Hollow needle for tag attacher

• US 5,669,543 A
• Filed: 11/07/1995
• Issued: 09/23/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kotec's Company Limited, Toska Co., Ltd. (TSI Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kotec's Company Limited, Toska Co., Ltd. (TSI Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Ueno, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US08/554,803
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 227/67, 227/71, 112/222, 163/1, 163/5, 604/272, 604/273, 604/274, 606/117, 606/148
• US Class Current: 227/67
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 7/003 using paddle-shaped plastic pins using plastic pins for affixing buttons to garments A41H37/008

Abstract

A hollow needle for tag attachers, which comprises a blade (2) made by press working of a thin metal plate and a shank (3) of a synthetic resin integrally secured at a rear end part of the blade (2), wherein the blade (2) includes a front end part (2a) which has in a middle part thereof a semicircular shape in section and is formed in an outer surface portion thereof with a resistance reducing part (4) provided by partly depressing the outer periphery thereof, whereby the area of contact of a front end part of the hollow needle with an object partly through which the needle is applied in use is reduced and the needle has a desirable characteristic such that it can be applied straight in use.

Claims

1. A hollow needle for tag attachers, comprising a blade made by press working of a thin metal plate and a shank of a synthetic resin integrally secured at a rear end part of the blade;

the blade including a front end part formed with an opening and having a point, and an intermediate part formed with a slit in a side wall thereof, the slit in the intermediate part being connected to the opening of the front end part;

the front end part further having in a middle part thereof a semicircular shape in cross section, the front end part being formed in an outer surface portion thereof on a side opposite the opening with a resistance reducing part provided by partly depressing an outer periphery thereof.

2. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resistance reducing part formed in the front end part of the blade comprises a concave surface in cross section.

3. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resistance reducing part formed in the front end part of the blade comprises a substantially flat surface in cross section.

4. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the blade comprises the front end pad, the middle part, a fixing part and a cutter part.

5. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the blade comprises the front end part, the intermediate part, a fixing part and a cutter part, the intermediate part comprising a cylinder provided at a side thereof with the slit, the rear end part of the blade being flattened to form the cutter part, the cutter part including a web at a rear end of the cutter part, the web being reduced to form a cutter blade, the cutter part further including protective parts provided at sides of the cutter blade.

6. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resistance reducing part has a length about one-half as large as the distance between said point of said front end part and a position to be reached by a leading end of a piston of a tag attacher when such piston is farthest advanced inside the needle.

7. A hollow needle for tag attachers, comprising:

a blade, made by press working of a thin metal plate, the blade including a front end part and a fixing part, said front end part having a point, a backside, a front side and an opening in said front side with a concave cross section, said back side of the front end part having a cross section which is concave with a radius R₁ at the most forward part of said front end part, said cross section of said back side becoming convex with a radius R₃ toward the rear of said front end part, and said backside having a resistance reducing part provided by a depression in the backside; and

a shank of a synthetic resin integrally secured at said fixing part of the blade.

8. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the resistance reducing part formed in the front end part of the blade comprises a concave surface in cross section.

9. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the resistance reducing part formed in the front end part of the blade comprises a substantially flat surface in cross section.

10. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the blade comprises the front end part, an intermediate part, a fixing part and a cutter part.

11. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the blade comprises the front end part, an intermediate part, a fixing part and a cutter part, the intermediate part comprising a cylinder provided at a side thereof with a slit, a rear end portion of the blade being flattened to form the cutter part, the cutter part including a web at a rear end of the cutter part, the web being reduced to form a cutter blade, the cutter part further including protective parts provided at sides of the cutter blade.

12. A hollow needle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the resistance reducing part has a length about one-half as large as the distance between said point of said front end part and a position to be reached by a leading end of a piston of a tag attacher when such piston is farthest advanced inside the needle.