Improvements in Tags or Labels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
CUMI LMIC DIMCIFICATION.
Improvements in Tags or Labels.
I, JAMES DOUGLAS PARROTT, Gentleman, resident of Litchfield, County of
Montgomery, State of Illinois, United States of America, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a cost and price tag, in combination
with an invoicing tag.
A further object of my invention is to provide a tag, adapted for attachment to
a bolt of fabric, and so constructed as that a salesman, or other interested person,
may see at a glance the cost and price per unit of an article, or bolt of fabric to
which the tag is attached, and also discern the exact number of yards, or units,
remaining in such bolt.
To these ends, my invention consists in certain new features of construction
hereinafter described and claimed.
Referring to the drawings:
Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of tag.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of a section of said tag.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a portion of a bolt of cloth, showing the
position occupied by the tag when said bolt of cloth is at rest upon a shelf, or
elsewhere.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form of tag.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of tag.
In the construction of the device as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the numeral 10
designates a portion of card-board, or other suitable material, having a shoulder 11
formed on its periphery.
The periphery of the card 10 is in a convolute plane, and a line of perforations
in said card continues the convolute plane of the periphery to a point adjacent to
the center of said card, thus forming convolute strips, or parallel portions
surrounding a central portion 12 of less size, but same shape, as the card 10.
Series of lines of perforations are formed in the card 10, transversely of the
convolute strip, which lines of perforations are approximately radial and alternate,
thus sub-dividing the strip into units, upon which units are symbols, designating
the serial relation of each unit, relative to the remaining units.
The unitary sections of the card 10 may be sub-divided by imprinted lines 13,
or lines of perforations, intermediate of the first said transverse lines of perforations,
which said lines 13 indicate fractional parts of the unitary divisions.
Located at a suitable point within the portion 12 of the card is a perforation 14,
within which perforation is a looped cord 15, adapted for attachment to a staple,
or other fastening device 16, mounted in the core of the bolt of fabric, whereby the
card 10 is attached to the said bolt.
Located upon the portion 12, and in proximity to the perforation 14, are the
words "Cost" and "Price," followed by blank spaces, within which symbols may
be located, designating the purchasing and selling price, respectively, of the goods
to which the tag is to be attached.
In the construction shown in Fig. 4, the card is provided with a central
portion 17, T-shaped in plan view, and having a perforation in the cross of the T
and cost and price marks adjacent to said perforation.

page_text: Extended longitudinally of, and imprinted upon the stem of the T, is a plurality
of symbols, designating instructions as to the operation, or use, of the tag, and a
blank space is left adjacent thereto, upon which may be applied further instructions,
or the name and quantity of the goods, or other matter, as desired by the user.
Surrounding the stem of the T-shaped portion of the card, and abutting against
the lower side of the cross thereof, are rows of sections of the card, which rows
are separated by lines of perforations, and intersected by transverse lines of
perforations, thus sub-dividing that portion of the card into sections, each
representing a unit, or given uumber of units, of the goods to which the tag
is adapted for attachment, and having symbols thereon, designating the relation of
said sections to the units aforesaid.
In the construction shown in Fig. 5, a rectangular card is used, having a
perforation 14, and the cost and price symbols adjacent thereto, the blank spaces
for the insertion of desired matter, and the instruction symbols.
A portion of the card is sub-divided into sections by right lines of perforations
transversing each other, and serial symbols to designate the relation of the
sub-divisions formed by the right lines of perforations, relative to the units of the
fabric, or goods, to which the tag is to be applied.
The symbols on the several cards are preferably numerals serially arranged, the
initial end of the series preferably being the least numeral known to the language,
which initial end of the series is located adjacent to that portion of the card to
which the cord is applied, and which is adapted for attachment to the bolt of
goods.
The symbol of the sub-division of the card corresponds in number to the number
of units contained in the bolt of goods, and in the practical use of the tags, when
a purchaser indicates the number of units of the goods desired by him, the
salesman clips from the card a similar number of units, beginning with the largest
symbol designated on said card, and running downwardly therefrom, after which
the said salesman separates from the bolt of goods the desired number of units
thereof, thus providing that the tag shall, at all times, indicate, by the highest
numeral thereon, the number of units yet remaining in a partially used bolt of
goods, to which said tag is attached.
One of the advantages gained by the use of this tag is that, in taking stock, or
invoicing, the exact amount of goods within a roll can be ascertained at a glance
at the tag, thus economizing both time and labor in ascertaining said amount.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
ciaim is:
1. A combined cost, price and invoicing tag, constructed of a portion of card-
board having lines of perforations therein extending transversely of said tag and
intersecting each other, the spaces between the said lines of perforations being
provided with designating symbols.
2. A combined price, cost and invoicing tag, constructed of a portion of card-
board having lines of perforations therein extending transversely of said tag, the
spaces between the said lines of perforations being intersected by cross lines of
perforations, substantially as shown and described.
3. A combined cost, price and invoicing tag, constructed of a circular portion of
card-board and having a convolute line of perforations therein extending to the
center of said tag, the spaces between the circles of said convolute lines being
intersected by cross lines of perforations, substantially as shown and described.
4. A combined price, cost and invoicing tag, constructed of a circular disc of
card-board, having a convolute line of perforations extending to the center of said
tag, and a series of equidistant cross lines of perforations connecting the circle
lines of said convolute line of perforations, substantially as shown and specified.
5. The combined price, cost and invoicing tag, constructed of a circular disc of
card-board having a convolute line of perforations extending to the center of said

page_text: tag, a series of equidistant cross perforations, a perforation within the center of
said tag, and numerals, or marks, upon the face of said tag and between the cross
line of perforations, substantially as specified.
Dated this 21st dow of Annil 1001
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.