Patent ID: 7818858

Claim:
A system for applying conveyor belt fasteners to belt ends, the system comprising: a pneumatic power tool having a barrel and a drive rod including upper and lower ends thereof in the barrel; a piston of the pneumatic power tool sized to slidingly fit in the barrel and being secured to the upper end of the drive rod; an actuator of the pneumatic power tool that is operable to supply compressed air directly to the piston; a stop member fixed in the barrel adjacent a lower end thereof to keep the piston in the barrel and to be engaged by the piston upon operation of the tool actuator; a guide block having multiple through bores, with the through bores configured to receive the drive rod advanced out from the barrel and then into one of the guide block bores upon operation of the actuator; and rivets received in the guide block bores such that there are multiple rivets each received in a corresponding one of the multiple through bores of the guide block prior to operation of the actuator and to be driven out from the bores via operation of the power tool actuator causing the drive rod to advance in one of the bores so that the drive rod lower end initially impacts against the rivet in the one bore outside of the tool barrel.