Patent ID: 6453780
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: B25B,F16B,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for driving with a power driver a screwstrip comprising threaded fasteners such as screws or the like, which are joined together in a strip comprising:a housing; an elongate drive shaft for operative connection to a power driver for rotation thereby and defining a longitudinal axis; a slide body coupled to the housing for displacement parallel to the axis of the drive shaft between an extended position and a retracted position; the slide body having (a) a guide channel for said screwstrip extending through said slide body; (b) a guideway to locate successive of the screws advanced via the guide channel to be axially in alignment with said drive shaft for engagement in driving of the screws from the guideway by the drive shaft; and (c) a screw feed activation mechanism coupled between the slide body and the housing whereby displacement of the slide body relative the housing between the extended position and the retracted position advances successive screws; the housing comprising a member having a side wall about a central elongate interior cavity extending longitudinally of the member parallel the axis and open at an open forward end; the side wall having two elongate slots therethrough open to the central cavity and extending longitudinally of the interior cavity parallel the axis, the slots located on the side wall at circumferentially spaced locations generally opposite each other relative the axis; two shoe members, each shoe member slidably received in a respective one of the slots for guided longitudinal sliding parallel the axis guided within its respective slot; each shoe member carried by the slide body to guide the slide body in the member for sliding parallel the axis.