Patent ID: 8439242

Claim:
A fastening machine comprising: a housing; a handle extended from the housing; a driver blade which is driven by a drive mechanism installed within the housing to fire a fastener; a nose with an ejecting mouth and an ejection passage extending from the housing which slidably guides the driver blade; a tip member arranged at the end of the nose in the direction of ejecting the fastener and having an opening at the location corresponding to the ejecting mouth, and a first super-hard material member provided in a side of the tip member, the side facing a material into which a fastener is to be driven, and being opposite to the extending direction of the handle, wherein the tip member is made of a material different from that of the first super-hard material member, and wherein a part of the tip member located opposite to the extending direction of the handle has a substantially flat surface configured to align the material into which a fastener is to be driven.