Patent ID: 6938812

Claim:
A fastening tool for holding a plurality of fasteners and selectively installing a first one of the fasteners into a workpiece, the fastening tool comprising: a fastening tool portion having a dispensing portion for dispensing the first one of the fasteners; a magazine assembly; a guide post coupled to one of the fastening tool portion and the magazine assembly; a guide portion formed in the other one of the fastening tool portion and the magazine assembly, the guide portion including a guide port slidingly receiving; and a clamp for releasably securing the magazine assembly to the fastening tool portion, the clamp including a track that is associated with the magazine assembly, the clamp further including a follower member that is carried by the fastening tool portion and slidably disposed in the track; wherein the magazine assembly is movable between a predetermined first position in which the magazine assembly is proximate the dispensing portion so that fasteners can be fed from the magazine assembly into the dispensing portion and a predetermined second position in which the magazine assembly is spaced apart from the dispensing portion; and wherein the guide post is received in the guide port in the first position and the second position and wherein the first and second positions are defined by contact between the follower and two segments of the track that are configured to restrict further movement of the follower.