Improvements in or connected with Address Labels or Tags.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Address Labels or Tags.
I, JOHN HENRY BATES, of 7 Strait Bargate, Boston in the County of Lincoln,
Grocer, Wine and Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to address labels or tags and has for its object to provide
means for facilitating the attachment of the same to sacks, wrappers, parcels,
packages and the like.
According to my invention the piece for conuecting the label to the desired
article is made of flexible metal provided with a pointed hook at its free end, the
other end which is attached to the label being also bent in such a manner that when
the material of which the label is composed is folded over the said connecting
piece the latter will be firmly held.
The hook bereinbefore referred to enables the connecting piece to be readily
passed through the wrapper, sack, or the like, the said hook being bent over to
secure the label.
Dated this 24th dox of Santember 1894
"
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with Address Labels or Tags.
I, JOHN HENRY BATES, of 7, Strait Bargate, Boston, in the County of Lincoln,
Grocer, Wine and Spirit Merchant, 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 :-
.
My invention relates to address labels or tags and has for its object to provide
means for facilitating the attachment of the same to sacks, wrappers, parcels,
packages and the like.
According to my invention the piece for connecting the label to the desired
article is made of flexible metal provided with a pointed hook at its free end, the
other end which is attached to the label being also bent.
The hook herein before referred to enables the connecting piece to be readily
passed through the wrapper, sack, or the like.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figures 1 and 2 are elevations at right angles to each other of my improved
label attaching device; and,
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are a front view, an edge view and a back side view
respectively of a label provided with the improved attaching device.
a is the shank of the attaching device, b the point of the attaching hook,
and c the barb of the said hook.

page_text: d is a hook formed in the lower end of the shank, which hook d is inserted
through the folded end e of the label and then closed up so as to fix the attaching
device firmly to the label.
The barb c of the attaching hook is preferably bent as shewn so that it lies
against the shank a near the point 6 of the hook to form a slit f, whereby when
the attaching device is pushed through a piece of sacking or the like and then
pulled back again some of the threads of the fabric will enter the slit f and
become wedged or jammed therein, and thereby prevent the label from becoming
detached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
d is a hook formed in the lower end of the shank, which hook d is inserted
through the folded end e of the label and then closed up so as to fix the attaching
device firmly to the label.
The barb c of the attaching hook is preferably bent as shewn so that it lies
against the shank a near the point 6 of the hook to form a slit f, whereby when
the attaching device is pushed through a piece of sacking or the like and then
pulled back again some of the threads of the fabric will enter the slit f and
become wedged or jammed therein, and thereby prevent the label from becoming
detached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :—
1. An attaching device for address labels, tags or the like having a pointed hook
constructed substantially as described.
2. The manufacture of address labels, tags and the like with pointed hooks
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 7th day of June 1895
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Fiusbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.