Patent ID: 7143919

Claim:
A magazine with fastening elements for a hand-held setting tool for driving in fastening elements, comprising: a guide housing ( 21 ) having a guide chamber ( 22 ) formed therein for receiving fastening elements ( 40 ) and having at least one stop edge ( 41 ), the guide chamber ( 22 ) opening at least to a connection region ( 16 ) of the setting tool ( 10 ); a spring-biased displacement element ( 24 ) for displacing the fastening elements ( 40 ); and an elongate guide member ( 26 ) having a guide region ( 27 ) that in a closing position ( 33 ) of the guide member ( 26 ) projects into the guide chamber ( 22 ) and formlockingly cooperates with the at least one stop edge ( 41 ) for retaining the fastening elements in the guide channel ( 22 ), and that in a release position ( 34 ) of the guide member ( 26 ) is withdrawn from the guide chamber ( 22 ) for disengagement from the stop edge to provide for displacement of at least one fastening element ( 40 ), the guide member ( 26 ) further having two support sections ( 28 , 29 ) spaced from each other in a longitudinal direction of the guide member ( 26 ) and cooperating, respectively, with two control cams ( 30 , 31 ) fixedly secured on the guide housing ( 21 ) for displacing the guide region ( 27 ) from the locking position ( 33 ) to the release position ( 34 ) and from release position ( 34 ) to the locking position.