Abstract: The needle assembly is removably mounted in an attacher for dispensing tag fasteners of the type having a T-bar connected to a thin flexible filament. The base and shank of the needle include a channel along which the T-bar is moved by the push rod of the attacher and a slit through which the filament extends. A recess, preferably in the form of a slot, is provided in the wall of the shank, extending along the channel, at a circumferential position substantially perpendicular to the plane intersecting the shank and passing through the slit. The slot provides clearance for the T-bar to release from the push rod if the previously severed connecting element has become deformed by being wedged between the push rod and the channel wall.

Abstract: A collapsible container primarily useful as a wastebasket can be constructed utilizing a flexible, tubular vertically oriented peripheral wall reinforced by vertically extending stiffeners and a rigid bottom fitting within the peripheral wall in order to hold it in a normal open configuration. The bottom wall is capable of being positioned in and of being removed from the peripheral wall. In the absence of the bottom wall in the peripheral wall the peripheral wall may be collapsed.