US1713633A - Laundry marking tag - Google Patents

Description

LAUNDRY` MARKING 'TAG Filed April 29, 1.927

m @mia AITONES Patented May 2l, 1929.

*UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHALLES E. WAREAM, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY i MACHINERY COMPANY, OF NORWOOD STATION, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

LAUNDRY MARKING TAG.

Application filed April 29, 1927. Serial No. 187,558. y

This invention relates generally to fabric article identifying tags and particularly to that class of such devices utilized in identifying articles .as they pass through the various steps of a treating process such ras the laundry processes.

Heretofore fabric articles have been identified in various ways, sometimes with figures ormarks placed upon the article with indelible ink; sometimes withclamped markers clamped or otherwise secured to the article and by numerous devices removably secured to the article. In some instances these devices have been of the self-clamping type which require special tools for opening them to remove them from the articles to which they are applied.

The present invention aims to overcome some of the difliculties accompanying the use of these other devices and to provide a new and improved type of marker of the clamp type arranged, in the preferred type, to be self-opening or releasing and to carry suitable identifying indicia which clearly marks or identifies the marker and which, through the structure of the device, leaves an identifying effect upon the articles after the marker is removed so that the article is permanently identified, in a sense, to the extent, at least, of having the indicia of the marker left on it for identification should the marker be removed too soon or should the article be misplaced after the marker has been removed. This feature adds great utility to any marker and especially the self-releasing spring marker because when such a marker is applied to the goods it is closed against its spring tendency to clamp the article and is held in this arrangement by some means which is afterwards removed to release the marker from the article. The mark left in the fabric while being more or less permanent does not disfigure the article and may be readily ironed out if its appearance is undesirable.

The invention may be further briefly summarized as consisting in the construction and arrangement of parts as set forth in the following description, drawings andclaims.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device; Fig. 2 shows the device applied; Fig. 3 is a section upon the line 3 3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a section upon the line 4 4, Fig. 2; and Fig.

5 is a view showing the impression upon the article to be identified. i

. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the marker comfprises two flatclamping portions 1 and 2 ormed of the same piece of non-corrosive met-al bent `back uponthemselves at 3 and crimped at 4 Vtransversely of the marker so as to protect the bent end portion against undue flexing as shown in Fig. 1.

The curved end portion 3 may beV provided with suitable identifying notches 5 for cooperation with any suitable identifying system. Each of the clamping portions 1 or 2 is notched inward from each of its .edges to In addition to the identifying notches 5 each of the clamping members 1 and 2 is provided with indicating indicia such as a number or the like, the number being cut out or pressed upward with respect to the member l, for example, while the member 2 has a like indication extending in the same direction, the number or indication ofthe lower member nesting into the number or indication of the upper member l so that when the goods is clamped between these members and has passed through the several laundry operations, it becomes embossed to the extent of having an identifying' figure or mark in it correponding to the marking device. Even when the marking device is removed it retains semi-permanent embossed -marking similar to the marking of the markapplied passes through the several laundry processes where it becomes moist and finally dried so that a perfect embossed impression isA created and provided uponrthe article which will permit of considerable handling and yet will properly identify the article.

lVhile the specilic arrangement disclosed in this description is related more particularly to `the first opening or releasing type of clamp, it is obvious tha-t this embossing principle may be readily applied to any type of marker whether it be first opening, irst closing, or indeed, of any arrangement where it possesses the necessaryv element capable of producing' the embossing feature.

Having described my invention I claim:

l. Apparatus for distinguishing fabric articles to be subjected to laundry treatment, comprising a plurality of generally similar marking tags each adapted` for rel'easable attachment to an article for accompanying the same through the laundry treatment, each tag being provided with means for producing in the article to which it isV attache'd` an identifying1 mark, the' marks being produced by pressure only and without perforating the articles and each 'tag producing a diiferent mark, whereby if a tag becomes detached from its article during treatment of the latter, the articleV will still bear its identifying mark.

" 2.' Apparatus for distinguishing `fabric articles to be subjected' to laundry treatment, comprising a plurality of generally similar marking tags each having a pair of clamp` ing portions to releasably receive' an article therebetween, the tags being adapted to ac company the arti-cles through the laundry treatment, the clamping portions of each of said tags being provided with means for producing in the article clamped therebetween an identifying mark, the marks being produced by pressure only and without perforating the articles and' each tag producing a Vdifferent mark, whereby if a tag becomes detached from its article during treatment of the latter, the article will still bear its identifying mark.

3. Apparatus for distinguishing fabric articles to be subjected to' laundry treatment, comprising a plurality of generally similar marking tags each havin(V a pair of clampingportions to releasably receive. an article therebetween, the tagsV being adapted to accompany the articles through the laundry treatment, the clamping portions of each of said tags being provided with means for producing in the article clamped therebetween an identifying mark, the marks being produced by pressure only and without perforating the articles and each tagV producing a different mark, the mark producing means of each tag including a raised part on one clamping portionuand a correspondingly shaped depressed parton the other clamping portion for receiving said raised part?, whereby if a tag becomes detached from its article-during treatment of 'the latter, the article will stilll bear its identifying mark.

In testimony whereof I hereby alx my signature. Y Y

CHARLES E. VVAREAM.V

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