly; and driven means operatively connected to said driving assembly for movement in a first direction, so as to cause an endmost one of the plurality of nested fasteners to be driven in said first direction in order to mount the endmost one of the plurality of nested fasteners upon the support member, while simultaneously causing separation of remaining ones of the plurality of nested fasteners, from the endmost one of the plurality of nested fasteners, in a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to said first direction such that the endmost one of the plurality of nested fasteners, now separated from the remaining ones of the plurality of nested fasteners, is able to be mounted upon the support member.