ARNOLD BONE
Engineering in Needham, MA

2004015, Aug 19, 2004

Apr 1, 2004

10/474105

James Benoit - Neeham MA, US
Arnold Bone - Needham MA, US
Marilyn Kloss - Concord MA, US
William Berrocal - Worcester MA, US

A43D069/00

227/067000

An apparatus () for dispensing individual plastic fasteners from fastener stock (), includes a housing () and a hollow slotted needle () mounted onto said housing (). An indexing wheel () is rotatably disposed within the housing () and advances a fastener to the rear end of the needle (). A rocker () is slidably disposed within the housing and serves to move the cross-bar of the fastener in parallel with the needle bore. A plunger () is disposed within the housing () and is capable of being slidably displaced by a trigger assembly. An ejector rod () is fixedly mounted onto the plunger () and serves to push the cross-bar of the fastener out of the front of the needle (). An indexing slide () separate from the rocker () is slidably disposed within the housing () and serves to rotatably advance the indexing wheel () after the ejector rod () pushes the cross-bar of the fastener out the front end of the needle ().

4416407, Nov 22, 1983

Nov 2, 1981

6/317218

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B25C 511

227 67

Dispensing of fasteners by a device which receives an assemblage of the fasteners and is able to expel them individually through, for example, a slotted hollow needle. The dispensed fasteners can be used generally in the attachment of items to one another and, in particular, for the labeling of textile goods and the like with information bearing tags. The device includes a trigger operated feed mechanism and a simultaneously operable expulsion mechanism. Both mechanisms are controlled by the tip of a lever which is proportioned and disposed in the device to execute linear motion. The feed mechanism is disengageable from the remainder of the device to permit clearance of the inserted assemblage or the removal of jams. The feed mechanism additionally is operated by a planar pawl having a tooth that extends into contact with indentations on the periphery of a feed wheel.

5033664, Jul 23, 1991

Sep 15, 1989

7/407927

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA
Donald L. Bourque - Millis MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B25C 100

227 67

An improved system for attaching price tags to garments and other joining applications, in which individual fasteners are severed from fastener stock having a continuous, elongated plastic side member joined to a plurality of space-apart filaments. The fastener stock is advanced to a transfer site along a feed axis which is parallel to and proximate the axis of the needle through which severed fasteners are dispensed. A knife is mounted on a support slide which is slideable transversely to the feed axis, such support slide being urged toward the feed axis to cause the knife to sever an individual fastener from the fastener stock. A transfer slide engages a portion of the side member which becomes a T-bar of the severed fastener, and urges it toward the needle axis. The transfer slide is yieldably coupled to the support slide to permit the transfer slide to lag behind the knife until severing occurs. The support slide may comprise a primary slide, and the transfer member a secondary slide coupled to the primary slide by a compression spring.

4593844, Jun 10, 1986

Aug 29, 1983

6/526947

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

A41H 3700, B25C 100

227 67

Dispensing of fasteners by a device which receives an assemblage of the fasteners and is able to expel them individually through, for example, a slotted hollow needle. The dispensed fasteners can be used generally in the attachment of items to one another and, in particular, for the labeling of textile goods and the like with information bearing tags. The device includes a trigger operated feed mechanism and a simultaneously operable expulsion mechanism. Both mechanisms are controlled by the tip of a lever which is proportioned and disposed in the device to execute linear motion. The feed mechanism is disengageable from the remainder of the device to permit clearance of the inserted assemblage or the removal of jams. The feed mechanism additionally is operated by a planar pawl having a tooth that extends into contact with indentations on the periphery of a feed wheel.

RE29819, Oct 31, 1978

Jul 22, 1977

5/817944

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B65C 700

227 67

A needle tube or the like useful in dispensing fastener attachment members, the needle including a tip, a central portion and a mounting portion, the mounting portion having a hollow rearward end in which there is provided a knife edge extending inwardly towards the tip, a first feed slot at substantially ninety degrees to the knife edge and a second slot for feeding fastener attachment members through the needle, the second slot substantially ninety degrees to the first slot. In one embodiment of the invention the mounting portion comprises a plastic shank in which there is mounted a needle core which includes the aforementioned knife edge.

4602418, Jul 29, 1986

Aug 9, 1982

6/406132

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA
Terence J. Jones - Bedford MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B21F 902

295661

A tool for tensioning and severing elongate objects such as cable ties. The tool includes an angular frame having an extended nose, with a pivotally mounted lever. The lever is forwardly biased by a tension assembly including a tension link and expansion spring, while the cable tie is engaged between a flange and rotatable pawl at the forward end of the tension link. The nosing of the tool includes parallel blades having a user-adjustable separation, for severing cable ties of a wide range of strap thicknesses. The user tensions a cable tie by squeezing the lever toward a grip portion of the frame which is maintained stationary, and may sever the tie after tensioning using a simple twisting motion. The tool is simple, durable, and easy to operate, and is effective for tensioning objects within confined spaces.

4111347, Sep 5, 1978

Jun 22, 1977

5/808843

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B25C 100

227 68

Fastener attachment apparatus for separating a fastener attachment device comprising two end bars and a filament coupled therebetween from stock comprising two undivided and continuous side members and a plurality of cross links coupled therebetween and dispensing the devices through one or more slotted needles by pushing an end bar of the device through a slot in the needle. In addition there is disclosed a fastener attachment apparatus for simultaneously pushing each of the two end bars of a fastener attachment device through two slotted needles with the filament between the end bars extending through the slot of each of the needles and between the needles.

4901854, Feb 20, 1990

Sep 29, 1988

7/250885

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA
Donald L. Bourque - Millis MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B65D 8524

206343

A loop attachment in which each attachment has a plurality of filaments, joined in a loop by a seamless connector. Each attachment is insertable through at least one object and has an elongated filament that extends from a flattened object-penetrating part to the seamless connector. The attachments are formed into an assembly with their flattened penetrating parts connected in a spaced relationship for consecutive detachment.

D265055, Jun 22, 1982

May 12, 1980

6/149225

Arnold R. Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

D0906

D 8394

4778095, Oct 18, 1988

Jun 11, 1987

7/061849

Arnold Bone - Needham MA

Dennison Manufacturing Company - Framingham MA

B25C 511

227 67

Advance of fasteners by a feed wheel having involute shaped teeth, acting in cooperation with a side engaging pawl.