US1069828A - Index-tag. - Google Patents

Description

G. H. TAYLOR.

INDEX TAG.

APPLIOATION' FILED SEPT. 7, 1912.

1,069,828. Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

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GEORGE H. TAYLOR, F RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

7 if INDEX-TAG.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Application filed September 7, 1912. Serial No. 719,095.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. TAYLOR, citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Index-Tags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an index tag and lmrticularly to a tag readily applicable to a sheet of paper or other material and con venient removal therefrom when desired.

The invention presents a novel and improved construction wherein the shield or clip is adapted to embrace the material and has extended theretl'irough a tag member having a binding portion disposed between the embracing members of the shield.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter set forth and the novel features thereof defined by the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective of the index tag; Fig. 2 a similar view of the tag member; Fig. 3 a like view of the shield member; Figd a vertical section of the tag in open position; Fig. 5 a similar view in clamped position; Fig. 6 a plan of the shield blank; and Fig. 7 a plan of the tag member blank.

Like numerals of reference refer to like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

The numeral 10 designates the shield member which is preferably formed of a single blank, as shown in Fig. 6, folded upon itself on the line 11 and provided with a central aperture 12 through which the tag member 13 is adapted to pass. This tag member is formed with a laterally extended head portion 14 disposed between the embracing members of the shield. It may be formed from a blank as shown in Fig. 7, bent upon itself on the line 15 to form an enlarged wedging portion 16 which firmly clamps the material between the embracing members of the shield. The extended end of the tag is adapted to receive any desired inscription or data, and the parts may be formed of any preferred size or configuration best suited for the use to which the tag is to be applied.

In the application of the tag the shield member is clipped upon the material and the tag member drawn outward from the folded edge thereof which causes the wedge portion on the tag to firmly clamp and bind the material within the shield and effectually prevents accidental displacement thereof. Any strain upon the tag member increases the binding tension, and the tag may be readily disconnected by a backward pressure on the extended end of the tag which relieves the wedging action. This structure presents a tag adapted for quick and ready application and firm attachment and avoids reliance upon the spring tension of a clip or the use of an. independent wedging device.

The invention produces a simple, efficient and economically manufactured index tag adapted to be formed from stamped and folded blanks and applicable in use upon sheets of paper or other material or upon other articles to which it may be desired to apply a tag of this character.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits what I. claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. An index tag comprising a metal shield folded upon itself and having an aperture at its fold line and a non-resilient 1nember extended through said aperture and having a head disposed within said shield and of greater thickness in cross section than the remainder of the member. 4

2. An index tag comprising a metal shield folded upon itself and having an aperture at its fold line, and a non-resilient tag member extended through said aperture and having a head disposed Within said shield and folded upon itself at its inner edge to form a wedging portion.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

ELLEN V. CARRINGTON, lVERTLnY W. KIDD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. tor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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