Abstract: Wooden members are joined with sheet metal connector plates having integrally struck teeth projecting from one side. The wooden members are placed between first and second pressheads. A coiled composite of connector plate stock has first and second lengths of connector stock in juxtaposition and with intermeshing teeth. The first and second lengths of connector stock are unwound separately and oriented so that the teeth thereof point toward the wooden members to be joined. A cutting means associated with the pressheads cut connector plates from the stock and the plates are positioned on opposite sides of the wooden members and at the junctures to be joined. The pressheads press the plates into the wooden members. The connector stock is provided as a free coil and has the advantage that no spool, reel, or like supporting device is required. Further, the composite of connector stock has no teeth projecting from outer surfaces thereof.

Abstract: A strip of nails or other fastening elements for use in a suitable driving machine is made by resistance-welding together a number of fastening elements. For example, the heads of adjacent nails may overlap and be resistance-welded together through protuberances on the undersides of the heads.

Abstract: An applicator for use in connection with a retaining ring supply, which comprises a plurality of retaining rings detachably connected to each other so as to form a strip. The applicator is in the form of a sheath having a flat passage therethrough extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheath and being dimensioned to slidably receive and guide therethrough a strip of retaining rings. The strip has at least one window in at least one of its wide sides, which window leads from the outside surface of the sheath into the flat passage and is so dimensioned as to permit a finger, for instance, a thumb of a person to pass through said window easily and to engage a strip of retaining rings in said sheath to selectively advance the same by one ring at a time, so as to have one ring at a time project from one end of the applicator.

Abstract: A screw strip for holding a row of parallel screws is formed of a flexible plastic material with sleeves which either only partially surround the screws, or have different wall thicknesses on different sides of the screws. The ribs interconnecting the sleeves have wall thicknesses less than the outer diameters of the screw threads. In a method for forming the screw strip, a plastic material is extruded only on one side of the threads of a row of screws, and it is then pressed by means of grooved rollers to be formed into the sleeves which only partially surround the screws.

Abstract: A stacked plurality of snap rings adhesibly retained by varnish coating, or other bonding method applied to the rings. Internal or external circular or C-shaped snap rings typically have retainer ring holes and in this invention the holes in adjacent rings in the stack are misaligned. Snap ring pliers or automated equipment can be inserted into the retainer ring holes of the endmost snap ring fastened at the top of the stack, with the tips of the pins penetrating only through the holes in the topmost ring, due to their misalignment, with the topmost ring being removed by movement of the pins relative to each other, thereby facilitating efficient dispensing of one snap ring at a time.

Abstract: For use in combination with a machine that has an endless conveyor for conveying a file folder to a tang assembly station and thence away therefrom, folder tang assembly apparatus that includes a frame, a feed assembly for indexingly feeding a plurality of webs having folded tangs nearly punched thereoutof, a stationary die plate, a stripper bar above the die plate, a pressure pad for each web reciprocally mounted in a die plate aperture to press the web against the stripper bar, tang punches reciprocally extended in the pressure pad for punching a tang out of a web, through a stripper bar aperture, and against a folder, a cinching device for each web to cinch the tang to the folder when the punches move the tang against the folder, a tang location quill carried by one of the tang punches for each web to properly locate the tang to be punched out of the web, a power operated lower die shoe for reciprocating the punches, and piston cylinders for moving the pressure pads to press the webs against the stripper p

Abstract: Packaging dividers are comprised of a plurality of axially linked-together separator sections. Each separator section is formed to have a preselected height and cross-sectional configuration which may be circular or cross-shaped. Each separator section is formed in axial attachment to its adjacent separator section with a reduced cross-section portion therebetween to constitute severing means. One or more separator sections may be separated from an adjacent separator section and positioned within a carton containing objects to separate said objects.

Abstract: Wooden members are joined with sheet metal connector plates having integrally struck teeth projecting from one side. The wooden members are placed between first and second pressheads. A coiled composite of connector plate stock has first and second lengths of connector stock in juxtaposition and with intermeshing teeth. The first and second lengths of connector stock are unwound separately and oriented so that the teeth thereof point toward the wooden members to be joined. A cutting means associated with the pressheads cut connector plates from the stock and the plates are positioned on opposite sides of the wooden members and at the junctures to be joined. The pressheads press the plates into the wooden members. The connector stock is provided as a free coil and has the advantage that no spool, reel, or like supporting device is required. Further, the composite of connector stock has no teeth projecting from outer surfaces thereof.

Abstract: Continuously connected fastener attachment stock formed by elongated plastic side members with cross coupling links. One of the side member has successively connected cross bars with each cross bar connected to one of the cross links. The other side member has successively connected head pieces with each head piece connected to one of the cross links. The stock is proportioned to be fed as an entity to a position within a machine where individual fasteners are sparated from the stock, with each separate fastener including a head piece, a cross bar, and coupling link interconnecting the head piece with the cross bar. Each cross bar is configured for feeding through the bore of a slotted hollow needle.

Abstract: A nail clip is provided for use with pneumatically or hydraulically powered nail drivers. Each clip comprises a plastic strip consisting of a plurality of serially connected sleeves and a nail carried by each sleeve with a fracture line between each pair of sleeves.

Abstract: A plurality of individual, pre-formed cutting tips attached to one another in an adjoining series to form an elongate stick of tips for sequential attachment to the teeth or cutting portions of cutting tools. Each tip in the stick has a commonly oriented contact surface for attachment to the cutting tool, and a separate pre-formed cutting edge that forms the cutting edge of the tool once the tip has been attached. Attachment of a tip to a cutting tool is accomplished by positioning the contact surface of the lead tip in a stick proximate the tool, and severing the connection between the tip and the remainder of the stick. The tips forming the stick are preferably attached to one another by a meltable adhesive spread over their respective contact surfaces, such adhesive having a melting point lower than that of the tips. The respective tips in the stick are operatively connected to separate teeth or tools by the same adhesive.

Abstract: A miniature electrical connector comprising an insulative body having spaced, parallel connector pins extending therethrough and held in place by a combination of abutment surfaces on the pins and block, and C-rings on the pins. In assembling the connector, the C-rings are formed as part of a metal stamping, and are urged as a unit onto corresponding ones of the pins extending through the body. The C-rings are released from the stamping by bending the latter along suitably formed fracture lines.

Abstract: A tack package to be loaded in a tack-spitting machine magazine is disclosed, in which the individual tacks are arranged in line and consecutive tack heads are cemented to each other by a hot melt adhesive applied in drops; when using a glue-gun or similar tool, it is an advantage not to discontinue the cement feed so as to have consecutive adhesive drops connected by a slender adhesive seam.

Abstract: Fastener attachment stock to be separated or divided, e.g., by cutting, severing, rupturing or shearing to provide a plurality of fastener attachment devices each preferably having substantially an H shape. The stock in its most preferred form includes two undivided elongated and continuous plastic side members having a plurality of plastic cross links coupled to and between each of said side members, each of said links being preferably spaced equidistantly apart from each other.The stock of this invention provides for a completely waste-less or scrap-less fastener attachment dispensing system in the hands of the ultimate user while also permitting the automatic repetitive dispensing of large numbers of fastener attachment devices under positive feed control and at a rapid rate without the necessity of frequent system stock reloadings (as necessitated using the stock of the prior art).

Abstract: A strip of plastics tags is formed by successively displacing portions of the strip from the plane of the strip along longitudinally spaced lines transverse of the strip, and, before contact between said displaced portions and the remainder of the strip is lost, replacing said portions in the plane of the strip.

Abstract: Metal fastener sticks wherein the individual fastening elements, such as staples, on the stick are secured together by a radiation cross-linked polymer, and which metal fastener stick is prepared by: coating the metal fastener stick with a solventless, radiation -curable, polymeric composition, such as an ultraviolet-curable formulation of an unsaturated resin, a monomer and a photo initiator; and curing the composition by exposing the composition to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation, to provide a metal fastener stick wherein the individual fastener elements are secured together in the stick through the radiation cross-linked polymer.

Abstract: A pallet size nail having a comparatively small gauge shank whose surface is pitted with contiguous minute pits bounded by small sharply shaped wall convexities as provided by grit blasting the surface with approximately 80 mesh grit of aluminum oxide, which protuberances imbed in wood fibers and provide a substantial increase in holding power against withdrawal compared with sandblasted nail shanks, the nail preferably being spirally fluted.

Abstract: A nail constructed with conventional heading equipment with a notched open-sided partially circular head having a pair of annularly spaced radially extending ribs depending from the underside thereof to permit burr growth without interfering with the interengagement of the downwardly facing abutment surface areas of the rib with upwardly facing mating abutment surface areas of the top surface of the head of an adjacent nail when a plurality of such nails is collated and secured in an angle stick package with the shanks and heads of adjacent nails in abutting relation.

Abstract: Pierce nuts are provided in finished form as similarly oriented and spaced parts of a strip, held together by metallic connectors which are sufficiently flexible to permit coiling the strip for purposes of feeding the pierce nuts in an uninterrupted and predictable sequence severing and applying the end nut of the strip to a panel. In a preferred form flanged pierce nuts are completely formed from a rigid metal bar having laterally extending flanges of reduced thickness on opposite sides of the bar, the nuts being separated by slots extending across the strip into the flanges to reduce the cross-section of the connecting material and thus impart flexibility to it. The strip is sufficiently rigid in a longitudinal direction to permit pushing the strip into the severing and applying tool.

Abstract: A nail constructed with four head elements extending generally radially outwardly from one end of an elongated substantially cylindrical shank. The head elements are shaped to permit a multiplicity of such nails to be packaged in correspondingly head oriented parallel relation with the shanks of adjacent nails disposed in substantial abutting engagement and with the leading two head elements of each nail in overlapping relation with the trailing two head elements of the forwardly adjacent nail. The head elements are also shaped so that when the nail is driven into a workpiece at least a portion of the head elements will extend across the grain of a wood workpiece irrespective of the orientation of the head elements with respect to the workpiece.

Abstract: A nail and nail clip arrangement in which so-called common nails may have their shanks grit-blasted and the edge of their heads flattened along equal parallel planes to provide a minor diametral dimension of the nail head that is approximately twice the diameter of the nail shank. The heads are alternately offset laterally in contact with each other in two rows and with the heads of the two rows alternately cross-engaging and the shanks of the nails interdigitate at an acute angle adjacent their points. The end nail at the feed end of one row extends beyond the next adjacent nail of the other row far enough for a powered driver to nip off and drive the lead nail upon actuation of the power mechanism.

Abstract: The connector plate stock includes a sheet metal plate having a plurality of elongated nail-like teeth struck to project to one side thereof and in a plurality of longitudinally extending rows. Mutually normal scorelines are formed in the stock plate to define a plurality of discrete connector plates. The scorelines also define weakened portions along the stock plate between adjacent discrete connector plates whereby the latter are separable one from the other and from the stock plate. The connector plate stock per se provides a packing assemblage. The stock is stacked for shipping in pairs of stack plates having teeth extending toward one another. The stock plates of each adjacent pair thereof in the stock lie in back-to-back relation one with the other.

Abstract: A curved pin provided with an enlarged planar solid or open head lying in the plane of the shank of the pin and extending inwardly therefrom together with an apparatus for holding a plurality of such pins and inserting each pin sequentially are provided. The curved pin is particularly useable by one who sews when it is desired to, for example, affix a pattern to a piece of fabric or the like. The pin's curved shape facilitates its insertion and positioning with less difficulty and more accuracy than the well known straight or "common" pin. The inserting apparatus holds a number of pins in a magazine and allows for their individual insertion by means of a rotatable, generally arcuate shaped plunger which moves each pin along an arcuate path and inserts it into the fabric at an acute angle to the fabric.

Abstract: An assembly of individual, individually closed loops for suspending sausages, which loops are adapted to be automatically supplied to automatic sausage-sealing machines, comprising a belt, a plurality of loops, and means connecting each of said loops to said belt with portions of each loop projecting on both sides of the belt. The belt may comprise two strips secured to one another with adhesive, the loops being thereby locked between the strips. The belt may also be provided with regularly spaced indexing elements whereby it can be advanced at controlled predetermined speed for supplying said loops.

Abstract: A package comprises a relatively stiff rectangular backing board with a transparent substantially rectangular bag of a smaller size secured to the backing board along a small marginal area adjacent its top edge. The backing board advantageously includes a fold down top edge or collar which engages over an upwardly extending portion of the underside of the bag and the bottom edge of the collar is spaced from the opening edge on the top side of the bag and the bag may be torn off the backing board by tearing it along the lower edge of the collar. The backing board advantageously includes one or more recesses which are engageable by a driver member to move the package assembly.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a conveyor table having press heads mounted on opposite sides. Coils of connector plate stock having prepunched integrally extending teeth feed upper and lower press platens movable toward one another to substantially simultaneously cut the connector stock to predetermined lengths to form connector plates and embed the teeth of the connector plates on opposite sides of joints formed by wooden frame members disposed on the conveyor between the press heads. Upon completion of the pressing operation, a feed mechanism locates predetermined lengths of connector stock between the press platens for the next cut and embedment operation. Selectively extensible and retractable stops are provided on the conveyor table and press heads against which respective webs and chords of the frame being fabricated are butted to locate the same in position forming a completed frame. Clamps on the conveyor press the chords against the web ends while the connector plates are embedded in the joints.

Abstract: Dowels being united to a stripe by severable straps consisting of the material of the dowels, said stripe being adapted for being inserted into the magazine of a shooting or blowing apparatus, characterized in that each dowel is provided at its front face opposing the rammer of the shooting or blowing apparatus with at least one recess extending in longitudinal direction of the stripe.

Abstract: Apparatus for permitting blind rivet elements to be installed utilizing automatic insertion equipment. A blind rivet carrier element having a predetermined width and thickness is adapted for receiving the body of the blind rivet, blind rivet bodies being uniformly disposed longitudinally along the carrier element. The blind rivet body is removably secured to a surface of the carrier element. Indentations are disposed longitudinally along the carrier element to provide for flexibility of the carrier element and simplifying the adaptation thereof to automatic insertion equipment.

Abstract: A nail constructed with conventional heading equipment with an open-sided partially circular head having a recess along the open-sided edge thereof to permit burr growth without interfering with the interengagement of a downwardly facing abutment surface of the head with a mating top surface abutment area when a plurality of such nails is collated and secured in an angle stick package with the shanks and heads of adjacent nails in abutting relation.