Claims
- 1. A hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, each fasteners having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the attacher being solely manually powered and comprising: an attacher body having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags and having a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted to the body and having an elongate needle bore and an elongate size opening communicating with the needle bore, means for advancing one bar section at a time into alignment with the needle bore, a push rod engageable with a bar section of a fastener for driving the bar section through the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening, a tag feeder engagable with an endmost tag in the hopper for feeding the endmost tag from its position in the stack along a path to an attaching position in alignment with the needle, means for moving the bar section advancing means, the push rod and the tag feeder through a cycle, wherein the moving means includes manually operable actuating means disposed at the handle, wherein the moving means further includes a cam and a lever driven by the cam, wherein the tag feeder includes a slide, a pin mounted for reciprocating movement on the slide, and means for coupling the lever to the slide.
- 2. A hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the attacher being solely manually powered and comprising: an attacher body having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags and a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted to the body and having an elongated needle bore and an elongate side opening communicating with the needle bore, manually operable actuating means disposed at the handle and being operable by the operator's fingers while the handle is held in the hand, a tag feeder engageable with an endmost tag in the stack and movable between a retracted position and an advanced position in which a tag has been moved to an attaching position, means responsive to movement of the actuating means for moving the tag feeder from the retracted position to the advanced position and for moving the tag feeder from the advanced position to the retracted position, means responsive to movement of the actuating means for advancing one bar section of a fastener at a time into alignment with the needle bore, and a push rod responsive to movement of the actuating means and engageable with a bar section of a fastener for driving the bar section through the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening.
- 3. A hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the attacher comprising: an attacher body having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags and having a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted on the body and having an elongate needle bore and an elongated side opening communicating with the needle bore, means for advancing one bar section at a time into alignment with the needle bore, a push rod engageable with a bar section of a fastener for driving the bar section through the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening, a tag feed engageable with an endmost tag in the hopper for feeding the endmost tag from its position in the stack along a path to an attaching position in alignment with the needle, actuating means including a manually operable actuator disposed at the handle, means including a slide movable in response to the movement of the actuator for moving the push rod, the bar section advancing means and the tag feeder, a cam movable by the slide, and a follower cooperable with the cam for moving the tag feeder in one direction to bring the tag to the attaching position when the actuator is manually operated and for moving the tag feeder in the opposite direction when the actuator is released.
- 4. A hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the attacher comprising: an attacher body having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags and having a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted on the body and having an elongate needle bore and an elongate side opening communicating with the needle bore, means for advancing one bar section at a time into alignment with the needle bore, a push rod engageable with a bar section of a fastener for driving the bar section through the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening, a tag feeder engageable with an endmost tag in the hopper for feeding the endmost tag from its position in the stack along a path to an attaching position in alignment with the needle, actuating means including a manually operable actuator disposed at the handle, means including a slide movable in response to the movement of the actuator for moving the push rod, the fastener advancing means and the tag feeder, and a lever movable by the slide in one direction to bring the tag to the attaching position when the actuator is manually operated and for moving the feeder in the opposite direction when the actuator is released.
- 5. A hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the attacher being solely manually powered and comprising: an attacher body having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags and a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted to the body and having an elongate needle bore and an elongate side opening communicating with the needle bore, means for feeding an endmost tag from the hopper to an attaching position in alignment with the needle, means for advancing one bar section of a fastener at a time into alignment with the needle bore, a push rod engageable with a bar section of a fastener for driving the bar section through the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening, means for moving the bar section advancing means, the push rod and the tag feeding means through a cycle, wherein the moving means includes a slide movably mounted on the body, manually operable actuating means disposed at the handle, means for coupling the actuating means to the slide to effect reciprocating movement of the slide upon actuation and release of the actuating means, means for coupling the slide to the push rod, means responsive to the movement of the slide for operating the bar section advancing means, and means for coupling the slide to the tag feeding means.
- 6. A hand-held tag attacher as defined in claim 5, wherein the means for coupling the slide to the tag feeding means includes a lever driven by the slide.
- 7. A hand-held tag attacher as defined in claim 5, wherein the means for coupling the slide to the tag feeding means includes a cam driven by the slide and a cam follower driven by the cam and coupled to the tag feeding means.
- 8. A hand-held attacher as defined in claim 7, wherein the follower includes a lever.
- 9. A hand-held tag attacher as defined in claim 5, wherein the means for coupling the slide to the tag feeding means includes a cam coupled to the slide and a lever moved by the cam, and wherein the tag feeding means includes a pin engageable with an endmost tag in the stack.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a division of Ser. No. 654,333, filed Sept. 25, 1984, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,673,120, issued June 16, 1987.
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