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(NoModelJ Q J. KELLER.

PRICE TICKET. 7 No. 252,320. Patented Jan 17,1882.

N. PETERS FholM-ilhognpllcn Washington. D. C.

" NITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN KELLER, or NEWYOBK, N. Y.

PRICE-TICKET.

srncrrron'rrolv forming part of Letters Patent No. esa'eao, dated January 17, 18:2. l Application filed August 6,1881. '(No model.) I V Toall whom it may concern:

Be itknown that 1, Joint KELLER, of New York,:county of New York, State of New York, am the inventor of an Improved Price-Ticket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in a ticket or tag for marking the price or other figures or words upon goods, of the shape and formed in the manner hereinafter described, together-With its fastening pin or clamp adapted to secure said ticket upon the goods, as specified.

Figure 1 is a front face view of my improved price-ticket. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the pin or clamp employed in connection with i the ticketfor securing it upon the goods.

. prepared with figures, words,or symbols printed upon the index-face. Upon the index-face of the ticket, and on or about the median line thereof, are formed'the narrow and yet deep depressions a. These depressions should be of a restricted and small diameter at their mouth on the saidindex faceof the card-ticket, so as to disturb to as limited an extent as possible the continuity of the surface of the index-face,fso that said surface will be substantially intact to be written or printed upon, as

hcreinbefore described. These depressions a should extend deeply into the material of the ticket and reach nearly entirely through the ticket. By means ,of these described depressions the continuity of the index-face and of V the mass of the substance of the ticket is disturbed to a very limited extent, and the strength and durability of the ticket are not lessened, while atthese depressed points no resistance is offered by the ticket to the passage through it of the fastening devicefwhich I will now proceed to describe.

B is the fastening pin or clamp, which is formed of a piece of flexible wire that is more orless finely drawn, and it is composed of the body part b and the two arms I), which are formed by turning or bending the endsof the wire'at substantially right angles tothe body I), and which are arranged to be parallel to each other, and to be a distance. apart which is substantially equal to the distance apart of the depressions a on the index-face of the ticket A. The extremities of the arms I) are brought to a long-pointed sharp end, as shown. In using my price-ticket the ticket is taken and then placed flatwise upon the fabric to which it is to be affixed, and one of the fasteners B is then taken and its. long-pointed sharp-ended arms I) are inserted in the depressions a on the ticket, and by aslight presslire on the body b of the fastener the arms I) are driven through the ticket and the fabric, when the ends of said arm may be turned down" fiat upon the opposite face of the fabric,- as shown in Fig. 6.

. Pricetickets as heretofore constructed, which are composed of a ticket having an index-face and device for fastening the ticket flatwise upon the surface of a fabric, have been made with the body of the fasteningdevice embedded in the material of the ticket, or permanently attached to the under face of the ticket, and in either case with its fastening arm or arms, which are to penetrate the fabric, extending at substantially right angles from the said under face of the ticket; but price-tickets thus-constructed are objectionable and inconvenient in'use, as well as expensive in manufacture, for various reasons. Their index-faces cannot conveniently be written upon by hand, which is very desirable in marking the price thereon of the goods to which they are to be attached, because they cannot be rested flat-- tion from their backs of the fastening-arms;

and to enable the fastening devices to be embedded firmly in or be caused to adhere permanently to the ticket said fastening device has who made comparatively heavy and large,

and considerable force is required to drive this bulky fastenerthrongh a fabric in attaching the ticket to such fabric; and as this force has to be exerted on the index 'or upper face of the ticket there is liability of breaking or otherwise injuring or defacing the ticket by such pressure upon it, while at the same time the material of the goods through which the fastenings are forced is greatly displaced, and very frequently so cut and injured bythe fasteningarms as to cause permanentdisfigurementof the goods. Again, these tickets thus constructed are expensive in manufacture, and in case any disabling injury'occurs to the fastening device of any of these the entireticket must be thrown away and wasted.

It is evident that owing to the forming of my ticket in the manner specified, with the depressions on the index-face, I am enabled to form my fastening device from very finely drawn wire, whereby the cost of material and of manufacture is greatly reduced, andwhereby the arms of the fastening device, in passing through the fabric to which the ticket is to be attached, will scarcely disturb the material thereof, and will not tear or make large openings in said fabric.

. Myimproved ticket, with described fastener, is thus adapted to be used in marking goods which are thin and of the finest materiah'as well as those which are thick and heavy and another the fastening devices, the whole package forming one that is convenient in use.

What I claim as my invention, and desireto secureby Letters Patent, is

A price-ticket composed of the described ticket A, having upon its index-face the deep depressions a, and adapted to be secured to fabrics by means of the fastener B, having the body I), and the parallel long sharp arms 11 at substantially right angles to said body, and made to register with the depression on .the ticket, all substantially as and for the purpose specified. i

Witness my hand August 2, 1881.

' JOHN KELLER.

In presence of-- A. G. N. VERMILYA, P. B. VERMILYA.

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