AN IMPROVED TAG OR TICKET FOR TAGGING OR TICKETING FABRICS AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, GEORGE WASHINGTON M°GILL of Riverdale in the City and County of New
York State of New York and United States of America, do hereby declare the
nature of said invention for AN IMPROVED TAG OR TICKET FOR TAGGING OR
TICKETING FABRICS AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved Tag or Ticket intended to be affixed or
fastened to woollens, silks and similar fabrics for making the same, and known as price,
size and quality tickets, or tags, and it consists of a ticket, or tag, made of paper, paste-
board or other suitable material provided with a wire staple connected or attached
to it in a manner to enable the tag to be readily affixed or fastened to the fabrics
it is desired to mark or ticket, by means of such staple. The device is constructed
by taking a tag, or ticket, of the size desired, and forcing through its body a wire-
staple. This staple has its penetrating points, or shanks, pointed, and bent down
at a right angle, or angles, from its loop or head. The staple so made is forced
through the ticket or tag, until its top or bead rests flat on one side of the same.
The shanks of the staple on the other side of the tag or ticket are then folded for
a short distance towards each other and then down again at right angles from the
ticket so as to clamp the ticket between this folded portion and the staple head.
This leaves the ticket with two fastening points or pins, projecting at right angles
from its back. The ticket so constructed is attached to the article to be marked
with it by forcing its fastening-pins, or staple-shanks, through such article and
folding them over on the back of the same. In making the staple I sometimes
flatten all that part of the wire from which it is made except that part of it
forming its penetrating shanks, I do this to enable it to make a close fold in the
ticket or tag.
My invention consists in a ticket or tag provided with an attaching staple or
fastening in the manner herein described for the purpose specified.
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page_text: I, GEORGE WASHINGTON MCGILL, of Riverdale, New York, United States, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED TAG OR TICKET FOR
TAGGING OR TICKETING FABRICS AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The object of my invention is the production of a price-ticket, or tag, provided
with a metallic fastening by means of which the ticket, or tag, may be readily
attached to cloths or other such like fibrous articles, and I accomplish this eud in
manner as follows: I take a piece of round or cylindrical wire of proper ductility
and of suitable length, such as shown in Fig 1 of the accompanying drawing, and
bend it into staple-form, as shown in Fig 2. The shanks or legs of the staple so
formed are now passed through the body of a paper tag, or ticket, as is shown in
the sectional Fig 3, and folded over towards each other and down at right angles
from the tag, as shown in Fig 4, thereby forming the shoulders b, b, which clamp
and securely hold the tag between them and the staple-head, as shown in said
figure.
The metal fastening, or staple, is made preferably wholly of round or cylindrical
wire, but that part of it which constitutes the head may be flattened so as to form
a broad flat head, as shown in Fig 7, or the wire throughout its entire length may
be slightly flattened. The legs of the fastening of the device are pointed in manner
to admit of them being forced through woven fabrics without cutting or breaking
the fibre or thread of the same. The legs of the staple after being passed through
the tag as shown in Fig 3, may be brought into close parallel contact in the manner
shown in Eig 8, so that when the tag is applied to the article to be marked, its
fastening prongs will pass together through the same hole, and not through two
separate holes, as is the case when constructed as shown in the other figures."
In the accompanying drawing Fig 1 represents a piece of round wire, with
pointed ends, from which the tag-fastening is formed. Fig 2, represents this wire
bent into the form of a staple, a being its head and b, b, its legs. Fig 3, represents
a cross section of the device with the staple-legs inserted through the tag (B) but
not yet bent into their clamping position. Fig 4 represents a cross section of the
device with the staple-legs inserted through the tag and bent towards each other,
so as to form the clamping shoulders b', b, and clamp the tag, and then bent out
at right angles to the tag without being brought in parallel contact. Fig 5
represents a top view of the device in perspective, showing the tag with its
fastening placed in one end of the same, the dotted lines representing the position
of the fastener-shoulders 6', b, on the under side of the tag. Fig 6 represents a
bottom view of a tag provided with two fastenings, the dotted lines in this figure
shows the position of the head a, of the fastening on the face of the tag. Fig 7
represents a wire blank for the fastening with that portion of it which is to form
the head struck flat, leaving the ends which form the legs round and sharp-pointed.

page_text: In applying the tags, the legs or prongs of their fastenings are forced through the
fabric being tagged and bent down on the other side of the same so as to secure
the tag or ticket thereto.
Fig 9, 10 and 11, show the device constructed in a modified form, wherein the
tag is clamped lengthwise its surface instead of cross-wise. When constructed in
this modified form the staple-shanks are forced through the tag for nearly their
entire length, the staple-head, and that portion of its shanks left projecting above
the tag (marked a', a', in the drawing) are then bent over on the face of the tag
at right angles from the remainder of the shanks, as shown in Fig 9, which
represents a top view of the device. The remainder of the shanks are then folded
over on the opposite side of the tag on lines corresponding with the parts a¹, a¹,
and then out at right angles from the tag as shown in Fig 10, which is a sectional
side elevation of the device so constructed, taken on line line x, x, of Fig 9.
Fig 11 is a perspective view of the fastening of the tag fashioned in this form
with the tag removed from it to better show its form.
In making my tags I use machinery which receives the wire from one set of
reels and tag-stock from another set; shapes the tags and their fastenings, and
connects them together as herein described, automatically, and in one operation.
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
1. A paper-board tag, combined with a metallic staple-fastener baving pointed
legs passed through the tag in two separate perforations, bent towards each
other and parallel to the head, so as to clamp the tag between the folds of the
staple-legs and the head, and bent outward at right angles to the head, substantially
as shown and described.
2. A paper-board tag combined with a metallic staple-fastener having pointed
legs passed through the tag in two separate perforations, and bent over in manner
to clamp the tag between the folds of the staple-legs and the head, and bent
outward at right angles to the tag, substantially as shown and described.
Dated thi. 7th
100k