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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1986
Yoshiyuki Ebihara, Tokyo, JP;
Etona Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a staple cassette including a relatively elongated body having a hollow portion extending throughout the length of the body and having a pair of staple driving apertures formed in the body adjacent to its forward end and aligned with each other and feeder means in the hollow portion for resiliently urging a set of staples in the hollow portion toward the forward end thereof, the feeder means including a feeder element engaging the rearward end of the staple set housed in the hollow body portion, a coil spring mounted in the hollow body portion to engage the rearward end of the feeder element and a cap mounted on the cassette body to close its rearward opened end and engaging the opposite end of the coil spring, the cap including a pair of projections adapted to snap-fit into the respective openings on the sidewalls of the cassette body when the cap is pressed into the rearward opened end of the cassette body.