US1756216A - Identification and price tag - Google Patents

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April 1930. w. H. SEELEY I 1,756,216

IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE TAG Filed Jun 25, 1927 4 m fig? 3 1 2 a 5 Jy. J g I Z/ I \/j Jag.

INVENTOR Figures 3. and 4 I views, respectively, of the tag.

atented Apr. 29, 13a

WILLIAM H. SEELEY, 0F TACOMA, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOE T0 BROWN & BAILEY,

0E TACOMA, WASHINGTON, A CORPORATION'OF WASHINGTON IDENTIFICATION Application filed June 25,

This invention relates to price indicating and identifying tags, or stickers, for retailed merchandise. More particularly, it relates to stickers, or tags, that are applicable to boxes of candy or the like.

It is the principal object ofthis invention to provide "an identifying tag that may be applied to a box, or package, or other article and which has in connection therewith a detachable'tab bearing a price mark for the information of both the purchaser and the retailer, and which may be detached when the box is purchased or at any time which suits the purchaser.

More specifically stated, the object of this invention resides in the provision of a sticker comprising an ornamental portion that may be attached to the goods and which bears thereon a trademark or othersymbol whereby the purchaser may identify the make or character of the goods being purchased and to which a price bearin tab is detachably connected so that it may e removed without dis- .turbing the identifying-portion.

' In accomplishingthese and other objects of the invention, '1 have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view, showing a box for candy, or the like, to which an identifying and price indicating tag is attached in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the parts of the sticker, showing the price tab detached from the identifying portion.

are outside. and inside Referring more in d tail to the drawin s- AND IPRICE TAG 1927. Serial No. 201,494.

contained in the box to which the sticker is attached; this portion of the sticker being provided on its under surface with an adhesive substance, such as. glue, whereby. it may be stuck to the box.

The tab 3 has a price mark thereon from which the purchaser, as well as the retailer, may determine the price at which the goods to which the sticker is attached is to be sold.

It is intended that such stickers be applied to the boxed goods at the-factory or that they be, distributed to the retailers for them to place on the boxes. When a box of candy, or

the like, to which a sticker is attached is sold,

the purchaser or the retailer tears off the price mark but the trademark or identifying mark is left on the box. Such stickers may be -made invarious styles and sizes and it is not desired that the claim be limited only to'the particular form in which it has been herein shown;

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim asnew therein and desire to secure by Letters. Patent, is:

An identification and price bearing tag for merchandise, said tag comprising an ornamental identification portion provided on its V under side with an adhesive whereby it may be permanently attached to an article without impairing its ornamental appearance, and a price bearing portion disconnectably attached to said identification portion and lhe identifying and price tag, in its entirety, is designated at 1 in Figure 1, and it comprises an identifying portion: 2 and a price tab 3 that is separated from the part 2 by a line of perforations 4 which permits the tab to be easily detached by tearing along the line of perforations. The part 2 may be of I various ornamental shapes, circular, oblon or square, and may bearthereon atrademar or other symbol whereby a purchaser may adapted when removed therefrom to leave the s5 Washington this 30th

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