Improvements in and relating to Holders for Address Labels, Applicable for Umbrellas, Sticks, Travelling Bags, and other like Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Holders for Address Labels,
Applicable for Umbrellas, Sticks, Travelling Bags, and other
like Articles.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 address holder has for its chiof purpose to give the finder of a lost object,
principally articles for travelling such as umbrellas, bags, straps, etcetera, an
opportunity to return that object in a sure and easy manner to its owner.
This is attained by means of a eo called address-tube fastened on the said object,
and containing all necessary information.
Referring to the accompanying drawings :—
Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal and cross section, respectively, of the address tube
in approximately double size.
Figure 3 shows an example of the application of this tube to an umbrella; that is,
fixed on its handle.
Figure 4, the same application but ready for being sent out.
Figure 5 shows an example of a modified application.
A small tube a, Figures 1, 2, and 3, contains the pin or roller b, which, at its fore
part is screwed in the bottom a¹ of the tube a, and which, with its head 6³, shuts the
tube. Around the pin 6 and rolled on it, lies, in the space of the tube, well protected,
a label c of parchment, strong paper, thin tin plate, or other material; at the bottom
part of the pin, that is, above or behind the screw there is a washer b³, which, when
the pin is drawn out of the tube takes the said label along with it.

page_text: Figure 3 shows how the address tube a b 62 can be fastened to an umbrella handle e
by means of a metal band d, but it must be clearly understood that the fastening can be
done in any other desired manner as is shown, for instance, in Figure 5, where the
address tube has been placed inside the head f, the pin head 6' having, at the same
time, undergone the necessary modifications for allowing the shown application.
Modifications of this sort do not, of course, change in any way the nature of the
address-holder itself.
Other ways of fastening the address-holder consist in the use of wire, of cramps, or
it can be hung on the object by means of a small chain, string, or strap.
In case of loss of the object, say an umbrella, for instance, the person who finds it.
can unscrew the head 63 (an inscription may be attached to that effect) when the pin
with the label will appear and may be taken out of the tube. The label will bear on
one side the full address of the owner, and on the other side the necessary instructions
how to proceed for returning the object. These are as follows:
The pin screw band washer bare passed through the slit of the label, and the
latter is drawn up along the pin until it sits underneath the head 6, the pin is then
again screwed into the tube.
The umbrella is now ready for being sent away, as shown in Figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An address holder suitable for affixing to articles for travelling, consisting of a
tube a and a roller b placed therein, around which roller an address label is wrapped
capable of being at once drawn out of the tube, and readily fastened thereto, and,
so serving as an address label for the article to be dispatched, substantially as
described.
2. In a holder for address labels, the tube a in combination with the roller b, fixed
into the tube by means of a screw b¹; and closing the tube by its head, substantially
as described and shown.
3. The roller b with its head b³, screw 61, and washer 63, substantially as described
and for the purposes set forth.
4. The tube à and the roller bb b³ in combination with the address label c.
5. In combination with an umbrella handle, stick, strap, or other portable article,
an address holder consisting of a tube a, roller b, and address label c, substantially as
described.
Dated this 12th day of Anril 1889