US2104698A - Price tag - Google Patents

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Jan. 4, 1933" K H LE 4 2,104,698

PRICE TAG Original Filed Oct. 29, 1934 INVENTOR j-g' BY jg ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 4, 1938 t met me Frederick Kohnle, Dayton, Ohio; assignor to' The I r.

Monarch Marking System Company, Dayton,

Ohio, :3. corporationof Ohio I v Application October 29, 1934, Serial No. 7503-35 Renewed October 5, 1-937, v a

'2 Claims, (c1; air- 25 of This invention relates to improvements in price tags, and particularly as organized in a strip or co-ntinuous'tape for use in marking machines wherein the strips are advanced for printing upon the tags in their consecutive order the marking data, and successively severing and issuing the printed tags from the machine as either applied to themerchandise or to be subsequently manually attached. Y

An object of the invention is to provide a gang tag strip or continuoustape with spaced rectangula'r-punchings, a set of apertures longitudinally of the strip, preferably centrally thereof, each respectively in proximity to an edge of the tag or to a divisional line along'which the tags are severed from the strip and one another. The apertures are utilized for intermittently. advancing the strip in a marking machine, being successively engagedby a reciprocable' feed finger.

Locating the feed apertures, each at one side of a division line of two adjoining tags, allows the foremost tag to' be sustainedat a station while the feed finger is atrest at the end of a feeding strip and engaged with the strip to prevent displacement of the foremost tag while printing thereon and severing from the strip.

Another object of the invention is to provide a feed finger for advancing a tag strip, having a pair of spaced tongues at its forward end, one

0 to successively engage with a spaced, apertured tag of the strip, and the second to overlie and bear upon the strip to hold the strip upon a table or track against vertical displacement and to engage and advance the last tag of the strip.

35 Various other features and advantages will be more fully set forth in a description of the accompanying drawing, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of the improved tag strip containing a plurality of tags.

40 Figure 2 is a plan view of a section of the tag strip disposed on a table or way of a marking machine and operated upon by a feed finger illustrated as moving in a forward or feeding direction engaged with the strip.

45 Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3, Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a section similar to Figure 2 showing the finger as moving in a retreat direction disconnected from the tag strip.

Figure 5 is a section on line 55, Figure 4.

50 Figure 6 is a perspective view of the forward end of a feed finger. I

Referring to the drawing, l indicates a paper tape or continuous strip having notches or slits 2 cut transversely or inwardly into the strip from 5 one longitudinal edge thereof at predetermined spacings apart, defining theifidividual'tag comprised iri' thstripi I The strips may be either in convenient si'aedg ang' lengths for fiat packag ing, or in--extendedlen gtl is' reel wound. This is somewhat governed'by" the type of fastener or 5 clip with which the individual tags of the group are equipped; and also" by the ply" thickness of paper stock employed.

The-strips are primarily contemplated for use in connection with markingmachines for print- 10 ing thereon the pride-marking data, and thence severing the individual tags from the strip or one another.- For the type of tag illustrated, it

is equipped with-the ordinary double" prong wire staple in-which the head or cross bar portion 15 of-thestaple clinched to the body of the tag so thatthe prongs or pm ends extend upright at right angles or perpendicular to theplane' of the tag. It is preferable to merchandise such fastener equipped type in the fiator gang lengths, 20 and it is also desirable and advantageous to have the fasteners atthe-head end or margin of the tag, lying between the notches o'r slits 2, as the notcheslprovide for-a partial preseveringof the tags from oneanother, reducing the cutting length necessary tocompletely sever the tag so that there is no possible interference of the cutter instrumentalities with the, fasteners.

To render all types of tags under a general classification as, pin tickets and string tags, in which a metallic or string fastener is permanently incorporated as a part of the tag, and gum labels, which are adhesively applied to the merchandise to be marked, and various sizes of each type, usable in a single machine for pricemarking and severing the tags from the strip, the strip, in addition to the edge notching or slitting heretofore referred to, is provided with rectangular slots or apertures 3, one for each tag comprised in the strip. The slots each respectively are located within the body of a tag or intermediately of the width of the strip and slightly offset or staggered from the inner end of an adjoining notch. 1

The machine, of which only the table or way 4 ad reciprocating carriage 5 carrying a depressible feed finger 6 is illustrated herein, deemed sumcient for the present purposes,'may, for example, be typical of a commercial machine corresponding to that illustrated in Letters'Patent issued to me September 2'7, 1932, No. 1,879,875 and to which reference may be had for a more comprehensive detailed description and more complete understanding.

As shown, the carriage 5 is in a superposed spring 8 housed within the groove in the underside of the carriage, and covered by a cover plate 9 fixed to the carriage. The forward end of the cover plate is also flanged or lip-turned oppositely to the end of the feed finger for confining the finger against displacement. The finger yields longitudinally, and hinges or swings laterally for yieldingly depressing the forward end of the finger to cooperate with the tagstrip tracked upon the top of the table. i r The finger is yieldingly depressed by a spring l0 sooketed in the under side of the carriage and bearing on the top of the finger approximately;

midway of its length. The forward end of the finger is of forked formation providing an outwardly or downwardly directed tang l2 and a tongue II. The tang 12 has ajsquared or butt end for engaging a shoulder or edge, resulting in forming a slot or aperture 3 for advancing the strip. The tongue H extends beyondthe tang and normally slides over and yieldingly bears upon the upper side of the strip holding-the strip against vertical displacement. The forward end is squared for vabutting engagement with the end of the strip, a last tag thereof to advance the same after the tang is ineffective. The tang l2 engages into a longitudinal groove 13 in the top of the table so that the butt end of the tang intersects the top plane of the table-preventing the finger from losing its contact with the edge or shoulder with which it is engaged when extended through a slot or aperture in the strip.- This leaves no opportunity for it to wedge beneath the tag or strip which it would otherwise be apt to do particularly if the strip is of comparatively thin ply material.

The tongue has a flat under side and is extensive of the tang and bears upon the tag during the period that'the tang is engaged in a slot or aperture in the strip, thereby preventing any buckling of the strip at the slot which would be apt to climb the tang and dislodge the same from the strip, disturbing strip feed and accuracy of feed.

It is therefore feasible with the same feed fin- 'ger to engage and feed very thin or heavy ply paper strips in a straight path without liability of shifting or disturbing the strip from its longitudinal line a of travel.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A device for feeding a tag strip, the strip having spaced apertures relatively in alignment longitudinally of the strip, comprising a table for sustaining the strip, a finger sustained over .the table and reciprocable longitudinally of the strip having its forward end bifurcated, providing a tang and a tongue relatively adjacently disposed, the tang for engagement into-an aperture of the strip to intersect a shoulder formed by the aperture connecting the finger to the strip, and the tongue for hearing on the'upper 7 surface of the strip when the tang is engaged into an aperture in the strip for strip advancement to prevent strip buckling and tang dislodgment from its feeding connection with the strip and having a greater reach than the tang for feeding the last tag of the strip.

2. A device for feeding a tag strip, the strip having spaced apertures relatively in alignment longitudinally of the strip, comprising, a feed.

finger reciprocable longitudinally in relation to atable surface for sustaining the tag strip, the finger having a laterally extended tang at its forward end for engagement into an aperture of the strip and abuttingly contacting a shoulder formed by the aperture to advance the strip in a forward stroke of the finger, and a tongue at the forward end of the finger adjacent the tang bearing upon the upper surface of the strip to depress the same upon the table surface. when the tang is-engaged into an aperture in the strip for strip advancement to prevent strip buckling and tang dislodgment from its feeding connection with the strip. 7

' FREDERICK KOHNLE.

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