Patent ID: 8413740

Claim:
A washer holding device for temporarily retaining nonmagnetic washers being applied to a building material surface with a fastener gun, said washer holding device comprising: an arm having a first end and a second end, said arm being selectively and removably affixable to a fastener gun; and a washer receptacle, said washer receptacle being joined to said first end of said arm and including a building material surface contacting end, a washer receiving cavity inwardly recessed from said contacting end, and a central aperture, with said contacting end defining a distal end of said washer holding device; said cavity including an internal wall, said internal wall being generally perpendicularly oriented to said contacting end and sized to receive a nonmagnetic washer with said internal wall defining a diameter that is smaller than the diameter of said nonmagnetic washer such that said nonmagnetic washer is temporarily retained within said cavity via a friction fit engagement with said internal wall of said cavity, and wherein said nonmagnetic washer is recessed beneath said contacting end when retained within said cavity with said central aperture enabling a fastener to be driven from a fastener gun through said central aperture and through said nonmagnetic washer to affix said nonmagnetic washer to a building material surface; wherein said washer receptacle is disposed within a receptacle body, said receptacle body including a radially outwardly extending external shoulder defining a contacting surface with said contacting surface being recessed away from said contacting end of said washer holding device, said contacting surface of said shoulder contacting a building material surface and limiting the depression of said washer receptacle into the building material surface when said washer holding device is used to apply a nonmagnetic washer to a deformable building material and said contacting end depresses into the deformable building material surface.