Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Badges – Changeable reading
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-17
2001-01-09
Green, Brian K. (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Badges
Changeable reading
C040S666000, C024S003120
Reexamination Certificate
active
06170181
ABSTRACT:
This application claims the priority of European patent application No. 98 102 711.3, filed Feb. 17, 1998, the disclosure of which is expressly incorporated by reference herein.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a name tag with a viewing window in the front wall and a fastening clip on the rear wall, the clip having a resilient contact pressure leg and an adjoining foot part which is swivellably mounted on the rear wall.
In currently known, commercially available name tags of the above-mentioned type, the foot part of the fastening clip is usually swivellably mounted on the tag by a rivet, which makes it possible to direct the clip in any direction; this allows clip opening to the left, to the right, at the top or at the bottom.
This permits various ways of attaching the name tag to pieces of clothing, handbags, etc. It is a disadvantage of this construction that, even when the rivet head has a relatively close contact, the name tag may unintentionally be tilted, which at least aesthetically creates an unpleasant appearance.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to mount a swivellable fastening clip on a tag in such a manner that the tag cannot unintentionally be swivelled and without requiring unacceptably high manufacturing costs.
In a name tag of the type mentioned above, this object is achieved according to the invention by providing the foot part of the tag with a slide and a rear wall of the tag with a first guide groove extending in the transverse direction of the tag. A second guide groove branches off the first guide groove at a right angle. The guide grooves are constructed in this manner for securing the slide against falling out and securing the foot part against a lateral swinging out of the respective groove axis. Swivelling of the foot part and thus of the clip by at least 90° at the crossing point of the two guide grooves is permitted.
Particular embodiments of the name tag according to the invention are reflected in the various claims.
The mutually crossing guide grooves permit swivelling at a crossing point but secure the slide of the base part with respect to falling out and lateral swinging out. As a result, the fastening clip can be brought into any desired position, and in the respective end position (operative position), swivelling is no longer possible.
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Evenson, McKeown, Edwards & Lenahan P.L.L.C.
Green Brian K.
Stoba AG
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