Dennison Mark III Swiftacher
date: label: date made
content: late 1970s
name: label: maker
content: Dennison Manfacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This tagging tool was made by the Dennison Company in Framingham, Massachusetts, late 1970s. It is a Dennison Mark III Swiftacher model, with a blue plastic grip tag case, and a metal needle inserter. This object was used to attach this filament and tags through layers of material. The tagging tool is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>USA Dennison TM</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(and with a printed label):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>MARK III<br>Electric Tool</p>
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content: <p>This object features the following patents:</p>
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content: <p>U.S. Patent #3103666, dated September 17, 1963, by Arnold R. Bone, assignor to Dennison Manufacturing Company, for a tag attaching apparatus.</p>
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content: <p>U.S. Patent #3734375, dated May 22, 1973, by Arnold R. Bone and Ronald W. Krohn, assignors to Dennison Manufacturing Company, for a fastener inserting machine.</p>
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content: <p>U.S. Patent #3880339, dated April 29, 1975, by Arnold R. Bone, for a fastener dispensing apparatus.</p>
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content: <p>Arnold R. Bone (July 26, 1913 - August 9, 2001) was an engineer, inventor, gunsmith, string instrument bowmaker. He grew up in South Ryegate, Vermont, and graduated from Wentworth Institute in 1935. After graduation, Bone worked at Irwin Auger Bit Company in Wilmington, Ohio before returning to Wentworth to teach Navy machinist mates during World War II until 1944. The final part of his career, Bone worked at Dennison Mfg. Company in Framingham (now Avery Dennison) when he retired in 2000.</p>
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content: <p>Arnold R. Bone held numerous patents at Dennison, including several for the Swiftacher, the device for attaching tags to clothing with a nylon filament. His ubiquitous fasteners are still used today. Bone applied his engineering and master craftsman skills to making string instrument bows, and also became one of the world's most respected experts on repair and restoration of fine bows. His customers ranged from young students to members of professional ensembles such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and bows were shipped to him from all over the world.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Work
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Leona M. Bone Trust
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0167.29
label: accession number
content: 2002.0167
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0167.29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tagging tool
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 17.4625 cm x 12.065 cm