IP Library Granted Patent US 8,061,070
Granted Patent B2
US 8,061,070 · App. 11/438,844 · Granted Nov 22, 2011

Garment marking clip

Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,061,070
App. No.
11/438,844
Granted
Nov 22, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

There are disclosed embodiments of a marking clip for marking garments which may be stacked flat on a surface. The marking clip is generally U-shaped with leg portions joined by a bight portion and is preferably molded of flexible, resilient, plastics material and bears repetitive indicia along the outer surface of the leg and bight portions. Two or more marking clips may be coupled to provide selected combinations.

Claims (11)

1. In combination:

a garment folded about a fold line and having opposite sides,

a marking clip including a U-shaped clip having leg portions and a bight portion joining the leg portions, the clip being molded of flexible resilient plastics material, the leg portions converging away from the bight portion in the as-molded condition but spaced apart and being spreadable to embrace the sides of the garment and wherein the bight portion is adjacent the fold line, and

size indicia corresponding to the size of the garment appearing repetitively on the outer surface of the clip along the leg and bight portions.

2. The combination defined in claim 1 , including a flexible strip containing the indicia on the outer surface of the clip.

3. The combination defined in claim 1 , including a flexible strip adhesively adhered to the outer surface of the clip, and wherein the indicia are on the strip.

4. The combination defined in claim 1 , wherein there are at least two of such U-shaped clips releasably connectable to each other, each of the clips bearing different indicia.

5. The combination defined in claim 1 , wherein adjacent clips are connectable by pins.

6. The combination defined in claim 1 , wherein the free end portions of the leg portions are oppositely flared.

7. The combination defined in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the leg portions has at least one frictional member facing the garment.

8. The combination defined in claim 1 , including sets of clips and/or indicia that are of different selected colors.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2013
From: PAXAR AMERICAS, INC.
To: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES LLC
Reel/Frame 029731/0651 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2006
From: CHAMANDY, PAUL A.
To: PAXAR AMERICAS, INC.
Reel/Frame 018059/0125 →
Continuity (1)
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