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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1997
Akira Furutsu, Tokyo, JP;
Kotec's Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a tag attaching apparatus including a hollow needle having an expanding slot formed from the front end to the rear end of the needle at its side face in the body of the tag attaching apparatus. A needle cover having a groove for storing the hollow needle at its front and a groove for supporting a tag pin group inserted into a tag pin group guide groove at its back is set to the head of the tag attaching apparatus body enclosed by a transverse groove provided for the tag attaching apparatus body so as to communicate with the expanding slot and a tag pin group guide groove provided for the tag attaching apparatus body so as to intersect the transverse groove so that the needle cover can be vertically pivoted.