Patent ID: 8292144

Claim:
A controlled action feeder magazine assembly for feeding a strip of multiple fasteners into a pneumatic nailer, said pneumatic nailer having a main frame with a fastener discharge outlet to which said magazine assembly is to be mounted, said magazine assembly having an elongated inner frame segment to be fixedly mounted to said main frame, an elongated outer frame segment, and coupling means operatively connecting in non-coaxial fashion said inner frame segment and said outer frame segment in an elbowed fashion for free slidethrough of said strip of multiple fasteners, each of said inner frame segment and said outer frame segment having a corresponding first and second channels for slidingly retaining fasteners in slidethrough fashion, said fasteners movable under gravity forces through said channels from a fastener intake means to a fastener discharge means thereof opposite said fastener intake means; and further including a spring biased fastener pusher means, carried inside said inner frame segment, said fastener pusher means for forcibly biasing said fasteners toward said fastener discharge means, and a pusher means retention means, said retention means having an operative mode, active with a large storage load of fasteners into said channel of said inner frame segment, and an inoperative mode, triggered when said load of fasteners in said inner frame segment decreases below a threshold value.