Identification device for machine imprinting

• US 5,448,846 A
• Filed: 12/23/1993
• Issued: 09/12/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation (Brady Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation (Brady Corporation)
• Inventors: Mosher, Walter W. Jr., Peterson, Dean D.
• Primary Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US08/172,855
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 40/304, 40/663, 40/664, 40/665, 40/633, 63/2, 63/3, 63/DIG. 3, 24/16 R, 24/484, 292/307 R, 292/308, 292/314, 292/325, 283/75
• US Class Current: 40/633
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/005 Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1498 Plastic band
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44248 Encircling gripping member including semirigid band and means for adjusting girth

Abstract

An identification device which includes a band having a blank imprintable surface upon which information in the form of a bar code or the like can be imprinted on a conventional bar code imprinting machine. Various bands are provided with separate fasteners which are assembled with the band after the imprinting and which, when the band is located on a person or object, lock the band against undesirable removal of the band.

Claims

1. In an identification device:

an elongated, flexible band for encircling an object to be identified, said flexible band being of uniform width along its entire length and having a first end portion, an intermediate portion, a second end portion, and top and bottom surfaces said intermediate portion having an imprintable surface thereupon for receiving a bar code imprint and said second end portion being engagable with said first end portion in overlapping relationship determined by the size of said object;

securement means engagable with corresponding surfaces of said first and second end portions, said securement means including a first securement portion engagable with the bottom surface of said first end portion of said band and having connector means integral therewith, said connector means securing a second securement portion to said first securement portion, whereby, when said second securement portion is disposed in overlying relationship with the top surface of said second end portion of said band, said first and second securement portions will be permanently secured to each other and in locking engagement with said first and second end portions of said band; and

a recess in an edge of said first end portion for receiving said connector means to hold said connector means against swiveling movement on said band.

2. The device of claim 1, further including detent means operably disposed on said first or said second securement portion of said securement means, said detent means being engagable with said first and said second end portions of said band to maintain said first end portion in operative relationship with said second end portion thereof and to maintain said first and second securement portions in permanent relationship with each other and the bottom surface of said first and the top surface of said second end portions.

3. The device of claim 1 in which said first end portion of said band is provided with a securement means mounting opening and said second end portion is provided with a plurality of linearly spaced openings, further including detent means operably disposed on said first or said second securement portions of said securement means, said detent means being insertable through said mounting opening and engagable with a selected one of said linearly spaced openings when said band is disposed in encompassing relationship with an object and the respective end portions of said band are disposed in overlapping relationship, said detent means being engagable in locking relationship with the other of said first or said second securement portions of said securement means to maintain the overlapping first and second end portions of said band in permanent relationship with each other.

4. In an identification device:

an elongated band securable about an object to be identified, said band being flexible and of uniform width along its entire length and having a first end portion and a second end portion having opposite edges and top and bottom surfaces, said first end portion incorporating a mounting opening and tether locating recesses in the opposite edges of said first end portion, said second end portion incorporating a plurality of linearly spaced openings; and

fastener means having a first fastener portion incorporating a detent and a second fastener portion having a receptacle permanently engagable by said detent, said first and second fastener portions being secured to each other by a flexible tether and said detent on said first fastener portion being engagable with and extending through said mounting opening when said first and second end portions of said band are disposed in encompassing relationship with an object and in overlapping relationship with each other so that said detent extends through a selected one of said linearly spaced openings and said receptacle is engaged by said detent to secure said detent permanently in said receptacle and said fastener means in permanent securement with said first and second end portions of said band, said tether being received in one of said recesses in said first end portion of said band.

5. The device of claim 4 in which said first and second fastener portions are formed integrally with said tether.

6. The device of claim 4 in which said fastener detent and said receptacle are either or both momentarily deformable to permit the locking engagement thereof.