US102800A

US102800A - Improvement in tag-fasteners

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Publication number: US102800A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-05-10
Anticipated expiration: 1887-05-10

Description

aited States HENRY FISHER, 0F CANTON, OHIO, *ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND WILLIAM' aient hipine.

H. WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 102,800, daten Mag/IO, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAG-FASTENERS The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY Flsnnn, ofUanton, Stark county, Ohio, have invented a new .and yimproved Tag-Fastening and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, a-nd exact description of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, of which drawings- I4`igure l is a vie\\"sho\ving an' application of my improved fastening.

Figures 2 are side and end views of my fastening.

Figure 3 is a cross-section of the same.

4Figures 4, are side and end views, showing the inanner in which the tag-cord fits in the faces of the fastenng.

Figure 5 is a view of a modified form ofthe fastening.

My invention relates to the construction of an improved fastening, by means of which the cords on cloth tags may be readily secured to the bales or pieces of cloth to which the merchant desires to attach the tag, for the purpose of showing the quality, price, number, or amount of the goods; and the peculiar advantages resulting from my improved construction of fast-4 ening consist in the extreme cheapness with which it can be manufactured, the facility with tags may be secured to goods by its use, and the advantage of being able to conceal the tag in the goods, so as to keep it out of sight from any persons except the mer chant or his assistants.

To enable others skilledin the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and application.

`The fastening A consists of a piece o1 un, sheet-` iron, or other suitable metal, which is cut out ina lozenge form, with pointed ends a, and has the hole b formed at or near its center, to admit the tagcord B.

The tag I) is of any desired form or material, and is secured to the fastening A hy the cord B, as shown in gs. 1 and 2.

In order to prevent the fastening from being bent in forcing it through the cloth, I form the rib c through the center of the fastening from point to point, as shown by end views in figs. 2, 3 and 4, either by -cutting the fastening from metal rolled with such rib, or by forming the rib in the fastening by stamping or hammering after it is cutout, by which I obtain a stitening rib from one end ot' the fastening to the other, and prevent it from bending over at the points.

Thefastening neednot be pointed at both ends, but could he nia-dc of the form shown in fig. 5, fpreferred. v

To attach the tag to a piece of cloth, C, the tagcord B is laid up to the sides of the fastening A, above and below the rib c, as shown in figs. 4, when the sharp point a of the fastening' can be readily forced through the edge of the. cloth and the fastening can be drawn through the hole, and turned at rightangles to the tag-cord B, which will secure the tag to the cloth, as shown in tig. 1.

\Vhen the merchant desires to conceal the tag. D, he has only to push it in between the layers of cloth, when the tag, the cord, and the fastening will lie fiat between the layersof cloth, so as to be unnoticed by any person not knowing their location.

I am aware that sheet metal fastenings have been before shown, in which the fasteliiugs served as a crossbar, to hold the tag-cord in the cloth to which the tag was to beattached hence I lay no claim to such fastenings, except when provided with a stiiiening rib, formed by corruga-t-ing the sheet metal composing the fastening from end to end, as before described.

cnam. In a sheet-metal tag-fastening, A, vprovided with one or more pointed ends a, and with the hole bat or near its center, the stiffening rib c, formed in it from end vto end, as and for the purpose specitied.

As evidence of the foregoing, witness my hand this 2d day of Fehruary,'A. D. 1 870.-

HENRY FISHER. Witnessesz Jon ABBOTT, ANDREW OHoFFxN.