Patent ID: 6951153

Claim:
A nail guiding and driving tool for allowing an intended user to drive a nail into a piece of material using a hammer, said nail including an elongated nail shank defining a nail tip and a longitudinally opposed nail head, said nail guiding and driving tool comprising: a substantially elongated tool body, said tool body defining a body longitudinal axis, a body first end and a longitudinally opposed body second end; said tool body defining a hammer contacting surface located adjacent said body first end and extending in a substantially perpendicular relationship relative to said body longitudinal axis; said tool body also defining a nail contacting surface located substantially adjacent said body second end and extending in a substantially parallel relationship relative to said hammer contacting surface; a guiding sleeve slidably mounted relative to said tool body adjacent said body second end, said guiding sleeve defining a sleeve channel extending longitudinally therethrough, said guiding sleeve also defining a sleeve distal end for contacting said piece of material, said sleeve channel defining a nail head receiving section extending inwardly from said sleeve distal end for receiving said nail head, said guiding sleeve being movable relative to said tool body between a sleeve extended configuration and a sleeve retracted configuration wherein, when said guiding sleeve is in said sleeve extended configuration, said nail contacting surface is located within said sleeve channel and is recessed inwardly relative to said sleeve distal end so as to allow said nail head to be inserted into said nail head receiving section; when said guiding sleeve is in said sleeve retracted configuration, said tool body protrudes outwardly from said sleeve channel with said nail contacting surface being positioned distally relative to said sleeve distal end so as to allow said nail contacting surface to drive said nail into said piece of material; a biasing component operatively coupled to said tool body and said guiding sleeve for biasing said guiding sleeve towards said sleeve extended configuration.