Patent ID: 7198188

Claim:
A single arm operated fastener driving tool for hardwood flooring, said fastener driving tool destined to be loaded with at least one fastener, said fastener driving tool comprising: a main rigid frame, for use with a fastener discharge mechanism attached to said main rigid frame and which can be activated for allowing said fastener driving tool to discharge a fastener; and a handle assembly for enabling single hand operation of said driving tool over the flooring, said handle assembly defining; a) a hand grasping portion, integral to said main rigid frame and for grasping by one hand of an operator's arm; and b) fulcrum means, cooperating with said hand grasping portion in enabling an operator to manipulate and control said driving tool with the same operator's arm as the one by which said hand grasping portion is grasped; wherein said hand grasping portion includes an inner end fixedly connected to said main rigid frame and an outer end, and wherein said fulcrum means consists of an auxiliary member, connected at one end by mounting means to said hand grasping portion outer end, said auxiliary member defining an inner leg, transversely projecting from and connected by mounting means to said hand grasping portion outer end, and a free outer end leg, transversely projecting from said inner leg thereof, said auxiliary member outer end leg and said hand grasping portion being in spaced register relative to one another.