Bedford Industries, Inc.

Debra K Houseman

John B Linquist

Colin M O'Donnell

David Schiller

Jay A Milbrandt

Jeffrey D Tschetter

Kim A Milbrandt

Brian D Larsen

Joshua Platt

Jeffery Scott Maltas

An apparatus () includes a stack () having a plurality of connected tie web sheets () and an image () disposed on each of the tie web sheets (), wherein the image () is the same on each tie web sheet () and is disposed in overlay registration from sheet () to sheet (). Each tie web sheet () includes a plurality of twist ties (), each twist tie () having a proximal end () and a distal end (), each twist tie () being removably attached to the stack () at its proximal end (). A method of dispensing a plurality of twist ties () includes mounting a stack () within reach of a user and displaying an image () disposed on each of the tie web sheets (). Removal of a twist tie () of the plurality of twist ties () of the stack () does not alter the image () viewable by the user.

Twist tie dispensing apparatus and method

The marking tag for quick and easy slidable fastening on a stalk of merchandise consists essentially of a flat sheet of highly flexible and easily crushed and distorted plastic material having a thickness between 7 and 14 mils and having an information portion for printed matter and a stalk-receiving portion for affixation to a stalk of merchandise. The stalk-receiving portion has a single circular hole between 5 and 10 mm in diameter and surrounded by at least 10 radial slits equidistantly spaced about the hole and having a radial length about equal to the diameter of the hole. The long and narrow and blunt radial fingers so formed are so highly flexible as to readily curve out of the flat plane of the sheet material as the hole is slid onto merchandise, and all edges of the marking tag are incapable of causing a paper cut to a person affixing it and incapable of causing cutting or gouging action to the merchandise, regardless of how the marking tag is slid or rotated on or off the stalk.

Slidably fastenable tag

The new advertising band for quick and easy locking, unlocking and re-locking about merchandise is a flexible strip having a lead end section, a body section, and a tail end section. The lead end section is equipped with a lock aperture having a maximum dimension in the longitudinal direction and a minimum dimension transverse thereto. The body section has a substantial length and transverse width for displaying advertising information. Its length is at least as great as the combined length of both the lead and the tail end sections. The tail end section has laterally paired locking members separated by neck members along its length. It is easily pulled through the aperture to lock any pair of the locking members against the minimum dimension edges of the aperture and yet is easily and quickly unlocked from the aperture by aligning its locking members with the maximum dimension of the aperture and pulling it free from the aperture. The ideal lock aperture has a Saturn design.

Adjustable advertising band

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Fulda, MN, United States of America

Debra K Houseman