Patent ID: 8167184

Claim:
A magazine for use with a nail-driving tool, said magazine comprising: storing means for receiving and storing a plurality of nail strips in a side-by-side relationship relative to one another, each said nail strip being stacked in a storage plane and comprising a plurality of collated nails, and each nail having a head and a shank; means for driving said nail strips along a feeding plane towards an outlet end of the magazine for feeding the tool with the nails in said nail strips, said feeding plane being substantially perpendicular to the storage plane of each said nail strip stacked in the storing means transport means for taking one nail strip out of said plurality of stored nail strips and moving said one nail strip towards the outlet end; and a pivoting station arranged for pivoting said one nail strip transported from the transport means into said feeding plane to be subsequently driven along said feeding plane by said driving means from said pivoting station towards said outlet end.