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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1992
Kazuyoshi Ito, Toyama, JP;
Toshiaki Sodeno, Toyama, JP;
Yoshida Kogyo K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A button feeder for guiding and feeding a button element having an oriented pattern on its front face along a feed path and for insuring a desired orientation of the pattern. This button feeder provides a button pusher having a finger member projected from its frontal edge and urged resiliently downwardly from the pusher and the pusher provides a cam contactor projecting downwardly, the cam contactor riding on a cam surface, wherein the frontal edge of the pusher is guided and downwardly moved along the cam surface during transport and rotation of the button by the pusher along the feed path, and the finger member is lowered to engage a recess formed on the back face of the button head to arrest the rotation of the button element so as to orient and place a pattern on the button surface in a desired orientation.