IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELS OR TAGS and
Year: 1885

page_text: We, CLINTON FREEMONT WEBSTER, and ELLERY BRADFORD SOUTHWORTH, both
of Brockton, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manufac-
turers do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LABELS OR TAGS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
"
Our invention relates to that class of labels or tags which are provided with
pockets or envelopes, and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of
the parts as hereinafter more fully set. forth, the object being to produce a more
durable and otherwise desirable article of this character than is now in ordinary use.
The nature of the improvement will be readily understood from the following.
explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.
In the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved tag represented as closed;
Figure 2 is a like view representing it open;
Figure 3 a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line xx, Figure 1 ;
Figure 4 an end view showing the guard or socket.
and
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.
A represents the body, B the flap and C the socket or guard of the label or tag.
The socket or guard is preferably composed of the same material as the body A
and flap B; its ends and sides being integral or cut in one piece, and the ends
overlapped and cemented or pasted down to one of the sides, as shown at f, in
Figure 4. It may, however, be made of any other suitable materials or in any
other manner to properly perform the same functions.
An envelope D,. having one of its ends t opened, as shown in Figure 2, is pasted
or cemented to the inner side of the body A, the free end of said body and the
opposite end k of said envelope being inserted in said socket, and secured thereto
by an eyelet V which passes through said envelope and also through the body A
and the lower side of the socket C.
An eyelet h is inserted centrally in the outer or free end of the flap B, and there
is also an eyelet z inserted centrally in the top r of the socket C, the eyelets h, z
being so disposed, that when the flap B is inserted in the socket, as shown in
Figure 1, all of the eyelets will register, as shown in Figure 3.

page_text: In the use of the improved label, the bill or invoice of the goods to which it is
attached may be placed in the envelope D, and the flap t sealed, if desired; after
which the flap B is inserted in the socket C, and the cord or string by which the
label is secured to the goods is passed through the eyelets, thereby securing the
flap in the socket.
In folded labels or tags provided with envelopes, when constructed in the
ordinary manner, the envelopes are liable to become detached from the body
portions, especially at its free or outer ends; the free ends of the flaps are also
liable to be bent or turned up at the corners and torn.
Our invention is designed to obviate these difficulties, the end of the envelope
being firmly secured to the body and also to the bottom i, by the eyelet V, and
both ends of the tag received and protected from injury by the guard or socket C.
It will be understood that the flap or body, or both, may be printed upon if
desired; or they may be left blank for writing, as preferred.
It is obvious that the socket may be used with the body A and flap B,
and the envelope omitted if desired, without departing from the nature of my
improvement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. In a folded label or tag, the combination of a body, an envelope cemented
or attached to the inner side of the said body, a flap, and a socket adapted to
receive and protect the free ends of said body and flap; the free end of the body
being inserted in the socket and secured to the underside or bottom thereof by an
eyelet, and the upper side or top of said socket and also the free end of the flap
being respectively provided with eyelets, all of which eyelets register when the
ends of the flap and body are inserted in the socket, substantially as described.
Second. In a folded label or tag provided with a socket, an envelope having
one of its ends secured to the free end of the body of the tag and to the bottom
portion of the socket, substantially as, and for the purpose, specified.
Third. The improved folded label or tag herein described, the same consisting of
the body A, the flap B, the envelope D, the socket C, and the eyelets h, V, z all
_constructed, combined and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.
Dated this 15th day of Avant 100K