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WO1992016122A2
WO1992016122A2 PCT/GB1992/000503 GB9200503W WO9216122A2 WO 1992016122 A2 WO1992016122 A2 WO 1992016122A2 GB 9200503 W GB9200503 W GB 9200503W WO 9216122 A2 WO9216122 A2 WO 9216122A2
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pin
badge
plate
end portion
passage means
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PCT/GB1992/000503
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Michael James Moran
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The Badge Factory (Scotland) Limited
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Priority to GB9224075A priority Critical patent/GB2261649A/en
Publication of WO1992016122A3 publication Critical patent/WO1992016122A3/fr

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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C3/00—Medals; Badges
    • A44C3/001—Badges
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B1/00—Buttons
    • A44B1/18—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening
    • A44B1/22—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening attached by thread not visible to the front

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  • the present invention relates to button or pin badges.
  • a button badge generally comprises a shell or cup to which a print or other image bearing element, usually laminated with a protective covering, is bonded and a pin fixture or a shell backing plate with a pin fixture, for fixing the badge to a garment.
  • Modern pin badges mostly use moulded plastics backing plates having a safety pin, of generally known type, for fixing the badge to a garment.
  • a typical example of a badge made by the presently accepted method of button badge 1 construction is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
  • a laminated print A is crimped (fixed) between a shell (usually metal) B and a backing plate C (usually plastic) by lateral pressure applied by the press used in badge assembly.
  • the safety pin D used to fasten the badge to a garment is sandwiched between the shell B backing plate C and cannot be removed without destroying the badge.
  • the safety pin D has a relatively high component cost.
  • the present invention provides a pin badge, said badge comprising a badge plate and a pin, said badge plate having an image mounting side and spaced apart pin mounting and pin engagement portions on the reverse side thereof, said pin mounting portion being formed and arranged for anchoring a first end portion of said pin with the main body of said pin extending across said reverse side of the badge plate generally towards said engagement portion for releasable engagement of a second, generally pointed, end portion of said pin with the engagement portion in use of the badge on a garment, said mounting portion having an extended length passage means having a first end portion from which the main body of the pin with said pointed end portion projects, and a second end portion, said first end portion of the passage means having a diameter not substantially greater than that of said first end portion of the pin for receiving said first pin end portion through said passage means, said passage means and said pin being formed and arranged for interengage ent upon introduction of the first pin end portion into said passage means, so as to retain captively said pin against axial withdrawal of the pin from the passage means in a direction towards the pointed pin end
  • the present invention provides a pin badge, said badge comprising a badge plate and a pin, said badge plate having an image mounting side and spaced apart pin mounting and pin engagement portions on the reverse side thereof, said pin mounting portion being formed and arranged for fixedly anchoring a first end portion of said pin with the main body of said pin extending across said reverse side of the badge plate generally towards said engagement portion for releasable engagement of a second, pointed, end portion of said pin with the engagement portion in use of the badge on a garment, said mounting portion having an extended passage means of reduced diameter less than that of said first end portion of the pin and formed and arranged for receiving said first pin end portion with a push-fit therein and substantially rigidly supporting said pin during engagement and disengagement of the pointed end portion thereof with the engagement portion in use of the badge.
  • the pin badge of the invention may thus be manufactured in a particularly simple and economic manner using only a simple plain pin such as a so-called dressmaker's pin, and a badge plate which can be very simply assembled together, the first end portion of the pin being simply forcibly inserted in the badge plate mounting portion and the pin bent to shape if required.
  • badge plate may be used in accordance with the present invention including conventional types such as that described above which have a backing plate, usually of plastics, and an image support plate, usually of metal, with e.g. a laminated print image supported thereon, or alternatively painted or otherwise applied directly thereto.
  • a backing plate usually of plastics
  • an image support plate usually of metal, with e.g. a laminated print image supported thereon, or alternatively painted or otherwise applied directly thereto.
  • one-piece badge plates as further described hereinbelow.
  • the badge plate (or backing plate thereof) is a one-piece plastics moulding, said pin mounting and engagement portions being formed integrally therewith.
  • said first end portion of said pin has an enlarged head portion, whereby said enlarged head portion may not be pulled through said extended passage means.
  • said extended passage means extends from said image mounting side through to the reverse side of the badge plate and desirably a boss projecting proud of said reverse side.
  • the entrance to the passage means at the image mounting side is countersunk whereby said enlarged head portion does not stand proud of the image mounting side when fully inserted.
  • said extended passage means may include passage means extending through the mounting portion on the reverse side of the badge plate only, the axis of such a passage means Joeing generally parallel to the reverse side of the badge plate, desirably at an angle of not more than 20° to the reverse side, e.g. from 10 to 20°.
  • said extended passage means is at least partly open-sided along its length in said mounting portion, said slot desirably having a reduced width less than that of said pin diameter so that said pin may be push-fitted therein and substantially rigidly supported thereby.
  • the entrance to the passage means is in the form of a pin badge according to claim 9 wherein the entrance to the passage means is in the form of an elongate slot having a width along at least part of its length substantially less than the diameter of the main pin body and is formed and arranged so as to allow snap-fit introduction of the first pin end portion into the passage means through said elongate slot.
  • said pin is initially straight and once inserted into the badge plate mounting portion may be bent into the desired shape if required to bring the pin body into a disposition extending generally towards the engagement portion. If desired though the pin may have a partially or completely preformed shape.
  • the reverse side of said badge plate is provided with guide means adjacent said pin mounting portion, said guide means being formed and arranged to direct said pointed end of said pin in the general direction of said pin engagement means so as to facilitate engagement therewith.
  • said guide means includes an abutment adjacent said extended passage means formed and arranged for bending said pin therearound thereby to project said pin's pointed end substantially outwardly of the engagement portion of said plate so that said pointed end may be easily passed through a garment and so that when said pin's pointed end is engaged in said engagement portion said abutment maintains said pin in a substantially resiliently biased condition thereby maintaining said pointed end of said pin in secure engagement within said engagement portion.
  • said engagement portion is provided with a cover or shield portion formed and arranged to permit said pointed end of said pin to engage therein and to prevent accidental injury to a user of said badge by said pointed end of said pin engaged therein.
  • the reverse side of the badge plate is provided with an image element retaining means in the form of a generally circumferentially extending recess means and a generally ring-form retaining member, said circumferential recess and retaining member being formed and arranged so that when, in use, the peripheral portion of an image element oversize with respect to the badge plate is folded back over the outer edge of the plate at least partly across said recess, said retaining member may be pressed at least partly into said recess together with at least part of said image element peripheral portion and captively gripped by said recess.
  • said recess has at least partly undercut side walls whereby said retaining member is secured, in use, in said recess by the overhanging portions of said side walls.
  • the present invention provides a pin badge, said badge comprising a badge plate having an image support side and a pin means on the reverse side thereof said reverse side having an image element retaining means in the form of a generally circumferentially extending recess means and a generally ring-form retaining member, said circumferential recess and retaining member being formed and arranged so that when, in use, the peripheral portion of an image element oversize with respect to the badge plate is folded back over the outer edge of the plate at least partly across said recess, said retaining member may be pressed at least partly into said recess together with at least part of said image element peripheral portion and captively gripped by said recess.
  • the present invention also provides a method of assembling a..badge of the invention which method comprises a method of assembling a badge according to claim 1 which method comprises the steps of providing a badge plate and pin according to the invention; and bringing the first end portion of said pin into said extended passage means so as to be retained captively therein.
  • the present invention provides a method of assembling a badge of the invention which method comprises the steps of providing a badge plate and pin according to the invention; inserting the second, pointed end of said pin into the extended passage means in the pin mounting portion on the image side of said badge plate and pushing it through so as to bring the first end portion of said pin into said extended passage means so as to be gripped securely thereby.
  • the method includes the further step of bending said pin over to extend generally towards the engagement portion of the badge plate.
  • Fig. 1 is an underside plan view of a conventional badge
  • Fig. 2 is a cross section of the badge in Fig. 1 along line II-II;
  • Fig. 3 is an underside plan view of a first embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a cross section of the badge shown in fig. 1 along line IV-IV;
  • Fig. 5 is an underside plan view of a second embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 6 is a cross section of the badge in Fig. 5 along line VI-VI;
  • Fig. 7 is view corresponding to that of Fig. 6 of a third embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 8 is a detail plan view of the mounting portion of the badge plate of Fig. 7;
  • Fig. 9 is a detail view of part of Fig. 7 on an enlarged scale.
  • Fig. 10 is a detailed perspective view of the pin mounting and pin engagement portions of the embodiments in Figs. 3, and 5.
  • Fig. 3 shows a first embodiment of a badge 1 of the invention which is generally similar to the conventional badge in Fig. 1.
  • the badge 1 comprises a badge plate 2 and a pin 4.
  • the badge plate 2 has a pin mounting portion 6 and a pin engagement portion 8 for engaging the pointed end 10 of the pin 4.
  • the pin mounting 6 and engagement portions 8 are spaced apart on the back 12 of the badge plate 2.
  • the front 14 of the plate 2 has crimped thereonto a badge shell 15 which bears a printed image 16 usually in the form of a laminated print 17, however it will be understood that the print image 16 may be in the form of a shaped plastics moulding conveying an image or indeed a painted image applied directly to the front 14 of the badge plate 2.
  • the pin 4 generally in the form of a dressmakers or drapers pin, is inserted into an extended passage means in the form of a hole 18 in the pin mounting portion 6 of the plate 2 which hole extends right through the plate 2.
  • the diameter of the hole 18 is made to be smaller than * the diameter of that portion 20 of the pin adjacent the pin head 22 so that when the pin 4 is forced thereinto, the pin 4 is held tightly therein.
  • the entrance to the hole 18 on the front 14 of the plate 2 is countersunk 18a so that the pin head 22 does not stand proud of the front 14 of the plate 2 and interfere with any print or other image element mounted thereon.
  • the engagement portion 8 is provided with an integrally formed shield 26 to cover over the pointed end 10 of the pin 4 and prevent accidental injury to a user by the pointed end 10 of the pin 4.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 show a second embodiment of the invention similar to the embodiment in Figs. 3 and 4 and will be described with like reference numbers indicating like parts.
  • the back 12 of the plate is provided with a circumferentially extending recess 28 for retaining the laminated print mounted on the front 14 of the plate 2.
  • the recess is provided with a ring-form engagement element 32 which fixedly crimps the laminated print 17 into the recess 28.
  • the engagement element 32 is a tight fit in the recess 28 and when in place provides a flush fit with the back of the badge plate 2.
  • the enlarged detail of the plate 2 show the outer side wall 27 to be more of less at right angles to the back 12 of the plate 2.
  • the inventor has found that using a right-angled * side wall 27 and crimping the laminate 17 on the back of the plate 2 substantially reduces the visible unsightly wrinkling of the laminate 17 found on the side of conventional badges and transfers such wrinkling to the back 12 of the badge l where it is out of sight.
  • Figs. 7 to 9 show a third embodiment generally similar to that of Figs. 5 and 6.
  • the mounting portion 6 has an extended passage means 18 which has a first end portion 34 having a diameter slightly less than that of the main body of the pin 4, and a second, enlarged diameter end portion 35. which has a diameter slightly less than that of the pin head 22.
  • the passage means 18 is also partly open-sided along its length with an elongate slot 36 having a width substantially less than that of the pin 4 and its head (at respective parts thereof) allowing access to a pin 4 by forcing it laterally through the slot 36 into the passage means 18 to be held captively therein in snap-fit manner.
  • Fig. 10 shows in more detail the pin mounting 6 and engagement 8 portions mentioned supra.
  • said badge plates may be moulded in any desired shape or form e.g. oval or polygonal and the second type of ring-form engagement element 32a may be shaped accordingly.
  • a laminated or unlaminated print image may be sandwiched between a transparent plastics cover and a badge plate according to the invention.

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L'invention se rapporte à un badge (1) comprenant une partie plate (2) et une épingle (4). La partie plate (2) possède une face de support d'une image (14), ainsi que des parties éloignées l'une de l'autre servant à monter et à accrocher l'épingle (6, 8), situées sur la face opposée (12). La partie de montage de l'épingle (6) est conçue pour fixer une première extrémité (20) de ladite épingle (4), le corps de ladite épingle (4) s'étendant à travers ladite face opposée (12) vers ladite partie d'accrochage (8), dans le but d'accrocher de façon amovible une deuxième extrémité (10), généralement pointue, de l'épingle (4) dans la partie d'accrochage (8). La partie de montage (6) possède un moyen de passage allongé (18) comportant une première partie d'extrémité à partir de laquelle se projette le corps de l'épingle (4) ladite extrémité pointue (10) formant une saillie vers l'avant, ainsi qu'une deuxième partie d'extrémité, la première extrémité du moyen de passage (18) possédant un diamètre sensiblement non supérieur à celui de la première extrémité (20) de l'épingle (4), afin de loger la première extrémité (20) de l'épingle dans ledit moyen de passage (18).
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2008122147A1 (fr) * 2007-04-06 2008-10-16 Suzhou Glory Innovations Co., Ltd. Insigne et son procédé de fabrication

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GB521995A (en) * 1939-01-19 1940-06-05 Hans Felix Stoffel Improvements in or relating to badges, emblems or other insignia
GB559224A (en) * 1942-08-06 1944-02-09 Alfred Wilson Sinclair Improvements in or relating to brooches, badges and the like
GB1105529A (en) * 1964-06-26 1968-03-06 Thomas Fattorini Ltd Improvements in or relating to attaching means for badges or the like
FR1523369A (fr) * 1967-03-21 1968-05-03 M Boeglin Et Ses Fils Ets Broches, médaillons ou similaires

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB521995A (en) * 1939-01-19 1940-06-05 Hans Felix Stoffel Improvements in or relating to badges, emblems or other insignia
GB559224A (en) * 1942-08-06 1944-02-09 Alfred Wilson Sinclair Improvements in or relating to brooches, badges and the like
GB1105529A (en) * 1964-06-26 1968-03-06 Thomas Fattorini Ltd Improvements in or relating to attaching means for badges or the like
FR1523369A (fr) * 1967-03-21 1968-05-03 M Boeglin Et Ses Fils Ets Broches, médaillons ou similaires

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2008122147A1 (fr) * 2007-04-06 2008-10-16 Suzhou Glory Innovations Co., Ltd. Insigne et son procédé de fabrication

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