US2888900A

US2888900A - Pennant

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Publication number: US2888900A
Application number: US753488A
Authority: US
Inventors: Scarlet Ted
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1958-08-06
Filing date: 1958-08-06
Publication date: 1959-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1976-06-02

Description

T. SCARLET June 2, 1959 PENNANT Filed Aug. 6, 1958 FIG.2

FIG.6

INVENTOR. Ted Scarlet ATTORNEY.

PENNANT Ted Scarlet, Bergenfield, NJ.

Application August 6, 1958, Serial No. 753,488

6 Claims. (Cl. 116-173) This invention relates to pennants, banners, flags and similar devices and more particularly to an improved construction of such articles and a new method of making them.

More specifically the improvement resides in the tie string members and the manner in which such tie string members are incorporated into the finished article. The improvement results in a simplification of the construction of such articles and accordingly makes for more rapid production and greater economy.

The objects of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description thereof, which taken with the drawings herein, are intended to be illustrative of the invention, and not by way of limitation thereof, it being understood that the scope of the invention will be defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows an improved pennant or similar article incorporating the novel features of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a View of a portion of the pennant shown in Fig. 1, said portion being known as the head, with only one tie string member inserted and before securing of the hem has taken place;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of one version of the novel tie string member;

Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views, partly broken away, of the head portions of the tie string members in alternate forms of construction; and

Fig. 6 is a detail view, partly broken away, showing how the head of the tie string member is retained in the finished article, and also showing the end of the tie string member split into two separate strings for use in tying the pennant to a pole or a stick.

Referring now to the drawings, the complete pennant 10 consists of the portion termed the head 11 and a portion known as the field 12 which are secured together by a line of stitching 14. One advantage of such a two piece construction is that the head can be prepared in advance with a multi-color design which is ap propriate for use on pennants for many towns, cities and resort areas having similar climatic or environmental features.

For example, views of a pretty girl diving into the sea or of a beach scene obviously are typical of many parts of the country. Subsequently prepared fields individually imprinted with the name of a particular place as required as orders are received from local vendors can thereafter be attached to the preprinted heads of suitable design. Attractive pennants can therefore be quickly and more economically assembled with a much wider choice of a variety of pleasing designs and colors than would be feasible in a one piece design. It is evident that the quantity required for sale in any one locality is relatively small and that the cost of producing multicolored pennants for such areas would ordinarily be disproportionately high. The use of preprinted heads suitable for many communities therefore makes possible United rates Patent 0 2,888,900 Patented June 2, 1959 ICE the production of varied and pleasing pennants at a much lower unit cost.

The novel features of the invention however reside more specifically in the improved tie string members and the manner in which they are incorporated into finished pennants.

The preprinted head portion 11 is prepared as a blank 15 which includes a hem 16 which is ultimately folded back upon itself along a line of perforations 17 and secured thereto either by sewing or by being cemented with an adhesive of a suitable type. The line of perforations includes a pair of spaced slits 18. The perforations are desirable for use with heavy materials such as felt which is commonly used in the manufacture of pennants and similar articles, to improve foldability and to mark the line of fold accurately. In softer materials, the perforations may be omitted, but they are a great convenience when used with stiffer materials.

The slits 18 are provided to receive two tie string members 20. These tie string members are novel in that they are provided with enlarged head portions generally designated as 21. The purpose of the enlargement is to prevent the tie string member from passing completely through its particular slit 18 when the tie string member is inserted therethrough.

In the version shown in Fig. 3, the head portion is shaped like one half of an arrowhead. The head portion may be shaped like a full arrowhead, such as indicated in Fig. 4 which shows a head in the form of an arrowhead with a portion of the tip removed. The version shown in Fig. 5 is of T-head form.

The necessary characteristics of the enlarged head are that it must have at leastone shoulder portion 22 which prevents complete passage through one of the slits 18 when the tie string member is assembled with the pennant, and that the head portion must extend sufliciently from shoulder 22, in a rightward direction as viewed in the drawings, so that a line of stabilizing stitches, if the hem is secured by sewing, may pass through the head 21 when the hem 16 is folded over to be secured to the pennant body.

The pennant preferably consists of four pieces, head blank 15, field 12 and two tie string members 20. The preprinted head blanks are prepared initially and stored, and are thereafter matched to the subsequently prepared individual fields, and sewn together to form the body of the pennant. Each of the two tie string members 20 is then inserted through one of the slits 18 until the enlarged head portion 21 prevents further passage and so that these enlarged heads will lie between the hem and the main portion of the head after the hem is folded over along the line of perforations 17. The tie string members are then held in position as the securing of the hem onto the head blank takes place, and if this is by sewing, care is exercised to make sure that the line of stitching not only penetrates the layers of the hem 16 and the head blank 15, but also the enlarged head portions of the tie string members 20.

The tie string members are also provided with longitudinal slits 25 which begin a short distance from the left end of the tie string members as seen in the drawings and run to the rightward just short of the point at which the tie string members emerge from the slits 18 in the finished head 11.

These slits 25 are provided so that each tie string member may be split into two

separate strings

26 and 27, as shown in Fig. 6. Since the felt material from which pennants and similar articles are customarily fabricated is easily separable, this splitting is readily accomplished by hand without the use of scissors, although scissors may be used, if preferred. The

strings

26 and 27 may then be used to tie the pennant to a pole or stick.

The use of the novel tie string members 20 as shown and described herein instead of the usual four separate strings, simplifies manufacture of the pennant and affords greater convenience by providing for several possible ways of suspending the pennant, the particular man ner of which is a matter of preference of the individual purchaser and which cannot be foretold by the manufacturer, but for which it is desirable to provide. Some persons prefer to use tie strings to attach a pennant to a stick, but others prefer to display a pennant tacked to a display board or wall. The unsplit members 20 lend themselves more readilyto being tacked as they are wider than the conventional tie strings and the slit 25 is aconi venient guide to the exact center line of each tie string member.

I claim:

1. A pennant or similar article made of at least three pieces including a head or main body portion, and a pair of tie string members, said main body portion including a hem, a pair of spaced slits disposed on a line separating the hem from the main body portion, said tie string members having been inserted through said slits to be retained between said hem and said main body portion when the hem is folded back upon the main body portion and secured thereto.

2. A pennant or similar article according to claim 1,

in which said tie string members have enlarged head portions, each of said enlarged head portions having at least one shoulder to prevent complete passage through its respective slit when the tie string member has been inserted through said slit, each of said head portions being of sufiicient length to be caught by stitching when the hem has been folded back upon the main body portion and sewn thereto.

3. A pennant or similar article according to claim 1, in which the hem is separated from the main body portion by a line of perforations which includes the spaced slits through which the tie string members have been inserted.

4. A tie string member for a pennant or similar article having a main body portion which is provided with a folded over hem and a pair of spaced slits disposed along the line of fold, said tie string member comprising an elongated strip portion and a head portion, said head portion having at least one shoulder capable of preventing said head portion from passing completely through one of said slits when said tie string member has been in serted therethrough.

5. A tie string member according to claim 4 in which the elongated strip portion is provided with a longitudinally disposed slit beginning near the head portion and terminating a predetermined distance inwardly from the opposite end of said strip, the remaining unslit portion being capable of being severed manually into two portions to form separate tie strings.

6. The method of manufacturing a pennant or similar article having a main body portion including a hem and a pair of enlarged head tie string members, the steps comprising perforating said body portion along a line separating the hem from the body portion with a series of small cuts including a pair of larger, spaced slits; inserting a tie string member through each of said slits until the enlarged head of the tie string member prevents further passage; folding said hem along the line of perforations to enclose the heads of the tie string members between said hem and said body portion, and securing the hem to the body portion with the heads of the tie string members caught between the edge of the hem and the body portion of the pennant.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,593,078 Jacobs July 20, 1926