Patent ID: 6968988
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: A01G,B65B

Abstract:
1. A gardening binder comprising: a stapler; a driver handle of the stapler including a cutter blade; a tape guide provided at a front end of the driver handle and constituting a port of extracting a tape; a clincher arm combined with the driver handle; and a tape grasping apparatus including a picking plate driven by a cam mechanism and a tape support plate; wherein when the driver handle and the clincher arm are closed, a front end portion of the tape extracted from the tape guide is caught by the tape grasping apparatus, and after the driver handle and the clincher arm are opened and the tape stretched between the driver handle and the clincher arm is hung around a surrounding of an object to be bound, the driver handle and the clincher arm are closed to bind an overlapped portion of a tape loop by the staple and the tape is cut by the cutter blade; and wherein the picking plate includes a stopper portion at an upper portion thereof and when the driver handle and the clincher arm are closed, the stopper portion impinges on the tape guide to stop the picking plate, and by opening the driver handle and the clincher arm, the stopper portion is detached from the tape guide and the picking plate is brought into elastic contact with the tape support plate.