US1177757A - Safety pin-ticket. - Google Patents

Description

M. 0. ANTHONY.

SAFETY PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED mmzs. 1915,

1,177,757. Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

W'ntnesa-fies. Inventor. f. WW Marcus O.Anthony,

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THE COLUMBIA PMNOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS 0. ANTHONY, F ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO A. KID/[BALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SAFETY PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed January 28, 1915. Serial No. 4,937.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARCUS O. ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Englewood, county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Safety Pin-Tickets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like in parts.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in safety pin tickets and the main object of the invention is to provide a pin ticket with a fastener of the safety pin type located a.d jacent to the edge of the ticket to permit the ticket to be easily attached to the merchandise upon which it is to be displayed and to facilitate its removal therefrom.

Pin-tickets as at present constructed usuallycomprise a staple aflixed toa small piece of cardboard, presenting a pair of parallel shanks which are inserted through the fabric to be marked, the shanks being then separated or crossed and bent down firmly against the under surface of the fabric.

In afiixing pin tickets to the fabric rapidly as is necessary in large establishments the operators are frequently careless in bending. down the shanks, leaving them 7 sticking upward in such a manner that they engage and snag the fabric, furthermore in the use of these pin tickets the operators frequently prick their fingers.

One of the objects of this invention there-' fore is to provide a pin ticket which may be easily attached to the fabric: without danger of injuring the operators and which when in place will have its point so protected as to avoid snagging the fabric.v The usual pin tickets when aflixed to the goods lie closely against the surface thereof so that but one side of the card may bear the marks which are to be associated with the merchandise.

Another object of the invention is to so 7 attach the ticket to the fabric that both sides of it will be available for marking purposes. This is particularly convenient for the management of a large concern since the selling price, size, etc., may be marked upon the face of the ticket and the confidential cipher marks of cost, etc., applied to the reverse side, thus making inventory of the goods easy.

Other objects of the invention will more fully appear from the following description, the accompanying drawings, and will be pointed. out in the annexed claims.

The drawings illustrate some of the various embodiments of the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of one'of the preferred forms of my invention, Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on lines 2-2 Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a view of a different embodiment of the invention, Fig. 4 is a view of a diiferent form of fastener applied to a pin ticket.

In the embodiment of the invention as illustrated herein the ticket 1 is desirably of cardboard made in the usual rectangular form, a safety pin of special construction being securedthereto at. or adjacent'to the upper edge of the ticket and desirably having. the pin portion which is to engage the fabric disposed in substantial parallelism to and slightly beyond the upper edge of the ticket.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 the fastener passes through separated holes in the cardboard and is bent around the; edge. of the cardboard intermediate of the points of pene-' tration, the ends of the pin arebent laterally in contact with the face of the ticket, then bent upwardly beyond the edge of the ticket, one end being formed into a penetrating member or pin adapted to lie in, parallelism to the outer edge of the ticket while'the other end is bent into the form of a U- shaped loop or guard adapted to receive and to protect the end of the pin in the manner usual in safety pins. The general construction of this ticket is such that it can be made upon the Empire pin ticket machine of the character illustrated in Patent No. 457 ,7 82 granted Aug. 18, 1891 to Alonzo Kimball, but slight modifications of said machine be ing necessary toprovide for the bending, of the ends of the staple after the same is affixed to the ticket. It will be understood of course that these pin tickets may be made by hand but that their manual production is so slow as to render it. practically prohibip 'tive. Another object of the invention is to. provide a safety pin ticket which is adapt- In the production of the pin ticket illustratedin Fig. 1 the bodyporti'on 1. desirably is perforated adjacent to the edge thereof to provide holes 2 to receive the shanks of a staple, the pin blank is first bent by the mechanism of the Empire machine into staple form, then bent at right angles in the manner disclosed in the patent aforesaid to provide a head or loop 3, after which the loop 3 is bent around the edge of the card as in the usual Empire ticket. By additional mechanism the projecting shanks of the staple are then bent laterally to form shoulders & and 5 engaging the under face of the ticket; one of these shanks is then bent upwardly and laterally to form a pin 6 extending longitudinally of and substantially parallel to the upper edge of the pin ticket. The other shank of the staple is bent upwardly then backward upon itself to form a U-shaped loop 7, the end 8 of the Wire preferably being bent back in such a manner as to engage the rear surface of the cardboard, thereby protecting the goods from being. snagged by this loose end. The U- shaped loop may be bent over backwardly or forwardly to form a guard for the end of the pin but preferably is bent'forwardly over the front face of the card. By this construction the edge of the card reinforces the pin and also prevents the unpinning of the tag. By bending the loop shaped end for ward the pin portion 6 will lie substantially in the plane of the pin ticket, thus providing a very compact and desirable form of ticket. The pins can be easily inserted in the fabric by the operator without danger of pricking the fingers and when once inserted and the endsinclosed in the U-shaped loop, the'point is completely protected.

The rigid manner in which the pin above described is attached to the ticket is adapted to maintain the pin 6 in position to be readily inserted into the fabric and is far superior to any means in which the pin would be pivotally secured to the upper portion of the ticket. By reason of the fact that the pin lies beyond the end of the ticket and is parallel to the edge thereof the pin ticket is practically pivotally mounted in the goods so that it can be readily turned over and the reverse side utilized for the inscription of confidential memoranda, etc.

Fig. 3 illustrates a different embodiment of the invention in which the straight shanks of the staple are passed through separated holes 12 adjacent to the edge of the ticket, the intermediate portion 13 being pressed firmly against the face of the ticket. After passing through the ticket the shanks of the stable are bent laterally to form offset portions 14, 15 firmly pressed against the reverse side ofthe ticket, one end is thereupon bent upwardly and then laterally to form a penetrating member or pin 16 or the other end 15 is bent upwardly and thence'into the U-shaped loop or guard 17 adapted to receive and inclose the end of the pin 16 in the manner above described.

In Fig. 4 another embodiment of the'in- V I vention is illustrated in which the fastener comprises a wire embedded between two cards which are fastened together by glue,

paste, or otherwise, to form the ticket; or

preferably within the fold of a card doubled I upon itself, the adjacent faces being pasted together. In this construction the pin ticket is substantially in the form of a rectangle, one side 20 being embedded betweenthe portions of cardboard and being ofiset orbent into an ogee form 21 to prevent pivotal" U-shaped loop or guard 25 of the character i above described to inclose andto protect the end of the pin 24, V

illustrative and not restrictive and that this invention may be embodied in other forms within the meaning and scope of the claims hereto annexed. 7

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by. Let-- ters Patent is: i p i 1. A safety pin ticket comprising a" card;

c 7 .00 f It is to be understood that the embodi- A ments of the invention disclosed herein are" a fastener rigidly secured to said card hav: 7 ing a penetrating member disposed inparallelismwith and beyond the edge thereof andan integral guard adapted to inclose and protect the point of said penetrating member; 2. A safety pin ticket comprising a card; a fastener having its body portion bent and engaging the surface of thecard to prevent turning of the fastener with respect to said card and having a penetrating memberdisposed in parallelism with and beyond an edge of the card and an integral guard" adapted to inclose and protect the point'of' 1 said penetrating member. I V

3. A safety pin ticket comprising a card,

a fastener inserted through said card at' points adjacent to the edge thereof and bent around said edge intermediate of said penetrating points to engage both faces of the card, said fastener having an integral pane trating member extending beyond the edge of the card'and in parallelism-with said edge and a guard member adapted to inclose and protect the point of said penetrating member. v

4. A safety pin ticket comprising a card,

a fastener inserted therethrough at a plurality of points adjacent to the edge thereof and having a looped portion intermediate of said points of penetration firmly engaging one face of said card, ofiset'portions engaging the opposite face of said card, extensions from each of said ofiset portions, one of said extensions being disposed parallel to and beyond the edge of said ticket to form a pene trating member and the other extension bent to form a guide adapted to inclose and protect the point of the penetrating member.

5. A safety pin ticket comprising a card, a fastener inserted therethrough at a plurality of points adjacent to the edge thereof and having a looped portion intermediate said points of penetration, said loop portion being bent over said edge to engage both faces of said card, offset portions engaging the face of the ticket having extensions, one of which is disposed parallel to and beyond the edge of the ticket to form a penetrating member and the other extension bent to form a U-shaped guard adapted to inclose and protect the point of the penetrating member.

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

MARCUS O. ANTHONY.

Witnesses:

G. ALBIN WALLIN, LEWIS A. PIERCE.

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