DRIVING APPARATUS WITH MAGAZINE FOR FASTENING ELEMENTS

Apparatus for driving fastening elements, such as nails, bolts, screws, clips and alike, includes a magazine extending laterally from a guide from which the fastening elements are driven. A transport slide is mounted on the magazine. A guide channel in the magazine opens into the guide and is open at its opposite end located at a free end of the magazine. The transport slide is movable along the magazine towards its free end into a release position and in the release position can be fixed against movement toward the guide. In the release position, the transport slide has a transport latch, and a retaining element is positioned on the magazine, and both are displaced out of the clear opening in the guide channel.