Patent ID: 8672204

Claim:
A tool to install a fastener through the side of a first work piece and into a second work piece, the tool comprising: a frame including a bottom surface adapted to be positioned adjacent a first work piece, the first work piece including a side surface, a bottom surface disposed at an angle to the side surface, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a space adjacent the side surface; a first guide joined with the frame, the first guide defining an angled bore, the angled bore including an axis, a first opening adapted to enable a fastener to enter the angled bore and a second opening adapted to enable the fastener to exit the angled bore, the first and second openings aligned along the axis, the axis adapted to be disposed at a preselected, non-orthogonal angle relative to the side surface of the work piece; and a first spacer joined with the first guide, the first spacer projecting downwardly from the first guide a distance and adapted to extend into the space adjacent the side surface, the first spacer defining at least a portion of the angled bore so that the first spacer locates the second opening immediately adjacent the side surface of the first work piece, wherein the angled bore is adapted to guide a fastener as the fastener is rotated therein and as the fastener is advanced along the axis through the side surface and the bottom surface of the first work piece, and subsequently into a second work piece adjacent the bottom surface, wherein the angled bore includes a first material ejection port located between the first opening and the second opening, the first material ejection port adapted to eject material augered up the angled bore from the first work piece by the fastener, whereby the fastener can rotate in the angled bore without the rotation being substantially impaired by the material and whereby the first material ejection port can eject the material so that the amount of material pulled back into the work piece by a head of the fastener is reduced.