Ear tag applying tool

Details Ear tag applying tool Ear tag applying tool

1975-02-10

1977-01-04

Pace, Channing L.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

40301, A61B 1700

Patent

active

040007448

ABSTRACT:
There is provided an improved tool for piercing the skin and inserting a loopless animal identification tag, said tool being characterized in that it is removable from the animal's skin from either side of the skin pierced. The tool comprises an elongate rigid member having a handle portion, an intermediate, integral tag holding portion, and an integral pointed and sharpened skin piercing end portion. The tag holding portion includes longitudinally extending slot means for releasably holding the laterally extending securing edges of an identification tag in a folded attitude prior to insertion. Such slot means may take the form of (1) a single wide slot, (2) two parallel slots of equal length substantially the same length as the securing edges, (3) two parallel slots of equal length but substantially longer than securing edges, and (4) two parallel slots of unequal length one being substantially the same length as securing edges and the other being substantially longer than the securing edge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3001270 (1961-09-01), Friedman
patent: 3334434 (1967-08-01), Melin
patent: 3512289 (1970-05-01), Hayes
patent: 3605310 (1971-09-01), Brown
patent: 3867777 (1975-02-01), Potter

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