Improvements in or connected with Luggage Labels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Luggage Labels.
I, MAURICE EDWARD LEVETT IBBETSON, of 278, Victoria Road, Aston,
Birmingham, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with luggage labels,
and has for its object the production or arrangement of labels in such a manner
that they are in a convenient form and always ready for use, thus offering great
advantages over the ordinary books of luggage labels from which one or two are
generally used, while the remainder are lost, so that there are none at hand when
required.
In combination with my improved luggage label block I also employ a small
numbered tab the use of which is hereinafter more fully specified.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, the labels are arranged one upon
the top of the other so as to form a block of sufficient thickness, said labels being
preferably secured at one end by means of a clamped eyelet and at the other by
means of a bent wire passed through same.
At a short distance from each end of
the block a series of holes or perforations are formed so as to allow of a label, when
used, being readily torn off.
With each block is also sold a small tab bearing a number, the block itself being
similarly numbered. The tab is designed to be retained by the owner of the
luggage, so that in the event of there being any dispute as to whom the luggage
belongs, the owner can produce the aforesaid tab as a means of identification.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a plan of my improved luggage label block and Fig. 2 a side view of same.
The labels are arranged one upon the top of the other in such a manner as to
form a block b of sufficient thickness, preferably secured at one end by an eyelet a
and at the other by a bent wire 10.
At a súfficient distance from each end of the block b a series of holes or
perforations p are formed so as to allow of the top label being readily torn off when
used.
t represents the tab bearing the number, the use of which has been previously
described, said tab being preferably threaded upon the string, wire or the like c¹
by means of which the luggage label block b is secured to the trunk, portmanteau
or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
P
1. The arrangement of luggage labels in the form of a block, substantially as
and for the
specified

page_text: 2. In combination with luggage labels arranged in the form of a block, the
use of a numbered tab as a means of identification substantially as herein described.
Dated this 14th day of September 1897
F. G. CASSELL
(of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.