An Improvement in Direction Labels and in Combined Envelopes and Labels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Direction Labels and in Combined Envelopes
and Labels.
ALFRED JOSEPH JOHNSON 7, 8 & 9 George Street, Parade Birmingham
Direction Label Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
I take a piece of paper, cloth or other suitable material, which may be either a
single sheet for simply a direction label, or may be double in the form of an
envelope, and fold over a portion of it, which I call the flap, beneath which I fasten
by means of gum, paste or other glutinous substance, one or more separate pieces of
paper, cloth or other suitable material. I then punch one or more holes through the
three or more thicknesses, by which the label or envelope may be attached to any
article required.
Dated this 17th day of September 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Direction Labels and in Combined Envelopes
and Labels.
ALFRED JOSEPH JOHNSON 7, 8 & 9 George Street, Parade Birmingham
Direction Label Manufacturer 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 :-
I take a piece of paper, cloth, or other suitable material which may be either a
single sheet for simply a direction label, or may be double in the form of an
envelope & fold over a portion of it, which I call the flap; beneath which I fasten
by means of gum, paste or other glutinous substance; one or more separate pieces
of paper, cloth or other suitable material. I then punch one or more holes through
the three or more thicknesses, by which the label or envelope may be attached to
any article required.
In the accompanying drawings,
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Fig. 1 shows a direction tag or label, with the flap "A" raised, exposing to view
the one or more separate pieces of paper, cloth or other suitable material "B,"
which when the label is complete, (as Fig. 2) is fastened on the one side of it, by
means of paste, gum or other glutinous substance to the body of the label "C" &
on the other side of it by the same means to the flap, "A," which when the label is
complete is folded over the piece or pieces "B," a hole "D" being afterwards
punched through the then 3 or more thicknesses.
Fig. 3 shows the same condition of a combined envelope and label as Fig. 1 shows
of a direction tag or label.
Fig. 4 shows a completed combined envelope & label. "D" is the hole passing
through the body of the label "C," the flap "A" & the piece or pieces "B
fastened as before described, between them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
In a direction tag or label or in a combined envelope & label the fastening by
means of gum paste or other glutinous substances, one or more separate pieces of

page_text: paper, cloth or other suitable material, (not including metal,) "B" to the body of
the label "C" on the one side of it & on the other side by the same means to the
flap "A," which when the label or combined envelope & label is complete, is folded
over it, see Figs. 2 & 4 respectively, a hole "D" being afterwards punched through
the combined thicknesses, as previously described, by means of which the label may
be attached to any articles required.
Dated this 20th day of May 1893.
ALFRED JOSEPH JOHNSON.