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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1999
John A Robertson, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Walter Nickolaus Arth, Jr, Washington Court House, OH (US);
Edward S O'Neal, Rockbridge, OH (US);
Ken R Vaughn, Kingston, OH (US);
Infosight Corporation, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Abstract
Broadly, the present invention is directed to a method for making a metal tag bearing visible indicia thereon and which can be welded onto a workpiece. Such inventive method commences by providing a metal sheet having a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of ends. The top face bears a painted zone upon which is imprinted with visible indicia. At least one of the ends of the bottom face has exposed bare metal. Such bare metal end is folded so as to reveal the bottom face bare metal adjacent to the imprinted painted zone. The thickness of the folded ends is effective for the metal tag to be welded onto a metal workpiece at such folded tag end. Another aspect of the present invention is a metal tag bearing indicia thereon and which can be welded onto a metal workpiece. The tag includes a metal sheet having a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of ends. The top face bears a painted zone upon that is imprinted with visible indicia. At least one of the ends of the bottom face having exposed bare metal which bare metal end having been folded so as to reveal the bottom face bare metal adjacent to the imprinted painted zone, whereby the metal tag can be welded onto a metal workpiece at the folded tag end.