US416796A - Clasp and tag - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

MOOSE. OLASP'AND TAG.

No. 416,796. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

MORIS MOOSE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLASP AND TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,796, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed April 15, 1889. Serial No. 307,299. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, MORIS MOOSE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps and Tags, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clasps and tags; and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction and arrangement of the parts and in the novel manner of attaching the same, all of which will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The objects of my invention are to afford a reliable and effective yet simple and inexpensive means for marking articles-such as fabrics, hosiery, gloves, notions, izc.which may be exposed for sale without the necessity of pinning or sewing tickets on the articles so exposed for sale or for reference, as is the usual custom, and also enabling the marks to be easily and rapidly attached and detached, and that the same clasp may be repeatedly used. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings, and in order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a piece of cloth with my clasp and tag attached. Fig. 2 is a View of my clasp before being bent. Fig. 3 is a view of the tag; and Fig. 4. is a sectional end view through the cloth, clasp, and tag.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

Arepresentsa piece of cloth, fabric, or other material to which my clasp B is or may be attached. The clasp B is made of suitable material, size, and form, but preferably of sheet metal and of the form shown in Fig. 2. Near each end of the clasp B, I puncture the material of which the clasp may be made with a pointed instrument and form therein a number of holes, depressions, or eyelets C C, which depressions or eyelets thus formed have the projections a a, which when pressed against the cloth engage therewith, as seen in Fig. 4, and formv a secure fastening. It is obvious that I may indent the metalsufiiciently to form the projections a a on the side opposite the indentation, or may pierce the holes enwill be formed as before, but will have rough or ragged edges which will engage with the cloth or material.

In the drawings I have shown the clasplets having projections a a, yet I do not wish only one hole or may employ any number. After the clasp-piece is thus provided with depressions and projections it is slightly bent and inserted in the slot Ein the tag D, which tag is made of any suitable material, size,

slot E, which I preferto form with an enlargement F on the upper side of. said slot and near the center thereof to admit of the free passage of the projection 01. on the clasp I), and which prevents tearing or stopping in through. Of course I may form the tag with a slot sufficiently wide to allow the projection to pass through without touching the edge of the slot; but I prefer to form it with the enlargement, as I am thereby enabled to use a much narrower slot and obtain a larger space for marking purposes on the tag.

The operation of my device is simple and very effective. or depressions and projections is inserted in the slot E in the tag D, and is then bent and closed on the cloth, with the projections on the inside. The marks are then placed on the tag, and the operation is complete. The clasp being made of very thin and flexible metal, it is easily bent and closed on the cloth by the fingers, and may be readily removed by prying the ends apart and used again, as is apparent.

When it is desired to use my device for securing a tag to hard or almost solid substances, itwill be necessary to use a thicker metal, and after the bend is made in the clasp to drive the projections into the substance by a light blow from a hammer; but as the device is designed more especially for textiles and fabrics the use of the hammer will not be required.

Having thus fully described my invention,

tirely through the clasp, when the projections piece provided with two depressions or eye-' to limit myself to this number, as I may use 7 and form, and is provided at one end with a- The clasp having the holes the slots by the projections on their course what I claim as new, and desire to secure by as shown and described, and for the purpose Letters Patent, is

, set forth. I As an improved article of manufacture, a clasp and tag consisting of the flexible clasp MORIS MOOSE 5 13, having the eyelets 0r depressions C O and WVitnesses:

projections 00 a, and the tag D, having the slot E, provided with enlargement F, substantially HENRY KOLBE, .ALFRED N. TAGERT.

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