US2622913A - Dismounting implement for price tags - Google Patents

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P. HOPP DISMOUNTING IMPLEMENT FOR PRICE TAGS Filed Nov. 1, 1949 Dec. 23, 1952 INVENTOR. Philip Hopp ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 23, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISMOUNTING IMPLEMENT FOR PRICE TAG 1 Claim. 1

I have invented an improvement relating to means for handling price tags, cards and the like, and especially to a novel implement by which such articles can be readily withdrawn from the supports in which they are exhibited, when they need to be dismounted or replaced.

When cards and tags are employed to indicate various articles and commodities on sale, the tags and the like are usually attached to strips having flanges along the edges to retain the cards. The flanges engage the cards or tags along the upper and lower edges and to remove and replace them requires care to prevent wear and breaking. By my improvement all risk-of damage to the tags or cards in mounting or dismounting is obviated.

The objects and advantages of the invention are clearly described herein, and the characteristics are defined in the claim. The drawings illustrate a preferred form, but the disclosure is by way of example only, and changes in details may of course be adopted without departing from the essential structure in which the invention is embodied.

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a device according to this invention.

Figure 2 is a side or edge view thereof; and

Figures 3, 4 and show how the card or tag device is employed in dismounting a price tag.

The appliance or accessory comprises a handle i to one end of which is secured a pair of rubber suction cups 2. The handle is an elongated member, such as a rod of suitable material, bent double and twisted, with the ends substantially flush and even with each other, but slightly separated, with the cups attached to said ends.

The support or holder for a tag or ticket has the form of a strip of metal or plastic 3 with retaining flanges or ribs 4 along its opposite longitudinal edges, and projecting from its front face. The ticket, card or price tag 5 is put in against the front face of the strip and is engaged or gripped by the flanges 4 along the upper and lower edges of the display element 5. The holder is often concave, and the element 5 is pushed in so that it makes full contact with the support 3.

The element 5 can be inserted by bending it between its longitudinal edges, but it fits snugly in the strip 3 between the ribs 4. Hence the re- 2 moval of the element without fraying the edges or otherwise impairing it is a bit difficult because such tags are thin and sometimes brittle. Therefore the implement comprising the small hollow collapsible members such as the vacuum cups 2 is necessary. The cups are of course leakproof, and the rims B are pressed against the element 5, and when the cups engage the element all around the rims, a pull on the handle will bend the element 5 forward between its edges under the ribs t, and then it can be easily detached. These operations of insertion and removal are illustrated on Figures 3, 4 and 5. All liability of the tag or card being damaged is thus eliminated; and the removal is quickly and safely performed.

The cups 2 have hollow bosses 1 receiving the separated ends 8 of the handle I and can be cemented or otherwise made fast to the handle. The twisted handle has a loop 9 at its opposite end to afford a better hand-hold to the user.

The implement prevents injury and wear, and enables the tags to be very conveniently manipulated for extracting price tags from the holder 3.

At the upper rear edge the holder 3 has a projecting rib or shoulder ID to suspend it in the usual way from the edge of a shelf I I.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is:

An implement for removing tags from a support engaging the tags along their edges, said implement comprising an elongated body bent double and having its ends in adjacent positions, and a suction element aflixed to each of said ends, the rims of said elements lying in a common plane, the halves of said body being twisted together, and having a loop at the ends remote from said elements.

PHILIP HOPP.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,131,687 Kaplan Sept. 27, 1938 2,345,205 MacChesney Mar. 28, 1944

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