US735397A

US735397A - Tag.

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Publication number: US735397A
Application number: US15360903A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles D Meneely; Harry A Crowe
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-04-21
Filing date: 1903-04-21
Publication date: 1903-08-04
Anticipated expiration: 1920-08-04

Description

No. 735,897 PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. G. D. MENEELY 4?: H. A. GROWE.

TAG.

APPLIUATIOR FILED APR. 21, 1903.

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. UNITED STATES Patented August 4,1963;

PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES n. MENEELYAND HARRY A. OROWE, or NEW-YORK, N. Y.

TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 735,397, dated August 4, 1903. Application filed llpril 21, 1903, Serial No. 158,609. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we,OHARLns D; MENEELY and HARRY A. CROWE, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tags, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in tags.

It is desirable that tags of the character employed to seal receptacles shall .be of such a character that they can be readily and quickly applied to the receptacles, but cannot be removed byunauthorized persons without showing that the receptacles have been tampered with. For instance, it is customary for street-railway companies to supply conductors with string-tags, which are employed to tie up and seal the bags in which each conductor places the receipts for his tour of duty,

the bags being deposited in a suitable recep tacle in an office or other suitable place and being removed from the receptacle by some person authorized to collect them, and it is desirable that such tags be so constructed that they can be readily and quickly applied to the bags, but cannot be readily tampered with without disclosing the fact. Furthermore, it is desirable in order to prevent waste of cord that each tag have the proper amount of cord secured thereto.

The present invention has for its object to produce an improved tag which can be readily and quickly applied to the article and which cannot be easily removed without destroying the tag.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in a certain construction and combinations, which will be hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is, a perspective vieyy of a bag having a form of the improved tag secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tag beforg it is applied to Fig 3 is a side View of the con- Fig. 44s a sectional detail view on the line a b of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view on the line 0 (l of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a bag which may be used for containing money or other valuables, the bag being shown as closed by the improved tag. The tag is provided with a body portion 2, which may have upon one of its sides blank spaces and proper inscription to indicate by whom the tag was applied to the bag and the date of its application. In the preferred form of the construction the cord 3 will be secured to the tag. While this may be accomplished in any desired way, a cheap and effective way to do this is to secure the cord between its ends tothe tag by means of a retaining-piece of paper 4., which is pasted to the body portion of the tag on its rear side, both ends of the cord being'thus left free. The tag is also provided with a locking-flap 5, which is integral with it, the boundary between the body of the tag and the locking-flap being preferably defined by a crease 6, indicating the line of fold. The tag is further provided with a perforation 7, which is preferably surrounded by the usual eyelet 8. In applying the tag the longer end of the cord is wrapped around the bag and secured by a knot, the bag being rolled, as shown, after which the cord is passed .through the perforation, so that it is looped through the perforation. In the preferred construction, furthermore, the tag will be provided with a second perforation 9, which, as shown,is located partly in the body of the tag and partly in the locking-flap. When tion, the ends of the cord will be passed therethrough and then these ends will be carried in opposite directionsaround the sides of the tag and over onto the body of the tag, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. After the ends of the cord have been thus positioned thelockin'g-flap, which will preferably be prothe tag is provided with this second perforavided with a coating of mucilage or paste, is

folded upward and pasted to the retainingthe cord in place. This construction makes tions may be made therein without depart- I piece, so that it securely fastens the ends of IOO ing from the invention. The invention is not, therefore, to be limited to the specific construction herein shown and described.

What is claimed is 1. In a tag, the combination with the body portion having a perforation, of a cord having one end secured to the body portion, said cord being adapted to be looped through the perforation, and a locking-flap adapted to be secured to the body portion and overlying the ends of the cord, substantially as described.

2. In a tag, the combination with the body portion having a perforation, of a cord, a retaining-piece by which the cord is secured to the body portion, said cord being adapted to,

be looped through the perforation, and a locking-fiap adapted to be pasted to the body portiofi and overlying the ends of the cord, substantially as described.

3. In a tag, the combination with the body portion having two perforations and a lockingfiap, of a cord adapted to be looped through one perforation and having its ends passed through the other perforation and over onto the body portion of the tag, the locking-flap being adapted to be pasted to the body portion and overlying the ends of the cord, substantially as described.

4.. I11 a tag, the combination with the body portion, said body portion having a perforation through which a loop of cord is adapted to be passed and a second perforation through which the ends of the cord are adapted to be passed and having a locking-flap, of a cord secured to the body portion of the tag whereby the cord is adapted to be looped through one of the perforations and both ends passed through the other perforation and carried in opposite directions around the end of the tag to a position between the locking-flap and the body of the tag, substantially as described.

5. In a tag, the combination with the body portion having a perforation near one end and a perforation near the other end and a locking-flap, of a cord, and a retaining-piece operating to secure the cord to the tag between its ends, whereby the cord is adapted to be looped through one perforation and have both its ends passed through the other perforation and carried around the end of the tag and over onto the body portion, the ends of the cord being secured beneath the locking-flap, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES D. MENEELY. HARRY A. OROWE.

Witnesses:

A. H. BAVENDAM, A. B. OLOBRIDGE.