Improvements in Metallic Tags or Labels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 1st June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Tags or Labels.
I, HERMAN BAUMGARTEN, of South East Corner of 7th and F Streets in the
City of Washington and District of Columbia, United States of America,
Engraver and Die-sinker, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 relates to tags for attaching to articles of commerce and to
animals for the purpose of identification, and has for its object greater durability,
and is especially useful in marking cattle.
The improvement consists in the strengthening of the eye of the tag by which
it is suspended by a wire or other tie.
The manner of making and the form of this improved tag is hereinafter fully
described, and is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 shows a plan of the tag;
Fig. 2, a central lengthwise section thereof, enlarged ;
Fig. 3, a tag before the eye has been strengthened, and
Fig. 4 the piece of metal used to bush or strengthen the eye.
The same reference-marks indicate like parts in the several figures.
A represents the plate of metal forming the tag, which for the purpose of being
readily marked should be ductile, and for economy of material is preferably but not
necessarily made with parallel sides and rounded ends or corners. At one end of
the plate A is formed a hole B considerably larger than the desired eye in
the tag.
C is a plug of harder metal having an opening D in it eccentric to its circum-
ference and of a length, measured in the direction of its axis, sufficient when
inserted in the hole B in the plate A to project slightly on each side. The diameter
of the plug C is such as to fill the hole B in the plate A. The plug C is inserted
in the hole B and the edges or rim of it expanded by pressure applied by suitable
dies, so that they impinge upon and extend over the softer metal of the plate A and
hold the plug firmly in the hole B. The hole D in the bush or plug C is turned
toward the centre of length of the tag, so as to expose the greatest extent of the
metal of the bushing to wear upon the wire or other tying material.
By making the bushings in the form described I am enabled to make them of
steel having greater durability for wear upon the tying-wire and yet to retain the
soft ductile properties of the tag so convenient and necessary for convenient
marking.
I am aware that metallic marking-tags have been made with the eyes thereof
re-enforced and strengthened by a plate of harder metal soldered upon the side
surrounding the eye. These were objectionable because the wire used for tying
wore out the ductile metal on the sides and the solder became detached and the tag
lost, and are not herein claimed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
A metallic tag formed of ductile metal capable of being impressed, having a
bushing of harder metal inserted in one end thereof and expanded therein, with the
eccentric hole in said bushing located toward the center of the tag, so as to subject
the thick, side of the bushing to wear when suspended by a wire, substantially as
set forth.
Dal 2011 11001
J. C. CHAPMAN, Fel. Inst. Patent Agents,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.