Identification device

Application filed October 20, 1930. Serial No. 489,958.

My invention relates to identification devices and while it is not my intention to limit it to any specific purpose, it is especially useful for identifying infants in a hospital or 5 nursery. .

Objects of the invention are to provide a simple device which is durable and may be manufactured at low cost, which may be readily applied to the infant and is free from 10 discomfort, and one in which the identification insignia cannot, without detection, be removed from the infant.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference will now be had to the 15 accompanying drawings, in which :

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the device with the upper portion thereof in section.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a lock20 ing and label holding member forming an important feature of the invention.

Fig. 4 is a broken detail of an attaching band.

Fig. 5 is a detail of a detent used in secur25 ing the device in locked position.

Fig. 6 is a detail of a one-piece label bearing the identifying data.

Fig. 7 shows a sectional form of label in which each character of the identifying data ³⁰ is placed on a separate section.

Fig. 8 is a plan view of a modified form of the device with the identifying data engraved or otherwise permanently formed thereon.

Fig. 9 i_{s a} longitudinal section of a modified form of locking and label holding member.

In carrying out the invention I employ an attaching band 2 made of suitable material ⁴⁰ such for instance as spring metal. Said band is provided at one end with a hole 4 and at its opposite end with a plurality of spaced holes 6, which latter coact with a member 8 in securing the device in position upon the wrist or other portion of an infant.

The member 8 consists of a sleeve, which, in the form disclosed by Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, is provided at its upper portion with a compartment 10 and at its lower portion with a longitudinal slot 12. The compart- 50 n tent 10 is adapted to hold a suitable label 14 bearing the identifying data and said label is.adapted to be slid into the compartment 10 through an entrance 16 at one end of said compartment. 55

The upper wall of the compartment 10 has ? vmdow 18 formed therein through which the identifying data 20 on the label 14, may be read. The lower wall of the member 8 has an extension 22 at one end upon which is secured a resilient detent 24 having a pointed free end 26 adapted to enter any of the holes 6 in the attaching band 2 which latter is secured at its opposite end nrthe slot 12 as will hereinafter appear. In addition to support- ⁶⁵ing the detent 24 the extension 22 constitutes a guide for the free end of the band 2 while being inserted in the slot 12.

In practice the end ofthe band 2 containing the hole 4 is placed in position in one end of ⁷⁰the slot 12 and the label 14 with the identifying data thereon is placed in the compartment 10. The parts are then secured in assembled position by means of a screw 28 which is passed, through the hole 4 and regis- ⁷⁵tering holes 30 and 32 in the member 8 and the label 14, respectively. The device is then placed in position upon the wrist or other part of the infant and the end of the band 2, containing the holes 6, is pushed into the slot 12 ⁸⁰until the band 2 fits the wrist snugly enough to prevent its removal. The band 2 is then locked in place by means of the detent 24, the free end 26 of which springs upwardly into the nearest hole 6. When thus secured in ⁸⁵place the device cannot be· removed from the wrist nor can the label 14 be removed from the compartment 10 without removing the screw 28. As a guard against unauthorized removal of the screw 28 without detection ⁹⁰

1,851,491 said screw may be sealed in place in any suit- band to the sleeve and preventing removal of able manner such as by soldering before the the adjacent end section of the label.

device is placed upon the wrist. 4. An identification device consisting of a

In order to avoid the expense of having sleeve bearing identification data and having each name printed or otherwise formed on a an extension at one end, a spring detent se..... . . „ , , ., _r. cured to said extension and projecting into said sleeve, and a band attached at one end to the sleeve and adapted to have its other end guided into the sleeve by said extension for engagement with said detent. 75

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HAROLD BROWN.

one-piece label as shown on Fig. 6, labels may be formed from individual sections 14« which contain all of the letters of the alphabet, so that any name can be quickly provided by se• I,·, lecting the sections with the proper letters

20α formed thereon as shown by Fig. 7. When used with the form of sleeve shown by Fig. 9, the end section 14α placed in the right end of the sleeve 86 may be secured in posis.-, t ion by the screw 28 and the end section 14α at the left be secured by the detent 245 and thus hold the remaining sections 14α in place. Where a more expensive device is desired the identifying data 20 i 'may be engraved di20 rectly oh top of the member 8α as shown by

Fig. 8. arid when a more simple and inexpensive device is desired it may be provided in the form shown by Fig. 9, in which the upper compartment 10 is omitted from the mem25 her 85.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that I have provided devices of the character described which are Well adapted for the purpose intended, and while I have 30 shown several forms thereof I reserve all rights to such other forms as properly fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.