Marker device

Claim 1

A portable system of marking a site with marker apparatus adapted to be releasably attached to a supporting structure comprising: a continuous supply of elongated pennant material capable of being hand held; an elongated pennant having a first end drawn from said continuous supply of elongated pennant material and severable from the remainder of said pennant material to thereby define a second end a preselected distance from said first end; independent fastener means including a base member and an integral bridge thereon defining a reception region therebetween; attachment means for fixing said base member to said first end, said attachment means including a plurality of tab members on said base member extending away therefrom, said tab members being foldable, when said base member overlies one side of said first end, to engage the opposite side of said first end, and joining means extending, respectively, through each of said tab members, through said base member and through said pennant to thereby attach said base member to said first end; said first end of said pennant with said fastener means thereon adapted to be positioned adjacent the supporting structure with said second end extending away from said first end; the reception region defined by said fastener means lying generally tangent to the supporting structure for slidably receiving said second end therethrough enabling said pennant, preceded by said second end, to encircle the supporting structure and extend through the reception region such that with continued movement of said second end away from said first end, said pennant can be manually drawn to tightly engage the supporting structure; said fastener means including resilient gripping means freely allowing said pennant member to advance through the reception region, said gripping means being movable between an engaged position seized with said pennant to prevent it from retracting through the reception region, said fastener means including a release member on said gripping means for selectively moving said gripping means between said engaged position and said disengaged position; whereby said pennant and said fastener means lie in parallel, contiguous planes when said pennant is drawn to tightly engage the supporting structure.

Claim 12

A method of providing a highly visible marker on a supporting structure comprising the steps of: providing a substantially continuous source of elongated pennant material capable of being hand held; withdrawing the pennant material from the source; swvering an arbitrary length of the pennant material from the source so as to define a pennant member having first and second ends; providing a fastener means with a base member and a plurality of tab members thereon extending away therefrom; causing the base member to overlie one side of the first end; foldling the tab members so as to engage the opposite side of the first end; joining the tab members, the base member and the first end together; affixing to the first end a fastener means having an integral bridge which lies in a plane generally parallel to that of the the pennant member so as to define a reception region between the pennant member and the bridge, the reception region also lying generally in a plane parallel to that of the pennant; with the first end held stationary adjacent the supporting structure, encircling the supporting structure with the pennant member led by the second end; inserting the second end through the reception region; providing the fastener means with resilient gripping means extending into the reception region so as to freely allow the pennant member to advance through the reception region but engageable with the pennant member to prevent it from retracting through the reception region; and drawing the second end away from the supporting structure until the fastener means and the pennant material in the region adjacent to the first end lies tangentially and contiguous to the supporting structure with the gripping means engages with the pennant member to prevent it from retracting through the reception region.

Claim 13

A method of providing a highly visible marker on a supporting structure comprising the steps of: providing a substantially continuous source of elongated pennant material capable of being hand held; withdrawing the pennant material from the source; swvering an arbitrary length of the pennant material from the source so as to define a pennant member having first and second ends; providing a fastener means with a base member and a plurality of tab members thereon extending away therefrom; causing the base member to overlie one side of the first end; foldling the tab members so as to engage the opposite side of the first end; joining the tab members, the base member and the first end together; affixing to the first end a fastener means having an integral bridge which lies in a plane generally parallel to that of the the pennant member so as to define a reception region between the pennant member and the bridge, the reception region also lying generally in a plane parallel to that of the pennant; with the first end held stationary adjacent the supporting structure, encircling the supporting structure with the pennant member led by the second end; inserting the second end through the reception region; providing the fastener means with resilient gripping means extending into the reception region so as to freely allow the pennant member to advance through the reception region but engageable with the pennant member to prevent it from retracting through the reception region; and drawing the second end away from the supporting structure until the fastener means and the pennant material in the region adjacent to the first end lies tangentially and contiguous to the supporting structure with the gripping means engages with the pennant member to prevent it from retracting through the reception region.