Patent ID: 7422135

Claim:
Apparatus for applying workpieces to a base at a series of worksites on the base with groups of fasteners which comprises a. a dispenser adapted to receive at a charging site a group of fasteners for each of the worksites of the series and serially dispensing a group of fasteners at each worksite to a workpiece applicator adapted to serially receive groups of fasteners from the dispenser; b. a fastener feeder at the charging site adapted to selectively feed a series of groups of fasteners to the dispenser when the dispenser is at the charging site; and c. means for moving the dispenser between the charging site and the worksites and consecutively between each of the worksites, whereby the dispenser may receive a series of groups of fasteners from the fastener feeder at the charging site, move to and consecutively between the worksites to deposit a group of fasteners at each worksite and then return to the charging site to receive a further series of fastener groups.