Daniel C Weber

US Patent:

46764240, Jun 30, 1987

Filed:

Feb 10, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/827715

Inventors:

A. Leon Meador - Clarksville IN
Daniel B. Weber - Clarksville IN

International Classification:

B25C 102

US Classification:

227147

Abstract:

A nail guiding and driving tool having a punch slidably disposed within a hollow sleeve. The punch includes a hammer blow receiving body portion containing a pair of relatively large diameter spaced apart end sections which closely fit but slide freely within a large diameter rear end portion of the hollow sleeve joined together by a relatively small diameter mid-section The punch also includes a nail driving portion which closely fits but slides freely within a small diameter forward end portion of the sleeve. A stop pin is connected in a hole in the side of the sleeve and projects into the large diameter portion of the sleeve beyond and between the outer surfaces of the end sections of the body portion at a position along the sleeve wherein a rear end of the forward end section slidably engages the pin to limit rearward sliding motion of the punch within the sleeve but wherein the forward end of the forward end section slides into an annular wall at the joinder of the rear end and forward end portions of the hollow shaft defined by said sleeve to limit forward movement of the punch in said sleeve.