APPARATUS WITH MAGAZINE FOR DRIVING FASTENING ELEMENTS

Apparatus for driving fastening elements, such as nails, bolts, clips and the like, into a receiving material includes a magazine extending laterally outwardly from a guide. The magazine holds a carrying strip for the fastening elements and a transport slide which, in cooperation with the magazine, can be shifted parallel to the driving direction of the apparatus. The magazine has a housing and a guide channel opening into a transport channel in the guide. The guide channel is formed by two laterally spaced guide rails each with a surface facing the other and profiled with tooth-shaped projections having tooth flanks of different lengths with the flanks facing the transport channel being shorter. A first guide rail can be displaced away from a second guide rail parallel to the length of the guide channel by the transport slide. The transport slide interacts with a control cam located on the first guide rail. Both the first and second guide rails can be shifted laterally against the force of a spring.