US1041588A - Pin-ticket. - Google Patents

Description

H. S. BREWINGTON.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED APE.17, 1912.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

' [N VEN T OR WITNESSES fw/Mfi HENRY S. BREWINGTON, OE BALTIMOREJMARYLAND, ASSIG-NOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

Application filed April 17, 1912. Serial No. 691,382.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HENRY S. BREWING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pin tickets or tags adapted to be fastened to clothing or to fabrics of various kinds and the inven tion has for its primary object the provision of an improved novel and efficient article of this class.

In the use of tags or tickets of this character it is desirable that the points of the fasteners be covered so that they will not stick in, catch, or engage adjacent materials, fabrics or articles, nor snag nor injure the hands of persons who may have occasion to handle the ticketed or tagged articles. Many articles or fabrics to which such tickets or tags are attached are more or less liable to be injured by the fasteners or to show the pin holes and it is a further object of this invention to provide such tags or tickets of improved construction that the least possible injury to the fabrics or articles will accompany their use.

With these, and other objects, in view, the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of the parts comprising tickets or tags of the class specified, which will be first fully described hereinafter and afterward specifically claimed.

In order that the construction and operation of the invention may be readily comprehended, I will now proceed to specifically describe it, having reference to the accompanying drawing which illustrates the preferred form and some modifications thereof and in which Figure 1 is aview of the blank from which the preferred form of my ticket or tag is formed; Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the completed tag formed from the blank of Fig. 1-; Fig. 3 represents a view in elevation of the tag of Fig. 2 as it appears when in use; Fig. 4 illustrates the same tag in central, longitudinal sectional view, as it appears when attached to a fabric; Figs. 5, 6, and 7, represent views similar to those of Figs. 1, 3, and 4, illustrating another slightly modified form of my improved tag or ticket.

Like reference characters indicate the same parts wherever they appear in the several figures of the drawing.

Such tags or pin tickets may be made of any suitable material such as stout paper, cardboard, leather, or any other suitable material and the pins or fasteners are of the well known staple form, having pointed legs which will readily penetrate the.clothing, fabrics, or other articles to which the tags or tickets are to be attached, such staples being permanently secured to the tag or ticket, and such fasteners, usually made of flexible wire, will for the sake of brevity, be hereinafter denominated the pin. 7 p

I will now proceed to describe'my preferred form of tag or pin ticket as illustratcd in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4., in which the blank 1 of which to form the ticket, is of suitable dimensions, and is provided with two transverse creases 2 and 3, whereby may be foriii'ed by folding on said creases, a body 4, a fold 5, and a flap 6. The extremity of the flap is reduced in width to form a tongue 7 and in such tongue is formed a transverse slot 8, while the fold 5, has, near the crease 3, a similar transverse slot 9, and a slight distance from and parallel with said slot 9, a slit 10 having at each end, on the side toward the slot 9, an opening, in this instance substantially rectangular in form as at 11, 12. Between these openings 11 and 12 the material of the ticket forms a short, broad tongue 13. The pin is best shown in Fig. 2 and in this form it is bent as shown, the cross bar 14 and a portion 15 of each leg lying on the inside of the body 4, the legs being bent over the edge of said body 4 as at 16 and thence bent back at right angles and passed through the body 4, the sharp pointed ends 17 projecting at right angles toward the slot 9 in the fold 5. To apply this form of my tagor ticket to an article, such as a piece of fabric 18, said fabric is projected into the space between the body 4 and fold 5 (as shown open in Fig. 2) when the body 4 is pressed toward the fold 5, the sharp pointed ends 17 of the pin passing through the fabric 18, and the slot 9 of the fold 5, when they are bent down upon the fold 5, extending transversely outward from the ends of the slit 10 as shown in dot-ted lines in Fig. This leaves the pointed ends 17 on the outside of the fold,

- through the slit when the broad tongue 13 will engage in the slot 8 of the flap and hold the flap'in position. By virtue of this construction the tag is securely attached to the edge of a fabric or article and the sharp points covered up so that there is no liability of injury from such points as there would be if they were exposed.

In the modified form illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 the variation from the preferred form of Figs. 1 to 4: is very slight, the slit 10, openings 11 and 12, tongue 13 of the fold 5 and the tongue 7 and slot of the flap 6 being so constructed and arranged that the tongue 7 is not passed through the slit 10 but the tongue 13 is projected slightly outward and engaged in the slot 8 of said tongue 7 of the flap 6.

Other variations and modifications such as might suggest themselves to persons skilled in the art to which my invention apperta-ins, would obviously be permissible,

without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention within the scope of the ap- Having thus tion, what I claim as new and desire to se cure by Letters Patent of the United States is A blank for a pin ticket or tag comprising a strip having two transverse creases forming a body, a fold, and a flap, in the order named, the flap being reduced in width forming a tongue provided with a transfully described my elvenverse slot near itsend, and the fold being; i

provided with a transverse slot near the crease separating it from the'flap, a slit par-' allel with its slot, and an opening at each end of the slit on the side next the slot forming between them with the slita short "broad tongue.

In testlmony whereof I afliX mysignature in presence of twowltnesses.

Witnesses:

GORDON H. TAYLOR, VL/IARY M. MAGRAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

HENRY s. 'BREWINGTON."

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