US1636432A

US1636432A - Label-attaching device

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Publication number: US1636432A
Application number: US146190A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alvin S Partridge
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-11-04
Filing date: 1926-11-04
Publication date: 1927-07-19
Anticipated expiration: 1944-07-19

Description

A. s. PARTRIDE Filet?. Nvv,r'4, 1925 I INVENTOR AT1-ORN EY lPatented July 19, 1927.

UNITED sfrafrnsV ALVIN S. PARTRIDGE, OF RICHMOND HIGHLANDS, WASHINGTON.

LABEL-ATTACHING nnvIoE.

Application filed November 4,1926. Serial No. 146,190.-

This invention relates to a label attaching device for use, more especially, with rubber stamps; and its object is the improvement of devices of this character and in the method or means for securing the same to an article without the use of any supplemental means such, for example, as cement or wires.

The invention consists in the novel construction of a label attaching device and in the manner of applying the same, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,`

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention show-n applied to the body element of a rubber stamp. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the label attaching device, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a label, shown apart from a stamp. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section illustrating the manner now preferred by me for applying the label attaching device to the stamp body; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 4 and Fig. 6 is an elevational 'i View of the device applying tool illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.

In carrying out my invention, the article, as the wooden body of a rubber stamp, for example, to which a label is to be applied, is provided in one of its faces, as 12, with a pair of grooves 13.l These grooves are parallel with each other the planes of which being at substantially right angles to the body face 12 and longitudinally with respect to the body. 14 represents a strip of paper or cardboard, hereinafter designated as the label, upon which identification matter is marked or `printed and is preferably of a width equal to or less than the distance between the grooves 13. IThe label attaching means, as best shown in Fig. 2, consists of a strip of transparent celluloid or other suitable transparent material.

This celluloid strip is formed to provide a plane central portion 15 between two depending flange elements, each of the flanges being of substantially the shape of a letter V in transverse section.

Such flange provides an inner portion 16 extending downwardly from the strip part 15 to a return bend 171 and thence upwardly in an outer portion 17. A flange portion For use, the l device is coupled to the body for securing i the label thereto.

In practice, the inserting of the flange is Vadvantageously accomplished by means of a stuffing tool, see Fig. 6, having at one end a rotary roller 18 which is provided with two thin disk elements 19 which are arranged to track within the interstices between the

folds

16 and 17 of the respective flanges.`

After locating the attaching device with respect to the label and the body grooves 13, the stuffing tool is employed to have its roller 18 travel over the device and lengthwise thereof'in a manner to cause the disk elements of theroller to push the flanges of the device down into the respective bodygrooves 13, as will be understood from an inspection of Figs. 4 and 5.

The flanges may be engaged gradually by passing the roller to and fro upon the de- Y vice. By thus forcing the flange elements into the grooves of the body, the device is joined to `the body by the flange elements Without the use of any cement-itious material or other fastening means.

The provision of the outer flange or flap elements 17 of widths less than the associate ed flange elements 16 and also less than the depths of the body grooves 13 afford outer edges of the respective flaps which are adapted to take in the opposing wall surfaces of the respective grooves to further prevent the disengagementof the label attaching device.

The construction and manner of applying the device will be understood from the fore going description.

What I claim is,-

1( The combination `with an article having parallel grooves therein, a label, and a section, the side arms of the device being folded`v upon themselves and adapted to be side arms of the device being folded upon forced Within said grooves into engaged rethemselves, said folded arms being adapted lation with the article. to be forced into the respective grooves into 10 2. The combination with an article proengaged relation with the article. 5 vided With parallel grooves, of a label de- Signed at Seattle, Vashington, this 16th vice having substantially the shape f an day of October, 1926. inverted letter U in transverse section, the ALVIN S. PARTRIDGE.