Improvements in and relating to Means of Attachment of Tags or Tickets to Goods.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
Improvements in and relating to Means of Attachment of Tags
or Tickets to Goods.
A communication from abroad by the A KIMBALL COMPANY, of 307 & 309, West
Broadway, in the City and State of New York, United States of America
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the production of a novel folding pin ticket
of the class wherein the parts of the pin are so protected that when handling the
material to which the ticket is attached there will be no opportunity of the pin
entering the fingers.
This improved ticket consists of a folded strip to receive between its arms the
goods to be marked, one of said arms carrying the pin by which to confine the
ticket to the goods, the other arm having an extended tongue and a suitable
opening as holes or a slot to receive the pin legs, the said tongue after the pin
legs have been properly overturned in one or the other direction in confining the
ticket to the goods being turned over and locked in position on the arm carrying
it, to thus cover and protect the pin ends.
Fig. 1 shows a piece of cloth with one of the improved folding pin tickets
in place, the dotted lines at the right showing the tongue fully extended;
Fig. 1 shows the tongued end of the ticket with a modified form of opening
for the pin points;
Fig. 2 is a section in the line x, Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 shows the ticket with its tongue extended; the two arms being partially
closed, the dotted line position showing the tongue as being bent into its operative
position.
Fig. 4 shows the ticket with the tongue extended in full lines, the dotted lines
showing the tongue started into the tongue slot as it will be after the legs of the
pin have been clinched, as in Fig. 1;
Figs. 5 and 6 show in two views the form of pin preferred to employ.
The improved pin ticket is shown as composed of a piece of paper, cloth or other
usual material folded on itself to present two arms a, b, one of said arms, herein
shown as b, having an extended tongue or pin-point concealing-lip c, which may
be of the shape represented by dotted lines at the right in Fig. 1, and in Fig. 1.
The free end of the arm a has firmly clamped on it a pin d, herein represented
as having two legs 2, 3, and a head 4 shown as formed by overturning
the part of the wire from which the legs 2, 3, extend, to that said head is clamped
firmly against both faces of the arm a, and embraces the edge a¹ of said arm.
The arm 6 may have a pin or leg opening 5, or a slot 5*, and a tongue opening
or slot 6.
To apply the ticket-it having printed on or applied to it in any usual manner

page_text: the desired figures or words the body of the ticket will be folded at a² and applied
to the goods A, the legs of the pin being thrust through the goods, the arm b
being brought against the goods so that the pin legs pass through the opening 5
or slot 5*, according as it is desired to turn the pin points inwardly as in Fig. 1,
or outwardly as in Fig. 1", the pins being preferably turned inwardly when the
tickets are narrow.
When the points or legs are overturned, as shown by dotted lines Fig. 1, or
full lines Fig. 1a, the tongue is folded over the line 6', and the smaller end of the
tongue is or may be inserted in the tongue opening 6.
The point of the tongue entering the opening 6 fastens said tongue after the
manner common in pocket books, and the ticket may be easily removed when
desired by withdrawing the tongue from its closed or pin point protecting posi-
tion, Fig. 2.
The tongue may be fully secured by pushing it into the slot G.
This invention is not limited to the exact shape shown for the tongue or to the
exact manner shown for locking it in its protecting position, so long as it con-
stitutes a point cover.
While it is preferred to use the form of pin shown and described, yet any other
usual or desired pin may be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A folding pin ticket composed of a strip presenting two arms, a pin, and a
tongue, the said pin being connected to one of said arms and adapted to penetrate
the other of said arms and a tongue to the other arm, the tongue being adapted
to be put into position to overlap the arm carrying it, it also overlapping the point
of the pin extended through both said arms and the fabric to which the ticket
is applied.
2. A folding pin ticket composed of a folded strip presenting arms, a pin applied
to one end of one of said arms, the other arm having a suitable opening for the
pin points, and a tongue, said tongue being adapted to be bent over into the arm
carrying it to conceal the point or points of the pin extended through the arm
carrying the tongue.
3. A folding pin ticket composed of two arms one of which has a pin point
passage, a tongue passage, and a tongue, the other arm having a connected pin,
the points of the pin in the use of the ticket being extended through the pin point
passage, the bent over ends of said pin points being concealed by the tongue bent
backwardly on the arm carrying it, the end of the tongue being engaged in the
tongue passage.
4. A pin ticket composed of a folded strip to present arms, one arm having a
pin and the other a suitable pin receiving opening and a pin point cover to overlap
the folded or bent pin points at the outer side of one of said arms.
Dated the 6th day of September 1899.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55/56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.