Staircase carpet laying tool

Claim 1

A portable electrically powered hand tool for installing carpet in difficult areas such as the corner sections of staircases and the like; said tool comprising; generally gun shaped electrically powered, hand held means having a hand grip, a selectively actuable trigger, and a reciprocating forward output shaft emanating from a forward muzzle; and; a carpet forcing blade assembly comprising: rigid blade means having a transverse terminal end of substantial width, said blade means terminating in a spaced-apart reduced width portion adapted to be secured to said output shaft; blade guard means comprising a pair of spaced-apart, generally rectangular rigid plates having spaced-apart divergent ends disposed adjacent said muzzle in substantially covering relation with respect to said output shaft and opposite closely spaced-apart ends which terminate slightly short of convergence; a blade output mouth longitudinally disposed between said opposite ends of said blade guard means plates through which the blade means terminal end is free to reciprocally move; and, a pair of wing guide members disposed on opposite sides of said mouth and rigidly secured to said opposite ends of said plates, said wing guide members adapted to contact each one of a pair of generally perpendicular planar members upon which carpet is to be installed when said blade means is directed toward the intersecting point of said planar members, whereby to orient said blade means at an operative orientation of approximately forty five degrees with respect to both of said last mentioned planar members.