Improvements in Holders or Cases for Address Cards, Luggage Labels, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders or Cases for Address Cards, Luggage
Labels, and the like.
I, WILLIAM JOHN THOMPSON of 26 Ward Street, Glasgow in the County of
Lanark, Book-keeper, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved holder or case specially applicable to the
holding of address cards on railway trucks or wagons, crates, packing boxes or
cases, barrels and for similar purposes and the improved holder consists of a
rectangular frame which is secured in position by screws, bolts or nails passed
through lugs formed upon it. At the back the frame is checked or counter sunk
to provide a space between it and the article to which it is secured for the reception
of the card or label which is inserted into its position through two slots made near
one end of the frame these slots extending outwards from the checked part at the
back to the front of the frame and their edges being bevelled or curved from the front
inwards.
The slots are not opposite each other that is to say the slot in the top member
is in advance of that in the bottom member of the frame or vice versa, the effect
of which is that after the card or label has been inserted in position it cannot
shake out or be otherwise than purposely removed. To facilitate the removal when
required a piece is hollowed out of the end member nearest to the slots to enable the
thumb or finger nail to be inserted below the edge of the card.
Dated this Twelfth day of December 1888.
ORUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders or Cases for Address Cards, Luggage
Labels, and the like.
I, WILLIAM JOHN THOMPSON of 26 Ward Street, Glasgow in the County of
Lanark, Book-keeper, 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:-
This Invention relates to an improved holder or case specially applicable to the
holding of address cards on railway trucks or wagons, crates, packing boxes or cases,
barrels, travelling cases, bags or portmanteaus and for similar purposes and as shown
by figure 1 of the accompanying drawings the improved holder consists of a
rectangular frame a, which is secured in position by screws b, or by bolts or nails
passed through lugs c, formed upon the frame. At the back the frame is checked or
countersunk as seen at d, figure 2, which is a cross section on the line ---x,
figure 1, to provide a space between it and the article to which it is secured for the
reception of the card or label e, which is inserted into its position through two
slots f, g, made near one end of the frame. The slots extend outwards from the
checked part to the upper side or front of the frame and as seen at figure 3 their lips
are bevelled or curved from the front inwards.
The slots are preferably not opposite each other that is to say the slot f, in the top
member of the frame is in advance of the slot g in the bottom member or vice versa,
the effect of which is that after the card or label e has been inserted in position it
cannot shake out or be otherwise than purposely removed. To facilitate the removal

page_text: when required a piece is hollowed out of the end member nearest to the slots as seen
at i to enable the thumb or finger nail to be inserted below the edge of the card.
Figure 4 illustrates a modification in which the checked holding part in lieu of
being continuous around the frame is constituted by the lugs or projections d the
slots fand g before referred to being made in the lugs at one end of the frame.
The arrangements figures 1 and 4 may conveniently be cast in metal or they may
be formed of hard wood, vulcanized india rubber or like material.
Figure 5 illustrates a form of the improved holder especially applicable for
attachment to travelling cases bags or portmanteaus for which purpose it is provided
with a tab k. The tab kis formed on the back or sole of the holder which is
composed of a piece of leather or the like and whereto a rim or frame d also of leather
is sewn or otherwise secured the card or label being inserted in the holder between
the rim d and the back through slots ƒ and g as before set forth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a holder or case for address cards or labels the combination of a checked or
counter sunk part d with slots f, g, substantially as described with reference to
figures 1 2 and 3 of the appended drawings.
2. In a holder or case for address cards or labels the combination of checked or
counter sunk lugs d with slots f, g substantially as set forth with reference to figure 4
of the accompanying drawings.
3. A holder or case for address labels or cards constructed substantially as
described with reference to figure 5 of the annexed drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of September 1889.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.