FR2863757A1 - Information medium e.g. badge, for use in company, has front wall for receiving and displaying information, and elastic flexible straps connected to front wall through bend line - Google Patents

Abstract

The medium has a front wall receiving and displaying information e.g. name, and elastic flexible straps (3-6) connected to the front wall through a bend line (8). A set of slits (14-17) are disposed in two perpendicular directions and are localized between the straps. The straps have opening extending from a distal end to their central zone that defines a circular or elliptical opening. An independent claim is also included for a process of manufacturing an information medium.

Description

FIXED INFORMATION CARRIER ON A GARMENT AND METHOD OF

  The invention relates to the technical field of information and / or decorative media removably attached to clothes, commonly known as badges, badges, pins, identification cards, decorations, medals, tags , pins, lapel badge, lapel pin, name tag.

  Already known in the prior art, a very wide variety of means for temporarily fixing these supports on clothing.

  For these fixing means, one can establish the following summary classification: The adhesive means with repositionable adhesive tape. Practice shows that these gluing means are not suitable for any type of fabric and are unsuitable when the clothes are wet, oiled or velvet (the adhesive tape does not stick enough to maintain the support). In addition, when the clothes fluff, it is in practice impossible to reposition the support: the adhesive tape does not stick enough, because of the deposition of fibers and dust during the first bonding. Finally, some users may fear that the bonding of the support on their garment causes a more or less indelible marking of the fabric; Fastening means hooks / loops, for example by the use of so-called Velcro strips. The use of hook / loop type strips actually requires two bands, one male and the other female, unless the user's clothing directly accepts the attachment of a male band, which is not necessarily the case. If the direct hanging on the clothing of the user is not possible, it will then temporarily fix on this garment, by other means, a male band (hooks) or female (loop), this first band receiving the removable support provided with the corresponding gripping strap. It is conceivable that this way of proceeding removes all practical interest from these hook / loop fastening means for the technical field of the invention; Clamp type attachment means attached to the rear of the information carrier. These clamps are relatively complex structure and manufacture and are too expensive for information media such as access badges for conferences, badges most often thrown after a few days of use. In addition, these clips can mark clothing when their clamping force is too high; Fastening means of the hairpin type. These means have given their name to some media: pins, lapel pins. These pins are in particular of the safety pin type. Many companies or associations, regions, have a pin that represents them, thanks to the emblems, colors or symbols that are reproduced. These pins were, moreover, a few years ago, the object of a vogue and collections, this craze being always alive today. These pins, however, have two disadvantages: they can damage the garment, because a hole is made through, and they can hurt users or children playing with; The magnetic hooking means. Such attachment means are expensive and most often impractical because the wear of the user is not necessarily provided, in a location suitable for the positioning of the support, a matter attracted by magnets.

  Also known for a long time information carriers that are placed on horseback, with or without pinching, the back of a jacket pocket. The nip is obtained by the only elasticity of the materials constituting the support. Such a design is for example illustrated by the document FR 2.613.862.

  This prior document describes a flexible carton comprising a printed central body and two lateral wings attached to the body over a part of their length and separated from this body on the remaining part of their length, by a slot. By slightly folding the lateral wings towards the rear, the flexible cardboard can be placed on the edge of any object, a few millimeters thick, for example jacket pocket (Figure 4 of this prior document). If necessary, the wings are detachable by creasing, grooving or precut line.

  In use, these supports straddling the edge of a pocket fall easily. In addition, the users of a support do not necessarily wear a pocket garment such as jacket (see also US 2,609,629).

  Also known are badges provided on the back of an elastic tab, the garment is housed and pinched between the elastic tab and the main body of the badge (see for example GB-A-2256710). These badges have the disadvantage of being able to be inserted against a rim from above only in one direction and one direction. Thus, when the badge is to be used by a man or a woman wearing a crossover jacket, the badge will be placed with its information upside down or in place: the crossed jackets close to the right for men (it ie with the right pan passing on the left pan) and left for women.

  This problem is also unresolved with the arrangements described in US 4,338,737, US 5,839,167, US 3,175,317.

  The invention aims to solve the technical problems mentioned above.

  For these purposes, the invention relates, according to a first aspect to an information carrier comprising temporary fastening means on clothing parts such as buttons or jacket cuffs, this support comprising a front wall whose front face carries or allows the said information to be seen, this support comprising a resilient flexible tab adapted to pinch, with said front wall, a jacket pocket edge, this support being characterized in that it further comprises two other elastic flexible tabs, opposite back, 2863757 4 fit each to come pinch, with the front side, a strip of fabric such as a crossed jacket panel edge.

  According to various embodiments, the support has the following characters, if necessary combined: it further comprises a fourth flexible flexible tab able to pinch, with the front face, a strip of fabric such as a shirt collar or a jacket lapel; the resilient flexible tabs are delimited by slots whose opening width is increasing from their so-called distal end to their so-called proximal end; the resilient flexible tabs are delimited by slots, at least one of which comprises a point expansion of passage of a wire or chain of necklace or pendant; each of the slits delimiting the elastic flexible tabs is provided, in the vicinity of its distal end, with a point expansion of passage of a thread or chain of necklace or pendant; the resilient flexible tabs are substantially identical and arranged at 90 from each other; the resilient flexible tabs are provided with a curved free edge belonging to a passage opening of a garment button for temporary attachment of the support by pressing force of the button through this opening; the rear part of this support has a plane, concave or convex profile, the front wall of the support having a convex profile, so that the support has in total a biconvex profile, plano-convex or convergent meniscus.

  The invention relates, according to a second aspect, to a method of manufacturing a support as presented above, this method comprising a step of cutting slots defining the flexible tabs followed by a folding step, around a hinge line, a panel forming the front wall against a panel containing said tabs, this folding step being followed by a step of securing the two panels, the support being thus set in volume.

  In one embodiment, the method further comprises a step of deforming said panels, before folding, to give them convex or concave profiles.

  Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of embodiments, which description will be made with reference to the appended drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a plan view of the rear face of FIG. an information carrier, according to one embodiment; FIG. 2 is a side view of the information carrier of FIG. 1; Figures 3 and 4 illustrate different steps of a support manufacturing method according to the invention.

  Referring first to Figures 1 and 2.

  The support 1 comprises a front face 2 receiving information and / or decorative patterns: name and function of a person with the name of a company for example, or even color of a national flag, relief figurine.

  The information and / or the decorative patterns can be printed, engraved, glued, stapled, snapped or attached to the front face 2, the choice of the technique to place the information and / or the decorative patterns on the front face 2 being left free to the skilled person, depending in particular on the material used to constitute the front face 2 and conditions of use of the support: permanent or temporary badge, badge intended for use inside or outside the buildings for example.

  Thus, by way of illustration, the front face 2 can be made with a polyolefin strip such as polyethylene, polypropylene, or else polyvinyl chloride or aluminum alloy.

  The front face 2 is the visible face of the support, in the position of use and is defined by a wall of rigid material or of flexible material, that is to say elastic when manually deformed, this wall being of stable shape when the support is in use position on a garment.

  This wall 2 may be of square outline as shown in Figure 1 or even rectangular, circular, oval or polygonal depending on the desired aesthetic.

  The support 1 comprises, on the rear face, four lugs 3,4,5,6. In the embodiment shown in Figure 1, these four legs are of generally triangular identical shape and arranged at 90 from each other.

  Each of the tabs is connected to the front wall of the support by a fold line 8.

  This fold line can be derived from the fact that the tab is attached for example by gluing, heat sealing, high frequency welding, ultrasonic welding, on a lateral edge 9 of the front wall 7 or rear face 10 of the front wall 7.

  This fold line 8 may be derived from the fact that the tab is made of material with the front wall 7, a creasing line, grooving, perforations, defining said fold line 8 and allowing the folding of the tab opposite the face rear 10 of the wall 7.

  The lugs 3,4,5,6 may be formed by cutting a strip of added material, for example by welding, at the rear of the wall 7.

  The tabs 3,4,5,6 may alternatively be made of material, for example by molding, in a strip of material attached to the rear of the wall 7.

  Figure 3 illustrates such embodiments. The tabs 3 to 6 are made by cutting or material in the panel 11 of a strip 12 of material such as PVC, this strip 12 further comprising a panel forming the front wall 7 of the support 1, after folding the strip 12 when the band 12 of Figure 3 is made of PVC, the hinge line 13 can be formed by creasing, grooving, thinning, perforations and, after folding along the line 13, the wall 7 and the panel 11 can be secured by welding, (thermo welding, radio frequency welding).

  The material constituting the lugs 3 to 6 is flexible, that is resilient when deformed manually.

  The tabs 3 to 6 delimit between them slots 14, 15, 16, 17 arranged in two substantially perpendicular directions, in the embodiment of FIG.

  As shown in Figure 3 in particular, these directions may not be perpendicular, the tabs 3 to 6 having different dimensions from each other for example, when the support 1 is rectangular in outline.

  These two directions may correspond, as shown, to the diagonals of a square or rectangular contour of the front wall 7 of the support 1.

  The slots 14 to 17 have an increasing opening from their distal end edge to their central intersection zone, a central zone defining a substantially circular opening 18 in the embodiment of FIG. 1 or an elliptical opening in the embodiments of FIGS. 4.

  The distal end of at least one slot 14 to 17 may be provided with a substantially circular or elliptical hole widening 19 as shown in FIGS.

  The provisions that have just been presented make this support versatile because it can be hung in different ways, in different locations of a garment.

  According to a first method, the support 1 is forcibly placed on a garment button, this button passing through the hole 18, the tabs 3 to 6 being elastically deformed during this insertion by force.

  According to a second method, the hole or holes 19 serve for the passage of a chain or a wire.

  If a single hole 19 is provided on the support, this hole 19 passes through the front wall 7 of the support 1.

  When two holes 19 are provided on either side of a lug 3 to 6, the wire or the chain for carrying the support 1 in the manner of a pendant 2863757 8 can be introduced removably into the holes 19 by forcing through the slots 14 to 17.

  According to a third method, the support 1 is placed astride the edge of a garment bag, one of the tabs 3 to 6 being placed inside this pocket, the pocket edge being housed pinched between said tab and the front wall 7 of the support.

  According to a fourth method, the support 1 may be placed on the back of a jacket straight or crossed by insertion from right to left or from left to right, the edge of the fabric being pinched and held between a leg 3 to 6 and the part before 7 of the support 1.

  According to a fifth method, the support 1 is placed by a movement from bottom to top on the back of a neck, the fabric strip being clamped between a tab 3 to 6 of the support 1 and the front wall 7 of this support.

  A method of manufacturing a support is now described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

  In a first step, a PVC sheet is placed in a press and the deployed shape of the badge is cut out: left panel to form the front wall 7 and right panel 11 provided with slots 14 to 17 and holes 18, 19 .

  The hinge line 13 is also formed, delimiting the right and left panels shown in FIG.

  Then, the panel to form the front wall 7 is shaped concave and the panel 11 forming the back of the support 1 is shaped convex, by a thermal forming tool PVC, this step giving a ratchet effect to support 1.

  The legs 3 to 6 are then shaped to enhance the elastic rigidity of these tabs.

  Finally, the panel to form the front wall 7 is folded over the panel provided with slots 14 to 17 and 18,19 holes, the two panels being joined by welding.

  When viewed from the side, the support 1 has a shape corresponding to a convex thin lens, ie convergent.

  In an alternative embodiment, not shown, the support 1 has a convergent biconvex lens-shaped profile, this support comprising a circular or elliptical front wall 7 and a rear wall that is also circular or elliptical, the front and rear walls being secured for example by welding, on their peripheries, this fastening being performed while the front and rear walls are placed at a distance from one another, for example by means of a shim passing through the through hole 18 of the rear part of the support 1.

Claims (10)

- 10 - CLAIMS   1. Information medium comprising means for temporarily hanging on clothing parts such as buttons or jacket cuffs, this support (1) comprising a front wall (7) whose front face carries or allows to see said information, this support (1) comprising an elastic flexible tab capable of gripping, with said front wall (7), a jacket pocket edge, this support (1) being characterized in that it further comprises two other resilient flexible tabs, in rear face, each able to come pinch, with the front (7), a strip of fabric such as a border of pan jacket crossed.   2. An information carrier according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a fourth elastic flexible tab adapted to pinch, with the front face (7), a strip of fabric such as a collar of shirt or lapel.   3. Information carrier according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the resilient flexible tabs are delimited by slots (1417) whose opening width is increasing from their so-called distal end to their so-called proximal end.   4. Information carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the elastic flexible tabs (3-6) are delimited by slots (14-17), at least one of which comprises a point enlargement (19). ) passing a wire or chain necklace or pendant.   5. An information carrier according to claim 4, characterized in that each of the slots (14-17) delimiting the resilient flexible tabs (36) is provided, in the vicinity of its distal end, with a point enlargement (19) of passage of a thread or chain of necklace or pendant.   2863757 - 11 - 6. Information carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the resilient flexible tabs (3-6) are substantially identical and arranged at 90 from each other.   7. Information carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the resilient flexible tabs are provided with a curved free edge belonging to an opening (18) for passage of a garment button for hanging temporary support insertion by pushing the button through this opening (18).   8. Information carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the rear part of this support has a plane profile, concave or convex, the front wall of the support having a convex profile, so that the In total, this support has a biconvex, plano-convex or convergent meniscus profile.   9. A method of manufacturing an information carrier as presented in claims 1 to 8, characterized in that it comprises a step of cutting slots (14-17) delimiting the flexible tabs (3-6) followed by a folding step, around a hinge line (13), of a panel forming the front wall (7) against a panel containing said lugs (3-6), this folding step being followed by a step of securing the two panels, the support being thus set in volume.   10. The method of claim 9, characterized in that it further comprises a step of deformation of said panels, before folding, to give them convex or concave profiles.