GB2078666A - Making badges and the like - Google Patents

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GB2078666A
GB2078666A GB8119835A GB8119835A GB2078666A GB 2078666 A GB2078666 A GB 2078666A GB 8119835 A GB8119835 A GB 8119835A GB 8119835 A GB8119835 A GB 8119835A GB 2078666 A GB2078666 A GB 2078666A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C65/00Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C65/56Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor using mechanical means or mechanical connections, e.g. form-fits
    • B29C65/60Riveting or staking
    • B29C65/606Riveting or staking the rivets being integral with one of the parts to be joined, i.e. staking
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44CPERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C27/00Making jewellery or other personal adornments
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44CPERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C3/00Medals; Badges
    • A44C3/001Badges
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/01General aspects dealing with the joint area or with the area to be joined
    • B29C66/05Particular design of joint configurations
    • B29C66/20Particular design of joint configurations particular design of the joint lines, e.g. of the weld lines
    • B29C66/21Particular design of joint configurations particular design of the joint lines, e.g. of the weld lines said joint lines being formed by a single dot or dash or by several dots or dashes, i.e. spot joining or spot welding
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/81General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps
    • B29C66/814General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps
    • B29C66/8141General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the surface geometry of the part of the pressing elements, e.g. welding jaws or clamps, coming into contact with the parts to be joined
    • B29C66/81431General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the surface geometry of the part of the pressing elements, e.g. welding jaws or clamps, coming into contact with the parts to be joined comprising a single cavity, e.g. a groove
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/82Pressure application arrangements, e.g. transmission or actuating mechanisms for joining tools or clamps
    • B29C66/822Transmission mechanisms
    • B29C66/8221Scissor or lever mechanisms, i.e. involving a pivot point
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/83General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof characterised by the movement of the joining or pressing tools
    • B29C66/832Reciprocating joining or pressing tools
    • B29C66/8322Joining or pressing tools reciprocating along one axis
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/40General aspects of joining substantially flat articles, e.g. plates, sheets or web-like materials; Making flat seams in tubular or hollow articles; Joining single elements to substantially flat surfaces
    • B29C66/41Joining substantially flat articles ; Making flat seams in tubular or hollow articles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/40General aspects of joining substantially flat articles, e.g. plates, sheets or web-like materials; Making flat seams in tubular or hollow articles; Joining single elements to substantially flat surfaces
    • B29C66/47Joining single elements to sheets, plates or other substantially flat surfaces
    • B29C66/472Joining single elements to sheets, plates or other substantially flat surfaces said single elements being substantially flat
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/70General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts characterised by the composition, physical properties or the structure of the material of the parts to be joined; Joining with non-plastics material
    • B29C66/71General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts characterised by the composition, physical properties or the structure of the material of the parts to be joined; Joining with non-plastics material characterised by the composition of the plastics material of the parts to be joined

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Abstract

An attachment tag (10) for an identity card or badge element (50) comprises a shaped strip (11) of mouldable plastics material having a section of reduced thickness (30) forming a hinge portion where the strip can be folded back on itself, and integrally moulded snap-engagement coupling means (18, 19; 24) which are brought into register with one another when the strip is folded at the said hinge portion (30) to form a loop for retaining the badge card (50). A free end (12) of the strip (11) is formed integrally with a gripping element (13, 14) and also with a rivet (15) which is cold formed to secure the tag to a jaw (44) of a clip attachment device (40). The integral unitary structure of the strip and coupling means simplifies manufacture and avoids assembly operations.

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SPECIFICATION Method of Securing an Attachment Device to a Member The present invention relates to the securing of an attachment device to a member such as an identity card badge or the like.
Increasing use is being made of identity cards or other badges, particularly for security reasons, but also for identification purposes at, for example, conferences and gatherings where it is useful to be able to identify personnel readily, and also possibly from a distance. Such identity cards or badges commonly comprise a relatively large, flat display surface and are provided with an attachment device either in the form of a clip directly attached to the badge, or attached to the badge by means of an attachment tag. Since the identity cards will only be used for a short period, such as the duration of a conference lasting only a few hours, it is essential that they should be manufactured as economically as possible.
However, it is also important that they should be durable since they may be required for extensive use at, for example, a military or other installation where long term security is necessary.
In the prior art arrangements attachment devices have been secured to the cards by a number of different means, including the use of adhesives, adhesive strips and riveting. In circumstances where the attachment device has to be pivotable in relation to the member to which it is attached, adhesives cannot be used and riveting has to be performed with particular care in order to leave sufficient freedom of movement.
Additional components, such as washers, are also frequently used in order to secure the required pivoting.
The present invention seeks to provide a method of securing an attachment device to a member such as an identity card or badge or the like in which the attachment can be secured in position easily, and with the possibility of being swivellable about the attachment if desired.
According to the present invention a method of securing an attachment device to a member such as an identity card, badge or the like comprises the steps of forming the member from plastics material with an integrally formed elongate projecting rivet stud of plastics material extending from a face of the member at the intended location of the attachment device, positioning the attachment device with a suitably shaped aperture therein over the rivet stud, and cold forming the stud by applying axial pressure thereto with a tool constrained to move axially of the rivet stud.
The shape of the aperture of the attachment device will depend upon whether or not it is desired to make this swivellable about the attachment. By providing a square or other polygonal aperture in the attachment device the riveting operation causes deformation of the rivet stud into the corners of the square aperture thereby preventing the pivoting of the attachment device about the formed rivet. On the other hand, if pivoting is required the aperture in the attachment device is suitably circular so that after riveting has been effected, pivotal movement about the formed rivet can readily take place.
Preferably the tool for cold forming of the rivetforming stud includes a cap member which fits over the end portion of the stud to prevent or resist and control deformation of this portion when the stud is cold formed by the axial upsetting force applied thereto.
The present invention also includes a member forming part of or supporting an identity card, badge or the like, formed of plastics material and having, projecting from one face thereof, an integrally formed elongate plastics stud forming a cold deformable rivet by means of which the attachment device is securable to the member utilizing a tool as described to apply axial pressure. In one embodiment the member is in the form of a rectangular plastics body constituting the base of a badge, and the rivetforming stud projects from a central location of the base.
Alternatively, the member may be in the form of a length of plastics strip material forming an attachment for support of the identity card or like badge element, and in this case the rivet-forming stud preferably projects from a major face of the strip at or adjacent one end of the strip.
The invention can be put into practice in various ways, but two different embodiments of the present invention will be more particularly described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:~ Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plastics member forming the base of an identity card or badge and constituting a first embodiment of the invention; Figure 2 illustrates the first step in the assembly of an attachment device to the member of Figure 1; Figure 3 illustrates the finished badge; Figure 4 is a side view of a badge attachment tag for securing to an attachment clip in a second embodiment of the present invention; Figure 5 is a corresponding view of the attachment tag of Figure 4 shown after securing to a clip attachment device and shown also in a folded and snap engaged condition with an identity card badge in place, as ready for use; and Figure 6 is a fragmentary view on a larger scale showing the method of securing this attachment tag to the clip attachment device.
Referring now to the drawings the member illustrated in Figure 1 comprises an integrally moulded flat plastics base 1 of rigid material such as, for example, polypropylene (although other plastics materials can be used also) the thickness of which is sufficient to give the rectangular base a degree of rigidity adequate for forming a display face. Projecting from a central position in the face opposite to the display face (which is the underside in Figure 1) is an upstanding elongate rivet stud 2. As can be seen in Figure 2 an attachment device in the form of a metal clip 3 is applied over the rivet stud 2 so that a central aperture 4 of the clip 3 fits over and receives the rivet at the junction point between the rivet and the base 1.A tool 60 having a shallow cup shaped recess 62 forming a cap member at its lower end, as schematically shown in Figure 2, is then fitted over the end of the rivet stud 2 and is pressed downwardly in the direction of the arrow A of Figure 2. The tool 60 must be constrained laterally so that the rivet 2, which has relatively little resistance to bending, is forced to compress axially along its length, at the same time bulging outwardly, and the recessed cap member is helpful in preventing or resisting and controlling deformation of the free end portion. Such tool may include a cylindrical slide or sleeve (as indicated in broken lines at 64) for guiding the movement of the tool 60, or it may be part of a simple manually operated arrangement or hand tool comprising co-operating die members on a plier-type handle.The base 1 is also held or supported of course against movement while the riveting operation is taking place.
Figure 3 illustrates the finished badge with the rivet stud 2 deformed over the central base portion around the aperture 4 of the attachment clip 3. The display face 1 of the base member 1 may be directly printed with the badge information, or may carry, by means of an adhesive, a removable strip or sheet of information-bearing material.
In Figures 4 and 5 there is shown an attachment tag 10 for securing a clip attachment device 40 to a card or badge 50 in a different manner. The tag comprises a main strip 11 having integrally moulded male and female press studs 24, 18 with, between them, a recess 30 defining a ligament hinge which, when the tag 10 is folded, defines the required hinge line to bring the two co-operating parts 24, 18 of the integrally moulded press-stud into engagement with one another. At the free end 12 of the strip 1 1 there is a projecting rivet stud 15 5 and the strip is reinforced at this point by a thickened portion 13 having an annular row of teeth or serrations 14 in the portion immediately surrounding the rivet stud 15 and on the remote face thereof.
The method of securing this tag 10 is exactly the same as illustrated in Figures 1 to 3, with a laterally constrained tool 60 being used axially to compress the rivet stud 15 over an apertured portion of an attachment clip. Thus, as shown in Figure 6, the attachment operation for securing the tag 11 to the clip 40 is carried out by passing the plastics rivet portion 15 through an aperture 42 in a jaw member 44 of the clip and by then cold forming the rivet stud 15 to upset it and provide a rivet connection, this being performed by applying axial pressure thereto utilizing the pressing tool 60 which again has a cap member at its lower end with a shallow cup shaped recess 62 that fits over the end portion of the rivet stud and which is constrained to move axially of the rivet, for example by a cylindrical guide sleeve 64t If the attachment clip has a square, or other non-circular hole it will cause the rivet stud to adopt a correspondingly shaped cross section as it is deformed, so that it is prevented from rotating about the rivet of the attachment clip with respect to the member 1 or 11. Such an arrangement is particularly suitable for the embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 3. On the other hand, with the embodiment of Figures 4 to 6 a degree of pivoting about the rivet 15 is preferable, and for this reason the aperture 42 in the attachment clip will generally be circular to permit this.

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1. A method of securing an attachment device to a member such as an identity card, badge or the like, said method forming part of or supporting an item comprising the steps of forming the member from plastics material with an integrally formed elongate projecting stud of plastics material forming a rivet extending from a face of the member at the intended location of the attachment device, positioning the attachment device with an aperture therein over the stud, and cold forming the stud to provide a rivet connection by applying axial pressure thereto with a tool constrained to move axially of the stud.
2. A method as claimed in Claim 1, in which the tool includes a cap member which fits over the free end portion of the stud to resist and control deformation of this portion whilst the stud is being cold formed.
3. A support member forming part of or supporting an identity card, badge or the like, formed of plastics material and having projecting from one face thereof an integrally formed elongate plastics stud forming a cold deformable rivet by means of which an attachment device can be secured to the supporting member utilizing a tool constrained to move axially of the stud and arranged to apply axial pressure thereto.
4. A support member as claimed in Claim 3, in the form of a rectangular plastics body forming the base for a badge or the like, in which the rivet forming stud projects from a central location of the base.
5. A support member as claimed in Claim 3, in the form of an elongate strip of plastics material forming an attachment tag for an identity card badge or the like, in which the rivet forming stud projects from a major face of the strip at or adjacent one end of the strip.
6. A support member for an identity card, badge or the like substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying; drawings.
7. A method of securing an attachment device to a member, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
8. An identity card, badge or the like having an attachment clip or other attachment device secured to a support member as claimed in Claim 1 and as hereinbefore described.
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US4869004A (en) * 1987-11-10 1989-09-26 Maloney John E Badge holder
GB2240131A (en) * 1990-01-19 1991-07-24 Fattorini Ltd Rotatable badge fastening
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EP0286061A2 (en) * 1987-04-06 1988-10-12 Andreas Strauss Clip, in particular for holding cards
EP0286061A3 (en) * 1987-04-06 1990-08-22 Andreas Strauss Clip, in particular for holding cards
US4869004A (en) * 1987-11-10 1989-09-26 Maloney John E Badge holder
GB2240131A (en) * 1990-01-19 1991-07-24 Fattorini Ltd Rotatable badge fastening
WO1991011309A2 (en) * 1990-02-05 1991-08-08 Textron Inc. Apparatus and method for upsetting composite fasteners
WO1991011309A3 (en) * 1990-02-05 1991-09-19 Textron Inc Apparatus and method for upsetting composite fasteners
FR2915413A1 (en) * 2007-04-24 2008-10-31 Peugeot Citroen Automobiles Sa Portable connected part e.g. sensor, assembling tool for road vehicle, has body made of heat conducting material with supporting surface, and recess arranged on supporting surface and longitudinally extending along surface

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