Fabrics and for other like Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Apr., 1887.
Fabrics and for other like Purposes.
I GEORGE TUCKER of No. 466 Coventry Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
:-
My invention has reference to the fastenings by which the tickets are attached
either to textile fabrics or other materials or articles and consists in making the said
fastenings and attaching them to the tickets in the manner hereinafter described.
My invention is applicable to fastenings which are secured to metal bands or clips
and the latter affixed to the tickets and to fastenings affixed directly to the tickets.
In making a ticket fastening according to my invention I take a piece of thin wire
the ends of the piece of wire being pointed and I bend the wire at its middle and form
therefrom a staple like fastening having a straight end and parallel pointed prongs
which prongs can be readily passed through the fabric or material to which the ticket
is to be attached and clinched on the inner side of the fabric or material.
When the staple like fastening is to be attached to a metal band or clip two holes
are pierced near the middle of the band and through these holes the prongs of the
staple are passed until the straight end of the staple bears against the outer side of the
band or clip. By means of press tools or by a hand process those portions of
the prongs of the staple situated near the inner side of the band or clip are bent
inwards and closed upon the said band or clip. By the bending inwards described the
prongs are brought closer together and shoulders are formed at the base of the prongs
between which shoulders and the end of the staple the metal band or clip is gripped.
The staple or fastening is thereby securely fixed to the metal band or clip and the
latter carrying the fastening is attached to the ticket by closing the ends of the said
band upon opposite edges of the ticket. The ticket thus provided with a fastening
is secured to the fabric or material or article by passing the pointed prongs through
the fabric or article and clinching or bending back the pointed ends of the prongs upon
the inside of the said fabric or article.
When the staple or fastening is to be attached directly to the ticket two holes are
made in the middle of the ticket and the prongs are passed through them and shoulders
formed at the base of the said prongs in the manner before described for attaching the
fastening to the ticket.
DIL:
s
1
CT
1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Fabrics and for other like Purposes.
I GEORGE TUCKER of No. 466 Coventry Road, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention has reference to the fastenings by which the, tickets are attached
either to textile fabrics or other materials or articles and consists in making the said
fastenings and attaching them to the tickets in the manner hereinafter described.
My invention is applicable to fastenings which are secured to metal bands or clips
and the latter affixed to the tickets and to fastenings affixed directly to the tickets.
In making a ticket fastening according to my invention I take a piece of thin wire
the ends of the piece of wire being pointed and I bend the wire near its middle and
form therefrom a staple like fastening having a straight end and parallel pointed
prongs which prongs can be readily passed through the fabric or material to which
the ticket is to be attached and clinched on the inner side of the fabric or material.
When the staple like fastening is to be attached to a metal band or clip two holes
are pierced near the middle of the band and through these holes the prongs of the
staple are passed until the straight end of the staple bears against the outer side of
tlie band or clip. By means of press tools or by a hand process those portions of the
prongs of the staple situated near the inner side of the band or clip are bent inwards
and closed upon the said band or clip. By the bending inwards described the prongs
are brought closer together and shoulders are formed at the base of the prongs between
which shoulders and the end of the staple the metal band or clip is gripped. The
staple or fastening is thereby securely fixed to the metal band or clip and the latter
carrying the fastening is attached to the ticket by closing the ends of the said band
upon opposite edges of the ticket. The ticket thus provided with a fastening is
secured to the fabric or material or article by passing the pointed prongs through the
fabric or article and clinching or bending back the pointed ends of the prongs upon
the inside of the said fabric or article.
When the staple or fastening is to be attached directly to the ticket, two holes are
made in the middle of the ticket and the prongs are passed through them and shoulders
formed at the base of the said prongs in the manner before described for attaching the
fastening to the band.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan of upperside, a ticket
fastening made according to my invention, the said fastening being attached to a
metal band or clip to be affixed to the ticket Figure 3 represents in side elevation
and Figure 4 in plan of upperside the band or clip before the staple like fastening is
secured to it; Figure 5 represents the staple like fastening before its prongs are closed
upon the band or clip: Figure 6 represents in side elevation and Figure 7 in plan the
connected fastening and band or clip affixed to the ticket; Figure 8 represents the
ticket Figures 6 and 7 attached to the fabric or material to be ticketed; Figure 9
represents the length or piece of pointed wire from which the staple like fastening is
made and Figure 10 represents the staple like fastening made from the length of

page_text: wire Figure 9; Figures 11 and 12 represent the fastening attached directly to a
ticket.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
In making a ticket fastening according to my invention I take the piece or length
of wire represented in Figure 9 the ends of the wire being pointed and I bend the
said length (preferably by the use of tools worked in a press) so as to form a staple
like fastening of the kind represented in Figure 10, the said staple like fastening
having a straight end or head a and parallel pointed prongs b, b.
When the staple like fastening is to be attached to a metal band or clip I take a
metal band or clip of the kind represented in Figures 3 and 4 and marked c the said
band c having holes d, d pierced in it and clip pieces or ears e at its ends by which the
band may
be attached to the ticket as hereinafter described. In order to fasten the
staple Figure 10 to the metal band Figures 3 and 4, the prongs b, of the staple are
passed through the holes d d in the band c until the straight end or head a of the
staple bears against the outer side of the band as represented in Figure 5. By means
of press tools preferably, or by a hand process, the portions of the prongs b, b of the
staple situated near the inner or underside of the band c are bent inwards at right
angles to the said prongs and closed upon the band as represented in Figure 1. The
prongs b, bare thereby brought closer together and shoulders f, fare formed at the
base of the prongs between which shoulders f, and the straight end or head a of the
staple the metal band or clip c is gripped as seen in Figure 1. The staple or fastening
is in this way securely fixed to the metal band c and the latter carrying the fastening
is attached to the ticket by closing the lips or ends of the band upon the edges of the
ticket as represented in Figures 6 and 7, where the ticket is marked g and the bent
lips or ends of the band are marked e. The ticket Figures 6 and 7 provided with the
staple like fastening is secured to the fabric or material to be ticketed by passing the
pointed prongs, through the fabric or material and clinching or bending back
the pointed ends of the prongs b, upon the inside of the fabric or material as
represented in plan and elevation in Figure 8 where the fabric or material is
marked h.
Figure 11 represents in section and Figure 12 in plan, the staple like fastening
attached directly to the ticket instead of to a metal band to be attached to the ticket.
In this case, holes at i, i are made in the ticket g and the pointed prongs b, b of the
staple Figure 10 are passed through the said holes and the shoulders f, made at the
base of the prongs in the manner before described so as to grip the ticket y between
the straight end or head a of the staple and the shoulders f, fas represented in
Figure 11. The ticket Figures 11 and 12 is now ready to be attached by its fastening
to the fabric or material as before described with respect to a fastening attached to a
metal band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in fastenings for tickets used for ticketing textile fabrics
and for other like purposes."
Connecting staple like fastenings of wire having straight ends or heads and pointed
prongs either to metal bands or clips to be afterwards affixed to the tickets or directly
to the tickets by means of shoulders made by a bending in and closing operation
near the base of the prongs, between which shoulders and the straight heads of the
staple like fastenings the metal bands or clips or the tickets are gripped substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Fifth day of March 1887
GEORGE TUCKER.