CA1167680A - Tag attaching device - Google Patents

Tag attaching device

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CA1167680A
CA1167680A CA000388483A CA388483A CA1167680A CA 1167680 A CA1167680 A CA 1167680A CA 000388483 A CA000388483 A CA 000388483A CA 388483 A CA388483 A CA 388483A CA 1167680 A CA1167680 A CA 1167680A
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Prior art keywords
tag
main body
cam plate
engaging claw
attaching device
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CA000388483A
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French (fr)
Inventor
Akira Furutsu
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Japan Banok Co Ltd
Ben Clements and Sons Inc
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Japan Banok Co Ltd
Ben Clements and Sons Inc
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65CLABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C7/00Affixing tags
    • B65C7/003Affixing tags using paddle-shaped plastic pins
    • B65C7/005Portable tools
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/14Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by strings, straps, chains, or wires

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure A tag attaching device having a wide application capable of dispensing various tag pin assemblies having different pitches of tag pins. The device has an engaging claw rockably secured to a vertically movable cam plate with a spring mounted between the engaging claw and the main body of the tag attaching device. As the cam plate is lifted overcoming the force of the spring, the end of the engaging claw is brought to the position between adjacent joint portions of the tag pin assembly and, as the cam plate is lowered by the force of the spring, the tag pin assembly is fed downwardly together with the engaging claw.

Description

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TAG ATTACHING DEVICE

Background of the Invention (a) Field of the Invention:
The present invention relates to a tag attaching device and, more particularly, to a device for dispensing tag pins made of a plastic for attaching price tags, labels or the like to goods.
(b) Description of the Prior Art:
Plastic tag pins have hitherto been used for attaching tags, labels or the like to various goods. The tag pin i9 usually constituted by a head portion, a lateral bar portion and a filament portion interconnecting the head portion and the lateral bar portion. These portions are integrally molded to provide a substantially ~-shaped assembly.
To this end, a plurality of tag pins are integrated at a pre-determined pitch in the thickness direction to form a comb-like tag pin assembly. Namely, tag pins are connected at their joint portions to a connecting bar in the form of a comb. In other words, each tag pin has a joint portion at which the lateral bar portion thereof is connected to the connecting bar.
Various sizes and shapes of tag pins are commercially available. Naturally, different tag pin assemblies have different pitches of tag pins.
The tag attaching device is a device having a form resembling a pistol and adapted to separate tag pins one by one from the tag pin assembly. The separated tag pin is ~ 1676t~() guided with its lateral bar portion through a hollow needle with a longitudinal slot and penetrates a price tag and an item of goods thereby to attach the price tag to an article.
The conventional tag attaching device has a feeding S device for feeding the tag pin assembly by the action of a gear having gear teeth meshing with the joint portions between each tag pin and the connecting bar thereby to intermittently feed tag pins successively to the position of the hollow needle. Since this gear has a constant pitch of teeth, this conventional tag attaching device can be applied only to tag pin assemblies having a pitch of tag pins corresponding to the pitch of the feeding gear. This requires users of the tag attaching device to prepare a plurality of tag attaching devices having tag pin feeding gears of different pitches corresponding to pitches of tag pins of different tag pin assemblies.
Objects of the Invention Accordingly, an object of the invention is to provide a tag attaching device having a wide application capable of dispensing tag pin assemblies of different pitches of tag pins, provided that the variety of the tag pin pitches is not so large.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become clear from the following description of the preferred embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

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Summary of the Invention To this end, according to the invention, there is provided a tag attaching device comprising a main body, an intermediate lever pivotally secured to the main body, a spring provided between the intermediate lever and the main body so as to project a lever, which is supported on the main body through the intermediate lever, forwardly of a grip portion of the main body, a supporting member loosely fitted in the intermediate lever and slidably received by the main body, a cam driving member loosely fitted to the intermediate lever and disposed parallel with the supporting member, a push-out rod fixed to the supporting member, a hollow needle positioned ahead of the push-out rod and fixed to the main body, a guide groove provided at the rear end of the hollow needle, a cam plate disposed adjacent the guide groove and corresponding to the cam driving member, an engaging claw provided rockably on the cam plate, and a spring disposed between the engaging claw and the main body and adapted to bias the cam plate downwardly.
Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a tag attaching device in accordance with the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the tag attaching device shown in Fig. l;
Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of a half part of the tag attaching device of the present invention, split into two halves;

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Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged view of a portion of the device shown in Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a tag pin assembly.
Description of the Preferred Embodiments A tag attaching device of the invention is generally indicated at a symbol P. This device has a main body 10 formed of a plastic and has an overall form resembling a pistol as shown in Fig. 1. The main body 10 consists of two halves 101 and 102 as will be seen from Fig. 2. A lever 11 is pivo-tally secured to the main body 10 by means of a shaft 27.
As shown in Fig. 3, an intermediate lever 12 is pivotally secured by means of a shaft 28 to a grip portion lOa.
A spring 12b is mounted between a supporting member 12a formed on the intermediate lever 12 and a rear end portion of the main body 10. This spring 12b normally urges the lever 11 to project forwardly from the grip portion lOa, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.
A slider 13 is slidably received by a horizontal groove 29 in the main body 10. A push-out rod 14 is fixed to the front portion of the slider 13. A cam driving member 19 is slidably received by a groove 30 formed beneath the groove 29 to extend parallel with the latter.
The upper end portion of the intermediate lever 12 extends through an elongated hole 31 formed in the supporting member 13. The cam driving member 19 is provided with projections 32 and 33 positioned at the front and the rear sides of the intermediate lever 12.

~ ~6768(-A hollow needle 15 with a groove is attached to the main body 10 so as to take a position ahead of the push-out rod 14. The hollow needle 15 is replaceable. A guide goove 16 adapted to be loaded with a tag pin assembly T is positioned at the rear side of the hollow needle 15 so as to extend at a right angle to the hollow needle 15.
As will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2, the upper half part of the guide groove 16 above the groove 15a of the guide needle 15 has a substantially cross-like form.
An explanation will be made hereinunder as to the construction of the tag pin assembly T. The tag pin assembly has a plurality of tag pins t, each having a head portion 1, a lateral bar portion 2 and a filament portion 3 inter-connecting the head portion 1 and lateral bar 2. Tag pins are arranged at a predetermined pitch in the thickness direction of the head portion 1 and are connected to a common connectng bar 5 through joint portions 4.
Referring back to Figs. 1 and 2, the reference numeral 16a designates a groove hole adapted to pass the joint portion 4 and the connecting bar 5 of the tag pin assembly T
andextended through the main body 10 in the vertial direction.
A groove 16b is adapted to receive the lateral bar ~ of the tag pin, while a groove 16c is adapted to receive the filament portion 3 of the tag pin. The walls at which the grooves 16b and 16c terminate constitutes a supporting sur.ace 40 adapted to support the lateral bar ~ of the tag pin t on the tag pin assembly T loaded in the guide groove 16. The groove 15a of ~ ~67B~?

the guide needle 15 is communicated with the grooves 16b and 16c of the guide groove 16 through a communication groove 34.
As will be seen from Figs. 3 through 5, a recess 20 is formed between the guide groove 16 and the slide groove 29 of the slider. A cam plate 21 is disposed in the recess 20 vertically movably. The portion of the cam plate 21 corres-ponding to the end contacting portion l9a of the cam driving member 19 constitutes an inclined cam surface 21a.
An engaging claw 22 is rockably secured to the cam plate 21 by means of a shaft 23. A spring 26 is retained at its one end by a shaft 24 provided on the upper rear end of the cam plate 21 and a pin 25 fixed to the main body 10. The spring 26 normally biases the cam plate 21 downwardly. A
groove 35 is formed in the portion of the cam plate 21 corresponding to the shaft 24, so that the cam plate 21 may not hinder the rotation of the engaging claw 22.
A cutterl7 for severing the tag pin t at the joint portion 4 is disposed between the groove 16a and the guide needle lS along the groove 16a of the guide groove 16.
The tag attaching device of the invention having the described construction operates in a manner to be explained hereinunder.
As the lever 11 is depressed into the grip portion lOa of the main body 10, the intermediate lever 12 is tilted in the direction of an arrow A as shown in Fig. 5, so that the push-out rod 14 fixed to the slider 13 is moved in the direction of an arrow B. By this movement of the push-out rod 14, the lateral bar 2 of the tag pin positioned behind ~ ~67~

the hollow needle 15 is forced into the latter. Meanwhile, the joint portion 4 interconnecting the tag pin t and the connecting bar 5 is brought into contact with the cutter 17 so as to be cut by the latter. The push-out rod 14 further 5 pushes the lateral bar 2 to move the latter through the hollow needle 15 and then to force the lateral bar * out of the hollow needle 15. The hollow needle 15 is beforehand driven to penetrate a price tag, label or the like and an article so that the lateral bar ~ and a part of the filament portion 3 of the tag pin t are made to pass through the price tag or the like and the article as lateral bar ~moves through the hollow needle 15.
As the intermediate lever 12 is tilted to a position near the end of its stroke, it comes into engagement with the projection of the cam driving member 19 to move the latter in the direction of an arrow C. In consequence, the end contact portion l9a of the cam driving member 19 contacts the cam surface 21a of the cam plate 21 to lift the cam plate 21 in the direction of an arrow D overcoming the force of the spring 26.
The engaging claw 22 is lifted as a result of the upward movement of the cam plate 21. In consequence, the engaging claw 22 is pulled by the spring 26 to position its end 22a between the adjacent joint portions 4 and 4 of the tag pin assembly _.
As the lever 11 is released from the grippping force after driving the tag pin t into the article as stated above, `1~67~

~he spring 12b provided between the intermediate lever 12 a~d the main body 10 acts to reset the intermediate lever 12 as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, thereby to reset the slider 13 and the cam driving member 19.
As the cam driving member 19 is reset to the initial position, the cam plate 21 is made to descend in the recess 20 by the action of the spring 26 and, accordingly, the engaging claw 22 is lowered. During this movement of the engaging claw 22, the end portion 22a of the engaging claw 22 engages with the joint portion 4 of the tag pln assembly T to depress the latter. The downward movement of the engaging claw 22 and the cam plate 21 is stopped when the lateral bar 2 of the tag pin t comes to be supported by the supporting surface 40 of the main body to take a position aligned with the inlet of the groove of the hollow needle 15.
As has been described, in the tag attaching device of the invention, an engaging claw is rockably secured to a vertically movable cam plate, with a spring provided between the engaging claw and the main body. In operation, as the cam plate is lifted overcoming the force of the spring, the end portion of the engaging claw comes between adjacent joint portions of the tag pin assembly and, as the cam plate is lowered by the force of the spring, the tag pin assembly is lowered together with the engaging claw to bring the lateral bar of a tag pin into alignment with the inlet of the groove of the hollow needle. The tag attaching device of the present ~ 167~8~

invention, therefore, can dispense different tag pin assemblies having different pitches of tag pins. This con-veniently relieves a user of the device from the burden of preparing a plurality of tag attaching devices for different tag pin assemblies.

Claims (3)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A tag attaching device comprising:
a main body;
an intermediate lever pivotally secured to said main body;
a spring mounted between said intermediate lever and said main body and adapted to project a lever, which is pivotally secured to said main body through said intermediate lever, forwardly from a grip portion of said main body;
a supporting member loosely fitted to said inter-mediate lever and slidably mounted in said main body;
a cam driving member loosely fitted to said inter-mediate lever and disposed parallel with said supporting member;
a push-out rod fixed to said supporting member;
a hollow needle positioned ahead of said push-out rod and fixed to said main body;
a guide groove formed at the rear side of said hollow needle;
a cam plate disposed adjacent said guide groove so as to correspond to said cam driving member;
an engaging claw rockably mounted on said cam plate; and a spring mounted between said engaging claw and said main body and adapted to bias said cam plate downwardly.
2. A tag attaching device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the portion of said cam plate corresponding to said cam driving member is shaped into a tapered cam surface.
3. A tag attaching device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cam plate is provided with a groove at its portion corresponding to a spring retaining pin fixed to said engaging claw.
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JP55-148173 1980-10-24
JP55148173A JPS5777428A (en) 1980-10-24 1980-10-24 Mounting device for connecting piece

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