Wayne Allen Greene

US Patent:

7014407, Mar 21, 2006

Filed:

May 23, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/152817

Inventors:

John R. Crompton - South Meriden CT, US
Wayne Greene - West Warwick RI, US
George P. Smith - East Greenwich RI, US

Assignee:

Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P. - East Greenwich RI

International Classification:

F16B 15/00
F16B 15/02

US Classification:

411440, 4114511, 411442, 411483, 206343, 206345, 206439, 227136, 227119

Abstract:

A wire nail for use with a powered nail-driving tool has a full-round head with an axis that is offset from an axis of the integrally formed shank. An outer circumferential surface of the shank is at least as offset from the shank axis in one radial direction as a circumferential surface of the head in that radial direction. Accordingly, such nails may be collated shank-to-shank in a strip of wire nails such that adjoining shanks are both parallel and touching. During manufacture of the wire nail, a notch is formed in the shank at the intersection between the shank and the head. The notch and the head axis are disposed on opposite sides of the shank axis from each other. The notch facilitates improved metal flow during the head-forming procedure and results in strong shank to head connections.

US Patent:

7374383, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Nov 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/281704

Inventors:

John R. Crompton - South Meriden CT, US
Wayne Greene - West Warwick RI, US
George P. Smith - East Greenwich RI, US

Assignee:

Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P. - East Greenwich RI

International Classification:

F16B 15/00
F16B 15/02

US Classification:

411442, 227136, 227119, 206345

Abstract:

A wire nail for use with a powered nail-driving tool has a full-round head with an axis that is offset from an axis of the integrally formed shank. An outer circumferential surface of the shank is at least as offset from the shank axis in one radial direction as a circumferential surface of the head in that radial direction. Accordingly, such nails may be collated shank-to-shank in a strip of wire nails such that adjoining shanks are both parallel and touching. During manufacture of the wire nail, a notch is formed in the shank at the intersection between the shank and the head. The notch and the head axis are disposed on opposite sides of the shank axis from each other. The notch facilitates improved metal flow during the head-forming procedure and results in strong shank to head connections.