Dispensing of attachment members
US5033664A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 15, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 15, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65C7/005
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An improved system for attaching price tags to garments and other joining applications, in which individual fasteners are severed from fastener stock having a continuous, elongated plastic side member joined to a plurality of space-apart filaments. The fastener stock is advanced to a transfer site along a feed axis which is parallel to and proximate the axis of the needle through which severed fasteners are dispensed. A knife is mounted on a support slide which is slideable transversely to the feed axis, such support slide being urged toward the feed axis to cause the knife to sever an individual fastener from the fastener stock. A transfer slide engages a portion of the side member which becomes a T-bar of the severed fastener, and urges it toward the needle axis. The transfer slide is yieldably coupled to the support slide to permit the transfer slide to lag behind the knife until severing occurs. The support slide may comprise a primary slide, and the transfer member a secondary slide coupled to the primary slide by a compression spring.
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