Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Baggage checks
Reexamination Certificate
2001-08-03
2003-04-08
Browne, Lynne H. (Department: 3679)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Baggage checks
C040S299010
Reexamination Certificate
active
06543161
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A conventional identification tag attached to a suitcase or the like is shown in FIG.
1
and generally includes a frame
10
, a name card
11
retained in the frame
10
and a securing strip
12
. The frame
10
has a groove
102
defined in an inside thereof so that the name card
11
is engaged with groove
102
. A ring
101
is connected to an end of the frame
10
so that the strip
12
extends through the ring
101
and is tied to a suitcase. The groove
102
is defined by two sidewalls
103
which has limited length so that when the identification tag is hit or folded, the sidewalls
103
could be deformed as shown in FIG.
2
and the name card
11
could disengage from the frame
10
.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,397,651, 4,187,628 and 2,455,236 disclosed a tag with a plate or a card received in transparent envelope. Nevertheless, the envelope disclosed in each of the above mentioned former patents has no ventilation holes for escaping the moisture or vapor trapped in the envelopes. The moisture will become vapor attached on an inside of the transparent envelope so that the card or the plate in the envelope cannot be seen clearly. Besides, the moisture could damage the card or the plate in the envelope.
The present invention intends to provide an identification tag which has a ventilation hole defined in the frame so that moisture or vapor will not trapped in the tag.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an identification tag comprising a frame having a closed surface and a peripheral flange which is connected to the closed surface. A groove is defined between the closed surface and the peripheral flange. Two ventilation holes are defined through a first end of the peripheral flange and communicate with the grove. Two lugs respectively extend from an end of the closed surface and a second end of the peripheral flange. A slot is defined between the first lug and the second lug, and the slot communicates with the groove. Each of the two lugs has a hole defined therethrough so that a strip extends through the holes in the two lugs and is connected to a suitcase.
The object of the present invention is to an identification tag that has ventilation holes so as to allow moisture or vapor to escape therefrom.
These and further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more obvious from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which show, for purposes of illustration only, an embodiment in accordance with the present invention.
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Baxley Charles E.
Browne Lynne H.
Thompson Kenn
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