Nippon Notion Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yoshida Kogyo K.k.

Hiroshi Oura

Toyoo Morita

A parts supplying apparatus for use with a button assembling and setting machine includes a chute having a longitudinal guide track in and along which parts slide down one at a time, and a loading unit having a guide groove communicating with the guide track and a pusher disposed in the guide groove and slidably movable toward and away from a working station in the machine for feeding a part which has fallen from the guide track into the guide groove, in and along the latter to the working station. The chute has an exhaust nozzle disposed adjacent to a discharge end of the guide track and opening in such a direction that compressed air issued from the nozzle impinges against the underside of the part to force the latter to move smoothly from the guide track to the guide groove without stopping at a junction therebetween.

Parts supplying apparatus for button assembling and setting machines

An apparatus for attaching a pair of fastener elements onto a garment fabric comprising a cooperating pair of an upper die unit and a lower die unit, a stationary anvil mounted in the lower unit, a plunger reciprocably mounted in the upper unit, a punch movable relative to the plunger along a path of movement toward and away from the lower unit, and a pair of clamping jaws operatively associated with the upper die unit for releasably clamping one of the fastener elements. A means is provided for holding one fastener element in proper position against displacement for aligned engagement with the other mating element. The apparatus further includes means for manually releasing the fastener element which has been trapped in the event of failure of the apparatus.

Apparatus for attaching pairs of fastener elements onto garment fabrics

A method and apparatus for forming space sections in a continuous length slide fastener chain in which the interlocking elements fastened on the carrier tapes within the section are pressed and deformed with a punch-die unit having a composite punch composed of an outer punch and an inner punch and the thus deformed elements are retained by the punch-die unit in engagement with a pair of grooves on the upper surface of the die and lower surface of the inner punch while the carrier tapes are pulled and displaced by individual grippers from the front of the punch-die unit in an obliquely rearward direction, preferably, at such an angle that the angle between the moving line of the gripper and the center line of the punch-die unit is about a half of the tape-abstracting angle whereby all of the elements within the section can be removed from the carrier tape with a uniform abstracting angle.

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Kurobe, Japan

Hiroshi Oura