Fastener Mounted In Support Hole Patents (Class 40/663)
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Patent number: 10463182Abstract: A utensil bundle securing and decorating assembly and method including a strand arranged to form at least one slip knot and a loop that can be tightened by pulling on one end of the strand assembly to secure a bundle, the assembly further including a placard or other decorative component or subassembly secured to the strand at a location along the loop section so that the assembly can be themed for different events.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Napkin Knots, LLCInventors: Tracy Ryan, Annie Dougherty
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Patent number: 9836687Abstract: A transaction card includes a card body that may comprise a card body comprising a ceramic material, the card body including a primary surface and a first mating surface. A card backer comprises a metallic material and includes a secondary surface and a second mating surface. A portion of the first mating surface and a portion of the second mating surface are coupled together.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Troy Patrick Williams, Peter Bates
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Patent number: 9215824Abstract: A server includes a main body and a plurality of indicating tags. The main body includes a plurality of electronic elements. A separating plate is located between each two adjacent electronic elements. The main body defines a plurality of engaging holes corresponding to the electronic elements. A gap is defined between the separating plate and the main body. The indicating tag includes a label plate and a mounting plate. One end of the mounting plate defines a through hole. The other end of the mounting plate forms an engaging portion. The engaging portion engages in the gap. The indicating tags can be fixed to the main body with screws extending through the through holes to engage in the engaging holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ShenZhen Treasure City Technology Co., LTD.Inventor: Zheng-Heng Sun
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Publication number: 20140317978Abstract: An Electric Wiring Device Marking System which allows attachment of labeled (or non labeled) inserts or stickers in the proper orientation. In some embodiments, a system which utilizes a Post-Installation-Visible Date Stamp. In some embodiments, utilizing labeling which communicate by visual and/or tactile means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventor: Kyung Tae Kim
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Patent number: 8695258Abstract: A nameplate attachment structure enables a nameplate to be attached in at least two variations of postures to a chassis outer surface of an apparatus, the nameplate being formed of an elastic body, the nameplate including: a shaft projected on a rear surface of an indication surface and having a distal end including a locking stop; and at least two engagement pieces respectively having hook projections, the chassis outer surface including: a support hole through which the shaft is inserted; and at least two engagement holes engageable with the engagement pieces. When the shaft is inserted through the support hole, the locking stop restricts movement of the nameplate in a direction in which the shaft extends, and when the engagement pieces are inserted through the engagement holes, the hook projections are engaged with the engagement holes so that the nameplate is attached to the chassis outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshifumi Kori, Akira Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8561333Abstract: A Snap N Place sign system and method for supporting a sign message includes a sign substrate associated with a number of rubber nipple fasteners and a lens. The sign message and the lens further include mounting holes placed at their corners for securely holding the sign message in association with the sign substrate and lens. The rubber nipple fastener can be pulled through the mounting holes in the lens utilizing a relatively low insertion force. The rubber nipple fasteners can be driven axially into the mounting holes in the lens with a flexible tab engaging the lens and flexing as they move through the hole in the lens. The rubber nipple fastener can be specifically designed such that the force required to install or push the rubber nipple fastener through the mounting hole is relatively low thereby facilitating ergonomic considerations. The Snap N Place sign system is capable of holding signs of a variety of thicknesses and sizes.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Inventors: Roxanna Meyers, Wesley Meyer, Leon Smith
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Patent number: 8388025Abstract: A strip for tamper evidencing has a first layer and one or more reinforcing layers. An adhesive is provided on a first portion of the strip to selectively adhere the first portion of the strip onto the first layer of a second portion of the strip, wherein the first layer is such that removal or attempted removal of the first portion of the strip from the second portion of the strip will be evidenced by the first layer. The reinforcing material may be arranged such that portions of it are bonded to each other at a plurality of locations spaced along the length of the strip. A security system may include a tamper evidencing device and a receipt portion having corresponding unique identifiers, wherein the receipt portion includes a zip tab securing portion for securing zip tabs or luggage locking points and the evidencing device includes a trackable identifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Securoseal Pty LtdInventors: Dion Mrocki, Ben Talintyre, Rod Anthony Wiebenga
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Patent number: 8381424Abstract: An assembly for advertising on a door is disclosed. The assembly includes material having an aperture therein and having a first planar surface configured to receive an advertisement message, and a fastener comprising a loop-shaped first end contiguously connected to a T-shaped second end fastened through the aperture. The loop-shaped first end of the fastener is configured to flex around a door protrusion such as a knob, lever, or hinge.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Inventor: Roth K. Christopherson
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Publication number: 20120304517Abstract: A nameplate attachment structure enables a nameplate to be attached in at least two variations of postures to a chassis outer surface of an apparatus, the nameplate being formed of an elastic body, the nameplate including: a shaft projected on a rear surface of an indication surface and having a distal end including a locking stop; and at least two engagement pieces respectively having hook projections, the chassis outer surface including: a support hole through which the shaft is inserted; and at least two engagement holes engageable with the engagement pieces. When the shaft is inserted through the support hole, the locking stop restricts movement of the nameplate in a direction in which the shaft extends, and when the engagement pieces are inserted through the engagement holes, the hook projections are engaged with the engagement holes so that the nameplate is attached to the chassis outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshifumi KORI, Akira YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20120295244Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and method for visual identification of valves in multi valve distribution and transmission systems, and particularly for municipal utility infrastructures such as mainline, connection, drain, pressure district, pressure regulating and pressure sustaining valves. In an embodiment, color coded valve box inserts are made to specifications, inserted and secured into place at the opening of multiple valve boxes to easily and accurately identify the different types or sizes of valves. Each color represents a different type or size of valve, as established by the municipality. A color coding chart identifying the different types or sizes of valves may be placed at each point of access to the valves to assist in identification of the different types of valves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Michael Perin, Jeremy Leyland Hunt
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Patent number: 8302339Abstract: A display system utilizing a graphics box as a primary component is disclosed. The graphics box greatly increases the flexibility and aesthetic appeal of displayed graphics cards. The ability to mass produce the graphics box, use multiple graphics boxes to deliver displays of different size and information content and, especially, the ability to reuse the graphics boxes, means that costs of the disclosed display system are relatively low and are achievable without a decrease in the aesthetic appeal of the entire display. Structures for supporting the graphics box to further increase the flexibility of the display system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Inventors: Randy Pender, Van Stry Erik
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Publication number: 20120090209Abstract: The method includes a fastener to aid and enhance the door to door distribution and functionality of advertisements. The advertisements, such as flyers, door hangers, booklets, brochures and the like, are used by advertisers to communicate information, services, and special offers to the public. The advertisement can be a sheet of flexible or rigid material, including a first planar surface, and a hole to accommodate the fastener. In another embodiment, this advertisement could initially be blank with the intention of the advertiser printing their own information on the advertisement. The fastener incorporated in the method, is used to securely attach the advertisement to a door knob, or other protrusion, during door to door distribution. The fastener design has a circular portion that may be stretched to fit around a door knob securely attaching the advertisement to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventor: Roth K. Christopherson
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Publication number: 20120030980Abstract: An assembly for attaching an emblem onto the front face of an airbag storage enclosure cover has a plurality of attachment posts that project from the back surface of the emblem and extend through the cover from the front face to terminate in free ends remote from the emblem. An attachment backing sheet is positioned against the rear face of the cover, whereby the attachment posts also extend through the attachment backing sheet with the free end of each positioned on the side of the attachment backing sheet opposite from the cover. A plurality of radially-enlarged attachment nuggets are formed or joined individually in a one-to-one association to the free end of the attachment posts, and each of the attachment nuggets is secured to the backing sheet in proximity to the associated attachment post. The attachment backing sheet thus tethers each of the attachment nuggets to the cover in the event of the mechanical failure of an associated attachment post.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Terry Sella, Michael Kutchey, James N. Sonnenberg
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Patent number: 7895785Abstract: In one embodiment, a tag includes a substantially flat portion having two faces and a length and a height, wherein the length is between about 1 inch and about 2½ inches. The height is between about ? inch and about 1 inch. The tag also includes at least one first member coupled to the flat portion and extending away therefrom at an angle of between about 45° and about 135° to a plane normal to a plane of the flat portion, the at least one first member being adapted for mounting in an opening of a surface of an electronics system thereby creating a removable coupling between the at least one first member and the surface of an electronics system when mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew Nathan Hail, Michael David Herring, Jason Aaron Matteson, Timothy Andreas Meserth
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Publication number: 20110010975Abstract: To solve the problems of a conventional tag for a fishing rod, which is floppily hung from a leg portion of a fishing line guide by using a cord etc. and its surface is often invisible to a customer, a tag (1) for a fishing rod is provided with an oblong sheet (3), two holes (9, 13) formed to be spaced in a longitudinal direction of the sheet, and two notches (11, 15) linearly extending from the respective holes to sheet edges, and the tag is attached to the fishing rod without flopping in a state that a customer appeal surface (17) between two holes is exposed at a fishing line guide side, by passing a leg portion (f) of a fishing line guide to one hole (9) via the notch (11), and passing a rod body (s) to the other hole (13) via the notch (15).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: FUJI KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhito Omura
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Publication number: 20100088939Abstract: On an information-showing portion 10A of a tag 1A shown in FIG. 1, information is written. A mounting portion 11A has at two positions catching holes 11m which catch a linear binder which is fasted by being wound around a mounted target such as a bag and is bound to the mounted target together with the binder by fastening the binder passed through the catching holes 11m at the two positions to the mounted target. A coupling portion 12A is made by forming a concave portion 12m by notching part of a side of the information-showing portion 10A and integrally couples the mounting portion 11A and the information-showing portion 10A to each other through its width smaller than that of the information-showing portion 10A. According to such a configuration, an orientation of the tag 1A in a condition where it is attached to the mounted target may be more stable and at this time, it is possible to recognize the information securely.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Maniwa
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Patent number: 7661215Abstract: A structure for mounting a marking plate is disclosed hereinafter as follows. A stem of a marking plate is inserted through a plate, and a spring member is provided at the tip end of the stem. Elastic portions of the spring member are elastically deformed so that a projection of each elastic portion is in elastic contact with the back surface of the plate. Accordingly, the engagement of the engaging portions of the marking plate side and the plate side and the engagement of the lock pawls and the engaging recesses are maintained by the elastic force of the elastic portions, thereby maintaining the mounted condition of the marking plate. When the marking plate is pulled away from the front surface of the plate in the mounted condition, the elastic portions are further elastically deformed to allow the disengagement.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Okamoto
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Fastener that is combined with and detached from a name plate and a hanging strap easily and quickly
Publication number: 20090277052Abstract: A fastener includes a stop portion, at least one insertion portion mounted on the stop portion and provided with at least one clamping slot, and at least one recessed retaining portion located between the stop portion and the insertion portion. Thus, the insertion portion of the fastener extends through each of the mounting holes of a name plate, and each of the distal ends of a hanging strap extends through the clamping slot of the insertion portion, so that the fastener is combined with and detached from the name plate and the hanging strap easily and quickly. In addition, the hanging strap is movable in the clamping slot of the insertion portion to adjust a distance between the hanging strap and the name plate so as to fit a user's stature and requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chang -
Publication number: 20090019751Abstract: An improved combination card and card retaining member for removably securing the card to the card retaining member, the card having formed within it an aperture and a slot connecting the aperture with an edge of the card, and the card retaining member being a member, such as a ring, which may be passed through the slot and into the aperture to secure the card to the card retaining member. The aperture and slot are configured and located on the card in such a manner as to improve the ease of attachment and detachment of the card to and from the card retaining member while minimizing the risk of accidental detachment of the card from the card retaining member. One or more cards may be used simultaneously with a single card retaining member. A preferred use of the invention is to retain and organize credit cards.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventor: Thomas J. Goetting
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Patent number: 7428145Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic apparatus typified by a personal computer for example. The electronic apparatus has: a main unit; and an openable and closable display unit that is attached to the main unit. The main unit has a battery-attachment section to which a detachable battery unit containing a battery for supplying power to the electronic unit is to be attached. The main unit also has projections that are not covered by the display unit when the display unit is closed and are formed at both ends of the attachment section. The projections each contain a speaker.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Sonomasa Kobayashi, Katsuichi Goto
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Publication number: 20080202008Abstract: Connection method, in particular for articles for sale that are to be provided with an appended manual, warranty et cetera by means of a plastic tape laid in a lope or coil, the ends of which are welded together, at which a tape, strip or the like (7) is inserted through receiving openings (13) in the objects that are to be connected. The tape (7) is held fast in the inserted end, thereafter the objects (2, 3) that are to be connected are moved in relation to the tape (7) so that the tape receives a more or less U-shaped contour. Thereafter the ends of the tape are brought together and joined.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Hakan Asph, Roger Eghult
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Patent number: 7102880Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main body containing an electronic component. The main body includes a receptacle in which a functional component is detachably received therein, and a label indicating that the electronic apparatus provided with the electronic component is certified. The label is exposed to the outside of the main body through the receptacle when the functional component is detached from the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroyuki Minaguchi, Yasuyuki Horii, Nobuyasu Tajima, Masataka Tokoro, Takayuki Arisaka, Yasuyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 6877264Abstract: A label holder for labeling a rack-mounted computer system component is provided. The label holder includes an elongated body, a plurality of legs, and at least one retaining foot on at least one of the legs. Additionally, the holder may include one or more stiffening members and/or one or more shoulder ledges. The holder may be installed on a ventilation grating on a surface of the computer system component. The holder may be configured to allow air to flow between the holder and computer system component, so that cooling air is not prevented from flowing through the computer system component by the holder. At least one leg and/or the elongated body may be elastically deformable to allow at least one retaining foot to be engaged with an opening on the surface of the computer system component. Additionally, one or more of the retaining feet may have a beveled lower surface that may assist in installing the holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventor: Timothy E. Mautz
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Patent number: 6760989Abstract: A badge is disclosed having a metallic emblem having a thickness about 0.01 to about 1 mm, adhesively attached to a mounting frame by an adhesive polymeric resin having a Shore D hardness about 20 to about 90. Also disclosed is a vehicular sub-assembly including a substrate with the badge attached thereto. Methods of making the badge and the sub-assembly are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Peterson, Theodore J. Hoke, III, Mark E. Kassman
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Patent number: 6488147Abstract: A merchandising system can display merchandise on a display rack. The system has a pair of articles to be worn by a person (for example, gloves). The articles have a right main body and a left main body, each with a user (or hand) opening. The pair of articles have an attachment subsystem for providing an outlying attachment locus for the articles. The attachment subsystem includes a right extremity and a left extremity secured at the user opening of the right main body and the left main body, respectively. The right and the left extremity are each able to reach out of the user opening. The attachment subsystem also includes a display arrangement including a panel. The attachment subsystem is arranged to detachably secure the articles together with the panel, and the right extremity and the left extremity. The attachment subsystem is adapted to hang on the display rack and support the articles.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Magla World Wide, Ltd.Inventor: Henry Mattesky
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Patent number: 6318283Abstract: A method and apparatus for marking fabric in a permanent or semipermanent manner includes a plurality of foam markers which are compressible to a smaller size. Upon release of external pressure, the foam markers expand to their original shape and volume. An insertion tool is provided for inserting the foam markers into fabric. The insertion tool comprises an elongate tubular member which has a marker receiving opening on a first end. A pointed tip is located on the second end of the insertion tool to facilitate insertion of the tool between the threads of the fabric being marked. A marker may be compressed by rolling the marker between a thumb and finger. The compressed marker is then partially inserted into the opening of the insertion tool so that a portion of the marker protrudes from the end of the insertion tool. The tip of the insertion tool is then inserted through the fabric at a desired location.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Common Sense Systems Inc.Inventor: Robert Stanley Coulthard, Jr.
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Patent number: 6126204Abstract: The apparatus for implementing a living will according to the applicant's method, includes a first indicator for wearing by a testator so as to adorn the testator in a readily visible fashion, and wherein the first indicator clearly indicates and communicates by a notice the existence of a living will belonging to the testator and directs a medical attendant to a second indicator carried by the testator in a portable fixed form, for example, fixed in written form on a concealable portable member such as a planar member, for example, a flexible card or the like, for indicating on a surface thereon at least the instructive terms of the living will, wherein the second indicator in the preferred embodiment may indicate the presence and location of an original living will executed by the testator in the event that the second indicator is not the original living will executed by the testator.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1997Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Inventor: William W. Arkinstall
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Patent number: 5983540Abstract: A method and apparatus for marking and identifying birds. The tagging system includes a securing filament, an anchor tag and an identification tag. Both the anchor tag and the identification tag are provided with holes for reception of the securing filament. The securing filament is pierced through approximately one-half inch of the neck skin of the bird, and is secured by placement of the anchor tag on one side of the pierced skin and the identification tag on the opposed side of the pierced skin. The securing filament is provided with opposed cylindrical restriction bar which pass through the reception holes in the anchor tag and the identification tag thereby securing each tag between the pierced skin and a cylindrical restriction bar.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Inventor: Roger D. Ashley
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Patent number: 5900307Abstract: A self-laminating system for sealing a business card or the like to a luggage tag. The self laminating system comprises a rigid backing, a flexible transparent sheet with a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive material thereon and a removable cover liner which covers the entire area of the pressure sensitive adhesive material. The cover liner has a pre-cut crease which separates it into an upper portion and a lower portion, where the upper portion is pre-removed such that an exposed area of the pressure sensitive adhesive material on the flexible transparent sheet is affixed to the rigid backing. The card is placed between the rigid backing and the transparent sheet such that the lower portion of the cover liner is peeled off which exposes the rest of the pressure adhesive material so that the flexible transparent sheet can be securely affixed to the business card and the periphery of the rigid backing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1996Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Innovation Specialties, Inc.Inventor: John C. Barcikowski
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Patent number: 5822182Abstract: A flexible I/O port configuration and connector labeling scheme for a computer chassis. An I/O shield that includes connector cutouts specific to a system motherboard is attached to the system motherboard. The motherboard to which the I/O shield is attached may be installed in a generic chassis that includes cutouts for "standard" connectors, such as VGA, keyboard, audio and mouse connectors, as well as a flexible I/O cutout for receiving custom connectors, such as USB and network connectors. Any connector cutout or portion of a cutout provided in the chassis through which a connector does not extend is filled by the I/O shield. In another aspect, an I/O labeling strip on which are printed icons for identifying the various connectors is press-fit onto the chassis, such that the strip can be easily removed and replaced.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1997Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Dell U.S.A. L.P.Inventors: Erica Scholder, Timothy Radloff
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Patent number: 5697177Abstract: The locking tag for fastening to band material on merchandise is made of sheet material having an information part and a header part united together. The information part is for printed matter, which may include a scannable product identification marking. The header part has an open mouth in its outer perimeter edge and a holding orifice inwardly spaced from the open mouth. A slit entry channel extends from the open mouth along a line terminating as a slit entrance into the orifice. Fingers on opposite sides of the entry channel extend in opposite directions. One finger is an elongated hooking finger, and the other finger is a camming finger having a camming surface and a terminal hook lock at the entrance of the entry channel into the orifice. A band material in the holding orifice is substantially irreversibly locked in the orifice.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1996Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Bedford Industries, Inc.Inventors: Robert B. Ludlow, Brian D. Larsen, John B. Linquist
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Patent number: 5575713Abstract: A plastic fastener which may be inserted into a body of meat for tagging purposes and then subsequently removed therefrom intact comprises an elongated unitary plastic member shaped to include a transverse bar, a paddle, and a flexible filament interconnecting the transverse tag and paddle. The transverse bar is interconnected to the filament in a T shaped configuration. In one embodiment, the portion of the transverse bar constituting the trailing end thereof when the transverse bar is inserted into the meat is made smaller than normal so as to minimize the likelihood of the transverse bar severing from the filament when the fastener is withdrawn from the body of the meat.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: James C. Benoit, Frank T. McCarthy, Gary Buchholz
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Patent number: 5573456Abstract: A plastic fastener which may be inserted into a body of meat for tagging purposes comprises an elongated unitary plastic member shaped to include a transverse bar, a paddle, and a flexible filament interconnecting the transverse tag and paddle. The portion of the transverse bar constituting the trailing end thereof when the transverse bar is inserted into the meat is made smaller than normal so as to minimize the likelihood of the transverse bar severing from the filament when the fastener is withdrawn from the body of the meat.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: James C. Benoit, Frank T. McCarthy, Gary Buchholz
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Patent number: 5553706Abstract: A packaging system for displaying merchandise on a rack system having a rack member. At least two pieces of merchandise are intended to be displayed together on the rack system. Each of the pieces of merchandise has a reinforcing member secured in the merchandise to provide at least one reinforced opening through each piece of the merchandise. A coupling mechanism extends through the reinforced opening in each piece of merchandise securing the pieces of merchandise to each other and supports the pieces of merchandise on the rack member. The at least two pieces of merchandise can be displayed on the rack system by hanging the coupling mechanism on the rack member and the at least two pieces of merchandise can be removed from the rack member and inspected and tested without affecting the attachment of the pieces of merchandise to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Inventor: Danny Gold
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Patent number: 5546688Abstract: A tag adapted to be attached to an article of clothing or the like with a fastener of the type comprising an elongated plastic member having a cross-bar at one end. In one embodiment, the tag comprises a sheet of material folded and sealed to define a pocket, the pocket being provided with an opening through which a cross-bar may be inserted. Both the pocket and the opening are appropriately sized and shaped so that, when a cross-bar of a fastener is inserted into the pocket through the opening, the cross-bar cannot easily be removed from the pocket without tampering with the pocket in a readily identifiable manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1994Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Avery Dennison Corp.Inventor: F. Gerard Merser
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Patent number: 5526598Abstract: A display plate for a wire-netting cage is composed of a metallic plate member having a circular central opening portion and two opening portions each having a different sectional contour formed therethrough and a display member molded of a synthetic resin while including a circular central protuberance and two protuberances each having a different sectional contour. The metallic plate member is fixedly attached to a front surface of the wire-netting cage by welding it to two vertically extending steel wires. The display member is assembled with the metallic plate member by fitting the central circular protuberance of the display member into the central circular opening portion formed through the metallic plate member and then turning the metallic plate member with the central opening portion as a center.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1994Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Tokyo Pet Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 5511331Abstract: A coded marker support and a device for positioning of coded markers comprising a marking support (43), which is comprised of a plate (5) on which a plurality of aligned identification elements (1) may be locked. In an alternate embodiment, the plate (5 ) is provided with clamping members (10) allowing to fix the marking support (43) to a cable, the plate (5) being substantially parallel to the cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Inventor: Flavio Morosini
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Patent number: 5495390Abstract: A computer housing including a holder frame for mounting diskdrives when the housing is disposed in the vertical position, a locating frame for holding down diskdrives when the housing is disposed in the horizontal position, a detachable display cap detachably covered on a display mounting recess on the front panel to protect the display, which shows the operation speed of the computer, a hole through the recess for pushing out the cap with a tool, and two sliding side panels detachably fastened at two opposite sides through hooked joints.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1994Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Inventor: Chi T. Yu
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Patent number: 5373656Abstract: A tag adapted to be attached to an article of clothing or the like with a fastener of the type comprising an elongated plastic member having a cross-bar at one end. In one embodiment, the tag comprises a sheet of material folded and sealed to define a pocket, the pocket being provided with an opening through which a cross-bar may be inserted. Both the pocket and the opening are appropriately sized and shaped so that, when a cross-bar of a fastener is inserted into the pocket through the opening, the cross-bar cannot easily be removed from the pocket without tampering with the pocket in a readily identifiable manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1992Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventor: F. Gerard Merser
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Patent number: 5269412Abstract: A cassette (1) includes a housing (3) with two parallel main walls (5, 7), of which one wall has a recessed portion (25). The recessed portion (25) accommodates an element (22) whose picture, or information carrying, side (23) is visible. The element (22) can be fitted int he recessed portion (25) in only one position owing to the provision of offcentered projections (33,35).Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Peter J. Doodson
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Patent number: 5042184Abstract: A label holder for use on a slotted angle member is in the form of a substantially rectangular plastic sheet having half-moon shaped depressible tabs at its opposite side edges. In use the tabs are pushed through respective slots of the angle member and the arcuate edges promote squeezing and compression of the tabs in the slots. The tabs are twisted behind the slots to secure the holder against the angle member. The tabs are defined as cuts at the opposite sides of the holder.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1989Date of Patent: August 27, 1991Inventor: Jacob Fast
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Patent number: 5018286Abstract: A user authorization tag for the wearer thereof is rendered tamper resistant by forming the tag as an integral unit having a flat panel portion and a flexible loop portion extending from the panel portion. The loop is dimensioned for threading through a clothing opening, for example through a zipper pull, a button hole, or the like. Once the loop is threaded through the clothing opening, the panel is passed through the loop, to thereby secure the loop to the clothint opening. A relatively large ticket, carrying user authorization information such as bar code data, is then nonremovably secured to the panel. The size of the ticket is such that the panel with its attached ticket cannot pass back through the loop if an attempt is later made to remove the tag from the clothing.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Inventor: Daniel B. Zahner
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Patent number: 4965949Abstract: A label holder attachment is provided for the distal end of an elongate product information display tag of the kind that extends over a horizontally disposed product support hook. The label holder attachment may be used, for example, to provide temporary product information such as sale or special offer pricing. The label holder attachment has a pair of fold-down tabs which can be squeezed together and inserted through an elongate slot at the distal end of the tag in order to mount the attachment on the tag. The attachment also has a label holding portion which extends forwardly of the tag and which can take a number of different forms.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Inventors: Jacob Fast, Robert Fast
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Patent number: 4955154Abstract: An anti-theft identification deterrent fastener that includes a housing with a recessed identification label firmly secured within for securement into a cutout area in an auto, a truck, or other device part. If the housing and the label are removed therefrom or tampered with it will indicate that the part has been stolen.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1989Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Inventor: Nathan S. Moss
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Patent number: 4926573Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of covers for smoking accessories. In a first embodiment, a covering device is provided designed to be snapped into place over the opening of the socket for a vehicle cigarette lighter. The covering device may have a design thereon providing an anti-smoking message. In a further embodiment, a plate is provided designed to cover an ashtray and to attach over the opening in the ashtray by a snapping connection with the cigarette holder thereof. Again, the upwardly facing surface of the plate may have an anti-smoking message thereon.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Inventor: Homer S. Hetrick
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Patent number: 4862617Abstract: A message-carrying device (e.g., a key ring holder) wherein the device is provided with a restricted passageway communicating between a central opening and an opening along the edge of the device for receiving a portion of an article to which the device is to be affixed, and wherein the central opening, but not the restricted passageway, can accommodate a different portion of the article.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1983Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Inventors: Edward J. Cooke, Jr., Frank S. Cooper, Jr.
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Patent number: 4760659Abstract: The display plate includes a frame member having a rectangular flat portion provided with at least one opening shaped to accommodate a largest number of the plurality of light-emitting elements and a first and a second major surfaces which face each other, at least one pair of paired tongues protruding from the second major surface of the flat portion to face each other at a spacing and provided with at least two pairs of aligned openings, and at least two columnar lugs each being integrally fixed to one of the tongues in each pair in the at least one pair of paired tongues by a thin webbing. The frame member is made of a plastic. A thin designation card is fit on the first major surface of the flat portion of the frame member and formed with a plurality of openings which are associated in position with the light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1985Date of Patent: August 2, 1988Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Noboru Watabe
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Patent number: 4754563Abstract: Several embodiments of a product identification and display tag for use in connection with a product-suspending hook extending substantially horizontally from a support surface are disclosed. In each case the tag comprises first and second parts. The first part has a mounting portion for attachment to the hook adjacent the support surface, and an elongate portion extending from the mounting portion for overlying the hook. The second part of the tag comprises a display portion for hanging vertically at the forward end of the hook to receive a product information and identification label or the like. The second part of the tag is releasably attached to the first part by male and female connector elements so that when a label is to be replaced, the second part of the tag can be removed and replaced with another second part having a new label, thereby avoiding the need to replace the tag as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1986Date of Patent: July 5, 1988Inventor: Jacob Fast