Merchandise information tag with improved mounting arrangement

• US 4,531,313 A
• Filed: 03/09/1983
• Issued: 07/30/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Fast Mind LLC
• Original Assignee: Jacob Fast
• Inventors: Fast, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US06/473,650
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 40/20, 40/10 R, 40/19.5, 40/2, 40/584
• US Class Current: 40/657
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0869 Accessories for article-supporting brackets, e.g. price- indicating means, not covered by a single one of groups A47F5/08 pushing means therefor A47F1/128
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/04 Folded cards
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/04 to be fastened or secured by the material of the label itself, e.g. by thermo-adhesion by a separate adhesive layer G09F3/10

Abstract

A product identification tag is fabricated from plastic and, in one embodiment, snap-fits onto a support member for a peg board hook without requiring removal of the hook from the peg board or the displayed merchandise from the hook. Support structure on the tag includes two holes spaced to correspond to the spacing between two legs in the hooked support member which are insertable into two peg board holes, respectively. Access channels are cut from a nearby mounting edge of the tag to the holes to permit the legs to be inserted into the respective holes only when portions of the tag which bound the access channels are flexed. In a second embodiment, using the same or a different form of tag mounting structure, the tag is secured adjacent a support wall, behind supported merchandise items, and projects forwardly alongside the supported merchandise items before terminating in a display section which is folded or bent to be disposed forwardly of the suspended merchandise.

Claims

1. In combination:

a product identification tag comprising a substantially planar sheet of resiliently flexible plastic material having a mounting edge, said sheet including first and second transversely spaced mounting holes defined therein by respective first and second circumferential edges, said mounting holes each being slightly longitudinally spaced from said mounting edge, wherein said first and second mounting holes have respective first and second centers which are mutually spaced by a predetermined distance, said sheet further having first and second access cuts defined therein and extending from said mounting edge to said first and second circumferential edges, respectively, said access cuts each having respective mutually convergent first sides, wherein said first sides of said first and second access cuts, respectively, face away from one another and are transversely spaced along their entire lengths by less than said predetermined distance, wherein said first and second access cuts intersect said first and second circumferential edges, respectively, at respective first and second access breaks in said first and second circumferential edges, respectively, and wherein said first and second access breaks are everywhere disposed transversely closer to one another than said predetermined distance; and

a support member having first and second legs which are spaced by said predetermined distance and having cross-sectional configurations which fit within said first and second mounting holes, respectively.

2. The combination according to claim 1 wherein each access cut further includes a second side which converges with said first side generally toward a corresponding mounting hole from said mounting edge.

3. The combination according to claim 2 wherein said sheet further includes a generally rectangular trapezoidal flap having a short base disposed along said mounting edge and two opposite sides corresponding to said first sides which mutually converge in a direction toward said mounting edge.

4. The combination according to claim 3 wherein said first and second access cuts extend from the access breaks in the circumferential edges of said first and second mounting holes, respectively, said access breaks being narrower than said legs of said support member to preclude passage of said legs into and out of said mounting holes unless said sheet is flexed.

5. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said each access cut includes a slit in which said first and second sides abut one another.

6. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said sheet includes an integral extension portion extending from and substantially perpendicular to said planar sheet, and an integral display section extending from and substantially perpendicular to said extension portion.