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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1992
Raymond F Cluggish, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Stanley-Bostitch, Inc., East Greenwich, RI (US);
Abstract
A package of ring fasteners comprising a multiplicity of similar ring fasteners each being made of a short length of metal wire of no smaller than 0.101 inch diameter material bent to provide a central bight portion and leading and trailing legs extending from opposite ends of said central bight portion terminating in spaced free ends. Each ring fastener is shaped so that the free ends of the leading and trailing legs are disposed substantially on opposite sides of a plane perpendicular to the direction of extent of a row of such ring fasteners releasably retained together so as to be handled and inserted as a unit into a tool magazine capable of being moved transversely from (1) a cooperating position with respect to a pair of movable tool jaws into (2) a spaced non-interfering position during which the remaining ring fasteners are separated from the leading ring fastener in interfaced relation with the pair of jaws enabling the pair of jaws to be moved toward one another to crimp the interfaced leading ring fastener into a closed ring configuration.