US1669390A - Price tag - Google Patents

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May s, 1928. 1,669,390

F. KOHNLE PRICE TAG Filed Feb. 19, 1925 All i hvento'o Patented May s, 1928.

UNITED STATES I 1 r 1,669,390 PATENT OFFICE;

FREDERICK KOI'INLEQOF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MONARCH MARKING SYS- TEN, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO. i

7 PRICE TAG.

Application filed February 19, 1925. Serial No. 10,380.

preferably into the underside of the tag, for f guarding the point. Thedeforming of the pin is preferably accomplished inits application to the tag and merchandise followingthe method set forth and made the subject matter of a separate application filed by me .on May 12th, 1928, and patented March 3, 1925, No. 1,528,023. r

This method is susceptible to machine operations for quickly and eiiicientlyengaging I the pin through the tan and merchandise and iii) at the same time crimping or bending the pin to anchor it against accidental withdrawal and pierce the point into the tag to guard the same or conceal the point between the underside of the tag and adjacent face side of the merchandise and angled so that itwill not penetrate through either the tag or merchandise. r

Many different types of metallic fasteners in the form of wire clips and staples have been employed for securing: price tags upon fabric merchandise, all. of which in some degree have been, found objectionable, either as readily susceptible to corrosion, unadaptable for use in conjunction with a tag mark- .in g. and applyingmachine; diflicult 'to re move by the user Without iniury to the hands or goods,or their point ends too blunt to pass through a certain quality of oods with out injury to the fibre of the goods, and as the fasteners generally were combined with the tag it is not feasible under prevailing methods of manufacture for rapid and economical production to highly surface finish the fastener toserve as the commercial or common. pin. The common pin is made under very highly developed processes of manufacture and of such common usage that everyone understands how to remove the pin in a correct manner. i

It represents a very small gauge round wire material with appropriate stability and rigidity having a long tapering and fine pointed end for easy 7 piercing through the material to which it is to be applied thus can be attached to the finest Woven fabric material WVltllOUhdlfi-WIDQ or permanently separating the threads its entire surface is highly polished and preservedagainst corro sion and its headedfend. facilitates its insertion or removal to and from the we and merchandise and is alsoo't' a structurevery applicable for use for tag machineiapplication. I

It'istherefore an object of the invention to,

utilize the commercial pin as a fastener for securing a ta g to fabric merchandise with the pin having; a crimped or bent portion preferably towardthe "point end thereof to I extended in an inclined direction to prick into the tag so that the point will be guarded mercialpin deformedto possess the char acteristics heretofore mentioned.

Figureffl is a section on line Fig. 1. y I

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view of parts of a tag: machine for applying thepin to the tag and merchandise and for crimping and bending the point endof project the pin point into the body of the tag from the outside thereof. H I If Figured is a modification of tag providing an" aperture for receiving the head of the pin when applied. 7, As the method of applying the pin to the tag and merchandise is preferably practiced in connection with a tag'marking machine, it is preferable to describe the invention in such capacity of use. The tags usually are arranged in gang or strip leneth and provisioned for step feeding so that'they may the pin to properly anchor the same and to v r withhold the pin against accidental removal be successively operated upon and moved between cooperating? die and anvil members for appropriately supporting andcondition ing the tag andmer'chandise to receive the pin adaptingthe pin to be engaged through and through the goods and tan several times in an approximate longitudinal direction and protected and which can be removed by 7 and deformed for appropriately securing the pin in position and protecting the point thereof.

Thus in Fig. 3 the tag 1 and fabric incrchandise 2 through which the pin 3 is engaged is shown as inserted between a die plate 4 and an anvil headed plunger 5, the die being rigidly mounted and the plunger adapted to be reciprocated toward and from the die plate, the mechanism tor operating the plunger however herein not disclosed.

The die plate is shown as recessed and the anvil correspondingly rounded to press the tag and goods therebetween into bowed or curved form so that the pin *an be passed longitudinally through the tag and goods several times preferably initially entering from the face side of the tag so that the head of the pin will be exposed to such side of the tag and accessible for engagement when it is desired to remove the pin from the tag and goods. The pin is shown as passing through the tag and goods and thence from the reverse or lower side of the goods again passing through the goods and tag to the face side of the tag and thence from the face side of the tag through the tag with the point inclined or bent toprick or pierce into the tag, and preterablyto a degree which will not pass completely through the tag. The pin passes through a channel or groovc'6 in the head end of the plunger so as to properly guide the same to engage into a pin bending recess '7 formed in the die plate for crimping or bending the forward or point end and to direct the same downwardly through the tag and into engagement with the guide plate 8 beneath the tag by directing and bending the point of the pin upwardly or to an angle or incline to pierce into the underside of the tag concealing and guarding the point within the ply thickness of the tag, or, if the ply of the tag is too thin to inibed the point therein, to bring the point between the lower side of the tag and adjacent side of the. tabric secured to the tag.

The downward crimping gives the point end portion a slight hook bend .Sutiicient to anchor the pin against accidental withdrawal in the handling of the ticketed goods. The bowing ot' the tag and goods is to a degree sufiicient to enable the pin to pass through the tag and goods several times in a straight line with the head exposed on the face side of the tag and the point iinbcdded into the tag body either from the face or r iderside of the t and which will not perinit the pin point to be extracted with any yield oi the ta g when released from between the anvil and die. The pin preferably is insu'ted medially of the tag with the head of the pin at the head of the tag as oii'ering,

the best position for securely fastening the to the goods and the tag being slightly bowed is thus reinforced to sustain the opposite side of the tug against upward lapping or flexing, nor does the pin produce a line along which the tag can be readily torn or bent. I

Forming the crimp at the pointeud of the pin adapts the same to be located at a free end of the tag. it however is obvious that the pin could be otherwise crimped or bentit a more permanent anchoring is required.

The drawings show the pin crimp slightly exaggerated for the purpose of illustration. The crimp or corrugations of the pin in the product are of such degree of arch which provide for the pin contact against the tag irtaces, so as not to form too great an obstruction to pin withdrawal, although for some uses the corrugations can be Very pronounced.

Having described my invention, '1 claim:

A merchandise price marking tag comprising a tag, and a commercial pin having pointed andheadcd relatively opposite ends, the pin engaged through the tag and inerchandise and the point end of the pin criinped to extend through the tag only from the face side thereof and direct the point at an angle against the underside of the tag, with the crimp of acharacter to restrain accidcntal withdrawal of the pin.

y In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name.

FREDERICK KOHNLE.

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