Tool for attaching identification device
OwnerEugene B. Ritcheyinventor
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Abstract
A tool is provided for installing a tag in an element to be tagged, such as an animal's ear, wherein the tool releasably holds a tag on one side of the ear and a blade on the other side of the ear is moved so as to pierce the ear to form an incision therein and to grasp the locking head of the tag on the other side of the ear and pull it back through the incision during the return movement of the cutting element and subsequently release the locking head of the tag after it has been pulled back through the incision. Since only the cutting blade or the locking head of the tag are in the incision at one time, tearing of the incision is minimized.
Claims15
A hand tool for attaching a tag to an element to be tagged, wherein the tag is of the type which is made of resilient elastomeric material and includes a laterally extensive base for receiving indicia, an anchoring head in the general plan form of an arrowhead with a narrow leading end or tip and rearwardly diverging locking flanges joined to the base by a narrow neck, said tool comprising:
- means for releasably holding the anchoring head of the tag on one side of an element to be tagged;
- element piercing means positionable on the opposite side of the element to be tagged;
- means for moving said element piercing means through the element to be tagged;
- means forming part of said element piercing means for grippingly engaging the tip of the anchoring head after said element piercing means has moved through the element to be tagged;
- means moving said element piercing means back to the opposite side of the element to be tagged to pull the anchoring head through the element so that it is tagged;
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- means releasing said tip engaging means after movement of said element piercing means back to said other side of the tagged element.
A hand tool for applying a tag to an ear or other bodily member of an animal, wherein the tag is of the type which is made of resilient elastomeric material and includes a laterally extensive base for receiving indicia, an anchoring head in the general plan form of an arrowhead with a narrow leading end or tip and rearwardly diverging locking flanges joined to the base by a narrow neck, said tool comprising:
- a support bracket;
- a first arm having a first end pivotally connected to said support bracket;
- means for releasably holding the anchoring head of the tag connected to a second end of said first arm;
- a second arm having a first end connected to said support bracket;
- a pointed blade having a base connected to a second end of said second arm and having its point extending toward said holding means, the second ends of said first and second arm being movable toward each other when an animal's ear is therebetween so that said blade pierces the ear and extends through the slit formed in the ear so that said point thereof comes into contiguous relationship with the tip of the anchoring head;
- means on said blade for gripping the tip of the anchoring head between it and the surface of said blade when said blade extends through the ear;
- means connected to said second arm to activate said gripping means when said blade extends through the ear;
- means responsive to the gripping of the tip of the anchoring head by said gripping means to move said respective second ends of said first and second arms away from each other so that said anchoring head is pulled through the slit in the ear;
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- means releasing said gripping means from the tip of the anchoring head after the anchoring head is pulled through the slit in the ear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.