IMPROVEMENTS IN ADDRESS LABELS AND IN HOLDERS FOR THE SAME'
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Humphreys and John
Parker Milbourne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
7th December 1883.
THOMAS HUMPHREYS and JOHN PARKER MILBOURNE both of Manchester in the
County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADDRESS LABELS AND IN HOLDERS
FOR THE SAME'
"
Our invention relates to address labels or plates and holders, for baskets, skips,
cases, boxes and other articles which require an address label, when sent by rail or
road, through the post, or for other purposes, and the object of our invention is
to make an improved reversible and removable address label, held in a suitable
frame.
In performing our invention we cast or otherwise form a metal frame or holder
with suitable projections, recesses, or perforations by which it may be secured to
the skip, box or other article.
The address label or plate which may be of metal or any suitable material is
secured in this frame, in such a manner that the address label can only be released
from the inside of the basket, when the lid is raised.
In applying our invention to a basket or skip the metal frame may be let into a
space in the side or other part of the basket, and it may be provided with rings or
hoops on the back or inner side or ends, through which one or more of the sticks
pass to secure it firmly; or the frame or holder may be secured in any convenient
manner; the address plate which may have an address on each side is slipped
under a flange or projection on the front of the holder, and firmly secured by a
spring catch or other fastening; to release the label the basket is opened and the
catch or other fastening drawn back; a small metal or india-rubber spring, or
springs, may be secured to the holder between it and the address label to push out
the latter when released; the label can then be reversed and replaced in the holder
so as to show the other address, or another address label or plate may be
substituted.
A modification of our invention is to form the frame or holder as already
described; a small piece with hinges is fitted and is free to slide in grooves in the
holder; the address label has hinges at one end, and a swivel eye at the other end,
and may have an address at each side as before: the small piece with hinges is
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page_text: moved to a point in the holder, which is recessed slightly to allow the address
label, at this point only, to be hinged to the small piece; the label and small piece
are moved to either end of the holder as required, and the swivel eye passed
through a slot or hole in the back of the holder; a hook, pin or other fastening
may be passed through the eye from the inside of the basket to secure the label.
To reverse the address label, the fastening at the back of the holder is released,
and the small piece moved in the grooves to the other end of the holder; the label
is then turned back on its hinges to show the other address and the swivel eye
passed through a corresponding hole or slot, and secured at the back of the holder
as before described.
To change the address label or plate it is necessary to push the label and small
piece to the recessed part of the holder, when the label can be removed and a fresh
label substituted.
In another modification of our invention we employ the frame or holder as
before, and hinge to it a piece of metal with two arms; the label with an address
on each side is provided with pins which rest in holes in the arms; a projection on
one of the arms, or other part of the hinged piece, passes, when the piece is closed,
through a slot or hole in the back of the holder, where it is secured by a bolt, pin,
or in any convenient manner.
To reverse the label, the lid must be raised, the fastening undone, and the
hinged piece opened, when the label can be turned on its pivots in the arms, and
reversed to show the other address.
If it is desired to have an address label which may be changed as well as
reversed, eyes, which slip over the projecting arms of the hinged piece in place of
the pins or pivots, may be employed.
When our invention is applied to baskets, skips or other articles fitted with the
improved fastening for which Letters Patent dated the sixth day of September
1883 and numbered 4292 were granted to me the aforesaid Thomas Humphreys,
the metal rods with hooked ends may be passed through suitable rings formed at
the back of the holder to receive them.