US1740832A - Holder for marking tickets - Google Patents

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Dec. 24, 1929.

o. H. PIERCE 1,740,832 HOLDER FOR MARKING TICKETS Filed March 7, 1.929

5 hwy 3 Patented Dec. 24, 1929 NETED STATES OSCAR I-I. PIERCE, OF TORONTO, ONTARIG, CANADA HOLDER FOR MARKING TICKETS Application filed March 7, 1929. Serial No. 345,175.

The principal objects of the invention are to facilitate the handling and marking of mercantile sale price and identification tickets and to provide a very simple and inexpensive device which will enable the handling of the tickets in groups or strips in such a manner as to lessen the liability of scratching or pricking the fingers with the sharp fastening prongs.

The principal features of the invention consist in providing a holder to support the tickets in a convenient position for marking having a guiding groove to receive the ticket pins or an edge flange to hold the tickets from shifting.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device showing a strip of sale price or identification tickets of the pin type in position thereon ready for marking.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing a strip of tickets without pins arranged thereon ready for marking.

Figure 3 is an end elevational view of Figure 1 showing the pins for securing the tag to the merchandise, housed within the guiding groove.

Figure a is an end form of holder.

Many forms of sale price and identification tickets are used in the marking of clothing and textile merchandise and one very commonly used is provided with a sharp pointed U-shaped wire inserted through it close to its upper edge, the ends of which project beyond its rear surface. These tickets are usually printed and cut into individual tickets and sold in boxes, and as the ends of the wire fastening members are very sharply pointed it requires a great amount of care on the part of the person allotted the duty of marking, to keep from pricking or scratching the fingers.

In cases where there is considerable ticket marking it is the usual practice to first secure the ticket to the goods and then mark the price or size thereon. This method of handling is very slow and owing to the fact that the tags are small and are frequently very hard to separate it will be readily underelevation of a modified stood that is is not only a dangerous but a costly practice.

The present invention eliminates these objectionable features mentioned and in the preferred form of th invention a rectangular plate 1 of sheet metal is formed with a longitudinal rib 52 forming a vertical groove 3 extending parallel with and adjacent to one edge. This groove is deeper than the length of the pins 4 which fit into same and hold the tickets for marking.

The edge 5 of the plate 1 adjacent to the rib 2 is preferably flanged up and backwardly over the upper surface of the plate forming a shallow groove 6 which extends parallel and adjacent to the groove 3-and opens inwardly toward the plate surface, The other longitudinal edge of the plate is preferably formed with a bead 7. The deep rib 2 supports the plate at a convenient slope for writing.

In the form of the device shown in Figure 4 a block of Wood or like material of the desired dimensions is provided with a groove which is cut into the top surface parallel with and adjacent to one edge and a strip 9 of thin sheet material having an offset flanged edge 10 is securely fastened to the surface with said edge parallel and adjacent to the gro ve 8.

It is preferable to provide the tickets in strips with transverse perforations and in using this invention a strip of tickets is placed thereon with the pin fastening means inserted into the groove 3 as shown in Figures 1 and 3 and when thus held on the plate or holder they may be easily and conveniently marked. The strip is then removed and the tickets are separated the one from the other and placed on the goods to be marked. This method of handling the tickets obviously lessens the risk of piercing the hands of the operator while marking and handling.

In handling other forms of tickets such as those without pins or with cord fastening means, the upper edge of the strip is inserted in the groove 6 formed by the flanged upper edge of the plate which protects the edge of the strip and supports same in proper position for marking.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A marking ticket holder comprising a member having a flat ticket-supporting surface having an open groove formed therein adjacent to one edge and extending down- Wardly below the ticket-supporting surface.

2. A marking ticket holder comprising a member having a flat ticket-supporting surface having an open groove formed therein extending downwardly therefrom, and a flange along the edge adjacent to said groove forming a groove to receive one edge of the ticket.

3. A holder for marking tickets having pin fastening points projecting therefrom, comprising a member having a longitudinal open groove depressed in its top side adapted to receive the pin fastening points, and a flange along the edge adjacent to said groove. 4:. A marking ticket holder comprising a sheet-metal plate having a longitudinal rib formed therein forming a deep groove in the top side, and a flange turned upwardly and backwardly over the top of the plate forming a shallow groove to receive the edges of the tickets to be marked.

OSCAR H. PIERCE.

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