Improvements in Metallic Indestructible Labels, Tallies, and Tickets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Indestructible Labels, Tallies, and
Tickets.
I, ALFRED CHANDLER, of South Hill, Kingskerswell, in the county of Dovon,
Horticulturist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I use any suitable thin indestructible film of metal, but soft copper is preferred,
and on the Label, Tally or Ticket (1) I write or indent, which I call indentation-
writing, the desired name or inscription with a pencil, Agate style or any pointed
instrument, which writing is indented into, and becomes a part of, the Label,
Tally or Ticket.
For attachment the Label, Talley or Ticket may have a perforated eyelet hole for
string, wire or any other suitable material; but (2) I prefer the attachment or tag end
to be cut out and made of the same piece of metal as the Label, Tally or Ticket;
therefore its tag end or point of attachment is cut out in suitable form in one piece,
and is a part of the same piece of metal as the body or inscription part of the Label,
Tally or Ticket.
Free Do
JULI
day of January 1009.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Indestructible Labels, Tallies, and
Tickets.
I ALFRED CHANDLER of South Hill, Kingskerswell in the County of Devon,
Horticulturalist, 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 :-
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1. I use any suitable thin indestructible film of metal, but soft copper is preferred,
and on the label, tally or ticket I write or indent, (which I call indentation writing)
the desired name or inscription, with a pencil, agate, style, or any pointed
instrument, which writing is indented into and becomes a part of the label, tally, or
ticket.
2. For attachment the label, tally, or ticket may have a perforated eyelet hole for
string wire or any other suitable material, but I prefer the attachment or tag end
cut out and made of the same piece of metal as the label, tally or ticket; there-
fore its tag end or point of attachment is cut out in suitable form in one piece,
and is a part of the same piece of metal as the body or inscription part of the label,
tally, or ticket.
My invention for Improvements in metallic indestructible Labels, Tallies and
tickets is applicable chiefly to horticultural purposes that is to say the naming and
numbering of plants and shrubs, or the numbering, the addressing or describing of
merchandise, and to such other purposes as Labels tallies and tickets may be
employed, the whole being effected in a simple, economical and permanent inanner.
I employ, as before described, thin rolled metal, preference being given to copper,
but any metal that is sufficiently ductile for its surface to yield by pressure for my
purpose may be used. These labels, tallies or tickets are produced by the
means of cutting out tools, known as "pressing" and of any shape or configuration.
And in order that this my said invention may be more clearly understood I will now
proceed to describe the same more fully, reference being made to the sheets of
drawings, to the various figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
Fig. 1. is a front view of my improved metallic indestructible label, tally or ticket
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page_text: with tags for affixing to or in connection with the plant, shrub or article, or
purpose to which it may be applied.
Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a front view showing the tags formed by another mode.
Fig. 4. in this view the tags are dispensed with.
Fig. 5. is a view with one tag.
The same letters of reference upon the several figures indicate like or corre-
sponding parts.
A is the descriptive or directorial part of the label, tally or ticket. bb is the tag
or tags for affixing the same to its purpose, the said tag ends being part of the one
piece of metal as Figs. 1. 2. 3.
In Fig. 4 c is the perforation or eyeletted hole through which is passed wire string
or other suitable material for affixing the same to its purpose.
In Fig. 5 a' is a slot of a width sufficient to allow b when its ears are bent
down to pass through. When passed through the cars are bent back to their
original position for affixing the same to its purpose.
In Fig. 1. and upon the surface of a I shew my invention effected as follows; I
take a label, tally or ticket of ductile metal produced as above set forth and by placing
upon a yielding surface and with a pencil or other pointed instrument I write the
words "Rose Devoniensis Tea, the surface indents that is to the configuration of
the letters by the pressure, and the reverse surface becomes embossed as shewn at
Fig. 2 this. is what I term indentation writing and it is indellible.
The above being my said invention I wish to say that I do not confine myself to the
precise details as shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings, but that I hold myself at
liberty to alter or modify the same without departing essentially from my said
invention.
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
1st. The construction of a label, tally, or ticket with the tag ends b from one piece
of plastic or ductile metal as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or the modification shown
at Figs. 3 and 5 of the accompanying sheet of drawings and described in the fore-
going Specification.
2nd. The writing or indenting upon the surface of the said plastic or ductile metal
label, tally, or ticket, any matter that may be required for the purpose that labels,
tallies, or tickets are employed, and by the means described in the foregoing
Specification, and shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings, the whole
forming―
Improvements in metallic indestructible labels, tallies and tickets.
THOS. KENDRICK,
Agent for Applicant.