Plastic nails for automatic nail gun
First Claim
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.
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Abstract
A molded nail pack for use in an automatic nail gun that has a feeder for delivering nails in sequence into a chamber and a hammer for driving a nail in the chamber into a receiving member. The molded pack includes a plurality of nails that are supported in a spaced apart relationship by a first upper web and second lower web molded integrally with adjacent nails. In a second embodiment of the invention, the nails are connected by a vertically disposed web extending between overlapping heads of adjacent nails in the pack. Each web has a weakened section located so that a nail positioned in the gun chamber separates cleanly from the pack when struck by the gun hammer thereby preventing the gun from becoming jammed.
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11 Claims
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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 including
a 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, and each 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.
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7. The 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 structure, said nail pack including
a 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, the nails being positioned such that the head of upstream nails in the series overlap the heads of adjacent downstream nails whereby the nails comprising the nail pack are positioned in ascending order from front to back, and a first web disposed parallel to said nail shanks connecting the bottom of the head of an upstream nail to the top of the head of an adjacent downstream nail, said first web being integrally molded with said adjacent nails to support the nails in spaced apart alignment to permit the first nail in the series to be delivered into said gun chamber.
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