Magazine for Wire-Collated Fasteners with Automatic Loading

摘要

A fastening tool (10) includes a housing assembly (12) having a nosepiece (18) and a magazine assembly (14) that is coupled to the housing assembly. The magazine assembly includes a canister (200), a door structure (220), a feed pawl (206) and a follower structure (208). The canister is configured to hold a plurality of collated fasteners (500) and has a first canister portion (212) and a second canister portion (214) that is movable relative to the first canister portion between a closed position and an open position. The fastening tool further includes a coil feeder (720) assembly having an indexing pawl (722). The indexing pawl advances a fastener into operative engagement with the feed pawl upon movement of the second canister portion from the open position to the closed position.