Identification bands

• US 5,873,188 A
• Filed: 10/28/1996
• Issued: 02/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ned R. Gehris
• Original Assignee: Ned R. Gehris
• Inventors: Gehris, Ned R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Green, Brian K.
• Application Number:
  US08/739,053
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 40/633, 40/665, 283/75, 283/900, 63/3, 63/DIG. 3, 292/320, 292/325, 292/328, 292/307 A, 24/16 PB, 24/30.5 P
• 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 292/507 Tag type

Abstract

An identification device is disclosed comprising a display area for recorded indicia that is located between a first and a second end. The first end includes three or more equally spaced apart holes and the second end includes three or more equally spaced holes. The device is an improvement over the prior art in that the equal spacing on the first end is different than equal spacing on the second end by which means closer adjustment of the circumference of the band can be obtained without spacing the securing holes on either end so close together that they may be easily torn.

Claims

1. An elongated thin band of tough flexible material adapted to be secured in surrounding relationship to an object, the band including a first end that has three or more equally spaced apart holes, a second end that includes three or more equally spaced apart holes, a display area located between the spaced apart holes on the first end and the spaced apart holes on the second end and indicia on the display area, at least one hole on the first end of the band adapted to be aligned with at least one hole on the second end of the band when the band is positioned in surrounding relationship to the object, and a fastening means adapted to pass through and secure the aligned holes relative to each other, wherein the equally spaced apart holes on the first free end of the band are spaced apart at a distance different from the spacing on the equally spaced apart holes on the second free end of the band.

2. A band according to claim 1 wherein the fastening means requires destructive removal.

3. A band according to claim 1 wherein there are at least two paired parallel rows of spaced apart holes on the first and second ends of the band.

4. A band according to claim 1 wherein at least two spaced apart holes on the first free end of the band are adapted to be aligned over at least two spaced apart holes on the second free end of the band and each pair of aligned holes is secured relative to each other.