Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Pin or separate essential cooperating device therefor – Having distinct guiding – holding – or protecting means for...
Patent
1994-09-26
1995-11-21
Sakran, Victor N.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Pin or separate essential cooperating device therefor
Having distinct guiding, holding, or protecting means for...
24104, 24DIG29, A44B 1700
Patent
active
054675103
ABSTRACT:
A sock tagging device and associated method for tagging socks to facilitate their mating, sorting and selection. The preferred embodiment of the device comprises four color-coded components including a tack (1), so named for its resemblance to a common thumbtack, a washer (19), a cap core (14), and a cap ring (17), the core and ring together constituting a dome-shaped cap (18). When the device is attached to the upper portion of a sock, held securely in place by internal friction alone, cap (18) protrudes on the outer side of the sock fabric while the circular base of the tack, called the tack disc (3), appears on the inner side. Immediately surrounding the circumference of the tack disc can be seen the peripheral portion of the larger diameter washer (19) underlying it. The dual component, dome-shaped cap (18) displays a concentrically sequenced color pair matched by the cap color pair of another such device attached to an appropriate sock mate. The tack disc (3) bears one of several bright and easily recognizable colors to signify, even under dim lighting conditions, the fundamental color category to which its sock belongs. The color of the underlying washer (19), the outer edge of which can be seen peripherally surrounding the tack disc, serves to identify the owner of the sock. By noticing whether a sock features a protruding dome-shaped cap or a flat tack disc, an observer is immediately aware of the inside-out, right side-out status of that sock.
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