Abstract: A safety strip for shielding and covering the pointed ends of generally triangular shaped hooks of a longitudinal wire hook fastner strip is described, the safety strip including a cover and flexible detent means for detenting engagement with the wire hook fastener strip.

Abstract: Disclosed is a needle organizer having a generally longitudinally extending pin cushion with indicia along its length. These indicia allow a user to place needles in the cushion in accordance with pre-selected criteria, such as different shades of thread attached to the needles. The organizer has a frame attached to the cushion for carrying the indicia, and, in one embodiment, provides a stand-up base for the cushion. The indicia may be in the form of a ruler, a strip on which a user can write, or a window for receiving a pre-written strip.

Abstract: A traveler carrier for refilling a traveler magazine of a traveler insertion device with travelers, includes a clip formed of springy flexible material holding the travelers together in a row by spring action from outside the travelers, the clip having an open longitudinal slot formed therein.

Abstract: An electronic stapler suitable to accommodate staples in the form of staple sheets, in which a predetermined number of unformed staple elements are connected adjacent to one another, and a number of these staple sheets are stacked and accommodated in a generally rectangular cartridge, which is placed above the staple sheet feed path of the stapler. The stapler includes a former-driver unit and a power source for driving the former and the driver is provided by a small-sized electric motor which requires no instantaneous high consumption of electric current and generates no impact operation sound and noise, and the clinching operation of one cycle is effected by one controlled rotation of a rotating drive shaft having a speed reduced from the rotational output of the electric motor.

Abstract: A staple forming and driving tool (10) employing a vertical front portion of a staple head base (34), and sheath (40) to provide a space for reciprocating former member (70) and driver (80). Spring (50) urges base (34) toward sheath (40) with spacer lugs (33) maintaining a defined distant between base (34) and sheath (40).A belt (94) is fed through an opening (100) in base (34) by a cartridge (90) which protrudes into opening (100) and belt advancing means (104, 112) is held inoperative by forming tang (75) during a portion of the forming and driving stroke to prevent movement of staple wire (200) during critical periods of such stroke.The former (70) is moved during the forming and driving stroke through a path which permits former lugs (72) to guide the former staple down to a point adjacent the workpiece (300).

Abstract: A bone stapler including a staple cartridge that, when removed from the stapler, insures that no staple can remain in the stapler, and is held in place by a rotatable locking member that in one position can pass through an opening in a wall of the stapler and can then be rotated to hold the cartridge in place.

Abstract: A band of assemblies is provided for use with a fitting machine which attaches each assembly to a respective article. The band includes a common elongated coupling strip and a plurality of assemblies. Each assembly includes a cap-shaped attachment member. The attachment member includes a fastening element for attaching the attachment member to an article and each assembly is connected to the coupling strip by a respective one of the attachment members.

Abstract: An improved corrugated staple or fastener for joining together wood members such as wood chords to form a joist-like wood beam. The staple, which is made of sheet metal, has corrugations oriented at three different angles relative to a reference line such as the edge of the staple which is to be inserted into the wood members. The corrugations which are oriented at the first and second angles pull the wood chord members toward each other and when the joist-like beam is subjected to loading, the orientation of the first and second corrugations compresses the wood chords toward each other and increases friction between the chords. The third corrugation is oriented so that when the staple is inserted into the wood chords, the fibers of the wood are temporarily displaced and thereafter move back toward their original position to resist any tendency of the staple to pull out of the chords. The third corrugation also increases the resistance of the staple to horizontal shear forces or bending.

Abstract: An improved clip assembly in the form of a row of aligned U-shaped clips. The clips are maintained in aligned relation to each other by resilient interconnecting means such as small diameter flexible strong metal wires which advantageously are intimately secured to the crown portions of the clips by a metal-to-metal bond. The assembly can be wound, in the manner of spool of thread or wire, into a tight, self-sustaining, compact roll comprising thousands of clips. The invention also involves a method of producing said improved clip assembly and a method in which said improved clip assembly is utilized to wrap the U-shaped clips on overlying wire members to produce bed spring, furniture and the like.

Abstract: A magazine for use with a fastener driving tool employing a strip of fasteners formed into a coil, and having a fixed portion to be fastened to such a tool, wall means forming a portion of said fixed portion for engaging such a coil of fasteners, a mounting member on the fixed portion along an axis centrally of the coil of fasteners, a movable attachment member incorporated in the mounting member, and movable between locking and releasing positions, a movable magazine portion defining wall means adapted to engage the coil of fasteners, exit means on at least one of the fixed and movable magazine portions, for exit of the fasteners, a slidable guide member formed on the movable portion, interengageable with the mounting member, and locking abutment means located inwardly of the guide member, for interengaging with the locking means on said fixed magazine portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a supporting strip for connections for capacitors or the like, a strip provided with such connections and a process for fixing capacitors to such connections.According to the invention, the connection supporting strip has series of upper and lower slots, which are respectively aligned with one another. Each upper slot is wider than the corresponding lower slot in such a way that the introduction of hairpin-like connections with a base shaped like a U located on the side of the upper slot brings about a progressive tightening of the ends of the arms of said connections.This leads to an improvement of the fixing of clips or tabs for capacitors of the "paving stone" type prior to the welding and coating stages.Application to the production of capacitors.

Abstract: Loading of a pull-through blind riveting mandrel is effected by arranging on an elongated sleeve a plurality of hollow rivets assembled head-to-tail, threading the mandrel along the sleeve, and transferring the rivets to the mandrel while withdrawing the sleeve. In addition to this procedure the invention contemplates provision of a package or assemblage for facilitating storage and/or transfer of the rivets of a column to a reuseable rivet-installing mandrel.

Abstract: A magazine for fasteners with heads is made of two separate, profiled, extruded channel members of light metal or thermosetting material. The channel members are held together by a plurality of screws or releasable clips. The channel members are further spaced from each other by an exchangeable spacer rod, whereby the magazine may be adapted to fasteners of different sizes by replacing the spacer rod with another spacer rod having a different thickness and height or width. Gliding shoulders, for example of spring steel wire, for the fastener heads are arranged longitudinally on the inwardly facing side of each channel member.

Abstract: Nails, screws and the like, referred to as fasteners, are automatically supplied into the magazine of a driver for the fasteners from a supply chute. A slide pusher may extend out of the free end of the magazine and cooperates with a gate at the discharge end of the supply chute, whereby the gate is opened when the free end of the magazine is inserted into the discharge end of the supply chute. In this position the magazine slide pusher is located in a recess to permit the fasteners to freely pass by the slide pusher into the magazine guide channel. When the magazine is full it is withdrawn from the supply chute, whereby a spring closes the gate and the slide pusher is moved back into the magazine guide channel to push the fasteners toward the magazine discharge end under the force of a spring in the magazine.

Abstract: An apparatus and supply strip is disclosed for inserting terminal pins into an apertured workpiece. The apparatus includes reciprocating feeding means for sequentially advancing a supply strip of integrally connected preformed terminal pins toward the workpiece; shearing means for severing the leading one of said pins from the remainder of the supply strip; and driving means for inserting the severed lead one of said pins into the workpiece. The feeding means comprises grasping means operable only when the feeding means is moving in a first direction toward the workpiece to grasp the supply strip at the juncture of adjacent integrally connected preformed terminal pins.

Abstract: A plastic device for supporting an elongated object comprises a plurality of looped strips of successively greater sizes from the smallest looped strip at the innermost position with the opposite terminals of the looped strips continuously joined into one lateral edge of a common base piece. These looped strips are each provided on the outer side at the central portion thereof with a fastening piece adapted to be brought into engagement with a hook provided on the remaining lateral edge of the base piece. The supporting of an elongated object with this plastic device is accomplished by selecting from among the looped strips the strip of a size befitting the diameter of the elongated object, wrapping it around the elongated object and bringing the fastening piece of the selected strip into engagement with the hook of the base piece.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool including a body having a handle and a head portion. A drive assembly includes a driver blade movable along a drive path defined by a nose assembly located below the head portion. A magazine assembly extends from the nose assembly and includes a frame member fixed relative to the tool body, a first track member slidably movable relative to the frame member and a second track member slidably movable relative to the first track member. The track members define a fastener slideway opened for loading of fasteners by movement of the second track member. The nose assembly includes a nose member mounted on the first track member, and movement of the first track member opens the feed path for removal of a jammed fastener. One track member is J-shaped for slidably supporting points of the fasteners and one side of the fastener shanks. The other track member slidably supports the opposite side of the fastener shanks.

Abstract: A unique triangular point for use by a glazier has a star shaped central opening such that a plurality of such points can be stacked in oriented relationship to one another, and can be retained by a cotter key having skewed legs such that the key is easily inserted in opposed notches of the aligned openings in the points, and such that the key can be twisted for removal when inserting the stack of points in a conventional point driver. A plastic retainer is also disclosed and is adapted to fit into the aligned openings of the stacked points.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a consecutive nailing machine with specially joined nails manufactured in rows. The machine is capable of hammering the joined nails one by one, separatively and consecutively, into wood.

Abstract: Wooden members are joined with sheet metal connector plates having integrally struck teeth projecting from one side. The wooden members are placed between first and second pressheads. A coiled composite of connector plate stock has first and second lengths of connector stock in juxtaposition and with intermeshing teeth. The first and second lengths of connector stock are unwound separately and oriented so that the teeth thereof point toward the wooden members to be joined. A cutting means associated with the pressheads cut connector plates from the stock and the plates are positioned on opposite sides of the wooden members and at the junctures to be joined. The pressheads press the plates into the wooden members. The connector stock is provided as a free coil and has the advantage that no spool, reel, or like supporting device is required. Further, the composite of connector stock has no teeth projecting from outer surfaces thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-closing propellant charge package adapted for use with a gravity operated loading device of a power-actuated tool. The package comprises a tubular body having one end at least partially closed, the other end being open. A portion of the body adjacent the open end is deformed for holding the charges, it being possible to cancel the deformation of this portion to allow passage for the charges. More specifically, at least one cut-out is provided in the deformable portion, the portion being maintained in a deformed state by a resilient ring or other means.

Abstract: A power screwdriver for use with a flexible string of disconnected screws retained in head to tip orientation by attachment to a continuous length of plastic, paper or similar flexible material. The string of screws feeds into a rearward section of a reciprocating shaft of the power screwdriver where the screws are individually advanced into alignment with an engaging bit, the combination bit and shaft being continuously rotated during the course of use. As the forward screw is prepared for engagement by the rotating bit, the retaining plastic or similar material is severed, leaving the forward screw free for emplacement. The screw is engaged and advanced to a forward opening of the shaft by thrust pressure applied by the user to reciprocate the shaft rearward with respect to a power train which is keyed to continuously rotate the shaft and bit. When the thrust pressure is withdrawn, a spring compressed by the rearward motion of the shaft returns the shaft forward to a stable position.

Abstract: A magazine for feeding nails into a nail driving machine is provided with means suitable for adjusting the nail guide passage towards the nail drive channel so as to accommodate nails of different lengths and diameters.

Abstract: A support strip preferably made of resilient material and adapted to permit a number of sliders to be removably mounted astraddle one of the longitudinal edges thereof for the sake of convenience in storage. A longitudinal row of spaced apart apertures is formed through the support strip substantially the full length thereof, such that when the sliders are later required for the assemblage of complete slide fasteners, the sliders can be fed to a desired assemblying machine with the support strip running over a sprocket having its teeth engaged in the successive apertures formed therein. A reciprocable push rod may be employed for removal of the successive sliders from the support strip.

Abstract: An applicator for use in connection with a retaining ring supply, which comprises a plurality of retaining rings detachably connected to each other so as to form a strip. The applicator is in the form of a sheath having a flat passage therethrough extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheath and being dimensioned to slidably receive and guide therethrough a strip of retaining rings. The strip has at least one window in at least one of its wide sides, which window leads from the outside surface of the sheath into the flat passage and is so dimensioned as to permit a finger, for instance, a thumb of a person to pass through said window easily and to engage a strip of retaining rings in said sheath to selectively advance the same by one ring at a time, so as to have one ring at a time project from one end of the applicator.

Abstract: A slide fastener is placed on one surface of an elongated base plate of cardboard or plastic sheet material, the base plate being substantially coextensive in width to the slide fastener and being longer than the slide fastener. The slide fastener and the base plate are covered with an elongated plastic film having substantially the same length as the base plate and being slightly wider than the base plate. The plastic film has side margins folded back over the side edges of the base plate, the folded margins of the plastic film being bonded with an adhesive to or heat sealed to the other surface of the base plate, thereby holding the slide fastener securely in place on the base plate. The base plate has a portion of said one surface covered directly with and adhered to the plastic film, there being a cutout recess in said portion for hanging of the base plate.

Abstract: A storage container for associated or related articles such as nuts and bolts wherein there is a myriad of different sizes and shapes for each of the different types of related articles. It comprises a main body having a continuous side wall and open opposite ends, each end having a separate and independent cover. A first partition wall is provided within the body and has a plurality of slots for receiving bolts of a given diameter and thread configuration but of different lengths. A second partition wall is also provided in the main body, and has a plurality of trays for holding the nuts, such trays being in number equal to the number of slots in the first partition wall and arranged parallel and adjacent thereto so that mating nuts and bolts are arranged in juxtaposition. Thus the proper bolt and corresponding nut can be extracted from the container through said opposite ends of said main body but from corresponding locations therein.

Abstract: An improved hemostatic clip system is disclosed. The clips are provided with internal raised occlusive surfaces. The applicator is provided with a locking mechanism preventing the accidental release of the clip before its application to a blood vessel and an improved cartridge is provided which prevents binding of the clip against the post portion of the cartridge during clip removal thereform. In one embodiment the clips are loosely maintained in the cartridge by severed sections of tape across the top of the cartridge.

Abstract: A generally U-shaped body having a central wall and diverging side walls. The end edges of the central wall are notched so that a stack of the bodies can be placed in nesting relationship in a C-shaped magazine and can then be laterally removed, one at a time for use. One side wall is longer than the other and has openings to receive tongs of an applying tool.

Abstract: A self-piercing fastener which locks itself to the metal panel upon which it is mounted for self-swaging its piercing portion to form automatic back taper thereof and by coining the margins of the pierced opening, the panel being disposed against a flat-top anvil having an opening therein providing clearance for discharge of the slug punched from the mounting material, and a method for securing self-piercing fasteners to a flat sheet metal panel.

Abstract: An anchoring arrangement kit includes a drilling tool adapted to drill a generally cylindrical anchoring hole in a support structure. The kit further includes a support arrangement which supports the drill for rocking or orbiting motion to thereby enlarge the bottom region of the cylindrical hole, the arrangement including an abutment member which is stationary, and a cover member which rotates with the drilling tool during the undercutting operation, these members having complementary concave and convex contact surfaces for the rocking or orbiting motion of the drilling tool. The kit further includes a plurality of anchoring elements each having an anchoring member and a cap member surrounding the trailing end portion of the anchoring member so as to support the anchoring element at an open end of the hole with a clearance between the anchoring member and the surface bounding the hole.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device to temporarily hold a plurality of objects, which device is commonly known as a paper clip, and a related device to automatically affix and dispense said paper clips. The invention advances the art in that the shape claimed results in a paper clip which is easier to affix manually, will facilitate dispensing by an automatic dispenser claimed herein and will be both simple and economical to manufacture. This invention also advances the art in that the related dispenser will store and hold ready a supply of said paper clips for dispensing and will automatically affix and dispense said clips on object(s) inserted into the dispensing device.

Abstract: A tool for inserting thumb tacks comprising a handle having a neck-down portion near its one end with a recess in that end containing a magnet therein permitting picking up a thumb tack and holding it in a position for insertion, the neck-down portion of the tool permitting applying thumb pressure. The other end of the tool is rounded to allow application of additional pressure, if needed, with the heel of the hand. Also disclosed is a container for holding the thumb tacks in a manner that they can be easily picked up and also including a recess for the tool.

Abstract: A paper-clip dispenser has an upwardly open receptacle with a hole in its bottom through which a stem carrying a magnet passes. When the receptacle is lifted, the stem falls under its own weight or with the aid of a spring to bring the magnet of its upper end into a collection of paper clips at the bottom of the dispenser. When the dispenser is again placed upon the surface of a table or desk, the upper end of the stem is displaced upwardly to carry paper clips through the opening in the receptacle and enable them to be drawn off the magnet one at a time as required by the user.

Abstract: Metal fastener sticks wherein the individual fastening elements, such as staples, on the stick are secured together by a radiation cross-linked polymer, and which metal fastener stick is prepared by: coating the metal fastener stick with a solventless, radiation -curable, polymeric composition, such as an ultraviolet-curable formulation of an unsaturated resin, a monomer and a photo initiator; and curing the composition by exposing the composition to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation, to provide a metal fastener stick wherein the individual fastener elements are secured together in the stick through the radiation cross-linked polymer.

Abstract: A fastener package, for use in a fastener applicator apparatus and comprising a disc shaped carrier and a plurality of fasteners, each having an elongated shank and a head. The shanks of the fasteners pass through the carrier and the under surface of their heads rest on the carrier. The disc shaped carrier is circular and carries the fasteners evenly spaced on a circular line along the peripheral portion of the circular carrier. Also disclosed is an inherently stiff support and guide body which is useful as a magazine in the fastener applicator apparatus and which has teeth or grooves for a step-wise turning thereof in order to advance the fasteners, one at a time, to an application position in the fastener applicator apparatus.

Abstract: A nail and nail clip arrangement in which so-called common nails may have their shanks grit-blasted and the edge of their heads flattened along equal parallel planes to provide a minor diametral dimension of the nail head that is approximately twice the diameter of the nail shank. The heads are alternately offset laterally in contact with each other in two rows and with the heads of the two rows alternately cross-engaging and the shanks of the nails interdigitate at an acute angle adjacent their points. The end nail at the feed end of one row extends beyond the next adjacent nail of the other row far enough for a powered driver to nip off and drive the lead nail upon actuation of the power mechanism.

Abstract: A fastener assembly comprising in overlying, stacked relationship a flat washer, an elastically deformable washer and a nut all enclosed in a shroud which assures all components of the assembly are used and in their proper order. The shroud is fashioned with a retaining lip at one end which, as the assembly is tightened, causes the shroud to retreat from the assembly to prevent its retention between the flat washer and the surface about the threaded stud to which the assembly is fastened. By the inclusion of an additional lip the retention of the shroud, after the torque limiting device coupled to the nut has been removed, can be assured.

Abstract: A strip of nails for use in a rapid-acting driving apparatus which includes a plurality of nails with shanks in a side-by-side closely spaced parallel array. The shanks of each of the nails in the array are secured together by a carrier of a single-component, metal-adherent plastic defining uniform envelopes for opposed sections of the periphery of each nail shank. Within the gaps between the shanks, adjacent envelopes form opposed spaced generally V-shaped folds which act as sites for easy shearing of a nail from the strip. The bond between the plastic and the nail shank is greater than the shear resistance of the carrier material between two adjacent fasteners and greater than the resistance of the workpiece encountered when fastener and carrier material penetrate the same, with the result that all the material that holds the fastener together enters the workpiece.

Abstract: In order to wrap individual slide-fastener units in plastic display envelopes enabling the testing of their sliders without removal from the package, a continuous strip of preferably transparent thermoplastic sheet material is advanced together with an integral series of such units past a cutting station where the units are separated from one another with simultaneous severance of the plastic strip. The latter, on approaching the cutting station, is folded from opposite sides around the outer edges of the carrier bands supporting the interlinked coupling elements of the units, the resulting flaps being kept spaced apart by a median gap exposing the juxtaposed coupling elements as well as the associated slider. The flaps are fastened with light adhesive bonding to opposite ends of the stringer tapes cut from the carrier bands.