×

Plastic nails for automatic nail gun

  • US 4,971,503 A
  • Filed: 01/22/1990
  • Issued: 11/20/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A molded nail pack for use in an automatic nail gun having a feeder for delivering nails in sequence into a chamber and a hammer for driving a nail positioned in the chamber into a receiving structure, said nail clip includinga plurality of plastic nails, each nail having a cylindrical shank, an expanded circular head at the top of the shank, and a pointed tip at the bottom of the shank,a first upper rigid web and a second lower rigid web molded integrally with the shanks of said nails to support the nails in spaced apart alignment to permit the first nail in the series to be delivered into said gun chamber, said first and second webs having a rectangular cross-section with the width, along said cylindrical shanks being substantially greater than the thickness of said webs transversely of said shanks and at least equal to the length between adjacent nail shanks, andeach web having a weakened section located a predetermined distance from a downstream nail in said series so that said web separates from the clip within said chamber when the head of the downstream nail is struck by the gun hammer whereby the nails are prevented from jamming in said gun.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×