US1120592A - Laundry-tag. - Google Patents

Description

F. L. BORCHERT.

LAUNDRY TAG.

APPLICATION FILED 17110.10, 1913.

1,120,592. Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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FIRED L. BOECHERI, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

LAUNDRY-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 10, 1913. Serial No. 805,788

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED L. Bonorrnn'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry- Tags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tags which present a marking face and are adapted to be affixed to the edge of a garment or piece of material and to remain permanently aflixed until manually detached; such tags being particularly adapted for use in laundries to distinguish the goods of different customers.

h Iy invention has for its object primarily, the provision of a novel method of attaching an eneveloping material to a metal tagblank; and by my improved method of at tachment I obtain several independent features, viz., a maximum marking face, retain the strength in the bend and sides of the tag, obviate unnecessary metal extensions on the inner sides of the tag which would tend to hinder a tight grip of the tag upon the garment, and obtain an envelop unremov able except by tearing it from the metal blank.

A further object of my invention is to provide atag of the above mentioned character which shall be devoid of openings or slots at its bending portion and yet bend always with its sides square relative to each other.

In laundry-tags and the like it is a common practice to form at the bend ofthetag openings or slits in the metal, some for the purpose of making an easy and guided bend and others because the .metal of the cut out openings is utilized as fastening means for attaching the envelop to the tag-blank. Various defects arise from these structures of tags, which defects I obviate by the aforementioned features of my invention; but it will be observed in the said common structure of tag that with the slots or openings in the bends the tag is weakened materially, is of low clasping efficiency and often breaks at its bend, and-that the employing of metal from openings at the bend to overlap the envelop to attach same, results in the envelop being very insecurely attached and in the overlapped portions of metal hindering the closing of the tag. 7

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 shows the method of cutting a tag-blank from a metal strip. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the blank formed with spurs. Fig. 8 is a view of the blank in perspective showing the blank formed with a bending crease and with rips for engaging the en- Patented Dec. 8,1914.

velop, a portion of the blank being shown in section. Fig. 4: is a view of an envelopblank. Fig. 5 is a view in perspective showing the envelop attached to the blank, a portion being shown in section. Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of a completed tag ready to be attached to a garment.

The tag bodies are formed by being out from a strip of pliable metal 7 into a rectangular blank 8, and in such a manner that the dividing out forms a beveled edge 9 on one corner and a pointed extended edge 10 on the opposite corner of the blank 8, the preceding out having left a pointed end 11 on the corner of the blank diagonal from 10 and an opposite rounded corner. When these pointed ends 10 and 11 have been turned up as in Fig. 2 (determining the inner side of the blank) they form spurs and also accomplish the beveling of these corners, the beveling of all the corners of the blank preventing injuries such as result from sharp corners. On each of the sides of the blank, adjacent the spurs 10 and 11 is raised a spur 12, so that there is a pair of spurs on each side of the blank at two diagonally opposite corners. A crease or impression 13 may be made on the inner side of the blank, dividing the blank into two equal side sections, this crease being-just sufiicient to insure a square bending of the sides relative to each other without dimina ishing the strength of the back. A plurality of slits are made in each side section, spaced apart and extending transverse to the crease 13; and the dies or tools in forming these slits are forced through the tag-blank to the slits, thereby forming apertures 14 with raised or ribbed edges, these ribbed apertures being grips for engaging an enveloping material applied to the blank. The several operations upon a blankthe forming and raisingvof spurs 1O, 11 and 12, forming thecrease l8 and the grips-may be accomplished in any suitable number of. operations; and the blank in this form is complete to receive the enveloping material.

The tag-blank is placed spurs up, upon an elongated blank of fabric 15 suitable for marking .purposes, and the ends of said fabric are folded over the top of the side sections of the tag-blank, each end being pierced by one or both of the spurs of said side sections, the said ends terminating adjacent the crease 13. The fabric thus envelops both sidesof the tag-blank with-the exception of the crease, and thus very little of the metal is exposed that could cause tarnishing when the tag is applied for use. With said fabric ends overlapping the apertures l t a fiat faced tool is brought down upon the said apertured portions with sufficient force to close the ribbed edges of the apertures substantially flat with the blank sides; and in so doing, the fabric material overlying the apertures will be compressed thereinto and gripped between saidrilobed edges in such a manner that the i fabric becomes positively and securely engaged withthe tag-blank so as to present a fiat smooth structure (clearly shown in Fig. 5). It will be seen that with this manner of attaching the envelop to the tag-blank both sides of the blank are left perfectly flat, and when the tag is bent upon its crease (as shown in Fig. 6) only the spurs project inwardly. The crease or impression 13 will cause the sides to bend squarely with re-. spect to each other and thus when a tag is attached to a garment the spurs will positively engage same, where if the sides bend obliquely their spurs do not engage the gar 1 ment effectively, and in a short time the tag will become loosened and detached. Since the spurs are located diagonally opposite on the blank they project from diagonally opposite edges of the open ends of the folded tag; and when inserting the edgeof material into the tag mouth the material should be canted in respect to said mouth to avoid the spurs. There are no other obstructions to the entering material and when the sides of the tag are clasped'firmly together the spurs engage the material and their points bend under the pressure to further engagement. It will be observed that there are no projections oppositely locatedon the inner sides of the side sections that could strike and stop the said sides from complete closure, and that the tag presents entirely flat sidesfor marking purposes and has a solid Wise relative to the bend they do not'weaken the tag when they have been compressed flat with the sides of the latter.

I claim as my invention:

l. A laundry tag comprising a sheet metal body member of U-shape in transverse section formed with a plurality of transversely disposed slits in each 'of its sides and with inwardly projecting spurs at opposite ends of the outer edge portions of said sides, respectively, the edges of said slits being bent back-toward each other, and a fabric envelop the intermediate portion of which covers the outersurfaces of the sides and back of said body member and the end portions of which cover the inner surfaces-of the sides of said body member, parts of the end portions of said fabric being pinched between the edges of said slits'wher'eby'said' fabric covering is secured in place on said body member.

2. A laundry tag, comprising a substantially U-shaped metallic body portion pro-.''

vided with a plurality of punched slits disposed transversely to the line of bend of said body portion, the edges of said slits being forced back into the slitsf'to substantially. the plane of'the body portion, a part of the body portion beingremoved at some of the corners .to form bevels and a part being bent inwardly at other corners to form bevels and fastening spurs, so as to transversely to the line of bend of said body portion, the edges, of saidslits being bent back toward each other,the corners of said body portion being beveled and a fabric envelop disposed over the outer faces of, said body with its ends turned inwardly over the longitudinal edges of said body and covering the opposed innerfacesof, said body,

the material of said fabric envelop being engaged in and pinched between the opposed edges of said slits to h; ld the envelop in position ongthe body portion. I

4:. A laundry tag, comprising. a'sheet metal body bent to substantially U-shape provided with punched slits at an angle to the line of bend, the edges of said slits being forced back into the "slits to substan tially the plane of the body, and a fabric envelop disposed over the outer surfaces of my hand in presence of two subscribing saiddpody and hfiving itsf ends fturned) i5]: witnesses. war y to cover t e inner aces o sai 0 approximately to the bend, said envelop be FRED BORGHERT' 5 ing gripped between the opposed edges of Witnesses:

said slits and retained in position thereby. REUBEN REDIN,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set JOHN BLAAM.

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