US1027431A - Attaching device. - Google Patents

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H. J. POTTER.

ATTAGHIHG DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED M121, 1911.

. Patentd May 28, 1912.

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H. J. POTTER.

ATTACHINGDEVICE. I APPLIGATIONPILEI? FEB.2 l,-191l. V v 1,027,431. v Patented May 28, 1912.

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i Q- then bent approximately at rightangles at 12 and curved about I) at 13, embracing 1t UNITED STATES PATENT oFFioE- HARRY J. POTTER, or'nEwToN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To Dennison MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION orMAsS GHUSETTS.

ATTACHING DEVICE.

(Patented May 28,1912.

Application filed February 21, 1911. Serial No. 610,018.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, HARRY J. Power, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Attaching Device, of which the following is a specification.

. The requirements with respect to devices for attaching tags to such objects as bales of cotton and other material are exceptionally severe. They must possess the oapab1lity of being quickly and securely appliedto the bale by a person neither intelligent nor 1 deft; and they must resist accidental. dis-' placement under rough handling and removal bythe meddlesome 'or malicious, yet when desired must .be readily detachable by those authorized. It is further important that the face of the tag shall be held outwardly close to the bale, or in a plane sub, stantially parallel thereto. The device here:

inafter described and claimed etfectually attains all these objects, and is, moreover, very simple, referably consisting of one integral piece of wire bent to the proper form, and

may therefore be cheaply manufactured.

One embodiment of my attaching device I is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 4 Figure 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2

-. is a side elevation; Fig. 3 an end view;

Fig. 4' shows the device during the act of applying it to a bale, it being at the forward extreme of its engaging thrust;

Fig.- 5 illustrates it drawn back into final l engagement; Fig. 6' shows a position of the device during detachment; and Fig. 7 shows a-tag in place upon a bale.

In all figures of the drawings like characters are applied to similar elements.

As indicated, my improved tag-fastener A consists of a single piece of wire bent at a int-0 .a general 'U-form; that is, having two "adjacent arms I; and 0 extending from=their curved uncture. The arm I) terminates in a sharpened engaging or entering projection v 10; while the associated arm 0 at some disabout 180. Near the end this are comesv tance inwardlyffrom the extremity of 6 first diverges from the latter at 11, and is through an arc, which, asQillustratedge, is

'into yieldable contact at 13 with the enter ing member, they being forced toward one ,another by the spring of the arms. This curved portion furnishes a stop-shoulder and fulcrum, as will hereinafter more clearly appear. vAt 1d the member 0 is 'again bent so that it extends in a sharpened engaging or lockingprojection 15 which diverges from the member or arm 7), and also rearwardly from the plane of the two shank portions of the arms, it extending across the same at an acute angle toboth shank port-ions, with its point'at the opposite side from the angle 12.

Then the arms 6 and 0 are freed from engagement with one another, andsprung apart at their outer or entering and locking. extremities, a tag may he slipped over the former. A type of tag adapted for use with I provided with a bent portion or recess 15*,

equal in length [0 the distance between the tag-eyelets and extending away from the 'arm 0. Opposite this recess ,the arm 0 has two lateral projections 16, 16, conveniently formed by bending the wire into opposite arcs of circles, these lying approximately in a plane at right angles to that of the shanks. The extremity 10- of the arm 7) is first inserted in the eyelet e from the front. side of the tag and then from the rear through eyelet cl, and said tag drawn down until the portion between the eyelets rests' 1n the recess, it being thereby permitted to lie unbent and is retained-against return movement along the shank. The tag also tends to'remain in substantially thesanle plane, so that upon attachment to an object its face will always be visible, since the pro- -- jections 16, 16. contact with it if it rocks about the arm Z) ineither direction and limit such displacement. y I

In applying the tag to a bale the device A is grasped near the juncture of the arms, the thumb of the userconveniently resting upon the broadened portion furnished by the projections 16, which thus add to their other functions that of a finger-hold, and also give rigidity -to the device, which is an important. feature, in that it furnishes resistance to the stress applied by the user. The extremity 10 is then thrust into thebale reached, the angle of the projection 15 forcing the fabric by the point 14 onto this shoulder (see Fig. 5). The device is now held by the shoulder and by the spring enga ement of the arms at Iii against 101%?- tu inal movement in either direction.

points 12 and 14 rest against the face of the bale and prevent the fastener from turnin axially and this, combined with the pecu iar construction of the tag-retainin tion, holds the face of the tag paralle with the surface of the bale,.where the inscription may be easily read. Since both engaging projections are entirely concealed behind the fabric, one unaco uainted with the device will find diiliculty in removing it, yet the informed user, without special effort or a skill, seizing the holding or finger portion has only to turn the device right-handedly about its axis until the fabric clears the stop-shoulder and then press upwardl until the. locking projection is free. A urther rotation of the device upon the angle 12 as a fulcrum (Fig. .6) sprn 1gs the arms from one another and rals'es the locking projec tion above 'the fabric when a. pull wlt-hdrawsthe entering projection and releases the entire device.

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I claimt a 1. An attaching device comprising connected members lying first substantially parallel to one another, one of said memers being provided with an entering point, and the other member being curvhd about its companion member in a plane substantially at rightangles thereto and then ex-- holding means, one of said members. eing provided with an enterin point, and the other member diverging rom its com anion and then being curved about the same, the curved portion and the juncture ,of the diverging and curved portions giving, respectively, a stop-shoulder and a releasing fulcrum, the curved member beyond the stop shoulder extending in a direction opposite'to the enterin point and crossing the parallel portions of t e members and diverging rearwardly from the plane of said members, itterminating in a locking point.

Signed at South Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, this 6th day of February, 1911.

HARRY J. POTTER. Witnesses:

B. D. ALLIsoN, Tno ms G. Pon'rmonn.

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