Abstract: A zipper member has a receiving portion having an insertion hole formed therein and including a locking portion, and an inserting portion having an engaging portion to be inserted into the insertion hole of the receiving portion and engaging with the locking portion to establish a locking state. A filament portion integrally connects the receiving portion to the inserting portion. An IC chip is mounted in a holding portion of the zipper member, the holding portion being formed of a hard material along a portion of the filament portion. An attachment tool includes a runner member on which an assembly of zipper members are placed in parallel at regular intervals to be cuttable. The attachment tool sequentially attaches the zipper members to a target one by one.

Abstract: A fastener group device includes a feeding gear for meshing with connecting elements of a fastener group, a feeding pawl for intermittent rotation of the feeding gear, a stopper for preventing reverse rotation of the feeding gear and a feeding cam for raising and lowering the feeding pawl. The feeding pawl includes a ratchet and spring, the spring for biasing the ratchet toward the feeding gear. An escape space into which the spring enters following rotation of the feeding gear is provided rearwardly of the feeding pawl. When the spring is received by the escape space, the spring is substantially inoperable for biasing the ratchet toward the feeding gear.

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: 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: Disclosed is a tying device for closing the mouth of a bag-type container, which comprises a first part and a second part connected to each other through a hinge portion which are integrally formed from a synthetic resin, and which is foldable at the hinge portion into two, wherein the second part is more flexible than the first part and has a pawl portion formed at the unattached end thereof, and the second part is formed at the unattached end on the bottom thereof with an engaging portion engageable with the pawl portion, and wherein the first part is provided on the bottom with a ridge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a banding machine for banding linear objects through a banding element having engageable male and female members on both ends, which includes a retractable member which prevents drift of the banding element provided in the neighborhood of a leading end portion of a banding-element carrying passage provided in the banding machine, which prevents the banding element from drifting when it is being fed laterally or at the beginning of a banding operation, and a biased arm which supports the banding element, disposed in the banding-element carrying passage, which supports the banding element in the course of being laterally fed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of connecting ends of a fastener of the type having a filament portion of a predetermined length, a tubular socket portion connected to one end of the filament portion and a pin portion connected to the other end of the filament portion, as well as a device suitable for carrying out this method. The device comprises a main body, a first arm provided on the front end of the main body, a second arm adapted to be moved towards and away from the first arm, a lever rotatably supported by the main body, a pulley operatively connected to the lever, a flexible member wound up by this pulley and adapted to be moved alternatingly into a first guide groove in the first arm and a second guide groove in the second arm, and a clamper provided on the end of the flexible member. The pin portion of the fastener is inserted into the socket portion thereof to connect the two ends of the fastener to each other by the relative movement of the first and second arms towards and away from each other.

Abstract: In a two-fold type tying device formed of synthetic resin, guide portions 4B in the form of a projection are provided at a portion to be contacted by a rocking arm of a tying machine. This tying device is capable of preventing release of the tying device from the rocking arm or bending member upon tying the tying device by means of the tying machine 15, preferably with the aid of the guide portions 4B and guide slots 4C.

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: Disclosed is a method of connecting ends of a fastener of the type having a filament portion of a predetermined length, a tubular socket portion connected to one end of the filament portion and a pin portion connected to the other end of the filament portion, as well as a device suitable for carrying out this method. The device comprises a main body, a first arm provided on the front end of the main body, a second arm adapted to be moved towards and away from the first arm, a lever rotatably supported by the main body, a pulley operatively connected to the lever, a flexible member wound up by this pulley and adapted to be moved alternatingly into a first guide groove in the first arm and a second guide groove in the second arm, and a clamper provided on the end of the flexible member. The pin portion of the fastener is inserted into the socket portion thereof to connect the two ends of the fastener to each other by the relative movement of the first and second arms towards and away from each other.

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: 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: A bundling belt member molded from a synthetic resin as a one-body device comprising a head having an opening formed through the same in the axial direction of the device and a stopper member rockably formed in the opening, and a belt member extending from one end of the head and formed on its lower side surface with serrations, in a fastened condition in use of the device as applied to bundle a group of objects said stopper member being acted upon by a reaction force of the objects being bundled and firmly engaged with the serrations on the belt member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing tag pin assemblies in which individual tag pins each comprising a head and a crossbar integrally connected by a filament are integrally but severably connected in the thickness direction, which method comprises the steps of continuously molding block tag-pin blanks of a sectional configuration corresponding to the individual tag pins, and of cutting the block tag-pin blank into slices having the prescribed thickness and altogether connected with an uncut portion respectively thereof. Apparatus for practising the method is also disclosed, which comprises an extruder provided with a die for continuously extruding block tag-pin blanks, and a cutter device for cutting the block tag-pin blank into slices having the prescribed thickness and altogether connected with an uncut portion respectively thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a machine for automatically banding particularly linear objects in groups with strap-type banding elements having interlockable male and female members at one and the other ends thereof respectively, which comprises a pistol-shaped machine body and an operation lever provided to a grip handle thereof and with which, when the operation lever is triggered, each banding element loaded on the machine body is fed forwardly in the machine body, applied about a group of objects to be banded and received on a front end portion of the machine body and then fastened with its male and female members interlocked to accomplish banding, the machine being characterized by comprising a pusher member driven through triggering of the operation lever to move in a guide path in the machine body from a rear end portion to a front end portion of the machine body while pushing a banding element, a stopper for fixing an end portion of the banding element at a front end portion in the guide groove during a banding operat

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.