US1160035A - Marking-tag. - Google Patents

Description

L. N. BISHOP.

MARKING TAG.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26. 1914.

1,1 60,035, Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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LOUIS l\T. BISHOP, 0F BELLEYUE, KENTUCKY.

MARKING-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed February 26, 1914. Serial No. 821,204.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS N. BISHOP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bellevue, in the county, of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Marking-Tags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to marking or pin tags for application to merchandise, particularly drygoods, and is especially useful with lengths of cloth or other fabrics of an analogous nature to designate various qualities, quantities, cost, selling price and other information. This marking or pin tag is an improvement on the construction of such devices as disclosed in the patent of Bishop and M-apes, No. 858,380, dated June 25, 1907, and consists in the present instance in providing a folding flap which is primarily bent in a plane at an angle to the body of the tag while the latter is in a moist condition to facilitate the completion of the bend of the flap or tongue when applying the tag and avoid breaking the tongue or fracturing or tearing the plies of material of which the tag is formed. Furthermore, the tag in the present instance has the pin preferably projecting outwardly from the body thereof and a portion of the pin is embedded be tween the plies of the body of the tag and extends across the fold line into and through the width of the bent flap or tongue.

The present invention also contemplates the primary grouping or jointure of a plurality of the tags in strips having separating means provided between the several tags so that a number of the tags may be primarily run through a marking or printing machine for impressing thereon in succession the designation and information desired to be carried by each tag.

The primary object of the invention is to facilitate the application of marking tags to goods of various kinds in a reliable and certain manner and to avoid injury to the fingers of those handling the goods bearing the tags, the primarily bent flap or tongue of each tag operating not only to prevent injury to the body'of the tag when completing the bend of the flap or tongue, but also mate'rially aiding in the accurate inward fold of the flap or tongue toward one side of the drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective thereof. Fig. 2 is a similar View looking toward the inner side of the tag. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the tag as shown by Fig. l with the flap or tongue in its normal position. Fig. l is a transverse vertical section through the tag showing the pin and flap or tongue closely folded. Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are perspective views of strips of the improved tags having various forms of separating means between the several tags.

The numeral 5 designates the body of the tag which may be of any suitable dimensions and may have on the front or outer side thereof lines to simulate a label for receiving information, which may be either printed or written, pertaining to the quality ofthe goods as well as quantity, costand selling price or other matter that may be desired. The body of the tag is composed of two plies 6 and 7 of suitable thickness of paper or other material, and between these plies the shank 8 of a fastening pin 9 is embedded, said shank extending through a porton of the width of the plies as shown and also continuing to the side edge of a flap or tongue 10 formed integrally with the plies and therefore of the same thickness as the body 5 of the tag. The shank 8 of the pin 9 extends across the bend or line of fold of the flap or tongue 10, and the latter is preferably narrower than the body from which it projects so that it may be readily engaged by the thumb of the user in completing the bend inwardly toward the body of the tag when applying the said tag to goods or merchandise. The flap or tongue 10 is also shorter than the body of the tag so that the line of fold between the flap or tongue 10 and the body is shorter than the body itself. The flap or tongue 10 may therefore be easily bent without the necessity of applying such force as might injuriously affect the body of the tag.

It will be understood that the plies 6 and 7 will be secured to each other by a suitable cementitious substance or paste and will be normally laid flat with the portions of the plies forming the flap or tongue 10 in the same plane as the body portions of the plies, and when these plies are associated the shank 8 will be embedded therein and a portion thereof bent at right angles, as at 11, and projected through the inner ply 7, the latter ply being pressed closely over the embedded shank 8 and forming a corrugation, as it were, only on the inner side of the tag,

f at the outer portion of the bend, or at the point-12, than at the inner portion of the bend, and consequently when the flap or tongue is bent inwardly towardythe inner side of the body'5 of the tag, strain or fracture of the outer ply or any part of the tag will be prevented. A further advantage resulting from the preliminary bending of the flap or tongue is that it is'set for accurate-completion of the bend, and, moreover, the single wire including the shank 8 and pin 9 is held against turning or loosening in the tag body and flap or'tongue by the angulardisposition of the latter.

' In applying the tag thepin 9 is inserted through the goods and bent inwardly toward the body of the tag, and the flap or tongue 10 is then pressed inwardly over the point of the pin, as shown by Fig. 4, and in view of the fact that the flap or tongue 10 is o'f'less extent longitudinallythan the portion of the tag body from which it projects,

a more perfect bending operation will ensue for the reason that the pressure of the thumb of-the applier may be extended over the greater surface of the flap or tongue and the latter thereby accurately and regularly bent throughout its entire length, especially in view of the preliminary angular disposition thereof. The tag may also be readily removed,if desired, by pulling the flap or tongue 10 outwardly and springing the pin 9 so as to renderthe pin easy in its withdrawalfrom the goods. The pin 9 is of such length that it may be inserted through various thicknesses of cloth and the point protectedor covered by the flap or tongue 10, the thickness of cloth being held between "the pin and the adjacent side of the tag body 5. 'Moreover,-it will be seen'that when the tag is applied, loose movement-thereof is prevented, and in addition the fingers of the salesman will be prevented from coming in contact with the point of the pin, with obvious advantages. By extending. the shank 8-over the tongue and point of bending 'ofthe latter relatively to the body of 'the'ntag, the said tongue will be positively held in'its folded position owing toth'e wire extending therethrough and it is preferred 'to'make the shank 8 and pin 9 of soft wire or a wire that will readily 'bend and retain its bent shape.

Asshown by'Figs. 5, 6 and 7 it is pro- =posed-to-e1nbody the improved form of tag in strips comprising any number of the tags so as to provide for the convenient feed of a number of the tags through a printing or marking machine for the purpose of applying information on the face of the tags in regard to the goods with which the tags are to be used and in accordance with the desires of the user. In the form of the tag strip as shown by Fig. 5, the several tags are separated by opposite slits 13 extending partially across the strip, and the tags when separated are folded on the slits as the guides and then torn apart. In the form shown by Fig. 6 the tag strip is notched at regular intervals, as at 14, and the apeXes of the notches are intersected by score lines 15 which serve as a guide for folding and regularly separating the several tags in the strip. In Fig, 7 the tag. strip is providedat intervals with lines of perforations 16 upon which'the tags are folded and separated.

Other means of separation might be adopted, but the essential feature is the organization of a number of the tags having the primarily bent tongues or [flaps .10 in strips ready for use or conveniently assembled for expeditious separation. In printing or marking the tag strips in series or successively, the primarily bent flaps or' tongues 10 will serve asa ,con-venient guide means for holding the tag strips in positive position relatively to the bed and workingv parts of the printing or marking machine,

and likewise the bent or angular pins 9 will.

also act in the same mannerwitli regard to the bed and working parts of the marking or printing apparatus,

It will be understood that thetag may be made in any size and an obvious variation in. the form of the tag without requiringthe least departure from the spirit of the inice vention would be to have the flap or tongue 10 at the end of the tag rather than onthe side, but in all structures of the tag the flap or tongue will be'of less length than the edge of the tag from which it projects and will also be primarily disposed at a right angle.

What is claimed is: I V 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag composed of plies of material and having a tongue at one edge, thetongue being provided with a fold line and the portionthereof beyond the fold line stifiiy retained in angular position relat ively to the body of the tag, the amountof material being greater at the outer-than at the-inner portion of the angle thus formed to facili tate the complete inturning of 'the" tongue,

and a wire extending between the plies ofthe body of the tag and the tongue. and overthe fold line of the tongue and'having a single pin extremity projecting at, an angle from the-inner side of the bodyof the tag, the wire being braced by the stifHy angular portion of the-tongue.

retained 2. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag comprising a body composed of plies having a tongue at one edge provided with a fold line, the front ply having a greater amount of material than the rear ply at the fold line of the tongue to facilitate bending the tongue toward the rear side of the body.

As an improved article of manufacture, a tag comprising a body having a tongue at one edge provided with a fold line, the tag body and tongue being composed of plies connected by adhesive material and having a bendable retention means between the plies extending across the fold line of the tongue and fully across the tongue and also partially 'across the body of the tag, the portion of the tongue beyond the fold line being disposed and positively held at a right angle relatively to the body of the tag, the material being greater at the outer than at the inner portion of the angle thus formed to facilitate the completion of the inward bending of the tongue.

4. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag having a body composed of plies of paper and formed with a tongue at one edge continuous with the plies, said tongue being of less length at its juncture with the body than the maximum extent of the edge of the said body from which the said tongue projects, the tongue being provided with a fold line and having a greater amount of material at the front side of the tongue along the fold line than at the rear side of the tongue along the said fold line to facilitate the inward bending of the tongue toward the body of the tag.

5. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag having a body composed of plies of paper and provided with a tongue at one edge continuous with the plies and of materially less length than the said edge, the

tongue having a fold line and the portion thereof beyond the fold line stifliy held in a partially bent position to facilitate complete inward bending movement thereof relatively to the body of the tag, the amount of paper being greater at the front side portion of the tongue along the fold line than at the corresponding rear side portion of the tongue, whereby the bending strain on the tongue when the partially bent portion is fully turned toward the rear side of the tag is concentrated mainly along the fold line of the tongue and without affecting the adjacent edge portion of the body of the tag.

6. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag strip composed of plies of paper and having tongues at regular intervals along one edge, the tongues being provided with fold lines and having portions thereof beyond the fold lines bent at an angle'relatively to the body of the strip, and securing pins carried by the strip at intervals and extending across the fold lines of the tongues to hold the bent portions in position and into the latter and having pin extremities projected at right angles from one side of the strip, the strip being formed with separating lines between the pins, the side of the strip opposite that from which the pins angularly project being smooth for handling in separating the individual tags from the strip, the tongues being of less length than the maximum extent of the edges of the bodies of the connected tags from which they project to form spaces between which the separating lines are terminally exposed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS N. BISHOP. WVitnesses CnAs. S. HYER, CHAS. A. HOME.

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

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