Patent ID: 8893943
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
1. A collation for transporting fasteners along rails disposed within a magazine of a fastener driving tool, comprising: a plurality of sleeves for supporting and carrying a plurality of fasteners through said magazine, each of said plurality of sleeves having a front and a rear with a predetermined length therebetween of between about ¼ and about 0.4 inch and rail engaging means, each of said plurality of fasteners having a predetermined fastener length of between about ¾ inch and about 2 inches and a tip located at a predetermined position from behind said front to about ¼ inch beyond said front in order to reduce dive-back into said magazine and improve guidance of said plurality of fasteners; each fastener having an exposed neck having a length that is between about ¼ inch and about 1½ inch; said plurality of sleeves being connected together in a serial array permitting the separation of a leading one of said plurality of sleeves from remaining ones of said plurality of serially arranged sleeves when a drive member of said fastener driving tool drives a leading one of the plurality of fasteners disposed within said leading one of said plurality of sleeves; wherein said sleeves are substantially symmetrical about a plane bisecting said predetermined length.