Yoshida Kogyo K.k.

Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Fumio Seki

A feed path for transporting a button body with the front face of a buttonhead facing upward is disposed between a trough, which is formed longitudinally on the underside of an upper member and has a receiving surface on its one side receiving a part of the periphery of the buttonhead, and a pressuring surface of a lower member, which faces the receiving surface and is urged resiliently upward. According to a preferable embodiment, the pressuring surface is inclined relatively downward and away from the periphery of the rear face of the buttonhead and has a recess on its side to allow a tongue to rotate. While the button body is pushed by the pusher along the feed path, a part of the periphery of the buttonhead is pressed by the pressuring surface. Accordingly, friction force is increased there to facilitate that the button body can be transported while it rotates about its axis. In this case, the tongue is also transported while it rotates in the recess freely without interference of an edge of the pressuring surface.

Button feeder for button applicator

A pull tab attachment tool comprises a pair of first and second levers connected together for pivotal movement and having respectively first and second handle portions and opposed jaw portions extending from their one ends. The second lever has a roller. A third lever is pivotally connected to the first lever. An urging means acts between the first and third levers to normally urge them apart so that the third lever is held in rolling engagement with the roller. When the first and second handle portions are manually actuated to move toward each other, the opposed jaw portions are brought into engagement with each other to provide a first pressing structure, and one end of the third lever is brought into engagement with the one end of the first lever through the rolling action of the roller along the third lever to provide a second pressing structure.

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Toyama, Japan

Yasuhiro Kobayashi