Abstract: A device designed to fold the end of a flexible strip back upon itself, e.g. to finish an extremity of a belt fitting into a buckle, comprises a depressible block with a front edge shaped to conform to the desired outline of the strip end. In its normal elevated position, the block is flush with a horizontally movable slider having a complementary confronting rear edge; the block is also overlain by two juxtaposed vertical plungers which are independently displaceable, the forward one of these plungers having a profile conforming to and aligned with the front edge of the block.

Abstract: A gun for attaching tags of bar-lock type to a fabric has a body forming a barrel for the guidance of a plunger in line with a longitudinally slotted needle which is removably inserted into the front end of that body. A trigger articulated to the body is connected with the rear end of the plunger via a spring-loaded articulated linkage guided in an arcuate channel; the plunger has a head laterally inserted into a seat on an adjoining member of that linkage and can be laterally extracted from the barrel, e.g. for replacement upon an exchange of needles, after removal of a side cover and a grooved guide block adjacent thereto.