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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Gary L Lowe, Solway, MN (US);
Bedford Industries, Inc., Worthington, MN (US);
Abstract
This sheet material marking tag has a stiffly resilient header part united along a border to an information part for printed matter. A holding orifice in the header comprises a major recess divisible into substantially equal upper and lower halves. The orifice has an internal edge and the internal edge has a lower span consisting of all portions of the internal edge below the upper half of the major recess. A stub nose projects laterally from the orifice and terminates as a blunt tip. The lower edge of the nose tapers toward the border but terminates at an orifice entry slit on the lower span of the orifice internal edge. A V-shaped open mouth below the nose has an upper lip common to the lower edge of the nose and a lower lip tapering toward the orifice but terminating at a lower lip intersection along the lower edge of the nose at a location spaced from the orifice. A pinch entry channel extends as a length along the lower edge of the nose between the lower lip intersection and the orifice entry slit. Affixing the tag to an elongated component of merchandise involves easily guiding the component through the mouth and pinch entry channel into the orifice.