IMPROVEMENTS IN TICKETS OR LABELS FOR ATTACHMENT TO GOODS OR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Kenwortby Dutton of the City of Manchester
in the County of Lancaster Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TICKETS OR LABELS FOR ATTACHMENT TO
GOODS OR ARTICLES communicated to him from abroad by Zachary Taylor
Hall of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the United States of America
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
EDWARD KENWORTHY DUTTON of the City of Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, "IMPROVEMENTS IN TICKETS
OR LABELS FOR ATTACHMENT TO GOODS OR ARTICLES" communicated to me from
abroad by Zachary Taylor Hall of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the United States
of America;
This Invention relates principally to the tickets designed for application to
textile goods and bearing the prices or trade marks or other marks or signs or
adapted to be written upon or marked as required. The improved ticket is folded
or is in two parts connected together so that a part of the fabric can be inserted
between the flaps of the ticket as is usual. A pointed pin formed with a large
head is inserted in the upper or outer flap of the ticket. The said head is
preferably formed by bending a portion of the wire from which the pin is made
into a ring or loop which is bent at about right angles to the straight portion of
the pin. When the pin is in position a piece of paper or material is pasted or
cemented on the outer surface of the upper flap concealing the head of the pin and
securing it in position or the said upper flap is made of extra length so that it can
be folded upon its-self and be pasted or cemented over the head of the pin. The
outer surface of this covering piece bears the trade mark or name or other mark or
is adapted or prepared to be written upon or marked as required. To attach the
tickets to the goods the edge or edges of one or more thicknesses of the fabric is
or. are brought between the two flaps which are then pressed together so as to
force the point of the pin through the fabric and the lower flap. The ticket may
be further secured by clinching or bending the pin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton in the Patent Office on the 9th April
1884.
EDWARD KENWORTHY DUTTON of the City of Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents IMPROVEMENTS IN TICKETS
OR LABELS FOR ATTACHMENT TO GOODS OR ARTICLES (a cominunication to me
from abroad by Zachary Taylor Hall of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the United
States of America)
This Invention relates principally to the tickets designed for application to
textile goods and bearing the prices or trade Marks or other marks or signs or
adapted to be written upon or marked as required. The improved ticket is folded
or is in two parts connected together so that a part of the fabric can be inserted
between the flaps of the ticket as is usual. A pointed pin formed with a large
head is inserted in the upper or outer flap of the ticket. The said head is preferably
formed by bending a portion of the wire from which the pin is made into a ring or
loop which is bent at about right angles to the straight portion of the pin.
When
the pin is in position a piece of paper or material is pasted or cemented on the
outer surface of the upper flap concealing the head of the pin and securing it in
position or the said upper flap is made of extra length so that it can be folded
upon its-self and be pasted or cemented over the head of the pin.
In the accompanying sheet of Drawings Fig 1 is a plan or face view of the
improved ticket Fig: 2 is an edge view with the face or covering strip turned up
to show the pin and Fig: 3 is a view of the pin. In the said Figs A is a strip of
stiff paper or other suitable material such as card or pasteboard which is folded so
as to form an upper flap a and a lower flap a¹ the latter being by preference a little
longer than the upper flap. Near the end of the upper flap is inserted a pin b of
the formation indicated by Fig: 3 or of a suitable formation. In the example the
said pin consists of a piece of pointed wire having a head formed by bending the
wire into a ring or loop which is at about right angles to the pointed shank of the
pin. When the pin is inserted in the manner indicated in Fig 2 this head or ring
rests on the upper flap and is concealed by pasting or cementing down a face or
covering strip c A hole is or may be punched in the lower flap a' for the passage
of the pin. The face strip c may be a printed ticket or label and may be printed
or marked with any required name, trade mark or device and may be prepared to
receive marks indicating price or quality. To attach the ticket to the goods or to
a sample or pattern the fabric or two or more folds thereof is or are inserted
between the two flaps of the ticket which are then pressed together so as to force
the pin through the fabric and the hole in the lower flap. To firmly secure the
ticket the pin may be clenched or bent down on the back of the lower flap.
The remaining Figs illustrate modifications in the formation of the ticket. In
Figs 4 and 5 the ticket is formed from a longer strip which is bent in two places in
opposite directions the pin being inserted at a greater distance from the end of the
strip than in the previous example so that the end of the strip d can be folded over
the head of the pin as indicated in Fig: 5 and be pasted or cemented to the part 6.
In Fig 6 another method of folding the strip is indicated.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of the said invention and
the manner in which the same is carried into practical effect I would have it to be
understood that I claim
First. The goods ticket or label consisting of a strip of paper or suitable
material folded to form two flaps between which the fabric can be inserted and

page_text: having a-pin formed with a head which is concealed between one of the flaps and
a face or covering strip which is pasted or cemented to the said flap substantially
as set forth and indicated.
And secondly. The goods ticket or label formed by bending and folding the
paper or material and cementing two of the folds together a pin having its head
concealed between the folds so cemented together being inserted so that its point
can pass through the goods and the third fold substantially as set forth and
indicated.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton have hereunto set my
hand and seal this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four
EDWARD K. DUTTON (L.S.)