Patent ID: 7475618

Claim:
A screw gun extension and screw keeper attaching to and extending from a screw gun and retaining a screw in a fixed position during insertion of said screw into a surface of an object, said extension and screw keeper comprising: a rigid planar platform having a first end defining a resilient clamp member removably securing to a frame of said screw gun, a second end having a flexible descending curved portion defining a tapered screw keeper channel providing a plurality of removable sections held secure within a frame section located on said second end of said platform, each of said plurality of removable sections adapted to screws of differing diameters, adapted to receive and retain a threaded shaft of a screw during an initial insertion of said screw, and an intermediary segment presenting at least one descending bracket having a central bore directed from said planar platform in a common direction as said flexible descending curved portion of said second end; a drill rod rotatable retained within said central bore of said at least one descending bracket, said drill rod attached within a compressible screw gun tip of said screw gun at a first end with said drill rod defining a screw head driver at a second end, wherein a head of said screw is placed within said screw head driver with said threaded shaft of said screw placed within said tapered screw keeper channel, said flexible descending curved portion of said second end of said platform flexibly withdrawn as said screw is inserted into said object with said tapered screw keeper channel releasing from said threaded shaft of said screw as said flexible descending curved portion of said second end is withdrawn, allowing said head of said screw to pass through said tapered screw keeper channel for full insertion of said screw into said object, providing said screw gun to be operable from a greater distance from said surface of said object within which said screw is inserted without requiring said screw to be held by hand.