What tool is this?

[Art Davis]

Can anyone tell me what the tool below is? It is not a zip-tie gun nor a pop rivet gun. There is a front piece with a slot that is pulled back against a spring by squeezing the handle, and the trigger releases it. I just came across it in my shop and am puzzled. Any help would be appreciated.

There is a patent number, but no mfr name. I tried searching on the patent number on the web (even at the US Patent Office) without success.

Thanks.

Art

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/adavis/003a (600 x 450).jpg

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/adavis/005 (600 x 450).jpg

[Bill Huber]

It kind of looks like a molly screw setter.

You drill the hole, put the molly in and then use it to set it, that way you do not have to screw the screw all the way in to set the molly.

Not sure but that is what it looks like.

[Nate Carey]

You're a very lucky man to own one of those Art!

[Lee Schierer]

It kind of looks like a molly screw setter.

You drill the hole, put the molly in and then use it to set it, that way you do not have to screw the screw all the way in to set the molly.

Not sure but that is what it looks like.

It looks just like this one! http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffastener/infanchor/i/mollysetter.jpg

Here's the link Molly Screw Gun (http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffastener/infanchor/i/mollysetter.jpg)

Never saw one before Bill Mentioned it.....you learn something every day.

[Bill White]

It's a fes---tool. You fess up when ya figger out what to do with the darned thing.
Bill :D

[Art Davis]

Thanks, Bill H. That's exactly what it is. My fading memory kept putting up an image of a molly when I was cudgeling my brain (what little there is nowadays!), but somehow it never quite crystalized.

And thanks, Lee, for the link.