US179331A - Improvement in tag-fasteners - Google Patents

Description

w. B. MILLS.

TAG-FASTEN-ER.

Patented June 27,1876.

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WILLIAM B. MILLS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPRQVEMENT IN TAG-FASTENERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 179,331, dated J une 27, 1876; application filed April 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. MILLS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Removable Tabs or Clothing: Tickets, which is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the ticket attached to a garment. Figs. '2 and 3 are different perspective views of the tab. Fig. 4 represents the metallic blank in which the ticket is held; Fig. 5, a view of the same after it has been folded over upon the edge of the ticket Fig. 6, a sectional view taken on the line m as, Fig. 2; and Fig. 7, a front edge view of the tab, the ticket portion being in section on the line 3 3 Fig. 2.

My invention relates 'to tabs or clothingtickets which the dealer attaches to garments for the purpose of showing the size, quality, or price of the article, or all of these particulars together, and which is usually removed from the garment when it is sold.

Heretofore it has been customary to sew this tab to the garment. This requires time and expense, and makes it inconvenient to remove the ticket.

My invention consists in stamping out thin strips of any suitable sheet metal, and folding them in such way as to clasp the edges of the ticket, and then slip upon the'edge of the garment, and clasp it so as to hold the tab attached thereto, but in such a manner as to be easily removed, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the sheetmetal blank, two of which are used to hold the ticket. For about one-half its length this blank is cut wider than the remaining porf tion, so as to form a wing or projection, a. This portion a of the strip is folded up, so as to clasp one end of a ticket, B, and the other end of this ticket being secured in like manner it is firmly held within the two metallic strips, and may be fastened by them to the garment. For greater security, a portion of the strip may be forced down slightly upon the ticket, in the ordinary manner, by means of a punch, as shown in Figs.5 and 6 of the drawings. The ends of the blank A are pointed, and are turned over so as to form small hooks or catches b, as clearly shown in the shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, and

the article is ready for use.

In using this device, the free arms 0 are slipped on the under side of the garment O, and the other arms pass over the other side of the same, so as to expose the ticket upon the outer side of the garment. The hooks or catches Z) engage with the cloth, and prevent the tab from fallin g off when the garment is handled. If necessary, the hooks may be pressed into the cloth, so that the ticket may be held securely. The tickets contain the. usual information as to size, cost, 850., or anything desired may be written upon them.

For greater security, it may be found desirable, in some instances, to form additional points in the metallic pieces by striking them up, as shown at d d in Fig. 3 of the drawings. Ordinarily, however, the points upon the ends will be found sufficient for all practical purposes.

The tabs can be attached to garments very rapidly, and can be readily removed therefrom by disengaging the hooks b from the cloth, and slightly bending back the arms a, so as to allow the edge of the garment to slip out between them and the ticket.

Considerable labor and expense are thus saved in attaching the tickets to garments. Moreover, these tabs can be used more than once, and when the paperticket becomes soiled it can be easily removed from the metallic holders and replaced by a new one.

I also contemplate using erasive tablets for the tickets, so that the-letters and figures written thereon can be removed and others substituted therefor. Tabs of this description can be used over and over again, and for different purposes.

I have described and shown my invention as applied to the ordinary clothing-ticket of a sales-room. It is evident, however, that it is capable of a great variety of applications, and may be utilized wherever it is desired to attach a ticket of any kind to any soft material with Which the hooks will engage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-- ticket B, fastened to the strips by folding over ters Patent, is the edge a, to form a clamp, substantially as 1. A detachable tab, consisting of a ticket, set forth. B and metallic holders A provided With suit- 'alile griping-hooks b, substantially as and for YWILLIAM MILLS Witnesses L. A. BUNTING, J. L. OoBURN.

the'purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the metallic strips A, pointed and bent, as described, and the

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