Carrier for nails for nail driving device

Claim 1

A nail carrier for supporting and locating nails to be fed to a power-operated nail driving device, said carrier comprising: a substantially rectangular bottom plate made of rigid material; mounting means supporting said bottom plate at a slant relative to a horizontal plane; a first group of rigid studs fixedly secured to the top side of the bottom plate in two spaced apart rows parallel to each other and to one pair of opposite edges of the bottom plate; a second group of yielding studs secured to the top side of the plate in one row disposed intermediate to the two rows of the studs of the first group and parallel thereto; the locations of the studs in both groups being correlated so that one stud in each row of the first group in conjunction with one stud in the second group define therebetween a guide and restraint position for a nail in which the respective two studs of the first group on one side of the nail and the one stud of the second group is on the other side of the nail, each of the studs in both groups having a bent tip overlying a nail placed in said guide and restraint position whereby said nail is restrained in its position but removable therefrom by yielding of the respective stud of the second group in response to a pulling force applied to said nail.