US1490828A - Price tag and holder - Google Patents

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April, 1924-. 1,490,828

B. HURLEY PRICE TAG AND HOLDER Miam- Jam. 8, 1924 Patented Apr. 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES.

ALBERT B. HURLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRICE TAG- AND HOLDER.

Application filed January 8, 1924. Serial No. 684,980

T 0 all whom 2'6 may concern:

Be it known. that 1, ALBERT B. HURLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Price Tags and Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to display or price tags or cards, and the holders therefor, with special reference to such devices as are employed in self service establishments. In such establishments the requirements are many and varied, as each bin or compartment for every item must be plainly marked or priced. Changes of price are very frequent. The goods are handled by the public. Each store requires a great many tags, which makes simplicity and efficiency important. Each tag must be held securely but not rigidly. If struck by a customer or clerk while handling goods, it must swing or give instead of being bent or broken by the blow. This feature is an important one. The holder must be shaped and must operate in such a manner as to obviate any danger of cutting the hands or tearing the clothing of one coming in contact with it. Tags must be easily inserted and easily removed by an authorized person, such asa clerk in a store,

. but only with difiiculty by unauthorized persons. As a great number of tags are used, the appearance and manner of assembly are important, and the holders and tags must both be so constructed as to maintain alignment and parallelism in general.

It is the object of my invention to produce a tag and a holder therefor that will meet the requirements thus stated, and that will be an improvement in divers respects, sufficiently apparent from the detailed description hereinafter, over the devices now in use.

Briefly stated, I attain my objects as follows: I provide a metal plate with a central tongue punched out and formed up, being first bent out and away from the plate and then returned into a round hook proportioned so that its tip tends to project through the slot left by cutting out of the tongue and press against any surface to which the plate is attached. A prong or holding point is punched out of the plate on each side of the central slot. A rectangular card is used, the edges of which are either bevelled or round ed and near the upper edge of which an elongated slot with sufficient width to receive the tongue is formed. This gives both a simple and an efficient holder. The tags are held securely and yet hang from the tongue I so as to swing back and forth and not be bent or broken if struck. There are no sharp edges or corners to damage persons or clothing coming in contact with tags or holders. The construction thus described allows the tags to be easily inserted and easily removed by authorized persons, but makes them difficult of removal by unauthorized persons; The tags and holders all being uniform in construction and manner of assembly, alignment and parallelism in general are maintained.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front View of the holder.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front View of the holder attached to a surface and showing the mode of inserting the tag.

Fig. 4: is a front view of the holder attached to a surface and showing the mode of removing the tag.

Fig. 5 is a front view of a modified form of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a side view of the same, and

Fig. 7 is a front view of the modified form attached to a surface and with the tag in place.

Referring to the drawings, and particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, A is a plate of metal having a central tongue, (1-, punched out and formed up into a holder, being first bent out and away from the plate and then having its end a returned into a round hook so proportioned that its tip will tend to project through the slot left by the cutting out of the tongue, and to press against any surface to which the plate is attached, the metal beingpreferably resilient for this purpose. On eachside of the central slot left by the tongue, a prong or holding point a is also punched out of the metal plate and formed up to stand perpendicular to the same. The relation of the various parts as thus constructed will be understood from Figs. 1 and 2.

To cooperate with this holder I employ a card or tag. constructed as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. B is the body of the card, which may be of metal such as aluminum, or of card board, or of wood, or other material.

The body is rectangular, and the edges are either bevelled or rounded for the purpose hereinbefore stated. Near the upper edge is formed an elongated slot, of sufficient width to receive the tongue at on the holder.

The operation of the device thus described is as follows: The holder is attached to the edge or front surface of a shelf or bin, so that the tip of the tongue or hook a rests in the plane of its base or supporting plate, and preferably so that said tip is pressed against the carrying surface. The card B as shown in Fig. 3, is then inserted from below, pushing its upper edge behind the hook and lifting the same so that its tip slides over the surface of the card until it reaches the slot. The card is then drawn down a little, when the hook will pass through the slot from the front to rear thereof, which effectually locks the card against removal. The hook being solid in front of the card, has the appearance of a complete loop, and removal of the card without aotual mutilation would be impossible for an uninstructed person.

To remove the card, it is pushed up until its body below the slot passes behind and beneath the hook, lifting the same so that its tip rests on said body, which may then be moved horizontally to right or left, and detached from the hook by laterally sliding from under it.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 show the base or support 0, andthe same hook at, but without the body operation of the hook however and the attachment or detachment of a card or tag are the same as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isf 1. Means for holding tags, cards or the like comprising a metal base having a tongue out out of and formed up integral therewith, slanting downwardly and out: wardly and returned or curved inwardly and upwardly at its end so that its tip will press tightly against the surface to which the base is attached, forming an inwardly turned hook, together with a card or tag slotted at its upper end to receive and hang freely on said hook.

2. The combination of a holder comprising a fiat resilient metal tongue secured at one end to a base surface and thence bent outwardly from said base and returned or curved inwardly and upwardly so that its tip will press tightly against the base behind the body of the tongue, forming an inwardly turned hook and a card or tag having a solid body provided with a slot of such shape and dimensions as to fit said hook and hang freely thereon.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ALBERT B. HURLEY.

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