An Improved Laundry Tag or Label, and Method of Attaching and Sorting the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Laundry Tag or Label, and Method of Attaching and
Sorting the same.
I, LIZZIE ALICE SHERAR, of 49, Gladesmore Road, Stamford Hill, in the County
of Middlesex, Married, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
1
This invention relates to labels or tags as used in laundries for distinguishing
the property of one person from that of the other. This is commonly done by
marking the garment with an indelible ink, which is unsightly and objectionable,
especially when the linen is sent successively to different laundries.
The improved tag or label consists of a small piece of tape or the like upon which
can be printed a number or numbers, or in some cases names. This is perforated
at one end, and a string or .tape being inserted is then tied so as to form a loop of
a convenient length.
The method of attachment is as follows:-Where there is a button-hole or slit
in the garment to which it is to be attached, the free end of the loop is passed
through it, and the label being drawn through the loop, the tag or label is firmly
attached. When the article has no perforations one of its corners is pinched up
and the loop drawn tightly round it as before.
In some cases the loop can, by the aid of a needle, be passed twice through the
textile material, and looped over the end of the tag.
I preferably mark the labels with numbers, a tag bearing the same number
being attached to each of the articles belonging to the same person or family. By
having a certain number of tags or labels marked with two figures or sets of
figures, I am enabled to indicate the number of articles belonging to each person
or family.
When the articles have passed through the laundry and are ready to be sorted,
this is easily accomplished by numerically arranging them in heaps on finding the
labels, which are then detached. I provide boxes, hooks, or other devices con-
veniently arranged and numbered in which to store the labels so that they may be
ready and in order for use when next required.
Dated this 10th day of March 1897.

page_text: Nottingham, Married, 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 labels or tags as used in laundries for distinguishing
the property of one person from that of the other. This is commonly done by
marking the garment with an indelible ink, which is unsightly and objectionable,
especially when the linen is sent successively to different laundries.
The improved tag or label consists of a small piece of tape or the like upon
which can be printed a number or numbers, or in some cases names.
This is per-
forated at one end, and a string or tape being inserted is then tied so as to form a
loop of a convenient length.
The method of attachment is as follows:-Where there is a button-hole or slit
in the garment to which it is to be attached, the free end of the loop is passed
through it, and the label being drawn through the loop, the tag or label is firmly
attached. When the article has no perforations one of its corners is pinched up,
and the loop drawn tightly round it as before.
In some cases the loop can, by the aid of a needle, be passed twice through the
textile material, and looped over the end of the tag.
I preferably mark the labels with numbers, a tag bearing the same number
being attached to each of the articles belonging to the same person or family. By
imaving a certain m
tags or lulus marked with two figures or sets of
Agarbled to j ulicate the number at article, belonging to each person
or family.
When the articles have passed through the laundry and are ready to be sorted,
this is easily accomplished by numerically arranging them in heaps on finding the :
labels, which are then detached. I provide boxes, hooks, or other devices con-
veniently arranged and numbered in which to store the labels so that they may
be ready and in order for use when next required.
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:
1. An improved laundry tag or label, substantially as described.
2. An improved laundry tag or label having a loop at one end by means of
which it can be attached to a garment or the like, substantially as described.
3. An improved laundry tag or label having a loop at one end, by means of
which it can be attached to a garment or the like, and having two figures or sets of
figures marked on the label, substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. The method of attaching laundry tags or labels to garments, in which the
loop is passed through a button hole or other perforation in the garment, and the
label drawn through the loop, substantially as described.
5. The method of attaching laundry tags or labels to garments and the like in
which the loop is drawn tightly round one corner or like part, substantially as
described.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.