US1466173A

US1466173A - Shipping tag

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Publication number: US1466173A
Application number: US351528A
Authority: US
Inventors: William G Jopson
Original assignee: JOPSON Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: JOPSON MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1920-01-15
Filing date: 1920-01-15
Publication date: 1923-08-28
Anticipated expiration: 1940-08-28

Description

Aug. 28, 1923. 4 1,466,173

W. G. JOPSON SHIPPING TAG Filed Jan. 15 1920 WITNESSES."

Patented mg. 28, 1923.

uni-Tao sra rss arise.

WILLIAM Jonson, or'KE'nnE," NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOB r0 JoPsoir rim'nura' TUBING "COMPANY, or BOSTON, oHUsn'rTs.

.. smrrrnq TAG. I

Application filed January 15,1920. 7 Serial No. 351,528.?

To allwhom it may concern I I V Beit known that 1, WILLIAM G. Orson, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New. Hampshire, have invented new and useful lmpnovenie'nts in Shipping Tags, of which the following is a spec1 fi+ cation. 7 1

This invention has relation to shipping tags, and has for its object not only to provide an inexpensive tag, but also one whlch is capable of being strung automaticallyby machinery.

On the drawings,- Figure 1 illustrates invent-ion.

Figure 2 shows the under. side of the tag. Figures 3 and 4 illustrate a tag with the staples crossed; I

Figures 5 and 6 illustrate a tag in which the reinforce consists of a single staple.

Figure 7 represents an edgefview of the ta V The body of the tag, which may be of the usual shape and made of any suitable material, isindicated at 20, having a reinforce 21, which may, if desired, be made of tough stock of some kind used in niaking the annu- 'lar reinforces. Through the body of the tag, at one end thereof,- there is an aperture a, through which emerge the free a tag embodying the

ends

22, 23,'of the string. Inaddition, there are the spaced apertures?) 0,'which are located a greater distance from the end of the tag than the aperture or hole a, and which are arranged in a line transverse to the length of the tag. The ends of the string are passed through the apertures 72 0 so as to form a loop 24-, and the ends of the string are then both passed and emerge in the same direction through the aperture a, which is nearer the end of the tag than the aperture 7) 0, so as to leave two

converging loops

25, 25, on the under face of the body, whlch extend from the holes I) 0 to the hole a. Thus the apertures a b 0 are located at the angles of the triangle, and the

loops

24 and 25, 25, constitute, as it were, the three sides of the triangle, the base of which lies against the upper face, and the sides of which lie against the under face of the body. The

free attaching ends

22, 23, of the string may be of any desired length. In Figures 1 and 2, I have shown a reinforce consisting of two

staples

27, 28, which have their attaching prongs clinched in the bodyiof thejtag,

which; are arranged adjacent the holes a b so as to form bars to resist thepull of the cord and prevent enlargement of the holes.

Again," in Figuresfi} and 4,.

thestaples

29, 30 are shownin crossed relation,this per.- initting the holes aand b to be located closer together and the loop 24 to pass about both staples where they cross, thus giving a doublereinforcement at that point. I Or, if

desired, a single angular staple may be ems iaeam IECEASSACIHTUSE'IW'JS, A CO RPORATION OF T/IASSA ployed as shown in Figures 5 and 6. In this case, th staple has a crossbar 31 and converging end bars 32, -32.- V The apertures b 0 are located outside the end bars, and the aperture a 1s inside the crossbar, so that the edges of all three apertures are reinforced, by metallic bars arranged crosswise of the loops of thecord, and in the angles formed by the cross loopbars and converging loops. The staple isvshown as having prongs 34, 34, 35, 35, at the ends of the cross bar, and at the ends of the end bars, which, after being passed through the body: ofothe tag, are clinched. j

Preferably the reinforces areall applied at the time by the same machine or an iattachment thereof, by V which the tag is strung, but I donot .claimherein-the machine for or the'lnethod of stringing {the tags or applying the reinforces, as these form the subject-matter of an application Serial No. 403,920, filed August 16-, 1920.

In all three forms in which the invention is illustrated as embodied, I have provided staples which furnish straight metallic bars, which are arranged at an angle to each other, and are located so as to resist the pull of the string against the wall of the apertures b c in the tag; and in the third form there is an additional metallic cross bar which lies beyond the aperture an to prevent rupture of the tag near said aperture. These cross bars are all so arranged as to resist the pull of the string, when force is applied to the free ends of the string.

The staples are all preferably made of flat stock so that, when once clinched in the tag, they will not bend laterally.

An advantage of the improved tag is its strength, which is greater than that of any other reinforced tag of which I am aware, the portion of the string which bears on the tag being so supported by a laterally rigid metallic bar that it is not liable to. be pulled through the margin of the tag by any strain to which it may be subjected.

What I claim is e 1. A shipping tag having two spaced apertures located at a distance from the end of the tag'in a line transverse to the length of thetag and a third'intermedi'ate aperturev near the end of the tag, a string passed through said spaced apertures and having a 10 cross loop on one face of the tag and converg--.

' 1 clined metal bars adjacent said spaced apertures and located in the angles formed by said cross loop and converging loops, said bars being clinched in the tag.

2. A shipping tag having two spaced apertures located at a distance from the end of the tag in a line transverse to the length of the tag and a third intermediate aperture near the end of the tag, a string passed through said spaced apertures and having a cross loop on one face of the tag and converging loops. on the other face of the tag said string having its attaching ends emerging in the same direction through said aperture, and a reinforce consisting of relatively inclined metal bars adjacent said spaced apertures and located in the angles. formed by said cross loop and converging loops, said bars being crossed between said spaced apertures and clinched the tag.

3. A shipping tag having a plurality of string-receiving perforations therethrough, and a pair of relatively inclined straight bars made fast thereto adjacent said perforations and forming reinforcements about which a fastening string passed through said perforations is looped.

4. A shipping tag having a pair of crossed bars made fast thereto, said tag having a plurality of string-receiving perforations located within the angles between said bars, and a fastening string passed through said apertures.

' 5, A perforated shipping tag having a igieaive pair of crossed reinforcing bars made fast thereto adjacent the; perforated portion and about which a fastening string passed throu h the perforation maybear. 6. l shipping tag having a pair of crossed reinforcing elements; and a fastening string passed through openings in said tag and hav: ing a loop bearing over the of said elements. a

7. A device of the class described comprising a body portion, a pair of crossed reinforcing elements made fast to said body portion said body portion having a perforation therethrough in the apex of an angle crossed portions between said reinforcing'elements, and an element for attaching said device to an article passed through said perforation.

8. A device of the class described .com prising a body portion a pair of crossed reinforcing elements made fast to'said-body portion, said body portion having a perforation therethrough in the apex of an angle between said reinforcing elements, and an element for attaching said device to an article passed through said perforation and bearing over said reinforcing elements.

9. A device of the class described coinprising a body portion having a perforation therethrough, and a pair of crossed reinforcing bars fixed to said body portion and extending-on either side of said perforation.

10. A' device of the class described comprising a body portion, and a pair of crossed reinforcing bars made fast thereto, said body portion having a pair of pcrforationstherethrough in the apicesof opposite angles between said bars. Y

11. A'device of the class described com prising a body portion having a pairof perforations therethrough, and a pair of rela- 7';

tively inclined reinforcing bars fixed to said portion in position for a fastening element passed through said perforations to bear thereover.

signature.

7 WILLIAM eJo soN;