Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With means to shape work or cut product – Means to form opening in work for member
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-31
2003-03-18
Ball, Michael W. (Department: 1733)
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With means to shape work or cut product
Means to form opening in work for member
C156S556000, C156SDIG002
Reexamination Certificate
active
06533155
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to a mount method and a mount device, in which filament-shaped connecting bodies made of a synthetic resin and comprising a filament, a head provided on one end of the filament and with a latch hole, and a joining part provided on the other end of the filament and adapted to be securedly fitted into the latch hole of the head are used, and the joining part is securedly fitted into the latch hole of the head to connect the filament in a ring-shaped manner to thereby mount an indication card such as a price tag or the like, to connect two or more articles together and further to connect connecting bodies themselves together, and to filament-shaped connecting bodies.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
As proposed by the applicant of this application in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 8473/1982, filament-shaped connecting bodies made of a synthetic resin are provided by integral molding of a filament part, which is provided at one end thereof with an annular-shaped head (female part) and at the other end thereof with a joining part (male part), from an industrial synthetic resin such as nylon, polypropylene or the like, and by stretching the filament part to increase strength thereof and to make a cross section thereof small to make the same pliable, and the product according to the invention of the Publication is widely commercially available as “Locks” (trade mark) in Japan and in the world to be used for various applications such as mounting of a price tag or the like.
The head is annular or cylindrical in shape and is formed centrally therethrough with a latch hole, which is formed in a middle portion thereof with a diametrically extending, annular engagement step. Meanwhile, the joining part includes a neck dimensioned to pass through the engagement step, and latch pieces projecting on both sides of the neck in a vane-like configuration, the latch pieces being supported by and engaged with the engagement step.
Such filament-shaped connecting body is such that in a state, in which the filament part is made to encircle a part of goods to be formed in a ring-shape, the joining part can be inserted from either side of the head to be fitted into the head, and thus the filament part can be formed in a ring-shape in one-touch operation by connection of the head and the joining part, so that it can be effectively used when various indication cards (tags) such as a price tag and so on are mounted to goods, such as handbags, bags, footwear, for example, sandals, and so on, having string-shaped portions, and holes such as button holes and a combination of connecting bodies in the form of chain is used to connect to a show shelf goods being shown.
By the way, when such filament-shaped connecting body is to be used, there is the need of an operation of encircling the connecting body around a handle of, for example, a handbag or the like, fitting the joining part into the hole of the head for connection in a state which the joining part of one connecting body is throughout into the hole of the indication card. However, such connecting operation requires manipulation by both hands because it is necessary to hold goods and the head with one hand and to manipulate the joining part with the other hand, and so such manipulation is troublesome and inefficient, so that various mount devices have been investigated, which is capable of performing such operation.
Mount devices have been proposed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication Nos. 35489/1988 and 14704/1991. The-mount device described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 35489/1988 includes a grip part and a grip rod, which are connected at central portions thereof to each other to provide a construction like nippers as a whole. The head and the joining part are connected between a latch guiding arm being an extension of the grip part and a movable arm being an extension of the grip rod to present a state, in which goods is grasped.
However, such device gets in a state, in which it interposes a portion of goods between the grip part and the grip rod, to push the goods to possibly damage the same, and moreover the filament part is disposed between the latch guiding arm and the movable arm to be arranged in a U-shaped configuration, so that there is produced no space, into which a portion of goods having mounted thereto an indication card is inserted, that is, “space”, in which the mounting operation is performed. Also, there is involved a problem that the operation becomes quite troublesome since the filament part having been bent into a U-shape above the mount device will contact with goods when the device is to be manipulated.
On the other hand, with the arrangement described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 14704/1991, a lower beak is provided in such a manner that manipulation of a lever causes the same to come toward and away from an upper beak provided forwardly of a body, and the both beaks are provided with guide grooves, respectively, whereby upon forward and rearward operations of a single pulley cause a belt-shaped article connected to the pulley to alternately enter into the guide grooves of the upper and lower beaks to thereby feed a head of a filament-shaped connecting body to a side of the upper beak and feed a joining part to a side of the lower beak, and to subsequently make the lower beak approach the upper beak to connect the head and the joining part to each other.
Since such device uses the single pulley to alternately guide the head and the joining part of the filament-shaped connecting body into the upper and lower beaks, however, it is necessary to precisely and rapidly grasp the head or the joining part at a tip end of the flexible body, and further the opening and closing motions of the lower beak relative to the upper beak are added to require a considerably complex movement, so that there are involved failure in a motion for receiving the head or the joining part, failure in the connecting motion or the like, and further a problem in durability in terms of mechanisms.
Also, a similar device has been proposed in Japanese patent application Kokai publication No. 310520/1996, which comprises a reception guide for guiding a L-shaped head in front of a body and an insertion guide so that a belt is used to insert the head into the reception guide and a pipe provided at a tip end of a piston supports the insertion part and is forced into the insertion guide together with an inserting part.
With such device, however, the reception guide projects in front of the body at all times to be liable to interfere with the connecting operation, and the forcing-in operation is unstable since the head is forced into the reception guide by the belt. Further, because connecting bands arranged on both sides of the filament-shaped connecting body are inserted into guide holes, which are provided on both sides of a forward portion of the body in a longitudinal direction, and the lower connecting band is struck out, so that there is a problem that the filament-shaped portion bends over a top surface of the body to easily cause the filaments to get entangled, thus tending to causing a trouble.
As described above, conventional mount devices involve various problems, and are not products that are entitled to be salable.
A first requirement in developing such mount device for filament-shaped connecting bodies is the capability of simply loading a collecting body of a multiplicity of filament-shaped connecting bodies into the device and separating individual filament-shaped connecting bodies from the collecting body to rapidly feed them to a part where the connection operation is performed.
A second requirement is the capability of forming an adequate space (bosom portion or distance for receiving an article, to which a filament-shaped connecting body is mounted), which can receive an article, to which a filament-shaped connecting body go around, and inhibiting filament portions from getting entangled.
A third requirement is to surely convey a collecting body of a multiplicity of filament-shaped
Kubota Mikio
Masuyama Kenji
Ball Michael W.
Kilkenny Todd J.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Toska Co., Ltd.
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