Claims
- 1. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, comprising the steps of: providing a hand-held tag attacher having a hopper adapted to hold a stack of tags, a handle and a manually engageable actuator disposed at the handle, manually operating the actuator to move a bar section of a fastener through a tag at a waiting position and through merchandise, and manually re-operating the actuator to advance a tag from the hopper to the waiting position.
- 2. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, comprising the steps of: providing a hand-held tag attacher having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags, with the tag attacher having a manually operable actuator, moving the actuator from an unactuated position through a partially actuated position to a fully actuated position and thereafter from the fully actuated position through the partially actuated position to the unactuated position to effect movement of a bar section through a tag at a waiting position and through merchandise, thereafter moving the actuator for the unactuated position to the partially actuated position to the unactuated position and without moving the actuator to the fully actuated position to effect movement of a tag from the hopper to the waiting position.
- 3. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, comprising the steps of: providing a hand-held tag attacher having a hopper adapted to receive a stack of tags, the tags being capable of being separated from the the stack and moved to a waiting position, the tag attacher having a knife, moving the knife into the tag to weaken the tag at the waiting position, moving the bar section through the tag at the weakening caused by the knife while the tag is at the waiting position, and thereafter moving the bar section through a bore of pointed needle and through merchandise to attach the tag to merchandise.
- 4. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, comprising the steps of: positioning a tag at a waiting position, moving a knife into the tag to weaken the tag positioned at the waiting position, providing a hollow needle having an elongate open-ended needle bore to receive a bar section of a fastener and a side opening through which its filament section can extend, inserting the needle through merchandise, and pushing the bar section through the tag at the weakening, into the needle bore, through merchandise and out through an open end of the needle bore.
- 5. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, comprising the steps of: providing a pointed open-ended needle having a needle bore and a side opening communicating with the needle bore, positioning a tag at a waiting position behind the needle, pushing the needle through merchandise, driving a bar section of a fastener through the tag into the needle bore and through merchandise and out of the needle bore while the filament section extends through the side opening.
- 6. Method of attaching tags to merchandise using a clip of fasteners, with each fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, the clip including a rod and a separate connector connecting each bar section to the rod, comprising the steps of: providing a pointed open-ended needle having a needle bore and a side opening communicating with the needle, bore, positioning a tag at a waiting position behind the needle, providing a first knife in general alignment with the needle bore and a second knife in general alignment with the connector, wherein the first and second knives are connected to move as a unit, positioning the clip with a bar section generally aligned with the needle bore and with the respective connector in proximity to the second knife, pushing the needle through merchandise, pushing on an end of the bar section to cause the connector to move the first knife and pierce the tag to weaken the tag locally, to cut the bar section from its respective connector using the second knife, and to move the bar section through the local weakening in the tag into the needle bore while its filament section extends through the side opening.
- 7. Method of attaching a tag to merchandise, comprising the steps of: providing a fastener having a bar section and a button section joined by a filament section, wherein the bar section has a longitudinal axis, the bar section having a generally cylindrical portion terminating at an end and having a truncated portion having an end with a truncated face terminating at a point, positioning a tag and the bar section relative to each other so that the angle of attack of the bar section at the point relative to one side portion of the tag is an acute angle, and wherein the angle between the one side of the tag and the truncated face is an acute angle, and pushing the bar section through the tag and merchandise.
- 8. Method as defined in claim 7, including the step of slitting the tag in general alignment with the point before pushing the bar section through the tag.
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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