preferred way of collating the caps is on so called u201c weed eater u201d plastic line with a loop at the top the line is pushed through the center hole of each cap typically 100 total and then the bottom of the line is melted to keep the caps from falling off with a loop at the other end to load the cap magazine 1 52 with a plurality of stacked caps 1 50 the user must pick the caps up by the loop and slide them down into the cap magazine 1 52 once they are in all the way the user must place one finger on the top of the last cap in the stack and pull on the loop so that the weed eater line comes up and out of the center holes of the caps and is discarded cap assembly not shown once the caps are in the cap magazine 1 52 and the loop wire has been removed the user must then close the magazine door 1 58 and move follower 1 54 and thereby also move pusher 1 56 back on top of the newly loaded caps the caps will then be forced toward the nose front plate 1 64 by the pulling force of the well known constant force spring 1 66 which is attached to.