Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With means to shape work or cut product – Means to form opening in work for member
Patent
1994-12-12
1995-07-18
Smith, Scott A.
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With means to shape work or cut product
Means to form opening in work for member
227 76, B65C 700
Patent
active
054333660
ABSTRACT:
A device for dispensing plastic attachments of the type which are formed as part of a roll of continuously connected ladder stock. In one embodiment, the device includes a pair of hollow slotted needles each having a tip, a rear end and a longitudinal axis. A feed wheel, placed proximate to the rear ends of the pair of needles, is used to feed individual attachments of a roll of ladder stock into the pair of needles through their respective rear ends at angles relative to the longitudinal axes thereof. Once inserted into the needles, an attachment is severed from the remainder of the ladder stock by a knife and is then expelled from the needles by a pair of ejector rods movable along the longitudinal axes of the pair of needles. Because attachments are fed into the pair of needles at angles relative to their longitudinal axes, no shuttling of the needles between an attachment feeding position and an attachment ejecting position is required. The pair of needles, the feed wheel, the knife, and the pair of ejector rods are all mounted on a vertically movable head member. An electric motor assembly is used to move the head member between an attachment dispensing position and a withdrawal position. The vertical movement of the head member drives the operation of the feed wheel, the knife and the ejector rods.
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Cooper William J.
Deschenes Charles L.
Grendol Clark L.
Ito Tomoyasu
Kimbara Hidekatsu
Avery Dennison Corporation
Smith Scott A.
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