CA2299068A1 - Travel identification tag - Google Patents

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CA2299068A1
CA2299068A1 CA002299068A CA2299068A CA2299068A1 CA 2299068 A1 CA2299068 A1 CA 2299068A1 CA 002299068 A CA002299068 A CA 002299068A CA 2299068 A CA2299068 A CA 2299068A CA 2299068 A1 CA2299068 A1 CA 2299068A1
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    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02Forms or constructions
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01KANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K11/00Marking of animals
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    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/14Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by strings, straps, chains, or wires
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/023Adhesive
    • G09F2003/0233Resistance to humidity

Abstract

The invention comprises a flat plastic travel identification tag assembly for identifying children, pets and luggage or other belongings. Sealing means between a container and a lid thereof provide a water-resistant compartment for storage and selective display of interchangeable travel identification tags. The container has a transparent upper window to allow viewing of an identification label. Lateral extensions on either side of the container have openings to allow attachment of the tag assembly to a wristband, pet collar, or luggage or other strap.

Description

Title of the Invention TRAVEL IDENTIFICATION TAG
s Technical Field of the Invention This invention relates to identification tags for use by travelers for identifying children, pets and personal items such as luggage.
Background of the Invention Travel identification tags may be used in a wide variety of situations, 1 s including labelling of luggage, sports bags, camera cases and other packages which accompany the traveller. Other important uses for travel identification tags include identification of children and identification of ownership of pets which accompany their traveling owners.
2o It is known to provide tags for identification purposes. For example, U.S.
Patent No. 3,961,431 to Kalenian, No. 4,616,435 to Perfect, and No. 2,556,825 to Smith disclose such devices for identification of luggage. Kalenian discloses a plastic tag containing an identification label which is permanently sealed therein and which can be permanently looped around a luggage strap. Perfect teaches a 2s transparent plastic card-holder into which an identification card can be interchangeably inserted. The identification tag described in Smith comprises a double-sided transparent plastic tag displaying permanent identification information on one side and providing an area for writing temporary destination information on the other side.
There are a number of desirable objectives in relation to travel identification s tags. Such tags should be lightweight and comprised of a durable material.
The tag should be firmly attachable to a child, pet or personal item, yet not be obstructive to the child or pet's activities nor interfere with transportation of the personal item. The tag ideally should not rattle or generate any other disrupting noises. The identification tag should quickly and clearly impart information to pertaining to the identification and permanent and temporary contact information designated by the parent or guardian of the child, or by the owner of the pet, or luggage or other item.
Ideally, the tag should be adapted to allow instantaneous and easy changes ~s to the information display. The ability to make such changes is essential for travelers, as contact information may change with each new destination. The tag should also be resistant to the elements, in particular the tag should be water resistant and the identification information should be protected from abrasion such as may be caused by a child's playing, a pet's normal scratching and rubbing or by 2o transport of luggage or other personal items during travel. Of course the identification tag should also be made of a material which does not discolour a child's skin, a pet's fur or the surface of luggage or other labelled belongings.
Further, the tag should allow sufficient space to display necessary 2s identification and address information and should permit the user to employ any writing device in recording such information on the tag.
Various prior art approaches achieve some of these objectives, but with varying degrees of success. The tags described by Perfect, Kalenian, and Smith are designed to be suspended from a strap. Such a suspension assembly could get caught in luggage movement devices, or could interfere with a child's or a small s pet's movements. In addition, a child or pet may devise a method of removing such a suspended tag.
The Perfect and Smith devices do not appear to be water-resistant, subjecting the identification labels to the risk of damage by water which may render them unreadable, while Kalenian describes a tag in which the identification label is permanent, which is impractical for travelers who wish to ensure that their contact information is relevant to their present destination.
It is an object of this invention to provide a travel identification tag which is ~ s durable, silent and non-staining, and which can be reversibly attached to lie flat against a child's wristwatch or other bracelet-type band, a pet's collar or a luggage strap.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a tag which displays one 2o identification label while providing simultaneous storage of additional identification labels, which allows for instantaneous and easy change of displayed label information, which permits access to permanent and temporary owner's address information, which protects such labels from damage by abrasion or exposure to moisture, which permits application of identification information with 2s a variety of writing devices, and in which the displayed information is of a size which is easily readable.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description and from the claims.
Summary of the Invention In one of its aspects, the invention comprises an identification tag assembly comprising a container having a transparent face in its upper face, a lid, an interconnectable water-resistant sealing means between the container and the lid, and connection means to reversibly attach the assembly to a collar or other strap.
In another of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly in which the connection means comprise lateral extensions at each end of the container with openings therein.
~s In yet another of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly in which the water-resistant sealing means are a rounded first trough extending about the perimeter of the transparent window of the upper face of the container, a corresponding rounded second trough within the lid, and locking means.
In a further of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly in which means comprise a rounded first trough extending about the perimeter of the transparent window of the upper face of the container, a corresponding rounded second trough within the lid, and locking means.
In yet a further of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly in which the container and lid are made of plastic.

s In still another of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly in which the locking means comprise a semi-circular horizontal ridge extending about the circumference of the outermost wall of the second trough at a mid-point between the top and bottom faces of the lid and a corresponding semi-circular s horizontal channel extending around the circumference of the innermost walls of the first trough at a mid-point between the top and bottom faces of the container.
In yet a further of its aspects, the invention comprises such an assembly further comprising a plurality of identification labels.
Brief Description of the Drawings Other aspects of the invention will be evident from the following disclosure ~s and description of the preferred embodiment and from the drawings in which:
Figure 1 is an exploded bottom view of the assembly according to the invention;
2o Figure 2 is an isometric top view of the container and the lid of the assembly according to the invention;
Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the assembly according to the invention;
2s Figure 4 is a top plan view of the assembly according to the invention.
Figure S is a transverse cross-section of the assembly according to the invention through line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal cross-section of the assembly according to the invention through line 6-6 of Figure 4.
s Figure 7 is an exploded isometric view of the assembly according to the invention including information labels;
Figure 8 is an isometric view of the assembly according to the invention showing the tag mounted on a pet collar;
to Detailed Description of Best Mode and Preferred Embodiment of the Invention ~s Referring first to Fig. 1, the preferred embodiment of the invention comprises an assembly of injection molded plastic. The assembly comprises a container 2, a lid 4 interconnectable to the container and a plurality of identification labels 6.
2o As best seen in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, in the preferred embodiment of the invention the container 2 is generally rectangular and has opposed top 8 and bottom 10 faces, opposed first 12 and second 14 sides and opposed first 16 and second 18 ends. The container has a central section 20 bounded by a first transverse rectangular opening 22 in proximity to the first end 16 and a second 2s transverse rectangular opening 24 in proximity to the second end 18. The central section thickness accommodates the labels 6, as more particularized below.

Referring now to Fig. 2, the sides 12,14 of the container 2 adjacent each of the openings 22,24 taper toward the bottom face 10 of the container. At each end of the container, a flat rectangular strap-support 26 extends between the first 12 and second 14 sides. As shown in Fig. 8, when the assembled tag is to be attached s to a collar or other strap 28, the strap 28 is sequentially fed inwardly over the top surface of one strap-support 26, under the central section 20 of the container, and outwardly over the top surface of the other strap-support 26. Each strap-support 26 further comprises along its top surface a plurality of centrally aligned conical projections 30. The projections 30 increase friction between the strap 28 and the 1o strap-support 26 to reduce dislocation of the tag along the strap 28.
Referring now to Fig. 2, S and 6, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the top face 8 of the container 2 further comprises a longitudinal flat-sided oval first trough 32. The innermost walls 34 of the first trough 32 form a i5 compartment on the bottom face 10 of the container for storage therein of a plurality of identification labels 6 and display of the uppermost label 36.
The portion of the top face 8 internal to the first trough 32 comprises a transparent plastic window 38. The window 38 may be tinted or colourless.
2o As best seen in Figs. 1 and 2, in the preferred embodiment of the invention the lid 4 comprises a plastic generally rectangular member having top 40 and bottom 42 faces. The lid 4 further comprises a flat-sided oval second trough inset in the bottom face 42. The second trough 44 is of a circumference marginally smaller than the circumference of the first trough 32 of the container 2. The 2s corners of the lid extend outwardly to form generally right-angled corner flaps 46.
The corner flaps 46 enable the user to gain hold of the lid for ease of removal of the lid 4 from the container 2 by pulling the lid away from the container.

In the assembly according to the invention, the identification labels 6 are stacked inside the well formed in the bottom face 10 of the container 2. The lid 4 is then inserted into the bottom face 10 of the container 2 by exerting inward pressure about the edges 48 of the lid 4. The contact between the outermost side s 50 of the second trough 44 on the lid and the innermost side 34 of the first trough 32 on the container forms a tight seal between the lid and the container which is water-resistant and which holds the identification labels 6 safely inside the tag.
The bottom edge 52 of the second trough 44 of the lid exerts even pressure against the perimeter of the back of the labels, holding the labels firmly in position and to facilitating clear viewing of the uppermost label 36 through the transparent window 38 of the container.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the container 2 further comprises midway along the innermost wall 34 of the first trough 32 a semi-circular horizontal channel 54 1 s extending around its circumference, and the lid 4 further comprises midway along the outermost wall 50 of the second trough 44 a semi-circular horizontal ridge extending around its circumference. as best seen in Figs. 5 and 6, in the assembly according to the invention, the lid is inserted into the container to a point where the ridge 56 of the lid is aligned with the channel 54 of the container to strengthen the 2o seal between lid and container.
As shown in Figures 1 and 7, the assembly of the invention further comprises flat identification labels 6 of a size and shape similar to the transparent window 38 of the top face 8 of the container 2. Several labels may be stacked and 25 stored inside the compartment 58 created on the bottom face of the container by the innermost wall 34 of the first trough 32. As best shown in Figure 8, in the assembled invention, the uppermost label 36 in the label stack is visible through the transparent window 38 of the top face 8 of the container.

In an alternative embodiment according to the invention, the troughs, transparent window and labels of the tag assembly are round rather than oval.
The interchangeability of the identification labels within the compartment formed by the container and the lid enables a traveller to quickly change the identification information presented on the tag. Such a change is desirable in many circumstances. For example, when pet owners travel with their pets, they would be able to display the address of their current accommodations, regardless to of the number of destinations visited. The label can be quickly adapted to each new destination merely by replacing the viewable label with the appropriate destination label from the store of labels within the container.
Alternatively, the traveler may wish to present the address of the kennel or other party taking care of the pet in the owner's absence. In such a case, a lost pet would be returned to its current caregiver, rather than to the owner's vacant home. Similarly, when children travel, either with parents or guardians or unaccompanied, their parents or guardians would want authorities to be able to make quick contact with them at their current destination.
2o Similarly, travelers whose lost luggage was retrieved would be more quickly notified as the contact information on the travel identification tag would correspond to their current destination, rather than their home.
Identification tags which are attached to travelling children or pets, or to luggage, sports equipment or other belongings are subject to a variety of environmental factors. Moisture caused by rain, snow or storage conditions has the potential to render the information on an identification tag incomprehensible.
As such, it is critical to protect the identification labels from water. The present invention achieves this objective by providing a water resistant seal between the lid and the compartment of the container.
Finally, the identification tag of the present invention is comprised of a non-s staining plastic which will not cause discolouration of a child's skin, a pet's fur or a personal item such as leather luggage.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other variations of the preferred embodiment may also be practised without departing from the scope of to the invention.

Claims (6)

1. An identification tag assembly comprising:
a container having a transparent window in its upper face, a lid, interconnectable water-resistant sealing means between the container and the lid, and connection means to reversibly attach the assembly to a collar or other strap.
2. The tag assembly as in claim 1 wherein the connection means comprise lateral extensions at each end of the container and openings therein.
3. The tag assembly as in claims 1 or 2 wherein the water-resistant sealing means comprise a rounded first trough extending about the perimeter of the transparent window of the upper face of the container, a corresponding rounded second trough within the lid, and locking means.
4. The tag assembly as in any of claims 1 through 3 wherein the container and the lid are comprised of a non-staining plastic.
5. The tag assembly as any of claim 1 through 4 wherein the locking means comprise a semi-circular horizontal ridge extending about the circumference of the outermost wall of the second trough at a mid-point between the top and bottom faces of the lid and a corresponding semi-circular horizontal channel extending around the circumference of the innermost walls of the first trough at a mid-point between the top and bottom faces of the container.
6. The tag assembly as in any of claims 1 through 5 further comprising a plurality of identification labels.
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