US1092923A - Pin-ticket. - Google Patents

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LIVINGSTON.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED mum, 1913.

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Patented Apr. 14,.19M

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASS-IGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 NOESTING- PIN TICKET COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

Serial No. 752,806.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pin tickets, that is, to tickets provided with pins adapted to be affixed to articles of merchandise, for the purpose of marking thereon the price, and other information.

My invention is addressed particularly to that form of said ticket in which there is used a double shank pin, that is, the pin is made of a wire bent upon itself so as to form a double shank pin with a rounded end. Tickets of this kind have many advantages over the old style pin ticket with the sharp point in that in inserting them into the goods they do not penetrate the threads or fibers or tear same, but being round-pointed they separate the threads or fibers and pass between same. There is also less danger of the round points catching upon the adjacent fold of the goods upon which it is placed, and there is little or no possibility of anyone being injured by these rounded-end pins. In the old style pin with the sharp point a person handling the goods was liable to be injured by the sharp point as well as the person who placed the tag upon the goods.

In the drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is the under side of a pin ticket; Fig. 2 the upper slde, or side upon which the writing is to be placed; Fig. 3 is a side View; Fig. 4; is a perspective view showing the formation of the double shank pin and the free ends of the wire before the pin is attached to the ticket; Fig. 5 shows the ticket attached to a piece of fabric.

In the drawings, in which like letters refer to'like parts, A is the under side of the ticket, B the upper side. The pin for the ticket is made by folding a piece of wire upon itself, at C, so as to form a double shank pin DD, the pieces of the wire forming the shank lying close to each other. At a predetermined point, as shown in Fig. 4, the free ends of the wire are bent at an angle to the shank DD of the pin, preferably at a right angle to the shank and at right angles to each other; that is, the portions of the wire marked E and G in Fig. 4, are arranged at right angles to each other, as

shown in Fig. 2. It, however, is not essential that these be at right angles to each other or that they be at right angles to the shank DD. I again bend the wire, as shown In Fig. 4, in the direction of the point C of the pin, so as to form the members F and H. The tag or ticket has in it preferably two holes, one of which the shank DD passes through and the other of which the free end F of the free end H passes through. The end H is then bent downward so as to lie on the side of the ticket opposite the side upon which the member G lies, and the free end F is bent downward so as to lie on the side of the ticket opposite the side to which the member E lies, after which the free end F is bent around the shank DD and pressed downward so as to securely hold the ticket in place between the members E and G of the wire and the free ends F andH.

In a pin ticket constructed as shown in the drawings and set for the above, the pin is held securely in place and will not become detached or separated from the ticket without mutilating the ticket. As many pins as desired may be secured to the ticket, but I prefer to attach only two pins, as shown.

Modifications might be made, such as having three holes in the ticket, one for the shank and two for the free ends F and H of the pin to pass through, or a ticket might be made with only one hole for the shank to pass through and the free members F and H overlapping the edge of the ticket, the angle formed by the members E and G making any desired angle adapted to serve the purpose.

Having fully and clearly described my improvements what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a pin-ticket, a ticket, a wire bent upon itself to form a double-shank pin so arranged that one of the free ends of said wire opposite the shank is longer than the other free end, said double-shank pin passing through the ticket, the free ends of said wire being bent so as to engage with said ticket on both sides thereof, the longer of said free ends passing around and engaging with said double-shank pin.

2. In a pin ticket, a ticket, a wire bent upon itself to form a double shank pin, said shank passing through the ticket, the free Patented Apr. 14:, 19th ends of said wire at a predetermined point diverging from each other so as to engage with one side of said ticket, one of said free ends passing through the ticket and bent so as to engage with the under side thereof, and the other free end passing around the edge of said ticket and bent so as to engage with the under side thereof.

3. In a pin ticket, a ticket, a Wire bent upon itself to form a double shank pin, said shank passing through the ticket, the free ends of said Wire at a predetermined point diverging from each other so as to engage with one side of said ticket, one of said free ends passing through the ticket and bent so as to engage with the other side thereof, and the other free end passing around the edge of said ticket and bent so as to engage with the other side thereofiand one of said free Copies of this patent may be obtained'for ends passing around and engagingwith the shank of said pin.

4:. In a pin ticket, a ticket, a ire bent upon itselfto form a double shank pin the members of which lie close to each other, the shank of said pin passing through said ticket, said wire bent so as to engage With the upper side of said ticket, the free ends of said wire being bent so as to engage With the under side of said ticket, one of said free ends passing around the shank on the under side of the ticket.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WVILLIAM LIVINGSTON. Witnesses EDWIN SEGER,

Geo. W. MILLS, Jr.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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