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US 5,014,896 AGranted
Staple gun for attaching labels
AssigneeReit Distributing Corp.
InventorsJerry Reitmeier, Wayne Marquardt, Mark Smith, David Nethers
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AssigneeReit Distributing Corp.
InventorsJerry Reitmeier, Wayne Marquardt, Mark Smith, David Nethers
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A pneumatic label stapling gun including a label feed attachment and a cutting device which rapidly feeds a label into alignment with the staple gun head and severs the label from the remainder of the label roll after stapling. A pair of pneumatic cylinders are included and are connected to a common spool valve. One pneumatic cylinder is connected to a label advance head which reciprocates within the attachment housing to rapidly advance label into position. The other cylinder is connected to a cutter device which severs the stapled label from the remainder of the roll. The labels have spaced notches which are engaged by a protrusion carried by a spring which engages the label on its upward movement to prevent the labels from shifting the advance head as the head is retracted to engage the next label.
a stapler comprising a staple gun means for driving a staple into an aligned label to affix said label to said support surface, a continuous sequence of labels positioned adjacent to said staple gun means, advancing means for selectively urging a single label of said continuous sequence of labels into alignment with said staple gun means wherein the single label is affixed to said support surface, and cutting means shiftably carried by said advancing means for severing said single label from said continuous sequence of labels after said staple has been driven into said label by said staple gun means, said staple gun means including a staple exit, said advancing means including a housing, said housing defining a channel constituting means for guiding said continuous sequence of labels into alignment with said staple exit, an elongated slot defined in said housing in communicaiton with said guiding means, and means for engaging said continuous sequence of labels shiftably carried within said elongated slot, said engaging means including a body slidably accommodated within said housing elongated slot, said body being shiftable between first and second positions, said first and second positions being defined by longitudinal extremities of said slot, an insert shiftably carried by said body to engage said continuous sequence of labels as said body shifts from its first position to its said second position, said insert being shifted away from said strip of labels when said body shifts from its second position to its first position.
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