Laundry Tag
AssigneeStay-Put Systems, LLC
InventorDeborah Anne Forster
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Abstract
A laundry tag is described comprising a first male portion (1) having at least one projecting member (3), and a second female portion (2) defining a recessed region (4) to receive the projecting member and fixedly engage thereupon to hold the two portions together, wherein one of the said portions comprises a passive RFID transponder (7). A laundry tagging kit and laundry management system and a method of tagging laundry to operate such a system are also described.
Claims25
A laundry tag comprising a first male portion having at least one projecting member, and a second female portion defining a recessed region to receive the projecting member and fixedly engage thereupon to hold the two portions together, wherein one of the said portions comprises a passive RFID transponder.
A method of tagging an item of laundry to enable its tracking comprising the steps of:
- fabricating a tag having a first male portion with a projecting member, and a second female portion defining a recessed region to receive the projecting member;
- incorporating a passive RFID transponder within one of the said portions;
- engaging the male and female portion together upon an item of laundry such as to effect a fixed attachment of the tag to the laundry item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.