Patent ID: 7836970

Claim:
A method of feeding caps from a cap feeding device to a swingable manually-actuated hammer-type stapling tool wherein the tool is elongated and has a grip end for engagement with a user's hand and a head end for ejecting a staple, and wherein the cap feeding device is attached to or forms a part of the manually-actuated stapling tool having a movable striker part that moves with respect to a main housing of the tool, comprising the steps of: impacting the striker part of the staple tool against a work surface and moving the striker part with respect to the main housing of the tool to eject a staple from the tool; driving a cap feeder associated with the cap feeding device in response to the manual actuation of the staple tool and the impacting of the head end of the tool against the work surface and the ejection of a staple from the tool; causing an inertia-induced movement of a mass which is movably mounted on the stapling tool in close proximity to the head end thereof due to the impacting of the head end of the tool against the substrate; and the step of driving the cap feeder including moving a linkage that is interconnected between the mass and the cap feeding device and wherein the movement of the linkage is initiated by the impacting of the head end of the tool against the work surface and causing the inertia-induced movement of the mass, and wherein the movement of the mass is independent of and not controlled by the movement of the striker part relative to the housing.