or Improved Means for Endorsing and Labelling Music, Manuscript, Prints, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1596
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Means for Endorsing and Labelling Music,
Manuscript, Prints, and the like.
We, ALEXANDER EDWARD BECK, Engineer, ANNIE ELIZABETH BECK, both
of 22 Kepler Ruad, Clapham, in the County of Surrey, and HENRY CHARLES
CARTER, of 33 Belgrave Road, St. John's Wood, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is a well known difficulty and source of inconvenience, under the existing
"what-
system of packing music, manuscript, prints and the like in cabinets or
nots," to ascertain where a particular piece is to be found, and to find it one often.
needs to extract the whole of the music etcetera from the cabinet and search through
it, thereby frequently damaging many sheets by tearing and otherwise.
The object of our invention is to provide means whereby this difficulty is reduced
to a minimum and the consequent damage avoided. For this purpose we attach to
the back or folded edge of the piece of music, manuscript, or print a folded strip
the inner edge of which is made adhesive so as to be firmly fixed to the front and
back page, to this strip is hinged a tab or label upon which may be written the
title of the piece of music or other matter. The tab or label may be made of any
suitable material such as celluloid, bone, ivory or card for example but when the
latter or other similar easily damaged material is used we may protect it from injury
by surrounding it with thin sheet metal bent over its edges which serves as a suitable
means for making a hinge joint with the aforesaid adhesive strip. The latter is
provided with two wire loops passed through the fold thereof which take into eyes
or holes in the sheet metal binding the label, thus affording an efficient means to
enable the tab or label to lie flat with the music or other matter to which it is
attached when placed in the cabinet or "what-not."
When bone, celluloid or other tough material is used for the tab or label it is.
unnecessary to protect the edges, and to make the hinge joint with the adhesive.
strip we provide it with two or more sheet metal loops fixed in any suitable manner
to the tab. In this case the strip is merely provided with a straight piece of wire
having as many U shaped bends, passing through the back or fold, as the tab or
label has loops.
It will be understood that when music, for example, is provided with such tabs.
or labels and put away into the cabinet or "what-not," it will only be necessary,
in order to pick out a particular piece, to separate the backs from one another and
refer to the tabs or labels, or the tabs or labels may be so arranged that the
inscriptions on them can be read without disturbing the music or other matter
itself.
We also purpose making the aforesaid adhesive strips of paper or fabric coloured
so as to facilitate sorting, that is to say :-In the case of music which can be divided
into several classes, such as songs, dances, operatic, sacred and so on, each class
may have a distinctive colour, which will be found convenient.
It will be obvious that the tab or label may be made in a variety of forms
without departing from the nature of our invention, and in some cases the adliesive

page_text: strip may be dispensed with, and a device somewhat similar to the ordinary paper-
fastener substituted at the hinge part of the tab so as to attach it to the front and
back page of the music or other matter to be endorsed.
Dated this 24th day of April 1895.
ALEX. E. BECK.
ANNIE E. BECK,
H. C. CARTER.
New or Improved Means for Endorsing and Labelling Music,
Manuscript, Prints, and the like.
We, ALEXANDER EDWARD BECK, Engineer, ANNIE ELIZABETH BECK, both
of 22 Kepler Road, Clapham, in the County of Surrey, and HENRY CHARLES
CARTER, of 33 Belgrave Road, St. John's Wood, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, 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 :-
"
It is a well known difficulty and source of inconvenience under the existing
system of packing music, manuscript, prints and the like in cabinets or "what-
nots to ascertain where a particular piece is to be found, and to find it one often
needs to extract the whole of the music etcetera from the cabinet and search through
it thereby frequently damaging many sheets by tearing and otherwise.
The object of our invention is to provide means whereby this difficulty is reduced
to a minimum and the consequent damage avoided. For this purpose we attach to
the back or folded edge of the piece of music, manuscript, or print & folded strip
the inner side of which is made adhesive so as to be firmly fixed to the front and
back page, and to this strip is hinged a tab or label upon which may be written the
title of the piece of music or other matter.
In order that our invention may be fully understood we will now describe the
same with the aid of the accompanying drawings in which Figures 1 to 7 illustrate
a variety of designs to fulfil the purpose, and Figure 8 shows the application to a
piece of music of the new or improved means for endorsing.
Similar letters of reference relate to like parts in all the figures of the drawing.
The tab or label A may be made of any suitable material such as celluloid, bone,
ivory or card for example; but when the latter or other similar easily damaged
material is used we may protect it from injury by surrounding it with thin sheet
metal binding B, bent over its edges which metal serves as a suitable means for
making a hinge joint with the adhesive strip C (see Figure 1). This adhesive
strip C is provided with two or more wire loops D passed through the fold thereof
which take into holes or eyes E in the sheet metal binding B of the label A, thus
affording an efficient means to enable the tab or label A to lie flat with the music
or other matter to which it is attached,
When bone, celluloid or other tough material is used for the tab or label A it
is unnecessary to protect the edge as shown in Figure 1, but instead thereof we
hinge the tab or label to the adhesive strip C by means of two or more sheet metal
loops E 1 (see Figure 2) fixed in any suitable manner to the tab A. In this case
the strip C is merely provided with a straight piece of wire D having as many
Ushaped bends D1 passing through the back or fold of the strip C, as the tab or
label A has loops E1.
Figure 3 shows a modification in construction whereby the use of the adhesive
strip may be dispensed with, the tab or label A is constructed in a manner similar to
that above described in connection with Figure 1, but the loops of wire D are so
made that their extensions instead of being fixed in the adhesive strip are available

page_text: for binding several sheets together by means of the straight parts D 2 of the said
wire which parts bear against the outside of the back fold of the music for example,
and the prongs D3 are passed through the folds to the centre, where they are bent
down somewhat like ordinary paper-fasteners.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively an elevation and cross section of a tab or label-
constructed with the object of avoiding the metal binding of the card. Upon a
piece of card or thin wood A 1, or other material, is glued or otherwise securely
fixed a strip A of linen or other fabric preferably provided with an outer surface
of paper, this strip A as shown in Figure 5 passes from the bottom edge over the
top and down the other side leaving sufficient room on the top for the insertion of
the cord or wire D, which in this case answers the same purpose as a hinge for
joining to the adhesive strip C, this cord or wire may be fixed in the strip C, or
may be left entirely loose and threaded through holes in the sheets of music or
other matter to be endorsed and then tied thereby binding together such several
sheets..
Figures 6 and 7 show a tab or label and adhesive strip combined, made of one
or more pieces of material preferably a textile fabric, Figure 6 illustrating the
folded or finished article and Figure 7 the outline of the piece of material to be
folded. The whole of the inside being adhesive the two middle parts (see Figure 7)
are moistened, folded and stuck together and form the tab or label À as shown in
Figure 6. Perforations may be made at G to assist in producing the elasticity
required between the strip C and the tab A to enable the tab to lie flat with the
music or other matter.
Figure 8 illustrates a piece of music to which is attached a strip C carrying
with it its tab or label A upon which is written the title of the piece.
The strip C may if preferred extend the entire length of the piece of music as
shown by dotted lines.
It will be understood that when music, for example is provided with such tabs or
labels, and put away into the cabinet or "what-not," it will only be necessary, in
order to pick out a particular piece, to separate the backs from one another and to
refer to the tabs or labels, or the tabs or labels may be so arranged that the
inscriptions on them can be read without disturbing the music or other matter itself.
We also purpose making the aforesaid adhesive strips of paper or fabric coloured
80 as to facilitate sorting, that is to say-In the case of music which can be
divided into several classes such as songs, dances, operatic, sacred and so on, each
class may have a distinctive colour, which will be found convenient.
It will be obvious that the tab or label may be made in a variety of forms
without departing from the nature of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we would have it understood
that we do not claim the exclusive right to use the adhesive strip except in
combination with the tab or label above described but what we do claim is ::
:-
First. The device for endorsing or labelling music, manuscript, prints and the
like which consists of an adhesive strip adapted to be attached to the article to
be endorsed or labelled and a tab or label connected to the said adhesive strip by
means of a hinge, substantially as described.
Second. The device for endorsing or labelling music. manuscript, prints and the
like which consists of an adhesive strip C, a tab or label A, and a hinge 1) con-
necting the tab or label to the adhesive strip, combined and arranged substantially
as described with reference to Figures I and of the drawings.
Third. The device for endorsing or labelling music, manuscript, prints and the like
which consists of an adhesive strip C, a tab or label A, and a hinge D connecting
the tab or label to the adhesive strip combined and arranged substantially as
described with reference to Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings.
Fourth. The device for endorsing or labelling music, manuscript, prints and the
like, which consists of a single piece of textile fabric or other suitable material or

page_text: of two pieces of such material shaped and folded, and cemented together with
adhesive material, and adapted to be connected to the article to be endorsed or
labelled, substantially as described with reference to Figures 6 and 7 of the
drawings.
Fifth. The device for endorsing or labelling music, manuscript, prints and the
like which consists of a tab or label provided with a hinging device by means of
which it can be connected directly to the article to be endorsed or labelled,
substantially as described with reference to Figure 3 of the drawings.
Sixth. In a device for endorsing or labelling music, manuscript, prints and the
like of the kind herein described, the use of a metallic rim or border B surrounding
and enclosing the edges of the tab or label A, substantially as described with
reference to Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1800,
A. E. BECK,
A. E. BECK,
H. C. CARTER,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.