Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Electronic Data Holdings Limited

Gordon Douglas Irving

Graeme Laurence Young

Ashif Iqbal Memon

Simon Gerard Hall

Colin Francis Johnson

Owen Richard St George

Murray Greenman

Christopher Lee Sommerville

A tool for fastening an insulator to a support, the insulator including an insulator body having a front and back, a formation for supporting a barrier, and at least one mounting formation having a front and a back by which the insulator is attached to a support, the back of the mounting formation in use being proximal to the support, at least one of the at least one mounting formation including at least one passage extending transversely through the mounting formation from the front to the back of the mounting formation, and at least one alignment member, the tool including a driver blade for driving a staple, and at least one passage alignment member, in use the at least one passage alignment member aligning at least one passage of the insulator, with one leg of a staple.

Tool and tool attachment

This invention is for a reader/writer device (terminal) for accessing item-related data in rewritable tags of the &ldquo;RF-ID&rdquo; type wherein each tag includes non-volatile memory. In a farm animal application each animal is implanted with an identified tag. From time to time, the terminal can be given a selected security level by reading password-like and individual identity data from a special tag held by an individual. As a result the individual can gain &ldquo;read&rdquo; and/or &ldquo;write&rdquo; to selected fields in the data record held within the tag. Further information may be added from time to time by empowered individuals. Schemes are enabled for the enhanced management of animals having such tags include accurate descriptors, proving ownership, showing compliance with disease control programmes and withholding periods after possible treatments, traceability of meat products from the shop to the farm, breeding schemes and performance recording. The use of security levels and the traceability of entries adds to the reliability of the stored information.

Terminal for an active labelling system

Growing community of inventors

Auckland, New Zealand

Gordon Douglas Irving