Abstract: A nail containing a predetermined unit weight of metal equivalent to a cylindrical nail having a predetermined diameter and having a shank of regular shape, a point at one end, at least two reduced portions formed in the shank longitudinally parallel to the central axis of the shank, having cross section reduced with respect to such a diameter, and a like plurality of ridges formed between the grooves, planar surfaces lying in planes parallel to one another, and, a head on one end of the nail, and at least two of ridges having ridge crests spaced apart a distance greater than the diameter of the equivalent cylindrical nail.

Abstract: A carrier tape system includes an elongated base strip and an elongated cover strip both formed of a plastic film material. The cover strip is substantially coextensive in length with the base strip. The cover strip has a top surface and opposed sidewalls extending downwardly from the top surface. The opposed sidewalls are laterally spaced apart from each other a distance substantially equal to the width of the base strip. The cover strip further includes retaining means formed integrally therewith for mechanically engaging and holding down thin component parts seated within cavities formed within the base strip. The retaining means is comprised of either a ridge or a pair of laterally spaced apart rail members which are formed coextensive with the cover strip and which extend longitudinally, parallel to the sidewalls and which project downwardly from the top surface thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for molding a strip of blind rivets, with each of the rivets having a pin within a sleeve and with the pin having a pulling head and shank, including a strip advance rod mounted in the apparatus for movement between first and second positions, a set of pin mold cavities and a set of sleeve mold cavities, a first runner for feeding the pin mold cavities and including a band around the rod, a second runner overlying the first runner for feeding the sleeve mold cavities, opposing mold members defining the sets of cavities and a sprue for feeding molding material to the runners, with the rod and strip moving together when the mold members are out of engagement for advancing the molded parts, and with the rod moving through the strip when the mold members are in engagement for returning the rod to the first position.

Abstract: A strip of collated nails wherein, upon each side of the strip, a tape extends across and is adhered to a flat surface defined by means of a tape recess of the shank of each nail, and between two end surfces defined thereby. Each tape is adhered by means of an adhesive layer between such tape and the flat surfaces upon each side of the strip, at an acute angle relative to two axially extending sides of the flat surfaces upon each side of the nail shank.

Abstract: A twistable wire clamp for connecting objects has a V-shaped configuration, the lower portion of each of its two shanks forming an oblong loop having locking means consisting of the closed end of the narrower loop, on one hand, and of a locking member projecting towards the inside of the wider loop and extending in the same plane as the loop, on the other hand. On each side of the transitional portion between said two shanks, said clamp is provided with a respective shoulder. Said clamp is placed, by means of an apparatus, around the objects to be connected or the opening to be closed, after which said locking means are brought into engagement with one another by said apparatus, and said wire clamp is seized in the area of said transitional portion and twisted by a binding hook of the apparatus. Said loops are convex with respect to their plane, and said closed end portion has a thinning and is bent over towards said other loop.

Abstract: A casing of plastic provided with casing chambers for the reception of electric plug connectors, and also provided with rest arrangements connectable with rest arrangements of an adjacent casing to form a belt. A first rest arrangement is arranged on a first side wall and a second rest arrangement is arranged on the oppositely lying second side wall. The first rest arrangement includes at least one hook-shaped rest finger molded to the first side wall and projecting therefrom, being formed by a connecting strip and by a rest strip molded thereto and extending upward. On the second side wall there is arranged at least one outward-projecting lug member forming the second rest arrangement, which includes a connecting strip and a bow portion joined therewith. The bow portion is provided with a recess for receiving and retaining the rest strip of an associated similar casing therein to form the belt.

Abstract: A molded nail pack for use in an automatic nail gun that has a feeder for delivering nails in sequence into a chamber and a hammer for driving a nail in the chamber into a receiving member. The molded pack includes a plurality of nails that are supported in a spaced apart relationship by a first upper web and second lower web molded integrally with adjacent nails. In a second embodiment of the invention, the nails are connected by a vertically disposed web extending between overlapping heads of adjacent nails in the pack. Each web has a weakened section located so that a nail positioned in the gun chamber separates cleanly from the pack when struck by the gun hammer thereby preventing the gun from becoming jammed.

Abstract: A fastener carrier for supporting screw members which includes a carrier strip having a substantial length and at least one row of apertures defined therein in a direction lengthwise of the carrier strip, and screw members each having a head and a stem and removably mounted on the carrier strip with the stem received in the corresponding aperture in the carrier strip.

Abstract: Improved continuously connected plastic fastener stock for attaching price tags to garments and other joining applications. The fastener stock includes two side members connected by a series of filaments, one of the side members comprising a series of severally connected T-bars. The T-bar connectors are defined by saw-tooth-like indentations in that end bar, having a perpendicular or slightly angled surface which is eventually engaged by the plunger when ejecting the severed T-bar.

Abstract: A cartridge for use in transporting pellets for use in an implant gun or the like. The cartridge comprising an elongate cartridge body having an elongate carrier strip and, spaced along the carrier strip, a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced holders for respective pellets, each holder defining a respective cavity such that each holder is able to hold at least one pellet.

Abstract: A multi-closure strip of generally flat, semirigid plastic closures which are jointed by sets of transversely spaced connecting material in which the connecting material is formed between smoothly rounded protrusions, each having an apex and a wider base. The connecting mateial is along a line generaly parallel or at a slight angle to the longitudinal axis of the multi-closure strip. A gap is provided between the transversely spaced sets of closure material so that, by the application of a lateral force, the connecting material is separated in tension as one closure moves laterally relative to the other.

Abstract: A loop attachment in which each attachment has a plurality of filaments, joined in a loop by a seamless connector. Each attachment is insertable through at least one object and has an elongated filament that extends from a flattened object-penetrating part to the seamless connector. The attachments are formed into an assembly with their flattened penetrating parts connected in a spaced relationship for consecutive detachment.

Abstract: A carrier strip supports a plurality of nails for use in an explosive powder charge operated setting device. The nails are equidistantly spaced apart and held in bores in the strip. Guidance members, placed on the nail shanks, hold the nails within the strip bores. The heads of the nails project outwardly from one side of the carrier strip. The outside diameter of the nail heads is not greater than the inside diameter of the strip bores, so that the nails can be pushed through the bores out of the carrier strip into a receiving material.

Abstract: A strip of collated nails for use with a rapidly acting, nail-driven tool. The shank of each nail has a cylindrical portion adjoining the head and a ringed portion and having an axial array of annular rings of an outer diameter greater than the diameter of the cylindrical portion. The nails are collated by a pair of tapes, each tape extending across and being adhered to a respective one of diametrically opposed areas on the cylindrical portion of the shank of each nail by an adhesive layer. Each tape and the adhesive layer adhering such tape have a combined thickness covering, on one side of the nail shanks, less than one-half of the difference between outer diameter of the rings and the diameter of the cylindrical portion or cylindrical portions, whereby a nail driven from the strip into a workpiece tends to carry into the workpiece, along with the driven nail, such portions of the tapes and the adhesive layes as are torn from the strip with the driven nail.

Abstract: A plurality of fasteners each having an enlarged head with a slot or a passageway there through to accommodate and cage the shank of another like fastener so that the plurality of fasteners form a self-contained collated strip. Preferably the fastener has at least three spaced vertical cups and edges about a central core with a pair of adjacent edges of one fastener caged in the complimentary slot of the adjacent-like fastener. A notch is provided on such pair of edges to releasably lock the fasteners together in the strip.

Abstract: A stack of fasteners cooperatively define a lateral groove which cooperates with an elongate rib to orient the stack in a magazine of a driving machine.

Abstract: A one-piece shim pack having an assembled stack of generally rectangular multi-sided shims, all preferably of the same thickness, which are firmly held together by bonds extending along two adjacent sides of the shims. One or more shims may be peeled from the shim pack to achieve a desired usable height for the shim pack, with removal being achieved by breaking the bond of one or more shims and the unbroken bonds providing sufficient holding power wherein the shims remaining in the shim pack are firmly held together.

Abstract: A collation strip for use in conjunction with a power actuated tool having a plurality of cylindrical housings interconnected by narrow webs. The housings, each of which is adapted to receive an axially extending fastener, include a plurality of inwardly protruding circumferentially alternating ridges and arms. The ridges include at each axial end a pair of steps adapted to surround and receive the head of a fastener. The arms, which are somewhat flexible, are located towards the center of the housings and are adapted to engage, stabilize, and align the shank of the fastener. The ridges and arms cooperate to form a plurality of fracture zones between the ridges and arms.

Abstract: A nailing strip for use in a power-operating nailing hammer, and having a plurality of nails arranged in a strip, a junction wire fastened to the shank of each nail in the strip, and a sheath covering the wire.

Abstract: A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fastener assembly comprising a number of fasteners each comprising a head, a crossbar and a filament interconnecting the head and the crossbar, each adjacent crossbars being interconnected through a connecting element in a manner of not undergoing a change in their relative positions, the number of crossbars in the fastener assembly being arranged in the form of a sheet as a whole.

Abstract: An attachment device, method of producing the same, and method of using in which the attachment has a cross bar joined to a head by a connector forming different angular transitions with the respective head and cross bar. The result is a toggle effect which promotes proper orientation of the cross bar with respect to the connector after the cross bar has been inserted into an object.

Abstract: An improved U-clip of the type having a first side with a pair of transversely-spaced prongs with bevelled inside ends and a second side having a medial prong with a bevelled inside end is disclosed, such clip further having rounded side edges.

Abstract: An assembly of tag pins is provided with a removable cap over the heads of the pins, thereby preventing any entwinement between heads which may arise when a plurality of assemblies have been packed. The cap is formed of a soft and thin synthetic resin, in one case integral with an assembly of tag pins, and has a cross-section " " shape defining a space receiving heads of the assembly of tag pins and having an opening at one side thereof. A connection between the cap and the assembly of tag pins is formed at only two positions, that is, respective top portions of longitudinal outermost heads of the assembly, thus the cap can be easily removed because it has sufficiently flexibility to be deformed and can be easily widened by the fingers of a user.

Abstract: Ribbon of cable ties including a strip portion extending the length of the ribbon having a plurality of cable ties connected thereto by respective connecting tabs. The strip portion having an alignment mechanism adapted to cooperate with the guide mechanism in a dispenser to accurately position the ribbon laterally in the dispenser mechanism.

Abstract: A twist-tie system, whereby a gang of edge-connected but separable twist ties are fastened to a desired surface. The twist-tie system includes a gang of twist ties, an adhesive layer applied to a portion of one surface of the gang of twist ties, and a removable protective material applied to an exposed surface of the adhesive layer. The protective material can be removed to expose the surface of the adhesive layer to permit fastening of the gang of twist ties to a surface by use of the adhesive layer. At least a portion of the gang of twist ties, spaced from the portion of the one surface of the gang of twist ties, can be formed in a waved profile. Undulations of the waves in this profile extend in a same direction as a longitudinal extent of ties in the gang of twist ties. The removable protective material does not extend beyond a perimeter of the gang of twist ties.

Abstract: A tag pin fastener assembly includes a first tag pin assembly member having a first connecting rod and a plurality of tag pins coupled to the first connecting rod in a predetermined spacing, and a second tag pin assembly member having a second connecting rod and a plurality of tag pins coupled to the second connecting rod in the same predetermined spacing. The two connecting rods are coupled together so that the tag pins on the first rod are alternately arranged with the tag pins on the second rod.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pistol grip implanter device adapted for insertion of a solid or semi-solid pellet form medicament into a domestic animal, associated with a hub for an encasement containing a multiplicity of dosage unit pellets of the medicament.

Abstract: Plural sausage hanger loops are connected onto a hanger strap by the thread from which the loops are formed, this connection being at a junction where the thread overlaps itself, the overlapping thread portions also being joined together at this junction.

Abstract: A band of assemblies is provided for use with a fitting machine which attaches each assembly to a respective article. The band includes a common elongated coupling strip and a plurality of assemblies. Each assembly includes a cap-shaped attachment member. The attachment member includes a fastening element for attaching the attachment member to an article and each assembly is connected to the coupling strip by a respective one of the attachment members.

Abstract: An assembly of closely spaced attachments, a method of manufacturing an assembly of closely spaced attachments and a method of applying interleaved attachments to objects. The assembly has alternating attachments having different types of heads and having different lengths. The shorter attachments may be subsequently stretched to engage the longer attachments. In this manner the spacing between attachments can be decreased. One result of using such an assembly with a conventional dispensing device is that the advancing mechanism of the device can advance attachments two at a time by only contacting a single position at every other attachment in the assembly.

Abstract: A strip of closures and individual closures having different configurations of bag neck-confining apertures entered through openings in opposite edges of the closures. The differing configurations of the bag neck-confining apertures can be different sizes and/or different shapes, and preferably are in the opposite sides of a strip of closures so that the differing bag neck-confining apertures can be exposed to oncoming bags merely by flipping the strip over 180 degrees.

Abstract: An improved clip assembly in the form of a row of aligned U-shaped clips. The clips are maintained in aligned relation to each other by resilient interconnecting means such as small diameter flexible strong metal wires which advantageously are intimately secured to the crown portions of the clips by a metal-to-metal bond. The assembly can be wound, in the manner of spool of thread or wire, into a tight, self-sustaining, compact roll comprising thousands of clips. The invention also involves a method of producing said improved clip assembly and a method in which said improved clip assembly is utilized to wrap the U-shaped clips on overlying wire members to produce bed spring, furniture and the like.

Abstract: An improved system is described for attaching price tags to garments and for other joining applications using plastic fasteners dispensed through hollow, slotted needles. The system comprises a new method and tool for dispensing fasteners supplied in long lengths, together with improved fastener stock adapted for use therewith and for molding in continuous lengths.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cluster type tag pin assembly having a multiplicity of tag pins adapted for use in securing price tags or the like to sold goods. The tag pin assembly includes a large number of tag pins each having a head portion, a cross bar and a filament portion through which the cross bar is connected to the head portion. Each side surface of the cross bar of each tag pin is formed at the central portion thereof with an expanded portion, and expanded portions of each adjacent cross bars are mutually joined.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of contact elements for electric connection. In use, when these elements are positioned and connected to the wiring of circuits by automatic machines, they are fixed in a large number on a supporting strip or border, from which they are successively detached by a V-shaped cut. In accordance with the invention, they are firmly secured by means of a transverse V-section bar supported by a stirrup. After the V cut, the contact thus presents advantageously a pyramid-shaped point.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a plurality of reinforced battery terminal connectors is shown in which a strip of a multiple of hard conductive metal inserts are formed with a flat cable connector portion for each unit having a joint between each insert. A line of weakness is provided at the joint and thereafter the strip is inserted into a mold, ideally ten or twelve at a time, and a material poured into the mold surrounding the strip to form the exterior configuration of a battery terminal. Once the same is removed from the mold a plurality of reinforced terminal connectors are formed joined by a line of weakness which permits them to be readily separated from each other. A modified form of the invention includes the further steps of preparing a clamp display strip having a plurality of clamping members secured by a weakened break away to a display strip.

Abstract: Several unique bag closure features are presented, with one embodiment having a bag-neck confining opening provided with inwardly depending appendages peripherally spaced from one another and with blunted ends to protect the bag, but with sharp corners to hold the bag. Another feature of the invention is a perforated plastic bag closure, with the perforations being arranged in a unique pattern to maximize the strength of the closure while reducing its weight. A third feature is a plurality of interconnected, flat, generally rigid closures which are joined in an elongated strip by sets of transversely spaced but outwardly, generally convex webs which space the adjoined, adjacent closures from one another yet leave a smooth web when the closures are separated by breaking the webs.

Abstract: The present invention involves a tag pin group comprised of single unit tag pins each of which has a transverse bar portion, a filament portion extending perpendicular to the transverse bar portion and a connecting portion to connect the transverse bar portion to a connecting bar on which each of the tag pin units is contained and where each tag pin has a head portion connected at one end of the filament such that at least one edge portion of the head portion slopes away from the transverse bar portion from the point where the head portion is connected to the filament.

Abstract: A strip 10 of slips 12 is characterized by breaking portions 62,64 at which each individual clip 12a, 12b, 12c is separable from its longitudinal neighbors these portions being coextensive, longitudinally of the strip, with the line of separation 60 which divides off each clip from its longitudinal neighbors and which is formed without removal of material of the strip. This line is achieved by shearing the material of the strip while bowing it about a longitudinal axis so as to present a curved surface to an oncoming shearing tool which has an oppositely curved surface. The extent of intersection of the opposite curve defines the length of the line of the separation. The breaking portion is adjacent each end of the line. The clips during severence suffer apparent lateral contraction but no longitudinal distortion.

Abstract: A multi-closure strip of generally flat, rigid, plastic closures which are joined in an elongated strip by sets of transversely spaced webs in which the webs have enlarged central portions terminating in reduced transverse widths at the junctures of the closures with the webs. Preferably, the central portion is symmetrically or equidistantly located lengthwise between the closures and is of a circular configuration.

Abstract: An apparatus and supply strip is disclosed for inserting terminal pins into an apertured workpiece. The apparatus includes reciprocating feeding means for sequentially advancing a supply strip of integrally connected preformed terminal pins toward the workpiece; shearing means for severing the leading one of said pins from the remainder of the supply strip; and driving means for inserting the severed lead one of said pins into the workpiece. The feeding means comprises grasping means operable only when the feeding means is moving in a first direction toward the workpiece to grasp the supply strip at the juncture of adjacent integrally connected preformed terminal pins.

Abstract: A stably nestable tie down anchor comprising a pointed shaft with an auger blade at the pointed end and a U-shaped head at the other end with recesses formed in the end faces of the U-shaped head for receiving the shaft of an adjacently positioned anchor; said anchors being stably nestable by arranging a plurality thereof in head to toe relation with the shaft of each one adjacent the auger blade thereof received in one of the recesses in the head of the next adjacent anchor and vice versa and with the radially facing end faces of the heads of alternate anchors stably engaging each other and the auger blades of alternate anchors nested with each other; and a stable package of anchors formed by strapping together a group of nested anchors.

Abstract: A strip of fasteners such as pierce nuts is formed from a metal blank with no scrap resulting from the provision of a spacing between adjacent nut bodies, and without the difficulty and expense incident to attaching nut bodies to connecting elements. The body portion of a laterally flanged blank is severed in the transverse direction to separate nut bodies from the blank without fracturing the flanges. The flanges are severed in the longitudinal direction to form severed longitudinally extending flange segments integral at both ends with unsevered flange segments. When the flanges are straightened, the stretching of the severed flange segments resulting from shearing provides a spacing between adjacent nut bodies in the strip. The strip includes spaced apart nut bodies interconnected by continuous lateral flanges. The flanges include unsevered lateral flange segments integral with both sides of each nut body, and severed flange segments integral at both ends with the unsevered flange segments.

Abstract: Connected temporary fastening nails including vertically oriented connecting parts formed by making cuts at fixed intervals along the length of a continuous elastic part which is substantially square in cross-section and which has a hollow space in the interior of the continuous elastic part and a plurality of small diameter nails each provided through adjacent connecting parts at fixed intervals along the length of the continuous elastic part.

Abstract: A plurality of drapery carriers are arranged and maintained in an aligned form from the point of production to installation in a drapery track. A group of such carriers are simultaneously molded in multiple cavities and interconnected by a tear strip molded simultaneously therewith so that they may all be removed from the mold as a unit, and may thereafter be handled as a unit until the carriers have been installed in a drapery track. Handling, inventory and installation times are minimized since a connected group of carriers can be handled at one time instead of having to individually deal with separate carriers.

Abstract: Fastening means for mechanically fastening adjacent portions of mat material for application to the undersurface of a roof of a mine working and comprising a plurality of projecting elements for penetrating the mat material and base means connecting and spacing said projecting elements in longitudinal succession.

Abstract: Improved fastener articles, comprising a plurality of preferably rod-shaped fastener elements, such as nails or staples, are maintained in a predetermined configuration by bonding them together with one or more of either strips, films, or powdered particles of a specially formulated, adherent polyolefin copolymer. These fastener articles are especially adapted for use in automatic dispensers, i.e. nailers or staplers.

Abstract: In a strip of nails or like fastening elements for use in a nail or like driving machine the heads of the elements are inclined at an angle of about 15.degree. to the plane normal to the axis of the element so that the heads of adjacent elements can overlap and be welded together when the elements are assembled into a flat strip.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cluster type tag pin assembly having a multiplicity of tag pins adapted for use in securing price tags or the like to sold goods. The tag pin assembly includes a large number of tag pins each having a head portion, a cross bar and a filament portion through which the cross bar is connected to the head portion. Each side surface of the cross bar of each tag pin is formed at the central portion thereof with an expanded portion, and expanded portions of each adjacent cross bars are mutually joined.