US1543190A - Marking tag - Google Patents

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June 23, 1925. l mg s m E. A. SAGUI MARKING TAG Filed Oct. 5, 1923 INVENTOR ATTRNEY -PATENT orr es-.1

EDWARD A. SAGUI, OF NEWARK, JERSEY. J

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' Application filed 0mm 3,1923. e l-151i a 566,245.,

T0 allwhom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD A. SAGUI, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements, in Marking Tags, of which'the following is a specification.

, This invention relates to an improved tag for price-marking and other uses and is of the type made of flexible material having a tab and having a'strip extending from the tab to be looped and engaged in a slit in the tab when so looped.

The present invention relates to a tag of this kind in which the particular form of 'slit insures the holding of the strip and the particular form of strip provides a means for securely holding the tag in place on articles of different diameters so that the tag can be affixed so that it is loosely attached or it can be snugly fitted to permit it to be easily read by holding only the article and the tag need not be held by the other hand. in reading position.

The invention is illustrated in-the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 shows my improved tag attached to a finger ring. Figure 2 is a perspective view of the tag. Figure 3 is a section of the lower part of the ring and of the tag being aflixed. Figure 4 is the tag in attached position and Figure 5 shows the tag snugly attached.

Figure 6 is a face view of a modified form. I

'The tag is adapted for attachment to many articles and is usually made small with the tab portion of A; or inches in diameter although large sizes can be employed. I illustrate the tag as attached to a finger ring 10. The tag consists of a tab 11 and a strip 12 which extends from one end of the tab. The tab is extensive enough for the writing of prices or other identifying marks and is afiixedby looping the strip and passing it through a slit. The slit in the tab is shown at 13 and is crescent-shaped with its convex edge toward the strip. The strip has a shoulder 14 preferably on each edge at the end of the strip. When the end of the strip is passed through the slit and is in looped position, the tendency of the strip to straighten out, holds these shoulders against the convex edge of the slit, in other words, the converged portion of it, and this edge is thus securely seated under the edges of the shoulders 14.

Another advantage of this form of slit is shown in Figure 3. The retreating or rearwardly disposed ends of the slit provide a considerable length to the tongue 15 so formed so that when slightly bent, the tongue forms a strip is passed a ong the back face of the tab and is thus guided by the tongue 15 through the slit. 1

The strip does not necessarily have to be turned or threaded into the slit but can be directly placed therein since the tongue 15 by its resiliencv, presses the shoulders forward to engage the convex edge 13.

The tag. is sometimes fitted over articles of various sizes and it is usually convenient to have the strip tight around the article so that it will not hang suspended and necessitate its being raised into reading position. In other words, it extends in line with the article for instance, on a finger ring the tab stands out from the bottom of it. To pro- ,vide such tight fitting on various articles, I

arrange a series of shoulders 16 on the edges of the strip, each of these shoulders being adapted to be forced in engagement with the slit. The shoulders canbe arranged as at 17 in Figure 6 so that 3 or 4 different positions of the looped strip can be established,

the shoulders being provided with intervals j that are spaced further apart than shown in Figure '2.

With my improved tag it can be held loosely suspended as shown at Figure 4 or it can be grasped tightly as shown at Fig ure 5.

Iclaim:

1. A tag comprising a tab with a strip ide for the strip whichextending from one end, the tab having a slit to receive the strip, the slit being crescent-shaped with its convex edge toward the strip, the end of the strip having shoulders to engage the said edge to hold the strip in looped position the tongue formed by the slit acting as a guide when the strip is inserted in the slit and by its resiliency holding the strip against the concave edge of the slit.

2. A tag comprising a tab with a strip extending from one end, the tab having a slit to receive the strip, the slit being crescentshaped with its concave edge toward the strip, the strip having spaced shoulders of no greater width than the slit and adapted to engage the said edge of the slit when the strip is in looped position, the part within formed by the slit acting as a guide for the 1 the arc of the slit formingaresilient guiding insertion of the end of the strip and also and holding tongue. I acting by its resiliency to force the inserted 3. A tag comprising a tab with a strip exstrip so that its shoulder engages the con tending therefrom, the tab having a curved cave edge of the slit. slit with its convex side toward the tab, the In testimony that I claim the foregoing, 15 strip having a shoulder thereon, the width- I have hereto set my hand, this 2nd day of across Where the shoulder is being no wider. October, 1923. than the widest part of the slit, the tongue EDWARD A. SAGUI.

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