Abstract: The assembly includes first and second parallel connecting bars between which individual attachments are situated in parallel, spaced relation. Each of the attachments includes first and second T-bar ends with a flexible filament extending therebetween. The attaching device includes a housing with a recess having a first and second sections adapted to receive the first and second connecting bars, respectively. First and second hollow needles extend from the housing. The T-bar ends are pushed through needles by simultaneously actuatable ejector rods after each is severed from the associated connecting bar. The assembly of the attachments is advanced through the housing to align the T-bars with the needles by simultaneously actuated indexing gears. The gears cooperate with the elements which join the T-bar ends and the connecting bars.

Abstract: A needle assembly for dispensing plastic fasteners as part of a tool having a feed track through which a fastener assemblage is fed, such needle assembly including the needle which is encased in a holder which may be easily secured to and removed from such tool. The holder defines in conjunction with the remainder of the tool at least a major portion of the feed track. The holder may include an antiback device for permitting the motion of the fastener assemblage within such feed track toward the needle but not in reverse direction. Such antiback device may be engagable by the user to deflect the antiback and a fastener feed mechanism within the tool out of the feed track, thereby to permit withdrawal of a fastener assemblage from the tool. The needle comprises a hollow, slotted metal structure, and the holder is a plastic structure which is injection molded around such needle.

Abstract: An implanting gun apparatus (10) is described. A rod (31) is linearly moveable in a pistol grip (11) so as to move a pellet out a barrel (13). A pivotable linkage (34) between a trigger (36) and a holder (32) for the rod is actuated by the trigger. The gun apparatus is particularly adapted to implant pellets in animals, particularly as medicament pellets.

Abstract: A tag attaching apparatus in which the transverse bar of a tag pin is pushed out of a hollow needle located at the front of the apparatus body by a piston, and which comprises a motor for driving the piston, a converter for transforming the motor rotation into reciprocating motion of the piston, and a control for returning the piston to the home position.

Abstract: A simply structured tag attaching apparatus charging a tag pin without fail is composed that an axle of a ratchet finger is inserted into a pair of slanting or diagonal prolonged guiding slots with crossed shape and one side of guide slot are driven to apply the tag pins to objects by going and returning movement of a slider in connection with trigger action, so that the ratchet finger may force a ratchet wheel to rotate a click thereafter.

Abstract: A tagging device, such as for ears of livestock, driven by a pressurized fluid source is disclosed. The manually controlled pneumatic applicator described utilizes pressurized air for activation to pierce the ear and set the tag as well as retract the piercing element. The applicator is particularly adapted for use with either one-piece or multiple-piece tags.

Abstract: An apparatus for reciprocating a piston that drives a tag pin through a hollow needle. The apparatus comprises a crank for oscillating an oscillating arm that reciprocates the piston; a cam for stopping a crank rotating motor when the oscillating arm oscillated by the crank returns to the home position; and a lever for rotating the cam to the motor starting position.

Abstract: Automatic tag attaching apparatus having a fixedly mounted attacher with a hollow fastener dispensing needle is improved. A hollow, size adjustable anvil is adapted to be received between a woven label and the garment to which it is affixed, to keep the label taut and separate it from the garment. In one preferred embodiment, the anvil is moved downwardly over the needle upon which tags have been previously placed, such that the needle penetrates the label and a fastener can be dispensed. The anvil is then moved upwardly, to a position remote from the needle, to permit the tagged garment to be removed and new tags placed over the needle. In the most preferred embodiment, after the anvil returns to its position remote from the needle, it is moved horizontally to remove it from the garment. Thereafter, the anvil is moved back into alignment with the needle to receive the next garment.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing of attachments comprising a pair of side members linked by a connector. A roll of fastener stock is fed to a reciprocatively driven slide head assembly at which the roll is advanced over an elastomeric feed belt to a pair of needles secured to a shuttle. Once inserted in the needles, an individual attachment is severed from the stock, and displaced over a preset distance by the shuttle into the path of a pair of ejector rods. The ejector rods force the side members of the attachment out of the needles for insertion in a fabric or other workpiece at the bottom of the head stroke. On return stroke of the head, the needles are withdrawn, ejector rods retreat, and the shuttle returns to its severing position in a manner to avoid mechanical interference. This design uses an electric motor driven fastener dispensing head, actuator slide and associated linkages for actuating the various mechanisms either on an on-demand or continuous basis.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: A tag-pin attaching apparatus is disclosed, which comprises (a) a tag-pin feeding mechanism for intermittently feeding a leading tag pin of a tag-pin assembly to a cut-off position, which tag-pin assembly consists of a plurality of tag pins, each tag pin comprising a head part and a lateral rod which are integrally connected through a filament, and each tag pin being separable from the tag-pin assembly at the cut-off position, (b) a guide needle situated in front of the cut-off position, (c) a guide groove for guiding the lateral rod of the tag-pin assembly in the feeding direction thereof, (d) a transporting mechanism, situated behind the tag-pin feeding mechanism, for pushing the tag pin positioned at the cut-off position into the guide needle, and (e) a driving mechanism for driving each of the above mechanisms, with the improvement wherein the feeding mechanism comprises (i) a slide body which is movably disposed in the feeding direction of the tag pin, (ii) a toggle link comprising a first link and a sec

Abstract: A tag attaching apparatus includes a pawl member including a sliding member connected to a fastener rod for attaching a tag to the garments and a connecting rod connected to a fastener feed wheel through a convertible lever for rotating the fastener feed wheel in the counterclockwise direction when the sliding member moves backward.

Abstract: An automatic cable tie installation tool for applying discrete cable ties around bundles of wires or the like where the cable ties are provided to the tool on a continuous ribbon. The automatic tool including a dispenser mechanism that accepts the ribbon of cable ties and provides discrete cable ties therefrom; a tool mechanism that positions the discrete cable tie around the bundle of wire, tensions the tie to a preselected value and severs the tail of the cable tie; and a conveyance mechanism that delivers the cable tie provided by the dispenser mechansim to the tool mechanism.

Abstract: A tufting machine feeds upholstered female and male button parts into drive mechanisms above and below a central table for receiving a cushion to be tufted. A retractable needle drive assembly forms an aperture through a cushion on the table along a drive axis of the machine, and, following retraction, a male button driver moves a male button part into the aperture and holds this button part on the drive axis while an upper drive mechanism drives a female button part onto the male button part to lock the parts together to complete a single tufting operation. Safety means prevent damage to elements and mechanisms of the tufting machine by possible malfunctioning or improper operation.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: The apparatus includes at least one support unit and at least one tag supplying unit. The tag supplying unit includes a tag hopper and a tag conveyor and is mounted for multidirectional adjustive movement upon the support unit and relative to the needle of a fastener dispenser mounted at a fixed location upon the support unit. The apparatus may include a second tag supplying unit that is similarly mounted upon the support unit and is usable in association with the first tag supplying unit when a plurality of tags are to be secured to an article. When both tag supplying units are not needed, one may be removed from the support unit and mounted upon a second support unit to provide two separate tagging stations.

Abstract: Advance of fasteners by a feed wheel having involute shaped teeth, acting in cooperation with a side engaging pawl.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically tagging selected layers of multi-layered articles by the operation of a single switch that initiates the sequential stepped operation of a clamp for holding the selected layers in a tagging position while a tag is fed and tacked, as by a bar tack, to join the tag to the selected layers. When the tagging sequence is completed, the article is removed from the apparatus, thereby separating the joined bar tack and tag from the apparatus for similar subsequent automatic repetitive operations.

Abstract: A positioning mechanism positions a product so that one side of the product is adjacent the front end of the needle member of the dispensing device. The positioning means is moved towards the needle by an arrangement which is activated when the trigger of the fastener and a tag dispensing device is moved in a triggering direction. Thus, the product is caused to approach the needle member, to be pierced by the needle member, and to slide on the needle member so that the needle member extends through the product and the front end of the needle member extends beyond the other side of the product a sufficient distance for the dispensing device to dispense the fastener.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: A tag container has a dispensing wall and contains a plurality of tags which are stackable in parallel to the dispensing wall. In the top wall of the container is a dispensing opening through which tags may be dispensed from the container by a slider which is slideable up and down along the dispensing wall. The slider includes a pusher portion which engages the bottom edge of a tag to push it upwardly and out through the dispensing opening.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise and the like. The attacher includes a hopper for holding a stack of tags to be attached, a tag feeder for feeding one tag at a time into alignment with a needle at an attaching position, mechanism for advancing the needle through the tag at the attaching position, a push rod for pushing a bar of a fastener through the needle, and means for feeding fasteners one-by-one to the needle, wherein the tag feeder, the needle advancing mechanism, the push rod and the fastener feeding means operate in sequence by one-hand operation by the user.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is lightweight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack of the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: A tag attacher for inserting tag fasteners into articles such as clothing or the like has a very simplified fastener advancing and positioning mechanism consisting entirely of a gear, a stopper adapted to permit unidirectional gear rotation and a one-piece gear advancer. The gear advancer which is operably connected to a main actuating lever of the tag attacher is V-shaped and includes a pin at the base of the V for making a hinged connection to the main lever, a pawl extending from the pin to the gear and a resilient arm which biases the pawl against the gear. The main lever also operates a sliding lever supporting a driving rod adapted for back and forth reciprocating movement. The driving rod pushes a lateral bar of the tag fasteners through a needle of the tag attacher into the article to be tagged.

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: Variable pitch feed of fasteners by a unitary, single toothed feed member. Back-up of the fasteners from the feed position is prevented and the individual fasteners are securely positioned for ejection.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is lightweight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: A bench mount for holding and operating trigger actuated devices. The mount aligns the device for convenient use. An air cylinder is attached to the mount and contains a piston and shaft. A connecting rod having a trigger intercepting bar at its distal end is coupled to the shaft to draw in the trigger when pressurized air is introduced to the cylinder. A pneumatic controller assembly is operable to reversibly interrupt air flow to the cylinder. A safety shield is attached to the mount to remain in protecting conformity with the aimed end of the device as the device is aligned.

Abstract: The planar knife blade extends rearwardly from the hollow base of the needle assembly. The base is designed to be received in the cylindrical opening of the body of a fastener attacher. The end of the opening is partially obstructed by a protruding shoulder. The blade is tangentially aligned with the bore. It extends from a point proximate the side surface of the base through a plane bisecting the base to a point a short distance beyond the plane, so as to accommodate the shoulder. Accordingly, the assembly can be used in fastener attachers either adapted to receive a knifeless needle or a needle with a knife blade mounted within the base.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is lightweight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housing into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: Dispensing of fasteners by a device which receives an assemblage of the fasteners and is able to expel them individually through, for example, a slotted hollow needle. The dispensed fasteners can be used generally in the attachment of items to one another and, in particular, for the labeling of textile goods and the like with information bearing tags. The device includes a trigger operated feed mechanism and a simultaneously operable expulsion mechanism. Both mechanisms are controlled by the tip of a lever which is proportioned and disposed in the device to execute linear motion. The feed mechanism is disengageable from the remainder of the device to permit clearance of the inserted assemblage or the removal of jams. The feed mechanism additionally is operated by a planar pawl having a tooth that extends into contact with indentations on the periphery of a feed wheel.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fastener applying apparatus for applying fasteners to articles by passing each fastener severed from a fastener assembly through a hollow needle. This fastener applying apparatus includes an alignment passage in which the fastener assembly is loaded, a guide slot formed at the uppermost end of the alignment passage, means for feeding the fastener to be placed at the uppermost end of the fastener assembly to the guide slot and a force rod adapted to forcibly introduce a cross bar section of the fastener into a cross bar section guide passage positioned on the axis of the hollow needle by advancing the fastener placed at the uppermost end of the fastener assembly in the guide slot.

Abstract: A tag-pin dispensing machine is disclosed, which is for individually successively severing tag pins from a tag-pin assembly having crossbars of tag pins connected to one another and dispensing severed tag pins relative to articles of merchandise and in which a feeder unit is removably mounted in the machine body and, by a connecting member, connected to a shifter driven by a trigger pivotally secured to the machine body.

Abstract: Stitching is achieved by means of a supply of synthetic resin staples or tacks contained in a staple feeder provided over work and arranged to be sequentially fed from the staple feeder legs of the staples or tacks penetrate through the work placed on a bed ends of the staples or tacks are deformed so as not to be removed from the work. Holes are formed, in advance, in the work at points through which the legs of the staples or tacks are to penetrate.

Abstract: A tag attaching device having a wide application capable of dispensing various tag pin assemblies having different pitches of tag pins. The device has an engaging claw rockably secured to a vertically movable cam plate with a spring mounted between the engaging claw and the main body of the tag attaching device. As the cam plate is lifted, overcoming the force of the spring, the end of the engaging claw is brought to the position between adjacent joint portions of the tag pin assembly and, as the cam plate is lowered by the force of the spring, the tag pin assembly is fed downwardly together with the engaging claw.

Abstract: A fastener dispensing device including, in the proximity of a guide groove formed in the main body of the device for feeding a fastener assembly loaded in the device, a feeding mechanism which comprises a movable plate driven through the operation of a trigger of the device to reciprocate in a groove formed at a side of the guide groove for the fastener assembly and a feeder element mounted on the movable plate and formed with a claw part engageable with connection necks of fasteners of the fastener assembly and which, upon completion of dispensing a first fastener, brings a second fastener to the prescribed position rear of a hollow needle mounted in a nose portion of the device, without fail irrespective of a change or an irregularity in the pitch of the connection necks of fasteners.

Abstract: An improved fastener dispensing device which comprises a pistol-shaped main body mounted with a side-slitted hollow needle and comprising a grip part and a fastener driving part including a driver, and an operation lever which may be operated to drive the driver into the needle to drive the crossbar of a fastener to be dispensed into and through the needle, improved in that the driver at least partly comprises a flexible resilient structure.

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.

Abstract: Procedure and device for application of a label to an article by means of an elastic fastening element. A label is separated from a magazine and conveyed via a guide towards a tube-shaped slit needle. The label is passed along the tip of the needle until the latter penetrates a pre-punched hole in the label. Thereafter, the label is withdrawn, threaded on the needle, and partly back into the magazine where it is retained. The tip of the needle is pressed through an article whereupon a retaining element is separated from a stem and its head is passed through the needle and thus also through the label and the article. When the needle is removed from the article the label remains hanging, anchored in the retaining element.

Abstract: A fastener dispensing device having an improved fastener feeding mechanism. The feeding mechanism includes a friction wheel rotatably supported on the device adjacent the guide groove for the fastener assembly and abutting against the connection necks of the fasteners. A support plate is mounted coaxially with the friction wheel and is adapted to pivot when the operation lever of the device is pivoted. A wheel driving member is pivotably supported on the support plate and includes a projecting portion which selectively engages the friction wheel with the projecting portion engaging and rotating the friction wheel when the operation lever is pivoted to cause the friction wheel to move the fastener assembly so that the next fastener is moved to a prescribed discharge position to be pushed through the hollow needle of the dispensing device.

Abstract: In order to be able to remove the wire from its supply source and in order to be able to prevent a bending of the wire, a wire-feed-clamp (3) can be moved along an alignment element (2) which, in a fixed position, is arranged on a carrier (1), whereby the wire-feed-clamp (3) produces a one-sided gripping effect and whereby a hollow needle (8) is affixed on the front side of the wire-feed-clamp (3), for the purpose of penetration of the solid body; at the rear extremity of the alignment element (2), a return-motion stopping-element (11) for the wire is arranged which, in the same sense as the wire-feed-clamp (3), produces a one-sided gripping effect and is aligned with the hollow needle (8) and whereby in front of the alignment element (2), a cutting element (20, 21) is arranged for the purpose of cutting-off the wire section which, at any given time, had been pushed through the solid body.

Abstract: An improved lever means in a tag attaching apparatus obtained by adding tension to the handle of the tag attaching apparatus. An assistant lever containing three slots is located in the space between the shooting lever and the action lever, pushing the fastener onto the needle groove to attach the tags to the objects. The bottom slot of the assistant lever is connected to the hinge point of the action portion, and the hinge point of the assistant lever is connected to the shooting lever.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved fastener attacher for therein loading and thereby dispensing fasteners which are manufactured in integral assemblies from a synthetic resin and which individually comprise a head, a crossbar and their connecting filament having a connecting neck through which each fastener is connected to a common connecting rod to form a fastener assembly, which attacher comprises an attacher main body and a protective guide member which is mounted on an upper portion of the former and by which a fastener assembly loaded in the attacher is flexed and maintained along the upper edge of the attacher main body.