Improvements in Marking Tags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug, 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Marking Tags.
I FREDERICK KOHNLE of Dayton, Ohio, United States of America, Manu-
facturer 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 :-
My invention relates to that class of tags which are designed to be attached to
textile fabrics and other similar articles of merchandise, and to have written on
them the cost and selling prices, numbers and like memoranda, relating to the
articles to which they are attached. It has for its object the production of a tag
which may be quickly and securely attached to the fabric, and whose attaching
devices will be hidden when the tag has been attached leaving both faces of the
tag unmutilated and free to be written upon; or, where the attaching devices are
not entirely hidden, yet to leave the surfaces of the tag as nearly clear as may be
to afford the greatest room for the memoranda to be written upon it.
The novelty of my invention will be herein set forth and specifically pointed out
in the claims.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is an inside perspective view of my improved tag, open.
Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same partly closed, with the fabric
inserted between its flaps.
Fig. 3 is a corresponding view showing the tag attached to the fabric.
Fig. 4 is an inside perspective view of the tag with a slightly modified form of
attaching devices.
Fig. 5 is a corresponding view with still another change in the attaching
devices.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of my tag attached to a fabric.
The same letters are used as reference to indicate identical parts in all the
figures.
My improved tag is preferably formed of a single strip A of heavy paper or
other suitable material creased at its middle to form two flaps B B' of about equal
length. The ends of these flaps are doubled over as shown in Fig. 1 to reinforce
them and to secure the attaching devices in place. Between the lapped over
portion a of the flap B and the body of the flap is inserted a flat piece of metal b
which is held in place by the lap a the latter being pasted or otherwise fastened to
the body of the flap B. A portion of the flap a immediately over the metal plate b
is cut out as at c and the portion of the lap between this cut out portion and the
end of the tag, at d is not pasted down but is left free for a pin on the opposite end
of the tag to pass between it and the plate b. The pin e is secured to the opposite
end of the tag in any suitable manner in Fig. 1 by having a flat right angular
portion of it confined between the lap a¹ and the body of the flap B', the two being
pasted together as in the case of the lap a and flap B.
In attaching the tag to a fabric, the latter is inserted between the flaps B B¹ and
pressed down over the pin e. When the ends of the tag are then brought together
as shown in Fig. 2 the point of the pin will strike the metal plate b, and upon
firmly squeezing the ends of the tag together, the pin will be bent over by the
metal plate and its point will pass under the portion d of the lap a and be confined
between the lap and the plate as shown in Fig. 3.
In this manner the tag can be very quickly attached to the fabric, all that is
necessary being to place the edge of the fabric between the ends of the tag and
squeeze the latter together, the tag is securely fastened to the fabric: and the
attaching devices are entirely hidden so that both sides of the tag are left clear to
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page_text: be written upon.
This enables smaller tags to be employed than would be
necessary if a portion of the marking surface of the tag were taken up by the
attaching devices as is usual.
While the above is my preferred construction and most completely embodies the
advantages of my invention, yet I do not wish to be limited to such precise
construction for my invention contemplates broadly a tag having the two flaps one
of which is provided at its end with the attaching pin and the other of which is
provided on its inner side with a corresponding receptacle which receives and
confines the pin when the two ends of the tag are pressed together as described.
In Fig. 4 I have shown a tag substantially the same as that in Fig. 1, excepting
that the metal plate and cut out portion c in the latter are dispensed with in
Fig. 4, and there is substituted for them a crease in the middle of the lap a which
forms a receptacle for the pin e. Instead of the crease f the lap a might simply be
left unpasted to the flap B at its middle to form a receptacle for the pin e. As the
metal plate is not employed in this construction, more care has to be exercised in
attaching the tag to the fabric, to prevent the pin passing directly through the
flap B when the ends of the tag are pressed together instead of being bent to enter
the opening between the lap a and the flap B at f. By bending the ends of the tag
slightly outward from the fabric just as they are pressed together the pin will be
directed into the opening and bent down as desired.
In Fig. 5. I have shown a staple g clinched in the end of the flap B as the
receptacle for the pin e the tag being attached to the fabric in the same manner as:
shown in Fig. 4.
In this tag the ends of the staple appear on one side of the tag when the latter
is fastened on the fabric, so that both sides of the tag are not left entirely clear, as
I prefer.
Even when the metal plate bis employed as in Fig. 1, the exact shape and
relative location of it may be varied. The cut out portion e of the lap a might be
dispensed with if the lap were shorter and the metal plate projected some distance
from beneath its edge or the metal plate might be secured to the flap B otherwise
than by the lap a and any suitable receptacle for the pin be provided.
I have before stated that the pin e may be secured to the end of the flap B¹ in
any suitable manner. As I have shown it, secured between the flap and the lap a¹
it is entirely hidden when the tag is attached to the fabric, so that the outside of
this flap of the tag is left clear, even when a staple is used in the opposite flap as
in Fig. 5 but, where it is not objectionable to have the pin project through the end
of the tag it may be clinched in place, through the end of the flap B¹ and the lap a
be dispensed with. If this were done in the tag shown in Figs. 1 and 4 one side of
the tag would be left perfectly clear when attached to the fabric and the opposite
side would have merely the end of the pin projecting through it.
Where the laps a a¹ or either of them are employed, however, they may consist
of separate pieces pasted to the flaps B B' instead of being the bent over ends of
the latter though the construction I have shown is preferable.
Again while it is decidedly preferable that the body of the tag be formed of a
single strip of material creased at its centre yet my invention in its broader scope
may not be evaded by forming the body of the tag of two separate pieces secured
together at one end. The latter construction may even be desirable when the tag
is made of heavy card board, in which case the flaps may be flexibly secured
together at one end by a strip of muslin or like material.
I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to provide a marking tag
composed of two flaps with an attaching pin by which it might be fastened to the
fabric and the pin be hidden from view, leaving both sides of the tag unmutilated,,
but in the tags of this description with which I am familiar the pin simply hooked
the tag to the fabric and one end of the tag is left entirely free so that the tag is
insecurely fastened to the fabric. In my improved tag both ends are securely
fastened to the fabric so there is no danger of the tag becoming accidentally
detached.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B¹, the latter
provided with a pin e and the former with a receptacle in which the pin is confined
when the ends of the tag are pressed together substantially as and for the purpose
described.
2. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B₁ having the
laps a a¹ the flap B' having the pin e secured between it and its lap a¹ and the
flap B having a receptacle between it and its flap a in which the pin è is confined
when the ends of the tag are pressed together substantially as and for the purpose
described.
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3. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B' the latter
provided with the pin e and the former with a receptacle for the pin and a metal
plate for bending the pin and directing it into the receptacle when the ends of the
tag are pressed together, substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B', the latter
provided with the pin e and the former with the lap a and the metal plate b
adapted to bend the pin e and direct it beneath the lap a when the ends of the tag
are pressed together substantially as and for the purpose described.
5. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B¹ the latter
provided with the pin e and the former with the lap a having the cut out portion
at c and the metal plate beneath the latter adapted to bend the pin e and direct it
beneath the lap a when the ends of the tag are pressed together substantially as
and for the purpose described.
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6. The hereindescribed marking tag composed of the flaps B B₁ formed of a
single strip of material and provided with the laps a a' formed of their own over-
lapped ends, the flap B₁ having the pin e secured between it and its lap a¹ and the
flap B having the metal plate 6 secured between it and its lap a and adapted to
bend the pin e and direct it beneath the lap a when the ends of the tag are pressed
together substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 18th day of August 1801
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.