Improvements in Labelling, for Portable and other Articles, so a 3. to Help in their Identification.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Labelling, for Portable and other Articles, so a 3. to
Help in their Identification.
I, GEORGE BARNLEY, of The Villas, Oadby, in the County of Leicester,
Wesleyan Minister, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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I provide for the ready identification of umbrellas, travelling trunks, and
similarly portable articles, as well as for other descriptions of property, by
attaching to them bands, or plates, of metal, or other suitable material, having
first impressed on them, in raised or embossed lettering, a name, or name, and
address, formed of characters large enough to be readily deciphered, and which are
then firmly attached to the article to be so marked.
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I incur no such delay as is attendant on the process of engraving. And, in order
to avoid liability to defacement through soiling by ordinary wear, I use a métal, or
metallic, surface for the embossed lettering.
In embossing the characters, I provide a sufficiently numerous set of dies,
preferably, made of steel. They are made in separate letters of the alphabet.
Each one being formed at the end of a stem, or shank of steel, or other hard metal,
and these stems, or shanks, are of such uniform dimensions that, however varied the
order in which they are arranged, with the letters uppermost, and side by side, they.
present, an even surface.
set these:dies, with the lettering upwards, in a case which is so contrived that a
portion of its sides rises above the dies, and this intervening space is made to receive.
other appliances which are also parts of the apparatus.
These are as follow, and the order in which they are deposited is also indicated by
the numbers given :-
1. A plate, or band,. of .métal, or other material, which is to receive the.
embossing.
2. A. bar, or plate, of compressible substance, such as lead, or leather, or 'mill-
board.
3. A. bar, or plate, of corresponding size, consisting of some rigid material, as
metal, or hard wood.
I so proportion the thickness of Nos. 2. and 3. to the available space, as to
make the rigid bar, or plate, stand up slightly higher than the sides of the case.
I now place this combination under a press, such as supplies power enough to
force the compressible substance, and, with, it, the plate for embossing, into all the
inequalities of the lettering beneath.
When the pressure is released, I find a reproduction of the lettering on the dies,
transferred to the plate for embossing, and have only, further, to fasten the plate
in its intended. position.
In addition to marking such articles as are usiially portable, I use my invention
for producing door. plates, coffin plates, name plates for carts, or waggons, regimental,
police, and letter. carriers, collars, and cap markings, and for other marks of
identification generally, where distinctness, and durability, or rapidity of production,
with economy are desirable.
Dated this Twentieth day of June 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Labelling, for Portable and other Articles, so as to
Help in their Identification.
I, GEORGE BARNLEY The Villas, Oadby Leicester, Wesleyan Minister, 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 provide for so marking, with a name or with a name and address, such articles
as are liable to be mislaid by travellers, or to be mixed and confused with other
luggage, as that their identification shall be easy and expeditious, and I furnish-
such means of identification, so as to avoid the greater cost and delay which would
be involved by resorting to such processes as engraving, or embossing by ordinary
workmen. My markings moreover, are at once legible, durable, and are not subject.
to become defaced by soiling in ordinary use.
For my purposes, I use an embossed, or raised lettering, and the bands or plates.
which bear the embossing are generally of thin metal, or they may be of some other
suitable material, and in that case I prefer to have a metallic surface.
For the embossing, I provide a set of dies embracing two or more alphabets.
Each die has a body or stem of metal, preferably of steel, and at one end of such
stem is formed a single letter. These stems or bodies, of the dies are made of
such uniform dimensions in each set, that however interchangeably the letters may
be arranged, the lettering in its combination presents a level surface.
place
I also make a box or case, in which the dies are arranged so as to spell any word,
or words which may be desired, and when they are so arranged, side by side, and¹
with the lettering uppermost, I wedge them firmly together; this case is so
contrived that its sides are deeper than the length of the dies, and when the dies
are in their places there is consequently a space left above them;
in that space
deposit certain other parts of the apparatus; these are the following and
them resting on the faces of the dies thus:-First I lay on them the plate, or band,
which is to receive the embossing; secondly I place over this a plate or bar of
some compressible material, such as sheet lead, or leather, or mill-board, or india
rubber; thirdly I cover this with a bar, or plate of some rigid substance such as
metal, or hard wood; in depositing these I so proportion the thickness of the
compressible material, and of the hard upper bar or plate, so that the latter
projects somewhat above the sides of the case; the ends of the case, or box, are
carried up only to the height occupied by the dies. I now place this combination
under a press of sufficient power for its purpose, and after using the necessary
force 1 find that the compressible plate, or pad, has been driven, and has carried
with it the plate for embossing-into all the cavities existing on the face of the
dies, so that I have obtained on the embossed plate, or band, a reproduction of
the lettering of the dies. I may obtain my necessary pressure by passing the case,
with its contents, under a roller, or between rollers, instead of using another kind
of press. I have now only to fasten the embossed plate in the place for which it
was designed, and this is done with a suitable cement if the plate be of such
material, as would render cement appropriate, but in other cases I use for the
purpose pins or screws. I attach my embossed plates to umbrella handles; to
walking sticks, to whip stocks, to hat cases, to portmanteaus, and to all similar
travelling appendages. But I also use them for articles of larger size, such as
name plates or outer or inner doors of houses, coffin plates or fixed to carts or
waggons, to indicate their ownership, or I may use them for regimental, or letter
carriers, caps and collar marks or for any purposes where such markings are
suitable, and where distinctness & durability with rapidity of production and
economy are desirable. )

page_text: Referring to the annexed drawings
Figure 1 is an end elevation of my invention with the casing shown in section.
Figure 2 plan of embossed plate.
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a is the casing in which are arranged the dies 6 having the raised letters c; upon
the dies b is put the plate d which is to receive the impressions of the letters.
a bar of soft material such as lead or leather, mill board or india rubber placed
upon the plate d; upon this plate e is placed the block f which may be hard wood
or metal & projects above the top of the casing a as shown. The whole of the
apparatus is then subjected to pressure in any suitable way, when it will be seen
that the plate d, being of soft metal, will receive the impressions of the letters c
which may be arranged to spell any word. The plate d is then removed from the
casing a & attached to any desired article in any suitable way.
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-
1. The improved arrangement for producing embossed letters, in combination,
substantially as described and illustrated herein.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.