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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Norman E Andersen, Racine, WI (US);
Larry A Sikora, Racine, WI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B27F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
227 90 ; 227 91 ; 227113 ;
Abstract
A rotatable wire holder for a stitching machine head has a wire-receiving slot between two wire support surfaces, and wire cam surfaces which guide the wire from the slot to the support surfaces in response to rotation of the holder. Permanent magnets hold the wire on the support surfaces. The holder is used in a stitching machine head including feed mechanism for gripping and feeding a length of wire from a continuous coil supply to the holder, a cutter for severing the length of wire from the supply and a former/driver movable past the holder for forming the held length of wire into a staple and driving the formed staple into an associated workpiece.