Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – Presses or press platen structures – per se
Reexamination Certificate
2001-08-30
2003-03-04
Sells, James (Department: 1734)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
Presses or press platen structures, per se
C024S0160PB, C024S0170AP, C024S03050P
Reexamination Certificate
active
06527030
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a sealing implement for attaching a sealing tags such as bland labels, price tags, material description, instruction manual, etc. to cloths, shoes, bags, and other products, and more particularly to a sealing implement that can be smoothly attach tags when it is set to a special-purpose tag attaching tool (gun) for attaching tags as specified above.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In general, a various kinds of sealing implements have been used for banding together clothes, women's boots, sandals, shoes, etc. or for attaching bland labels, price tags, etc.
For example, the sealing implement comprises a filament section for forming a loop by passing a tag, an insertion head part provided on one end of the filament part, and a socket part provided with an insertion hole for allowing the relevant inserting head part to pass, and provided on another end of the filament section. And a plurality of sealing implements are temporarily fixed to two bars
11
arranged in parallel to one another in such a manner so as to enable the socket part to be easily removed.
Further, such sealing implement is produced by being integrally molded preferably with synthetic resin or the like, and in particular, the filament section is elongated so as to exhibit extremely strong resistance against pulling operation. When the inserting head section penetrates the narrow part of the socket section, a latching piece, which is a hook mounted near the insertion hole, opens, and this causes the neck part of the insertion head part is reversibly fixed in the socket part, and a loop-form label attaching condition is completed, and sealing is achieved.
Conventionally, these sealing implements are loaded in a special-purpose tag attaching tool (gun), and it is used not only for banding together boots, sandals, and shoes but also primarily for fixing bland labels and tags T that carry the instruction manual of a product on such goods by pulling the lever.
On the other hand, in the past, many kinds of apparatus for using to shot this sealing implement for attaching the same on a good or the like by forming the filament part thereof into a loop like shape with a suitable tag or the like, had been used with deferent mechanism from each other.
On of such examples will be explained with reference to
FIG. 4
, hereunder.
Note that,
FIG. 4
shows a perspective view of a configuration of one example of such conventional tag attaching tool (gun)
18
as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,799,375 or U.S. Pat. No. 5,908,110.
When it is used, a conventional unit of sealing implements
10
as shown in
FIG. 6
, which is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,908,110 is mounted on an upper surface
30
of this gun
18
by making a shape of the sealing implement into U type configuration and then each one of the sealing implements
1
is separated from the connecting bar, respectively, by operating an operating lever
18
a
as one of examples of an operating means, thereby the insertion head part
13
and the socket part
15
can be coupled to each other.
The further explanation for this gun
18
will be done hereunder.
FIG. 4
is a perspective view showing the condition in which the sealing implement according to the present invention is set to the gun
18
.
Now, to the gun
18
, vertical grooves
21
,
22
are formed on the right and the left side of the gun for inserting the connecting bars
11
,
11
′ of the sealing implement
10
. To the vertical groove
21
, for example, the connecting bar
11
connecting the socket section
15
of the sealing implement
10
is inserted, and to the vertical groove
22
, the connecting bar
11
′ connecting the inserting head section
13
is inserted.
In addition, on the gun
18
, a shooting mechanism for shooting such sealing implement as shown in
FIG. 5
is provided, in that at a side portion of the vertical groove
21
, a first pushing means
40
for separating each one of the socket part
15
of the sealing implement
1
from a connecting portion of the connecting bar
11
and for pushing forward each one of the separated socket part
15
one by one along a curved socket guide
26
.
The first pushing means
40
comprises a flexible belt
41
having a rack portion and a gear portion
42
for sliding the flexible belt
41
back and forth by mating with the rack portion.
Therefore, in the conventional embodiment, at every time when the lever
18
a
is operated, a tip end portion
43
of the flexible belt
41
attaches to a surface
44
of the socket part
15
which is as surface to which the filament part
12
is contacted, and then the tip end portion
43
of the flexible belt
41
separates the socket part
15
from the connecting part of the connecting bar
11
after that it transfer the socket part
15
to a front end portion of the curved socket guide
26
.
On the other hand, at a side portion of the vertical groove
22
, it is provided a second pushing means
45
which separates the insertion head part
13
of the sealing implement
1
from the connecting part of the connecting bar
11
′ and pushes each one of the insertion head part
13
forward to the front end portion of the curved socket quid
26
, one by one.
The second pushing means
45
comprised a tubular guide
24
fixed to a main body of the gun
18
and a piston mechanism
47
having a gripping portion for gripping the insertion head part
13
at a tip portion thereof and which slides with response to an operation of the lever
18
a.
When the piston portion
47
is slid forward, it moves toward the curved socket guide
26
by gripping the insertion head part
13
of the sealing implement
1
arranged inside of the tubular guide
24
at a tip portion thereof and inserts the insertion head part
13
into the insertion hole
14
for receiving the insertion head part
13
of the socket part
15
which had already arrived at the front end portion of the curved socket guide
26
.
Note that, in the conventional embodiment, in order to move each one of the sealing implement
1
forming the unit of sealing implement
10
thus mounted on the gun
18
, to a position to be shot out, respectively, the gun is provided with a gear mechanism
50
,
50
′ as shown in
FIG. 9
, which can mate with each one of a connection portion formed between the insertion head part
13
or the socket part
15
and the connecting bar
11
or
11
′, respectively.
And thus, by making each one gear tooth of the gear portion of the gear mechanism
50
,
50
′ to be rotated respectively, by utilizing a suitable cam mechanism or ratchet mechanism in response to the operation of the operating means
18
a
, it can be designed that the connecting bar can be moved downwardly by a length corresponding to a distance formed between the adjacently arranged sealing implements.
However, in the conventional sealing implement
10
described above, as shown in FIGS.
7
(A) and FIG.
7
(B), a contacting surface
44
, one of the side wall surfaces of the socket part
15
of the sealing implement
10
and at which a filament part
12
is contacted, is formed with a curved surface and thus when the tip end portion
43
of the flexible belt
41
having a function for pushing out the socket part
15
, is attached to the side wall surface
44
, as shown in
FIG. 8
, an arranged direction of the socket part
15
is easily deformed from the originally arranged direction so that a direction of a longitudinal axis of the socket part
15
becomes different from a direction of a longitudinal axis of the filament part
12
, resulting a head of the socket part
15
not to be smoothly inserted into the curved socket guide
26
.
Therefore, there has been many cases in that the insertion operation for inserting the insertion head part
13
into an entrance portion of the curved socket guide
26
is discontinued so that so called jamming condition had been frequently occurred.
Further, during a storage of a plurality of the unit of sealing implements
10
, when some kinds of load had
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