Abstract: An automatic washer feeder for an automatic nail gun comprises a washer storage container that stores a coil of washers interconnected together edge-to-edge and a feeding mechanism that uncoils the washers and feeds them one at a time into a position wherein the washers are in alignment with nails being driven by the nail gun. The feeding mechanism is synchronized with the nail gun driver such that one washer is placed in line with each nail before it is driven. The washers are attached together edge-to-edge by a breakable linkage which is broken or cut when a washer is driven into contact with a substrate surface being nailed by the action of the nail gun. The linkage can be an adhesive tape that breaks when the tape is pierced by a nail and the washer is driven into a substrate. Alternatively, the linkage can be formed by integrally molding the washers with an interconnecting link or by string collation.

Abstract: An automatic cutting and feeding device for serially connected caps for a fastening tool, the device comprises a cap seat between a triggering device and a handle for cutting the serially connected caps, a rail set for delivering the serially connected caps and a receiving box for placing therein the serially connected caps. By cooperation of the rail set and the triggering device, the serially connected caps can be continuously sent into the cap seat; and by cooperation of the triggering device and the cap seat, the serially connected caps can be separated and accurately cut for fastening a thin sheet; thereby, the object of automatic cutting and feeding the serially connected caps can be achieved.

Abstract: A washer supply device for power nailers includes a tube receiving a pile of washers therein and the tube communicates a washer transferring device in which a curve slot is defined. A pushing device has a retractable rod which is pivotally connected to an end of a link and the other end of the link is connected to a pusher which is slidably received in the curve slot to push the washers toward a nose portion of the power nailer. The link has a fulcrum point which is pivotally connected to the washer transferring device so that the pusher can be reciprocatingly moved in the slot to feed the washers by the movement of the retractable rod.

Abstract: A nail comprises a washer delivery device attached to the nail outlet of the nail gun having an internal elongate delivery groove for delivering washer to the nail outlet, a washer receiving device provided on top of washer delivery device in communication therewith such that washer may drop into the washer delivery device by either its own weight or pushed down by an elastic member received between washers and the top of washer receiving device, and a compressed air activated feeding device for pushing a dropped washer in the delivery groove to the nail outlet such that a case nail may penetrate washer. This can enhance the fixing of objects when secured by nail and washer combination.

Abstract: A washer feeding device attached to a nail gun is provided. The washer feeding device comprises a receiving cylinder having a plurality of washers stacked therein; a pneumatic delivery mechanism for pushing the bottommost washer in the receiving cylinder into the nail gun; a support mechanism secured to the delivery mechanism and the nail gun for mounting the receiving cylinder; and a bias mechanism put on the support mechanism being movable in the receiving cylinder, the bias mechanism including an upright, a spring put on the upright, and a disc secured to the upright. The disc is elastically biased against the topmost washer in the receiving cylinder.

Abstract: A fastener dispensing tool for dispensing individual loop fasteners of the type comprising a flexible filament having a socket at one end and an inserting element at the opposite end. The tool comprises a housing and a hollow, slotted needle extending outwardly from the housing, the needle being dimensioned to dispense a fastener inserting element. An arm assembly extends outwardly from the housing, the arm assembly defining a feed channel dimensioned to receive a fastener socket and to define a stop engageable with the rear end of the socket to align the socket with the inserting element that has been dispensed through the needle. A piston is removably insertable into the needle for dispensing an inserting element through the needle. A belt is removably insertable into the arm assembly for feeding a socket through the feed channel. A trigger is operatively coupled to each of the piston and the belt.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated washer feeding attachment for use with a fastener driver of the type having a driver stroke axis and an exit barrel. A delivery channel has an acceleration chamber at one end for receiving washers one at a time from a magazine, and a retention region at the other end to which washers are pneumatically driven. The retention region has an exit aperture aligned with the fastener driver exit barrel and with the exit aperture. The attachment is powered by collected exhaust gas from the fastener driver. Some embodiments require no moving parts.

Abstract: A tin tag dispensing attachment for roofing guns and the like includes a housing containing a chamber for receiving a cylindrical cartridge containing a stack of disk-shaped tin tags. The cartridge includes a vertical tubular resilient wall containing a longitudinal slit running the length thereof, the bottom end of the cartridge being expandable by an expansion device carried by the housing, thereby to release the tin tag stack for longitudinal displacement relative to the cartridge wall from a supported position to a released position, whereupon the lowermost tin tag of the released stack is positioned for displacement from the tag feeding station to the tag nailing station.

Abstract: A fastener feeding mechanism for a power actuated gun (10, 310, 410, 510) having a track (16, 316, 416, 516) for holding a plurality of fasteners (18, 318, 636). Fasteners are biased by a spring (32, 372, 672) down the track towards a holding or latch mechanism (22, 322, 422, 522). The holding or latch mechanism has a retractable latch. The holding or latch mechanism holds a fastener in a predetermined position to be driven into a substrate. A guide (14, 314, 414, 514) attached to a barrel (12, 312, 412, 512) of a power actuated gun guides the barrel permitting the barrel to be advanced for firing and driving the fastener. After firing a bias on the guide causes the barrel to be retracted for the positioning of another fastener to be driven. The present invention greatly facilitates the driving of fasteners having a plate, and permits the driving of fasteners quickly resulting in more efficient and therefore less costly construction.

Abstract: A fixing machine with a machine frame, a feeding tool attached to the machine frame, and a fixing tool also attached to the machine frame is provided. The fixing tool can be operated for fixing by fixing elements moved into a fixing position on a support. The feeding tool can be operated for transferring the fixing elements into the fixing position, and can be moved back and forth by a drive element which is rotatable about a drive axis stationary relative to the machine frame. The feeding tool has a feeding rocker which is pivotable about a pivot axis stationary relative to the machine frame. A coupling element is coupled in an articulated manner to the feeding rocker and fastened to the drive element through a rotary joint. The rotary joint is rotatable with the drive element about the drive axis and has a joint axis extending parallel offset relative to the drive axis.

Abstract: A fastener cap assemblage comprising multiple fastener caps, as used with fasteners such as nails, screws or tacks, held in a fixed relationship to one another and adapted to be held and moved through a guide to a specified position where they may receive the fastener. Each fastener cap is releasably connected to another fastener cap by at least one breakable member. The breakable member or members are disposed on the marginal edge of each fastener cap. Preferably, the fastener caps are connected to each other by two breakable members. Most preferably, two breakable members are arranged parallel to the length of the fastener cap assemblage, and each other, and are off-set from the center of each fastener cap. The fastener caps may also be may also be arranged in a strip. Each fastener cap may have a centrally disposed aperture adapted to permit passage of a shaft of a fastener through the fastener cap.

Abstract: A fastening device (30) includes a housing (32) and a handle (34) extending from a first side of the housing to assume a pistol-like configuration. A head (38) is located at a forward end of the housing (32) and includes a nose member (40) located between two spaced housing parts or guide plates (41) and (42). A magazine (36) is attached to the nose member (40) adjacent a second side of the housing (32), opposite the first side thereof. A plurality of spaced, serially-arranged fastening elements (44) are linked together in a belt-like fashion, and are located within the magazine (36) for feeding and conveying of the fastening elements to a forward fitting position or assembly station (46) at a forward end of the nose member (40).

Abstract: A tin cap dispenser for pneumatic nail guns that include a continues source of nails. The dispenser is also pneumatically activated and coupled to the operation of the nail gun. A pneumatically actuated handler arm member is reciprocally moved between two positions, one engaging a tin cap and the other one releasing it in alignment with a positioned nail also in coaxial alignment with the hammer of a nail gun. The timing of the tin cap handler arm member controls a valve assembly in series with the conventional trigger mechanism of the nail gun and another valve also in series that is activated by the handler arm member. A lock assembly inhibits the operation unless sufficient time is given to the feeding nails mechanism to get out of the way. The resulting device permits the continuous installation of tin caps on a flat surface.

Abstract: A line feeding device 10 for releasable engagement with a staple gun 100 wherein the device 10 includes a line feeding unit 11 provided with a mounting unit 12 for attachment of the line feeding unit 11 to the staple gun 100 for delivering a supply of line 31 through the staple feeding magazine 103 of the staple gun 100. A line guide unit 13 positions the line 31 proximate a rear opening 108 in the staple gun 100.

Abstract: In a roofing washer-dispensing and fastener-driving machine, which has a fastener-feeding tube, a fastener-engaging pawl is mounted operatively to the tube, near its upper end. The pawl is pivotable between a normal position wherein the pawl is arranged to engage a fastener dropped into the tube so as to prevent the fastener from dropping through the tube and a pivoted position wherein the pawl is arranged to disengage from the fastener. An elongate rod is arranged to pivot the pawl from the normal position into the pivoted position when the machine is operated.

Abstract: A device for fitting articles including rivets, buttons and the like, to a fabric, comprising a lower tool serving as an abutment for an article, and a ram executing a riveting stroke. A lower end of the ram joins with an upper tool for impinging upon an upper portion of the article and for urging the article against the lower tool upon execution of the riveting stroke. A rotatably driven cam disc urges an upper end of the ram for controlling travel movement of the ram. A clamp is carried by the bottom end of the ram for movement in synchronism with the ram. For finger protection, the device is operative to stop the clamp in a position spaced from the lower tool during a first lowering movement.

Abstract: Two mating fastener elements are attached to material and each other at a setting station through an electric motor. The motor rotates a cam having its profile cooperate with a cam follower on an upper pivotally mounted arm to move a ram, which supports one of the fastener elements, towards a support, which supports the other of the fastener elements. The support is moved by a lower pivotally mounted arm attached to the cam by a crank arm so that it has a harmonic motion. The ram is stopped and held in its stopped position before a controlled setting force is applied through the support to move the other fastener element into engagement with the one fastener element.

Abstract: A machine for the attachment of buttons, rivets or the like, preferably to articles of clothing, which buttons, rivets or the like consist of an upper portion and a lower portion, a material held between an upper clamping jaw and a lower clamping jaw being punched by actuation of a ram, and, after movement of a slide having an upper tool and a lower tool, the button portions disposed therein being positively connected to one another by ram actuation by virtue of the upper and lower tools being brought towards one another. In order to be able to carry out the punching of the article of clothing which is necessary before the attachment of the object, using the same machine and without changing the position of the article of clothing, an attachment tool (36) at the end of the ram is disposed, in the hole punching disposition (FIG. 3), in coaxial alignment with a hole punching tool (26).

Abstract: A lubrication structure for a transfer mechanism distributing a driving force received from a transmission gear to two output shafts and outputting the driving force therefrom, wherein the lubrication structure comprises a slide tube section for a sliding yoke provided in a propeller shaft, the slide tube section externally mounted on a shaft section of the output shaft in a state where it can move in the axial direction but cannot relatively rotate; a lubricating oil hole provided in an extended section of a transfer case covering the slide shaft section; a lubricating oil groove provided in an internal surface of the extended section and communicating with the lubricating oil hole, the lubricating oil groove oriented in the axial direction of the extended section; a seal mechanism sealing between the slide tube section on the internal surface of the extended section at the outer end thereof; and a bushing provided between the extended section and the slide tube section so that the bushing covers the lubrica

Abstract: A loop pin attaching device for tag hanging is provided with a drive lever which is selectively moveable between a first, unactivated and a second, activated position. A link is rotatably connected with the drive lever and a piston member is connected to the other end of the link, the piston member and link being selectively moveable between first, unactivated and second, activated positions. A pressing body formed with a pipe shape is fixed to a front face of the piston. An insertion guide is dimensioned to allow the pressing body to slide therethrough when the piston member is moved and to receive an insertion portion of a loop pin. A rack gear is rotatably fixed to the link adjacent the second end of the link, and a gear group, formed of at least a first, smaller diameter gear and a second, larger diameter gear, is provided, the smaller diameter gear meshingly engaging the rack gear.

Abstract: A tag fastening device is pistol-shaped and has a grip, in which a trigger lever is pivotally mounted on a pin mounted on the inside of the grip. The trigger lever is normally urged forward by the lower end of a swing arm pivotally secured by a pin to the grip on the inside thereof and normally pulled backward by spring means. When the trigger lever is manually actuated, the upper end of the swing arm pushes forward a piston pin to guide a plug-in part of a tag fastener from a magazine, while at the same time a slide bar is pushed forward to cut the tag fastener off a fastener assembly loaded in the magazine. The plug-in part of the tag fastener is received and guided by a curved rotary feed arm to a position where to attach it to an article after passing through a hole of a tag. Then, the plug-in part is forced into an aperture of a socket formed at the opposite end of the fastener.

Abstract: A device for mounting parts has an upper tool with an upper stamp and a lower tool with a lower stamp. A drive unit for driving the upper and lower tools is provided. A feeding device for feeding parts to the upper and lower tools is present. A gear arrangement connects the upper and lower tools to the drive unit such that the upper and lower tools are movable in a reciprocating manner toward one another. The gear arrangement has an eccentric disk and a drive lever connected to the eccentric disk. A rocker arm is provided having a swivel axis about which the rocker arm swivels. The rocker arm pivotably connected with a first end to the drive lever and with a second end to the lower tool. A control rod is connected to the rocker arm and the drive lever, wherein a plurality of points of attachment are provided for the control rod.

Abstract: An automated apparatus for attaching studs to fabric such as leather jackets jeans, shirts or the like. The apparatus including a feeder for supplying studs to the apparatus, a stud support, a stud placement member, a stud driving member for guiding a stud through its full path of travel until the legs contact a fabric into which they are inserted, a stud positioning member configured to displace the stud placement member and to displace the stud support and a stud fastening member disposed below the stud driving member for bending at least one leg of a stud upon the stud driving member guiding the stud through its full path of travel. The stud support and the stud placement member hold a stud in place for the stud driving member to drive a stud into a fabric and contacting the stud fastening member which bends at least one leg of a stud to fasten a stud to a fabric.

Abstract: Attaching machine has readily removable upper and lower tool assembly which can be slid out of the machine frame when tools need to be changed. Tool assembly drive means is automatically connected as the new tool assembly is slid into final position.

Abstract: A vent applicator positions, a skirted vent blank on one side of a fabric and a die on the other, and impels the blank downwardly through the fabric so that the skirt is curled up and out by the die to clamp the fabric to the blank. To position the vent blank, it is suspended on deflectable fingers which are deflected when the blank is impelled downwardly. Preferably a hole is punched in the fabric before the die is moved downwardly. Sensors detect the presence of a vent blank ready for downward movement. A washer may be positioned over the die for clamping between the upturned skirt and the fabric. If a washer is used sensors detect the presence and positioning of a washer.

Abstract: First and second complementary articles of hardware are fed to a single attaching station by first and second reciprocating feed-in fingers, respectively. Different types of first articles are selected during initial retraction of the first feed-in finger for advancement to the attaching station along a first path during advancement of the finger. Different types of second articles are selected during initial retraction of the second feed-in finger for advancement along a second path to the attaching station during advancement of the finger. During its retraction, the first finger is diverted from its first path at least when it would engage the first selected article. If the second selected article is disposed so as to be engaged by the second finger during its retraction, the second finger has a cooperating surface to cause it to move from the second path beneath the second selected article.

Abstract: A button feed unit to guide a button element from a button supply to a button applicator and arrange the direction of surface pattern provided on a front face of the button element. The button feed unit is adaptable for a variety of buttons of different sizes by exchangeable components of a feed path for the button element. The feed path for the button element is provided with a button rotating attachment having a button element guide path of a wedge-shaped cross section to pinch a part of the periphery of the button head and to urge the button head resiliently toward a cooperating feed path guide member, wherein at least the attachment is exchangeable.

Abstract: A button feeder for guiding and feeding a button element having an oriented pattern on its front face along a feed path and for insuring a desired orientation of the pattern. This button feeder provides a button pusher having a finger member projected from its frontal edge and urged resiliently downwardly from the pusher and the pusher provides a cam contactor projecting downwardly, the cam contactor riding on a cam surface, wherein the frontal edge of the pusher is guided and downwardly moved along the cam surface during transport and rotation of the button by the pusher along the feed path, and the finger member is lowered to engage a recess formed on the back face of the button head to arrest the rotation of the button element so as to orient and place a pattern on the button surface in a desired orientation.

Abstract: Two mating fastener elements are attached to material at a setting station through a first electric motor. The motor rotates a cam for causing a first pivotally mounted arm to move a support, which supports one of the fastener elements, towards a ram, which is moved by a second pivotally mounted arm attached to the cam rotated by the motor. A second electric motor, which makes at least one revolution and may make a plurality of revolutions during each energization of the first motor, is energized when the first motor, which makes one revolution during each energization, is energized. Each of two hoppers has a plurality of one of the fastener elements. The second motor activates a knife blade in each of the two hoppers so that one of the knife blades moves upwardly in its hopper while the other is moving downwardly to feed the fastener elements within the hopper therefrom for receipt by the support or the ram.

Abstract: A machine (1) for attaching buttons, rivets or the like, preferably to articles of clothing, which buttons, rivets or the like consist of an upper part (124, 125) and a lower part (67, 68) which are fed to an upper tool (9) and lower tool (10) from magazines and are brought into form-locked connection with each other with the interposition of the material (167) by the stroke of a ram (140); in order to optimize the use of different button parts, it is proposed that the upper tool (9) and the lower tool (10) be arranged opposite each other, lying in each case one behind the other in a row on the upper (51) and lower (48) arms of a U-shaped carriage (30) by the positioning of which the upper tool (9), which is to be placed in action in each case, enters into coupling position with respect to the ram (140).

Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the stroke of a light projector of a button setting machine includes a rod connected at its one end to the light projector, a holder holding the opposite end of the rod and pivotably connected to one end of a pivotable actuating lever pivotally movable in response to the reciprocating movement of an upper pusher, a leaf spring acting between the actuating lever and the rod to urge the latter upwardly, a spring urging the actuating lever to turn in a direction to retract the light projector from a path of movement of a punch, and an adjustable stopper engageable with the actuating lever to limit pivotal movement of the same against the force of the spring. With this construction, the light projector has a stroke considerably shorter than the stroke of the upper pusher and can be adjusted independently of the stroke of the upper pusher.

Abstract: An apparatus for protecting a horizontally reciprocable light projector from collision with a vertically reciprocable punch of a button setting machine, wherein a lost motion mechanism is provided for producing a delay between retracting movement of the light projector and the downward movement of the punch to such an extent that the light projector is retracted from the vertical path of movement of the punch before the punch starts moving downward. The lost motion mechanism is composed of a shaft having an annular actuating flange, and a cylinder member slidably receiving therein the shaft. The actuating flange is normally separated from the cylinder member and engageable with the cylinder member to lower the punch when the light projector is retracted from the vertical path of movement of the punch.

Abstract: An apparatus for delivering a button body with a hub and a flange applied to a part between a chute through which the button body is fed gravitationally from a hopper and a button feeder of a button applicator to which the button body is delivered. According to a preferred embodiment, a receiving member, which is pivotably fixed to a stopper placed facing an outlet of the chute and which is urged to the chute by a spring, has a receiving projection as well as a cam projection. A pusher moving backward and forward along a space between the receiving member and the outlet of the chute is provided with a cam receiving surface including a notch on its side face facing the receiving member. A pocket is formed by the fore end of the pusher and the inner face of the receiving projection in order to receive the hub of the button body.

Abstract: A two prong symmetrical shaped element is connected to a non-symmetrical shaped element on opposite sides of a material by disposing the two prongs in two holes in the non-symmetrical shaped element, which is a hook or an eye. The non-symmetrical shaped element is supplied from a hopper through a feed chute to a guide channel in which it is advanced to a setting station where it is attached to the two prong element by cooperation of an anvil and a ram. When the non-symmetrical shaped element is a hook, its orientation is changed by a rotatable transport stop disposed betwen two portions of the feed chute during advancement of the hook through the feed chute. When the non-symmetrical shaped element is an eye, its orientation is changed during its advancement through the guide channel prior to its disposition at the setting station.

Abstract: An apparatus for attaching fastener elements one at a time to a garment includes a die plate disposed below a punch and having a plurality of dies spaced apart in a first direction. The die plate is slidably movable in the one direction to place the dies successively into alignment with the punch. The die plate is displaceable in a second direction away from the punch in a plane of sliding movement of the die plate. The die plate is pivotally movable in a vertical plane when it is disposed in a position remote from the punch. According to a preferred embodiment, the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the die plate is tiltable upwardly as it is displaced in the second direction away from the punch.

Abstract: A fastener attaching apparatus for selectively feeding fasteners to portions of the material of clothes or the like includes hoppers for receiving fasteners, guide tracks and guide grooves for feeding fasteners, push rods for pushing fasteners, an upper mold for holding the material of clothes, and power sources that actuate the push rods for attaching fasteners to the material interposed between the upper and lower molds.

Abstract: A method and corresponding apparatus accurately and efficiently fasten roofing materials to a roof. A first stroke of a piston both separates a single roofing screw from a roofing screw magazine and delivers it to a premounting position and separates a metal bracket from a metal bracket magazine and delivers it to a metal bracket premounting position. The second or return stroke places the screw and the metal bracket into respective mounting positions. A power screwdriver screws the screw through the metal bracket and the roofing materials placed on the roof and into the ceiling structure. The apparatus is mounted on a mobile frame to allow easy movement of the apparatus from fastening position to fastening position on the roof.

Abstract: A fastener conveying apparatus for a fastener assembling machine comprises a chute defining a first passageway for guiding a plurality of fastener members in succession, a guide defining a second passageway joined at one end to a lower end of the first passageway for guiding the fastener members one at a time through the second passageway. A front part of the guide is detachable to open the second passageway along its entire length so that a fastener member jammed in the second passageway can be removed easily by using both hands.

Abstract: A garment-fastener assembling apparatus includes a combined supporting and connecting mechanism composed of a pivot lever rotatably mounted on a frame and pivotably connected at its one end with the cylinder tube of a punch-driving cylinder and at the other end with a first pusher mechanism having a first pusher, and a spring-biased slide rod slidably mounted on the frame and having one end pivoted to the pivot lever adjacent to the cylinder tube. The slide rod is normally urged such that during a portion of the movement of the piston rod from the cylinder tube adjacent to the fully retracted position of the piston rod, the pivot lever operates the first pusher mechanism to retract and advance the first pusher. With the combined mechanism thus constructed, a punch and the first pusher can be driven in an accurate timed relation to one another.

Abstract: A button orienting and placing apparatus comprises a guide table defining a substantially horizontal first guide channel, and a chute defining a slanting second guide channel communicating at its lower end with one end portion of the first guide channel remotely from a die. Each of the first and second guide channels is composed of a button-head guide passageway for receiving a head of the button, and a claw guide passageway for receiving a pair of claws of the button. The claw guide passageway of the first guide channel has a arcuate lower end portion curved toward the die.

Abstract: In a fastener attaching machine, a tape feed apparatus comprises a shaft manually rotatably supported by a holder, a feed roller mounted on the shaft via a one-way clutch for rotation with the shaft in one direction only, a spring normally urging the shaft to be rotated in the other direction, and a stop means for restricting the angle of the manual rotation of said shaft.

Abstract: In an automatic fastener assembling machine, an automatic lower-fastener-element supply apparatus includes a guide member horizontally reciprocable in timed relation to vertical movement of a punch, and a die supported by the guide member and movable, in response to reciprocating movement of the guide member, between a fastener transfer position in which the die is contiguous to the lower end of a chute to receive a lower fastener element therefrom, and a fastener joining position in which the die is vertically aligned with the punch.

Abstract: A garment-fastener assembling apparatus includes a drive mechanism for reciprocating an optical position indicator toward and away from an indicating position located in registry with the path of movement of a punch. The drive mechanism is constructed to operate under direct control of the movement of the ram so that the position indicator is reciprocated without interference with the punch or any other movable part of the apparatus and without causing prolongation of the cycle time of the apparatus.

Abstract: A marking light, or an attaching-position indicator, for a buttoning apparatus to indicate the position where each button member is to be attached in place, comprises a slender optical pointer member, engaging means secured to the rear end of the optical pointer member for selective engagement with a part of a pusher of the buttoning apparatus, a fixing member for the indicator including a support having means to support the front end portion of the pointer member so as to be movable back and forth with respect to a position immediately below an upper attaching die of the apparatus, release means connected to the engaging means for disengaging the engaging means from a part of the pusher, and means for biasing the pointer member in the direction of withdrawal clear of the upper attaching die. The support is equipped with a resilient engaging means fixed at one end to the fixing member and so disposed as to engage resiliently a part of the support at the other end.

Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housng into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.

Abstract: A riveting press wherein the female component of a composite button, knob or a like article of hardware is introduced between the jaws of first tongs below a sheet of textile material whose marked side faces upwardly, and wherein the male component of the article is introduced between the jaws of second tongs at a level above the sheet. The first tongs deposit the female component on a stationary anvil while the second tongs descend toward the upper side of the sheet to place the male component into the path of movement of a descending ram which causes a deformable part of the male component to penetrate through the sheet and to be deformed into permanent engagement with the female component by a centering stud which is provided on the anvil. The mechanism which moves the first tongs up and down derives motion from the mechanism which moves the second tongs and the ram.

Abstract: A riveting press for the application of several types of compatible first and second articles of hardware to garments has a discrete magazine for each first and second article, applicators for first and compatible second articles, a foot pedal for initiating a cycle of operation of the applicators, and a computer-operated feeding unit for delivering selected first and complementary second articles from the respective magazines to the corresponding applicators. The computer for the feeding unit can be programmed to select the sequence in which various different first and compatible second articles are fed to the respective applicators, and to select the number of identical first and compatible second articles which are fed during successive cycles of the press.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-purpose machine for the application of small metallic or non-metallic workpieces, or items which can be mounted on a proper support, or on a suitable table, or at a processing line and includes a head with a fixed tool holder and a movable tool holder and a universal presser. The tool holders are adapted for carrying the pairs of tools in a removable, immediately interchangeable manner for the functions, or processes of various applications such as branding, drilling, eyelet punching, blanking or die cutting, riveting and the like. The machine may be mechanically operated by simple linkages, pneumatically by means of a pedal operation, or electrically.

Abstract: The machine according to the invention comprises a device for feeding at least a continuous belt from a coil, a punching unit provided with at least a punch for punching holes into the belt; a cutter for cutting the continuous belt in segments of the desired length and a unit for applying and shaping the hooks to the belt. The unit includes a feeder for feeding and positioning the locking bushings relative to the belt holes, an inserter for inserting the hooks into the holes provided in the locking bushings and into the holes punched in the belt and a closer for closing the locking bushing about one hook end and for simultaneously shaping the other hook end.

Abstract: An apparatus, for assembling a pair of fastener elements of a garment fastener, including a lower or die unit having a retainer which is disposed immediately upstream of a die and which is vertically movable between a retracted position in which an upper end portion of the retainer is retracted below a top of the die to allow one fastener element to be supplied onto the die, and a projected position in which the upper end portion of the retainer projects from the top of the die to engage a peripheral edge of the head of the fastener element to thereby prevent the latter from being displaced on the die.