US1856374A - Method of tagging laces, strings, and the like - Google Patents

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May 3, 1932- R. L. cHAssELoN METHOD 0F TAGGING LACES, STRINGS, AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 29, 1929 I 7?, asse/an Patented May 3, 1932 NEE: TATS it T REN LOUIS CHASSELON, OF PARIS, FRANCE Application filed October 29, 1929, Serial No. 403,345, and in Germany November 3, 1928.

It has already been proposed to effect the tagging of laces, strings and the like, by having recourse to compression in order to render thinner the ends on which are secured the tags constituted by supple or rigid sheaths.

rlhis compression must be maintained during the drying or cooling of the materials constituting or replacing the tags.

The said compression which is laterally exerted is obtained by means of jaws the pressure section of which must be varied or the interchangeability of which must be provided according to the nature and shape of the tag.

This present invention is adapted to rem'- edy these various inconveniences and essentially consists in reducing the normal dimensions of the lace, string or the like by twining it on itself; by the torsion imparted to the lace between two predetermined points, coils are formed which bear on each other, thus giving to the twined portion a certain rigidity; this rigidity will of course vary according to the degree of torsion imparted to the lace, that is to say according to the number of turns given to the twined portion.

For maintaining this torsion or these coils and avoiding the unwinding, it sufhces to enclose the coils in any rigid or supple sheath, made of paper, cloth, Celluloid, cellophane, threads, etc., forming a tube and preventing the spacing apart of t ie coils; preferably this sheath will be formed of coils on which is glued paper, cellophane or any other substance, coloured or not, the adherence of the sheath to the portion of the lace rendered rigid by torsion is ensured by the pressure of the lace which tends to expand or is completed by gluing the first coil of the sheath on the lace itself.

Owing to the twining action the twined portion being loose, the winding of a sheath adhering to the lace is facilitated and the number of turns imparted to the sheath is sufficient for causing the surface of this sheath glued on itself to instantaneously prevent the unwinding of the coils, this avoiding the loss of time occurring with the old methods.

In order to obtain the twined portion of the following method of procedure can be adopted and will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 shows a lace held in a fixed clamp and a rotatable clamp,

Figure 2 shows a lace held in two rotatable clamps,

Figure 3 shows a lace held in two fixed clamps and twisted by a third clamp between the first two, and

Figure l shows the twined portion of a lace covered by a sheath.

In Fig. l, the lace is held in two clamps A, B. One of the clamps,-A, for instance,- is fixed; the other B can receive a movement of rotation; the clamp B is caused to rotate according to the desired number of turns, for obtaining the required twined portion; of course, the distance separating both clamps is variable, according to the length of twined portion it is desired to obtain. In Fig. 2,

both clamps rotate in reverse direction.

ln Fig. 3, both clamps A and B are fixed, a third clamp C, placed between both clamps A and B, forms the twined portion by rotating according to the desired number of turns.

Other combinations of movement of the clamps could be used; thus, the clamp A could be fixed, the clamp B effecting its twining action by rotation and by sliding on the lace, moving away from the clamp A; in this case, at the beginning of the operation, both clamps would be adjacent to each other.

Fig. e illustrates a portion of the lace with its twined portion provided with its sheath.

In order to simplify the manufacture, the twining action can be effected from place to place on the lace, the lace portion thus tagged being subsequently cut 0E at any point, for instance at the place marked with a line, as shown in Fig. Ll.

It will bel understood that laces of any desired length can be formed, and that supple or rigid tags of any length can be provided. This tagging method is of very low cost price and allows to obtain an output much greater than with the methods previously used.

I claimze- 1. Process for tagging laces which essentially consists in twining on itself a portion of the lace and in holding this twined portion together by' a'J thin sheath rolled over and glued on to itself several times.

2. Process for tagging laces which essentially consists in twining on itself a portion of the lace and in holding this tWined p0rtion together by a, thin sheath of cellophane rolled over and glued on to itself several times.

In testimony Whereoli` I have signed my name to this specification.

REN LOUIS CHASSELON.

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