Tag-pin attaching apparatus

Claim 1

In an apparatus for attaching a tag-pin having a pistol-shaped body; a lever supported on said body for rocking movement; a driving rod attached to a piston driven by means of said lever for pushing a transverse bar of tag-pin; a trigger-like lever means directly driving said piston; a feeding mechanism of a tag-pin assembly; a grooved needle provided at one end of said pistol-shaped body, said rod being located for movement on the axis of said needle; and an adjusting means removably attached at the forward portion of said pistol-shaped body to adjust the length of insertion of said grooved needle into an article, the improvement comprising; said piston being provided with a projection having a slope; and a feeding mechanism for inserting tag-pins including a feeding member biased downward by a spring, said feeding member being provided with projections having flexible pawls, a wall member provided with a flexible passing portion for pressing tag-pins toward opposite wall member of feeding hole, and a supporting member provided with a groove supporting the transverse bar of the tag-in and guiding hole for said driving rod, said feeding member being forced up and down by the movement of said piston through the slope of said projection of said piston, and said pawls forcing down the tag-pin assembly to locate the lowest transverse bar of said tag-pin assembly into the groove of said supporting member.