Improvements in Fastenings for Tickets.
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Tickets.
I, WILHELM SIEGFRIED, of Chemnity, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer,
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:
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The subject of the present invention is a ticket with a grip or fastening device
made of;tin bent over and serving for the attachment of the said ticket to articles
composed of soft material of any description, as for example, cloth, articles of
wearing apparel, etc.
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Up to the present time it has been usual to sew the tickets on to the goods,
which is both very troublesome and also occupies a considerable amount of time;
or else these tickets were fixed in position by means of grips or fasteners made of
iron wire or of tin passing through the stuff or material itself and which had
to be bent over on the rear, which had the inconvenience that the free ends of
these grips or fasteners are apt to catch in the goods placed above or below them
and thus damage these latter. Moreover, the persons who attach these sorts of
tickets may very easily wound their fingers, a fact which explains the reason of
this type of attachment not being in more general use, the more so as these wounds
may become highly dangerous in consequence, of the poison generally contained
in the coloring matter or dye of the stuff or materials.
All these defects are got rid of in the case of the device forming the subject of
this invention, the attachment being capable of being effected by means of a
simple pressure of the fingers, and that in a manner far more rapid than is
possible to do with any one whatsoever of the arrangements known up to the
present time.
In the annexed drawing:-
Fig's 1, 2, and 3, represents to an enlarged scale, one of the grips or fastening
devices employed up to the present time.
Fig. 4, illustrates the new imetallic grip or fastening device likewise drawn to an
enlarged scale.
Fig. 5. shows the bent over grip or fastening device attached to the ticket,
the goods or material not being shown for the sake of clearness in the drawing.
Fig's 6, and 7, illustrate the new grip or fastening device in connection with
the ticket and the goods or material,
Fig. 7, showing a modification in the method of construction of the said grip or
fastening device."
The ticket e which is composed of a square of cardboard etc. (Fig's. 2, and 3,)
is first of all connected to the rear portion of the grip or fastening device in
such a manner that the points pass through the paper or cardboard and that
this latter is tightly gripped by bending over the part d. In order to
attach the whole device to the goods or material, which latter is omitted
in Fig. 3, in order to render the drawing clearer, the two points are bent
over as shown at in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3, which operation is
usually performed by hand which is due to the inconvenience of the catching
on neighbouring or adjacent goods or materials. It is clear that a method of
attachment of this discription is capable at best of being fit for use in the case
of thick clothes and of those of a common quality which are capable of bearing a

page_text: perforation, and that this method of attachment cannot be employed in the case
of fabrics with tight meshes, for example, with gloves, silk ties, etc.
The new grip or fastening (Fig. 4,) is composed of two halves f and g bent
over at e. The part g is provided with a certain number of projecting pieces or
claws bent in an upward direction and which serve to fix the ticket c as is
shown in Fig. 5. Two other projecting pieces or claws and serve to fix or
secure the ticket e to the goods or material. The characteristic feature of the
device consists in the fact of the two projecting pieces or claws i and being
situated exactly opposite the one to the other, or what is still better the one
slightly, to one side of the other when the grip or fastening device is bent over as
is shown in Fig. 5. This prevents the attachment from coming undone when the
ticket accidentally catches on any object during the moving of the goods or
material by which it is carried. For instance, suppose that the ticket is forced
into the position as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 6; in such a case the
grip or fastening device would be slightly raised but at the same time the opposite
projecting piece or claw will penetrate still further into the stuff or material.
If on the contrary an attempt he made to withdraw the projecting piece or claw i
from; the stuff or material, the other projecting piece or claw will penetrate into
this latter.
From the preceeding it will be seen that the attachment of the ticket to the
goods or material is effected by placing the ticket, which is first secured to
the grip or fastening device by means of the claws or projecting pieces k, upon the
edge of the goods or material, and that in such a manner that the said edge will
be placed about as indicated by the line a, a, (Fig. 4). After this a simple
pressure of the fingers will be sufficient to bring the grip or fastening device from
the open position (Fig. 4) into the closed position (Fig. 5), which action will force
or cause the projecting pieces or claws i, k, to seize or engage with the stuff or
material from both, sides.
The form of carrying the invention into practice may be modified in con-
struction in such a manner that the plates f and g, or g only, may be formed of
larger or smaller dimensions in accordance with the description of the goods or
material. Fig. 7 illustrates a modification of this description. The projecting
pieces and may also be stouter and longer for thick wollen stuffs or materials,
and slighter and shorter for articles made of silk etc. It is evident that the
number and the position that is to say the distribution of the projecting pieces
or claws h, i, k, may be varied without in any way departing from the nature of
the said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
or
A ticket, for goods or materials, having an attachment grip or fastening device,
in which the securing of the ticket upon the goods or materials is obtained by a
simple pressure of the fingers, obviating the catching thereof with other goods
or material as well as the complete perforation of
the goods
materials and that by reason of the bent over grip or fastening device which
is turned round into a U-shaped form round the edge of the goods or materials,
and which seizes or engages with this latter from both sides by means of two
opposite projecting pieces or claws projecting or passing through the goods or
materials after the fixing of the ticket in position thereon.
Substantially as hereinabove described and represented in the annexed drawing.
Dated this how of Oct 1900
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.