Improvements in Means for Attaching Labels or the like to various Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Attaching Labels or the like to various
Articles.
I, HARRY LANE, Bank House, Somersham, Huntingdonshire, Grocer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention consists of improvements in means for attaching labels or the like
to various articles. I provide a piece of suitable material such as metal, either flat
or of other suitable section, one end of which is twisted or bent so as to form a
spiral approximately after the manner of a clock spring. The other end is secured
in any convenient manner to the label. When it is desired to attach the
label the string is passed into the interior of the spiral aforesaid, thus securing
the label to the string which may surround a parcel or other article.
Dated this 27th day of August 1898.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Means for Attaching Labels or the like to various
Articles.
I, HARRY LANE, Bank House, Somersham, Hunts., Grocer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention consists of improvements in means for attaching labels or the like
to various articles. I provide a piece of suitable material, such as metal either flat
or of other suitable section, one end of which is twisted or bent so as to form a
spiral approximately after the manner of a clock spring. The other end is secured
in any convenient manner to the label. When it is desired to attach the
label, the string is passed into the interior of the spiral aforesaid thus securing
the label to the string which may surround a parcel or other article.
For the purpose of illustration I will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:-
Figure 1, is a perspective view, shewing my invention.
Figure 2, perspective view of a modified arrangement of same.
In carrying out my invention I provide a metal piece a which is secured
to the label b in any convenient manner, and is coiled or bent so as to form a
spiral.
When it is required to attach a label to a package or the like secured by

page_text: string, the string is passed around the spiral towards the centre c of same,
In the modification shewn in Figure 2, the corrugations e upon the part a will
admit of the passage of a string towards the interior, but will not allow its accidental
withdrawal. Of course although I have shewn for purposes of illustration, two
ways in which my invention can be carried out, I do not confine myself to the
precise construction shewn.
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. In means for attaching labels to packages and the like a piece of metal
attached to said label having a spiral end substantially as described and illustrated
herein, and for the purpose set forth.
2. The means for attaching labels to packages, and the like substantially as
described, and illustrated herein, and for the purpose set forth.