WO2009141643A1 - Étiquette d'identification de vêtement ou d'article textile - Google Patents

Étiquette d'identification de vêtement ou d'article textile Download PDF

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WO2009141643A1
WO2009141643A1 PCT/GB2009/050528 GB2009050528W WO2009141643A1 WO 2009141643 A1 WO2009141643 A1 WO 2009141643A1 GB 2009050528 W GB2009050528 W GB 2009050528W WO 2009141643 A1 WO2009141643 A1 WO 2009141643A1
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tag
delivery device
tag system
needle
anchor member
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Clifford Alan Abbott
Virginia Ann Abbott
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Clifford Alan Abbott
Virginia Ann Abbott
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/12—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by pins, staples, or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C7/00—Affixing tags
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C7/00—Affixing tags
    • B65C7/003—Affixing tags using paddle-shaped plastic pins
    • B65C7/005—Portable tools
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0225—Carrier web
    • G09F2003/0227—Carrier strip
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0282—Forms or constructions for textiles, e.g. clothing

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  • the present invention relates to identification tags for clothing and textiles. It is particularly concerned with tags enabling the identification of items of clothing within the domestic home or care homes.
  • tags naming the owner of the item.
  • name tags are particularly used in respect of the clothing of schoolchildren.
  • items of clothing which are sold as a pair to be attached to one another at point of sale by some kind of linking tag by which they are held together until after sale.
  • the tag It is important to in the care home situation for the tag to be very easily fitted, to be very inexpensive and for it not to irritate the user's skin. It can also be useful for the tag to be readily removed, though not so readily that a confused person can simply pull it off.
  • UK Patent Application 2405855 described a tag for distinguishing garments comprising a clip at least semi-permanently attachable to a garment and Incorporating a means of identification.
  • the anchor carrying probe has also often to meet quite conflicting requirements, of readily penetrating any fabric such as a textile, anchoring permanently until forced apart, and of not irritating the skin of the user.
  • the present invention provides a tag system for use in a domestic home or care home which is simple to use, inexpensive and in which the user skin irritation can be minimised.
  • the tag is advantageously arranged as a one-piece item and is constructed so that the delivery device can drive the anchor member through the fabric concerned.
  • the fitment of the tag can be made simple and reliable.
  • the tag is also advantageously arranged to be so fabricated, for example with non rigid components and with rounded edges, as in no way to irritate the skin of the wearer.
  • the tag may be typically formed from a plastics material, advantageously of a type that is suitable for repeated washing or cleaning and drying either by hand or mechanical device such as a washing machine, tumble dryer, spin dryer or dry cleaning process and will withstand at least being touched by a hot iron during ironing.
  • Typical materials are ABS (acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene copolymer) nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene and polyvinylchloride.
  • the means of identification can include any combination of different shapes, pattern and ornament, colours, images, and symbols such as alphanumeric and/or Braille characters.
  • a preferred identification means comprises a combination of shape and colour. In this way for example in a multi-floor care home the face member shape may designate the floor and colour a particular room.
  • the tag may be arranged to be quite unobtrusive in terms of visibility.
  • An outwardly visible part thereof may thus have no dimension greater than 1 cm and possibly even no greater than 5mm.
  • the face member may be circular, oval, polygonal including triangular, rectangular, rhomboidal and square, and may be slightly domed.
  • novelty shapes may be employed such as but not limited to; a lion, a dog, a fairy or a crown.
  • a face member with such a novelty shape may if desired exceed 1cm breadth.
  • the face plate is preferably arranged to be as decorative as possible.
  • the face member may be adapted for a user to write or paint an identification thereon but this may preferably be such as not to be deleteriously affected by repeated washing.
  • the anchor member may be of the order of 3 - 5 mm long and 1 - 2 mm in diameter.
  • the link member may be of the order of 5 mm long and 0.5 mm mean diameter and made of material of sufficient strength and durability so as not to become detached during the laundry or dry cleaning process.
  • the tag it is convenient for the tag to be affixed to the care label which is attached to a seam in most garments.
  • the tag need not be visible when the garment is worn and moreover can thereby be arranged to be shielded from the wearer's skin, particularly when the care label comprises a folded piece or fabric.
  • the tag can however be fixed to a garment in a place so as to be visible when the user so prefers.
  • the delivery device may be of the type in which a needle of substantially C - shaped cross section, bearing in the hollow thereof a member to be driven through the material is pushed through the material and operation of a trigger or plunger allows a driving pin to drive the member through the needle.
  • the tag may be loaded in the delivery device in such a way that the member concerned, typically the anchor member, is forced into the hollow in the needle by the driving pin.
  • the tag may be formed to be detachable from a magazine of such tags, the magazine being loadable onto the delivery device.
  • One delivery device which may be suitable is manufactured and sold by Avery DennisonTM.
  • the tag may be packaged and sold as one of a matrix comprising a considerable number of such tags in a pack with, for example, a series of tags of identical colour and shape or series of tags of different colours and shapes. Tags may be numbered in pairs for the identifying garments that need to be paired; such as socks. The combination or shape, colour and numbers will ensure that the items are returned to the correct owner
  • a method of enabling the distinguishing of the garments of residents in a care home comprises loading into a delivery device a tag having a face member, a link and an anchor member and driving one of the members, typically the anchor member, through part of an item of clothing or other textile item such as bed linen, the face member incorporating means of identification.
  • the invention may of course also be useful in situation other than care homes, with family homes, hospitals, prisons, convents, food and military establishments where some clothing may be collectively laundered and even boarding schools being among the possibilities and need not be confined to human beings.
  • the tags may also be useful in kennels, catteries, stables etc for identifying items belonging to a particular animal.
  • the invention may also be useful in gymnasia, saunas, health spas and pools.
  • the invention need not be confined to clothing. In the care home context it may also be valuable to distinguish room furnishings, one room or suite of rooms from another. The tagging of such property as wheelchairs, handbags, walking sticks, shoes, books and bed linen; in fact anything that can be penetrated by the needle of the delivery device is also possible. Likewise the invention may be used in offices for identifying papers, files, documents etc.
  • the tag may incorporate identification means whereby the user can identify the tag by feeling it.
  • the identification means may comprise one or more of shape, ornament, embossment and Braille characters for example.
  • Tags may further be used to identify items to prevent illness/infection e.g. Dish cloths from floor cloths.
  • the invention can be useful in identifying the owner when all the household such items are passed through the household wash together.
  • the expression "household" can apply to communities such as schools and convents, the wearing of garments of quite similar colour and pattern is not confined to members of the same family.
  • Tags in accordance with the invention are preferably removable using scissors or sharp teeth, and are thus difficult of accidental detachment.
  • a delivery device for inserting the anchor member of a tag through a fabric may comprise at minimum a needle of C-shape cross section, through which hollow a tag anchor may be driven, and a plunger arranged to drive the anchor member through the hollow.
  • a housing retaining the plunger in operative relationship with the needle.
  • the delivery device is to deliver tags from a magazine thereof then the delivery device is preferably constructed to retain the magazine and the needle/plunger arrangement may further be constructed to separate a tag from the magazine.
  • the delivery device may also incorporate means for feeding tags successively to the needle. I O It may also incorporate trigger means and spring means, the latter loadable to drive the plunger, and hence the anchor member, through the needle.
  • Figure 1 a is a side view of a tag
  • Figure 1 b is a perspective view of a tag
  • Figure 2a is a side view of a delivery device
  • Figure 2b is a plan view of a delivery device
  • Figure 3a is a detail side view of a delivery device needle assembly
  • Figure 3b is a delivery device needle cross section view on iii-iii in figure 3a;
  • Figure 4 illustrates a tag magazine
  • the tag shewn in figures 1 a and 1 b is a one-piece tag having a face-plate member 10, a link member 1 1 , and an anchor member 12.
  • the face-plate member 10 has a distinctive shape and carries an identification symbol in the form of an alphanumeric character.
  • the anchor member 12 is a short, relatively rigid rod with rounded ends, while the link member 11 is flexible and extends from approximately the centre of the face plate to the centre of the anchor member.
  • the delivery device shewn in figures 2a and 2b comprises a casing 20 having a handle portion 21 and a plunger/trigger 22.
  • a needle 23 projects forwardly of the casing 20.
  • the casing has an entry point 24 for a tag carrier 40 (see figure 4) and adjacent thereto an entry point 25 for a tag anchor member 12. Also formed in the casing 20 is a channel 26 for passage of a link member 11.
  • the needle 23 has a C-shape cross section and terminates in a point constructed to penetrate clothing fabric.
  • the delivery device has a driving pin 30 operable by the plunger/trigger 22 to drive through the bore of the needle 23. Squeezing the plunger/trigger first withdraws and then releases the; pin 30 under spring action.
  • the needle 23 has a sharp edge at entry to and adjacent the bore thereof whereby when a tag anchor 12 is detached from the carrier 40 a stump of the attachment is as far as possible avoided.
  • the delivery device is accordingly constructed for the reception of a tag magazine as shewn in figure 4.
  • the tag magazine comprises a carrier 40 in the form of a rod to which is separably, eg. frangibly moulded a suite of tags via the anchor members 12 thereof.
  • a tag magazine is loaded into the delivery device, with the carrier 40 loaded into the entry point 24 and the first tag anchor member 12 introduced into the entry point 25 so that the link member 1 1 enters the channel 26.
  • the needle is pushed through the fabric to which the tag is to be attached and the plunger/trigger 22 depressed. This both first withdraws the pin 30 and causes the carrier 40 to advance. Then as the pin 30 is driven forward so that the anchor member 12 enters the hollow of the needle it severs the tag from the carrier at the needle entry and drives the anchor member 12 through to the opposing face of the fabric.
  • the link member 1 1 will remain penetrating the fabric while the face plate 10 remains on the "front" face of the fabric.
  • the tag is formed from nylon.
  • the face plate 1 1 has a maximum overall dimension of 1 cm; the link member 11 is 4.0 mm long and 0.3 mm in diameter and the anchor member 12 is 5mm long and 1 mm in diameter.
  • the carrier 40 is 1.8mm in diameter.
  • the face plate is domed and is one in a series having a plurality of shapes.
  • the needle is ideally pushed through one layer of a folded care label attached to a seam of the garment so that the anchor member 12 lies inside the care label.
  • the tag thus fitted can be removed by cutting the link member 1 1 with a pair of scissors.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un système d'étiquettes d'identification à usage domestique ou pour maison de santé. Ce système est constitué, d'une part d'une étiquette comportant une face visible, une liaison, et un élément de retenue, et d'autre part d'un dispositif de pose conçu pour faire passer l'un des éléments au travers d'une partie d'un article vestimentaire ou d'un autre article textile, la face visible comportant les moyens d'identification. L'invention concerne également le procédé d'utilisation correspondant.
PCT/GB2009/050528 2008-05-20 2009-05-15 Étiquette d'identification de vêtement ou d'article textile WO2009141643A1 (fr)

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US4465218A (en) * 1981-04-21 1984-08-14 Japan Bano'k Co., Ltd. Apparatus for attaching tag pins
WO2004094236A2 (fr) * 2003-04-16 2004-11-04 Avery Dennison Corporation Ensemble elements de fixation et son procede de fabrication

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4465218A (en) * 1981-04-21 1984-08-14 Japan Bano'k Co., Ltd. Apparatus for attaching tag pins
WO2004094236A2 (fr) * 2003-04-16 2004-11-04 Avery Dennison Corporation Ensemble elements de fixation et son procede de fabrication

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