Abstract: A position indicator that is used with a position detection device including a position detection sensor, the position indicator including a first function module and a second function module. The first function module includes a core body that, in operation, is brought into contact with an input surface for position detection in the position detection sensor, and a position detection signal transmission circuit, in operation, that transmits a position detection signal to the position detection sensor. The second function module includes a first function circuit that, in operation, generates characteristic selection information corresponding to a characteristic of the core body or a characteristic of the input surface and transmits the characteristic selection information, or a second function circuit that, in operation, generates a stimulus corresponding to the characteristic selection information such that a user who is holding the position indicator audibly or tactilely perceives the stimulus.

Abstract: A device for contact bonding an article to a commodity which includes a vacuum transfer device and an adhering device. The vacuum transfer device includes a rotatable transfer drum, a plurality of suction pipes provided on the periphery of the transfer drum and a plurality of Venturi tubes for generating a vacuum when compressed air is passed therethrough. The adhering device is a pusher plate which operates in conjunction with the vacuum transfer device to adhere a package to a commodity and the pusher plate is moved such that it is in synchronism with the circular movement of a bucket wheel and moves in a direction tangential to the bucket wheel adhering device.