Method of and apparatus for producing uniform lengths of ribbon-connected fastener clips
Abstract
Abstract A method and fully automatic collating apparatus for producing uniform lengths of preformed, U-shaped ribbon-connected fastener clips, such lengths being suitable for loading into the magazine of a clip-clinching tool. The disclosed exemplary apparatus for practicing the method embodies a clip-receiving and stacking station to which successive clips are fed in endwise fashion, at which they are arranged in side-by-side contiguity, and from which they are fed in a continuous stack to a ribbon-applying station. At the ribbon-applying station a rotatable transfer wheel impresses a continuous ribbon upon the crown portions of the clips and the thus connected continuous string of clips advances to a severing station where the predetermined lengths of a ribbon-connected clips are severed and further impelled to a discharge station.
Inventors
- 👤 Harrison C Lingle
- 👤 Arthur Langas
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