A nail guide and holding device comprises two elongated members pivotally connected to one another at one end and having finger grips at the other end. The elongated members having upper faces and bottom faces defining a bottom plane and inner side faces facing each other. The inner side faces having a portion being essentially perpendicular to the bottom plane. V-shaped grooves are provided for holding a shank of a nail. The V-shaped grooves have a front side and a rear side, wherein one of the sides is longer than the other of the sides.
A supporting tool for nails, screws and the like consists of a body (6) shaped like a plate or slab, in which two openings (7,8) are made; each opening (7,8) being capable of housing a screw or nail (14,15) of different diameter; the sizes of the openings (7,8) vary to define housings for screws or nails of different shapes and diameters; the openings (7,8) extend inside the body (6); the size of the first opening (7) decreases in the opposite direction of the increasing size of the second opening (8); the first opening (7) begins from a first hole (9) and the second opening (8) from a second holes (10); first and second holes (9,10) being capable of housing a nail or screw according to the hole sizes; nails or screws of smaller diameters are clamped by parts of the first or the second openings (7,8) suitable for the diameter of the nail or screw (14,15) to be driven into a wall.
A gripping tool includes a pair of handles and a resilient element integrally formed with and connecting the pair of handles. An opening is defined on at least one of the pair of handles or the resilient element. The opening is adapted to receive an article to be gripped. One of the handles of the pair of handles comprises a jaw adapted to grip the article against at least one of the other handle of the pair of handles or the resilient member.
A plier-type tool grips the spacing tube or ferrule which surrounds lengthy spikes used to secure a rain gutter to a building. The tool has legs that are pivotally connected and are used to open and close opposing arms that form a jaw. The inside surface of each arm of the jaw is fitted with half a cylindrical tube. The tube halves come together to form a single elongated tube at the front end of the nail spike grip. The tube is transversely positioned on the tool so as to generally form a T-shape with the legs of the nail spike grip. The tube fits within the channel of a rain gutter and is used to guide and support a spike as it is positioned within a spacing tube during installation. While supported by the tool the spike is driven through the inner wall of the gutter and into the trim of the building in order to secure the rain gutter thereto.
