Garment marking clip and label strip
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. A label strip with respective indicia and with an RFID transponder and/or a machine-readable code can be adhesively adhered either directly to a garment across a fold or to the marking clip.
1. A marking clip for a folded garment folded about a fold line and defining two opposing outward facing sides, said marking clip comprising:
a first leg having a free end;
a second leg having a free end;
a bight ioining the legs together opposite their free ends to define a U-shaped clip;
wherein said legs and said bight are integrally formed from a flexible resilient material such that the legs converge toward one another as they extend away from the bight and absent application of an external force the free ends of the legs nowhere abut one another, said legs being spreadable to embrace the sides of the garment with the bight being adjacent the fold line, wherein the U-shaped clip has an outer surface and the marking clip further includes a flexible label strip having garment related indicia disposed along one side thereof and the other side thereof provided with an adhesive, the label strip including an RFID transponder, and the adhesive on the label strip adhering the label strip to the outer surface of the U-shaped clip; and
a plurality of fiction members, including at least one friction member formed on an inside surface of the first leg and at least one friction member formed on the inside surface of the second leg;
wherein said inside surfaces of the first and second legs face one another and each of the plurality of friction member comprises a raise ridge protruding from the inside surface on which the ridge resides;
wherein each of the friction members includes a hollow channel therein for receiving one end of a corresponding pin, such that at least two clips can be selectively joined together via one or more pins inserted into the hollow channels of the friction members on the respective clips.
2. The clip of claim 1 wherein:
the free end of said first leg has a distal most portion furthest from the bight; and
the free end of the second leg has a distal most portion furthest from the bight;
said distal most portions on the free ends of the first and second legs being flared outwardly away from one another.
3. The clip of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of fiction members are located in regions between the bight and the distal most portions of the free ends of the first and second legs, such that none of said friction members reside on the distal most portions of the free ends of the first and second legs.