Claims
- 1. 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, a hopper on the attacher body, the hopper being adapted to receive a stack of tags, the attacher body having a manually engageable handle, a needle mounted to the body and having an elongate needle bore and a 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, a single manually operable actuator disposed at the handle, and means effective upon operating and releasing the single actuator twice for operating the push rod, the tag feeder and the advancing means to attach a tag to merchandise.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a division of Ser. No. 136,303, filed Dec. 22, 1987 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,785,987 which is a division of Ser. No. 6,858, filed Jan. 27, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,715,521, issued Dec. 29, 1987 which 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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Divisions (3)
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6858 |
Jan 1987 |
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654333 |
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