A New or Improved Label.
Year: 1897

page_text: A New or Improved Label.
We, ALFRED KING Gould, (Shipper), of 70, Croydon Road, Beckenham, in the
County of Kent, and HENRY MITONETTE ROGERS, (Manufacturer's Agent), of
Melbourne House, Sterndale Road, Brook Green, in the County of London, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object a label specially adapted for use with veloci-
pedes, but which may also be used in any other situation where it is possible to
attach a label by means of a spring clip.
In carrying our invention into practical effect, we construct a flat label, of any
suitable size, having at one end thereof a spring clip capable of being sprung
on to the handle bar or other convenient part of a velocipede, or of being
similarly attached in any other suitable situation where it may be required.
This label and spring clip may be made all of one piece of celluloid, or like
material, or of metal or any other suitable substance, or the spring clip may be
made separately of spring metal or the like, and have a label of any suitable
substance affixed thereto.
The label may be so prepared as to receive the necessary writing or the like
direct upon one or both sides thereof, or it may be constructed to receive a suitable
writing tablet in a recess on one or both sides thereof, or attached thereto, in any
other convenient way.

page_text: Road, Brixton Hill, in the County of London, 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:-
1
Our invention has for its object a label specially adapted for use with veloci
pedes, but which may also be used in any other situation where it is possible to
attach a label by means of a spring clip, as hereinafter described.
In carrying our invention into practical effect, we construct a flat label, of any
suitable size, having at one end thereof a spring clip capable of being sprung
on to the handle bar or other convenient part of a velocipede, or of being
similarly attached in any other suitable situation where it may be required.
This label and spring clip may be made all of one piece of celluloid, or like
material, or of metal or any other suitable substance, or the spring clip may be
made separately of spring metal or the like, and have a label of any suitable
substance affixed thereto.
The label, if of celluloid or like material or substance, has one side thereof
highly polished, so that the owner's name and destination, or other necessary
information, may be written thereon either in ink or pencil, and afterwards rubbed
out or washed off when necessary; the other side of the label need not be highly
polished, as it is intended to receive the paper or the like label generally supplied
by the railroad officials when travelling.
If the label is of metal, wood, or the like, either one or both sides of it are
suitably prepared with paint or enamel to receive any necessary writing which
may afterwards be erased when required, the side of the label not written upon,
being for the attachment of the railroad company's paper or the like label or
ticket.
We will now proceed to further describe our invention in connection with the
accompanying sheet of drawings, of which Fig. 1 is a front view; Fig. 2 a side
view, and Fig. 3 a back view of a label made according to our invention, and
consisting of a flat part a and a spring clip b. If the label is of celuloid, one
side at least of the flat part a is highly polished to receive writing as previously
described, the side of a not so written upon being intended to receive the
railroad company's label or ticket.
If the flat part a is of metal, wood or the like, either one or both sides thereof
are prepared with paint or enamel to receive any necessary writing, as previously
described, the side not written upon being intended to receive the railroad com-
pany's label or ticket.
When used with a bicycle, the spring clip is sprung on to the handle bar
or other suitable part of the machine, the label depending conveniently from such
handle bar or other part.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
(1) A label and spring clip of celluloid or like material, the spring clip being
formed at one end of, and in one piece with, the label, and the label having one
or both surfaces thereof polished to receive writing as described.
(2) A label of celluloid or like material having a spring clip of metal attached
to one end thereof, the label having one or both of its surfaces polished to receive
writing, as described.
(3) A label and spring clip of metal, the spring clip being formed at one end
of, and in one piece with, the label and the label having one or both surfaces
prepared with paint or enamel to receive writing as described.
(4) A label of metal having a spring clip of metal attached to one end thereof,
the label having one or both of its surfaces prepared with paint or enamel to
receive writing as described.
(5) A label of wood having a spring clip of metal attached to one end thereof,

page_text: the label having one or both of its surfaces prepared with paint or enamel to
receive writing as described.
(6) A label of wood having a spring clip of celluloid attached to one end
thereof, the label having one or both of its surfaces prepared with paint or
enamel to receive writing as described.
T
1000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office,
Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.