IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELS FOR STUFFS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantin Boullier, of No. 82, Boulevard
Sébastopol, Paris, France, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELS FOR STUFFS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantin Boullier at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th May 1872.
I, CONSTANTIN BOULLIER, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris,
France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELS FOR STUFFS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
The labels forming the subject of the present Invention are metallic,
their object being to connect one or more pieces of stuff or other
material sent as samples by a firm, at the same time giving the
address and name of the manufacturer, and act as trade marks. These
labels consist of flat metal plates having apertures cut in the centre

page_text: so as to leave two or more shafts, whose apexes terminate in sharp
points to admit of the material being readily passed over them, so that
they have the same effect as a buckle.
The shafts or pins may be jointed by hinges to the plates, which
latter may be provided with two small bars, one at each end, cut in
the plate and destined to receive an india-rubber band for fixing the
material, in lieu of the pins, or they may be employed conjointly with
the former.
The name and address of the manufacturer is stamped on the plates
in hollow or relief letters, and the plates may be constructed in any suit-
able or desirable form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Constantin Boullier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTIN
BOULLIER, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, France, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Constantin Boullier, Her special
licence that I, the said Constantin Boullier, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Constantin Boullier,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELS FOR STUFFS ARD OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Constantin Boullier, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great

page_text: Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Constantin Boullier, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to
say :-
The labels forming the subject of the present Invention are metallic,
their object being to connect one or more pieces of stuff or other
material sent as samples by a firm, and at the same time giving the
name of and address of the manufacturer, and forming a trade mark.
This description of label consists of a sheet of metal varying in form
and dimensions in the centre; the metal is cut or punched out so as
to leave two or more shafts or pins whose apexes terminate in sharp
points to admit of the material being readily passed over them; these
shafts are arranged one opposite the other, so that when once fixed
the materials or samples cannot accidentally become detached, being
perfectly secured from such a casualty.
The shafts above alluded to may also be attached to the plates by
means of hinges, the plates may also be provided with two vertical
apertures cut or punched out on either side, leaving a central bar
through which openings an india-rubber band is placed and by which
the samples are secured, in this latter case the shafts or pins are dis-
pensed with, or they may be employed in conjunction with the elastic,
according to necessity or desire.
The name of the manufacturer and the place of manufacture is
stamped in hollow or relief characters on the plate.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I will now explain
its details by aid of the accompanying Drawings, of which Figure 1 is a
plan of a label plate bearing two simple shafts; Figure 2 being here
represented as having in addition to the shafts two bars, one at each
end of the plate; and Figure 3 minus the shafts and furnished with an
india-rubber band. The same letters of reference indicate like parts in
the respective figures.
A, A, are the metal shafts arranged one opposite the other; B, B, are
the vertical bars above referred to; and C, C, is the elastic band.

page_text: C. BOULLIER. (L.S.)
E. HÉLRÉ.