Patent ID: 6837412
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: B25C

Abstract:
1. An improved fastener gun having a magazine holding a plurality of stacked caps, said magazine including pusher means for pushing said plurality of stacked caps through said magazine toward a first end of said magazine, said fastener gun being adapted for sequentially shooting fasteners from a nose through each of said plurality of caps; said plurality of stacked caps having a leading cap adjacent said first end of said magazine; said leading cap having a leading portion and a trailing portion; wherein the improvement comprises a cap feeding apparatus in combination with said fastener gun, said cap feeding apparatus comprising: (a) a cap feeding body with a feeding chamber formed therewithin, said feeding chamber having a first end in communication with said first end of said magazine and second end adjacent said nose; (b) retaining means, in opposition to said pusher means, for opposing emergence of said leading cap from said magazine; (c) a shuttle mounted for reciprocation within said chamber; said shuffle having a forward edge and a rearward edge; said shuttle reciprocating between: such that said rearward edge of said shuttle becomes internosed between said retaining means and said leading cap as said shuttle moves from said cap-ejecting position to said cap-receiving position; and (d) a flipper arm mounted about an axis for pivoting movement with respect to said cap feeding body such that said flipper arm engages said leading cap as said leading cap emerges from said second end of said feeding chamber.