US1208827A - Identifying mailing-card. - Google Patents

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IDENTIFYING MAILING CARD. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- I. l9l6.

1,208,827. Patented Dec. 19,1916.

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IDENTIFYING MAILING-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1916.

Application filed September 7, 1916. Serial No. 118,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN G. PIOKERING, a citizen of the United States, residing in Montgomery county, near the city of Dayton, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Identifying Mailing-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in identifying mailing cards.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a mailing severed an identifying part that may be readily and firmly secured to the coat of the addressee. This part, when worn, will be the means of identifying him to his fellows-particularly in social gatherings.

Lodges and other organizations that provide social affairs for theirmembers, usually send out letters containing tickets of admission. If my card is sent, it contains a part which may not only be used as a ticket of admission, but also to display the name of the addressee at the social function.

My invention is also adapted for advantageous use by Y. M. C. A. institutes and other educational associations who send out cards to prospective students. The part containing the prospective students name may be clipped out by him, presented for admission to initial meetings, and worn there to identify him to the faculty and other prospective or enrolled students.

After the identifying part is severed from the card, the attaching means provided enable it to be readily secured to the coat of the wearer, and neatly and firmly held there on until removed.

The preferred form of embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a plan view of a postal card with my identifying part running transverse the same. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a card with my identifying part disposed vertically thereon. Fig. 3 is a front view of a coat to which my identifying part of a mailing card is transversely attached. Fig. 4 is a front view of the identifying part itself, with the lip portion thereof turned at a right angle to enter the button-hole in the lapel of the addressees coat. And Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken through said lapel, showing how the said identifying part is firmly held to the coat by a pin.

Throughout the specification and drawcard from which may be said pin. The slot 10is ings, similar reference characters denote cor responding parts.

In a detailed description of the preferred form of embodiment of my invention, the numeral 1 designates a United States postal card which is scored or marked transversely by tWo parallel lines 2 and 3. Within these lines, preferably near the central portion of the card, may be placed the name and address of the person to which the card is to be sent. In Fig. 1, the name and address on the card is John R. Doe, Dayton, Ohio. As shown in Fig. 2, the lines 2 and 3 may be disposed vertically on a card 4 that may be inserted in an envelop, the name of the addressee being written vertically, as shown.

On the card shown in Fig. 1, a preferably rectangular lip portion 5 is scored above the addressees name, while on the card shown in Fig. 2 a lip portion 6 is formed by connecting the upper ends of the lines 2 and 3 by a line17 which is parallel with the edge of the car On the card 1 the bottom of the lip portion 5 coincides with a central part 8 of the line 2. The part 8 of the line 2 also divides a large aperture 9 below the line 2, from a slot 10 within the lip portion 5, said aperture lying below, and the slot above, the line 7 on the card 4. The aperture 10 is large enough to permit the head of a common pin 11 to be passed through it, while the slot 10 is just large enough to receive the shank of not wide enough to pin 11 to be drawn it for a purpose now to be depermit the head of the through scribed.

When the card 1 is received by the addressee he cuts or tears out that part of the card between the lines 2 and 3 and the boundary lines of the lip portion 5. In the card 4 he is only required to cut or divide along the lines 2 and 3, since the lip portion 6 is embraced between the upper ends of those lines. The pin 11-; is now in serted in the buttonhole 12 of a coat 13, as shown in Fig. ,5. The lip( portion ,5of the card 1 is then forced into said buttonhole, while the part of the coat 13 containing the pin is pressed outwardly to permit the head of the latter to be passed through the aperture 9. The. shank of the pin is then forced into the slot] 10, after which the identifying part of the card is bent downwardly' along the line 8. Since said line divides the aperture 9 from the slot 10, and

both are now bent thereon at a right angle to each other, the pin 11 cannot pass into said aperture to be released; and as the head of said pin is wider than the slot 10, it will press the lip portion 5 firmly against the upper edge of the buttonhole 12. In other words, the pin 11 is firmly locked in the slot 10 to securely hold the identifying part of the card 1 in the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby it will prominently display the name of the wearer to those about him. The rear edge portion of the lip por tion 5, after the latter is secured in the buttonhole 12 as above described, is preferably bent against the inside part of the coat lapel to assist the pin 11 in firmly holding the identifying part of the card thereon.

The severed part of the card t may be secured within the buttonhole 12 by the pin 11 in a manner similar to that above described, but instead of the identifying part showing laterally, it will extend vertically below the dividing line 7. To remove either of said cards from the coat, it is only necessary to bend the identifying part of the card into approximately the same plane as its respective lip portion and then press the shank of the pin 11 into the aperture 9, whereupon the pin head being narrower than said aperture, will release the card.

It is thus obvious that I have provided a mailing card which contains an identifying part that may be easily severed from the latter, readily secured to the coat of the addressee, and neatly and firmly held thereon until removed.

I do not wish to be limited to the details of construction and arrangement herein shown and described, and any changes or modifications may be made therein within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a name and address, and means cooperating with a tapering hole formed in said separable part, for firmly securing the latter, when severed from the card, to the coat of the addressee.

2. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a name and address, and a hole in said separable part through which an attaching pin may be passed, said hole terminating in a portion narrower than the head of said pin but wide enough to receive the shank thereof, whereby the pin may firmly and neatly secure said separable part, when severed from the card, to the coat of the addressee. V

3. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a name and address, a wide aperture and a narrow slot connected on a dividing line in said separable part above the name and address, and a pin attached within abuttonhole of the addressees coat, the head of said pin adapted to be passed through said aperture, after which said pin may be pressed into the slot, which is narrower than its head, to firmly secure the separable part, when severed from the card, to the coat of the addressee.

I. A mailing card containing an identifying part and an attaching part, a dividing line between said parts, an aperture in said identifying part, a pin attached within a button hole of the addressees coat, having a head adapted to pass through said aperture, said attaching part having a slot narrower than the pin head, said slot meeting the aperture on said dividing line to receive the shank of said pin, whereby the latter may firmly secure the identifying and attaching parts, when severed from the, card and bent at right angles to each other on said dividing line, to the coat of the addressee.

5. A mailing card containing an elongated scored part adapted to'receive a name and address, said scored part having above the latter an attaching lip p'ortion adapted to be turned at rightangles thereto when severed from the card, an aperture in said scored part, a pin attached within a buttonhole of the add'ressees coat, having a head adapted to pass through said aperture, said lip portionhaving a slot narrower than the pinhead, said slot meeting the aperture on the line which divides the lip portion from the identifying part, to receive said pin, after which the identifying part is turned at right angles to its lip portion to lock the pin in said slot, whereby the severed part of said card will be firmly secured by it to the coat of the addressee.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of September, 1916. EDWIN G. PICKERING.

Witnesses:

.ERNEST T. Hus'ron, HOWARD S. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, hy'addressing the Commissioner of Iatents.

Washington, I). C.

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