Dispensing of attachments
AssigneeDennison Manufacturing Company
InventorDonald L. Bourque
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for the dispensing of attachments. The attachments are fed from a continuous roll of stock into position where an individual attachment is separated from the stock. Thereafter the stock and the separated attachment are advanced so that the attachment enters a movable slide and the stock occupies the prior position of the severed attachment. The slide is then moved with respect to one or more output needles so that a plunger may force the attachment from the slide through the needle or needles and dispense it into the material with which the attachment is being used. When the dispenser has dual needles, the attachments severed from the stock can be used as plastic staples for securing objects and items.
Claims15
Apparatus for dispensing fasteners, each fastener having a pair of side members coupled by a link, comprising:
- at least one slotted hollow needle;
- first means for expelling individual ones of said fasteners through said needle, said means being reciprocable in an expulsion direction and a withdrawal direction;
- second means for advancing a connected plurality of said fasteners;
- third means for actuating said first and second means, said third means reciprocating said first and second means along an expulsion and a withdrawal direction, said third means moving said first means in the withdrawal direction at the same time as it moves said second means in the expulsion direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.