A NEW AND IM- PROVED LABEL HOLDER AND FASTENER
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, and 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IM-
PROVED LABEL HOLDER AND FASTENER."-A communication from Victor
Amilhau, residing at Albi, in the Empire of France, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th May 1870.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
5 Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, and
10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for A NEW
AND IMPROVED LABEL HOLDER AND FASTENER," a communication to me from
68

page_text: Victor Amilhau, a person resident at Albi, in the Empire of France,
Merchant, to be as follows:-
This Invention, communicated to me, relates to a new and improved
label holder and fastener applicable to labels and tickets to be attached
to all sorts of packages and luggage. The contrivance is so arranged
that the label or ticket may be either fixed firmly or hung loosely to the
package or luggage.
In the first place when fixed firmly it consists of one or two brass or
other suitable strips of metal from about one to two inches long. Each
strip of metal is terminated by a point at both ends, which pass through
the label or ticket, which is itself fastened to the package or luggage by
passing said pointed strips of metal through the same and twisting
them down together. In the second case when the label or ticket is hung
loosely the contrivance consists in a strip of brass or other suitable metal
from about half an inch to two inches long. One of the ends of the
strip of metal is pointed so as to permit of its piercing into the package
easily, and the other end bends up on itself, or has an eye hole to hold
the cord of the label or ticket; or the strip of metal may be equally
well pointed at both ends to pierce into the passage, and be twisted
together, and in the middle of the same two eye holes be made to
receive the cord of the label or ticket; or again one of the end may be
rounded and have eye holes for the same purpose, or the holes may be
substituted by a cavity or depression in the strip of metal in which is
lodged the label cord; and, lastly, the strip of metal may have two eye
holes for the cord, and either both of its ends pointed, or one pointed
and the other rounded, and then be turned up in the form of the
letter S, or of a crescent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 10, Sackville
Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW AND
IMPROVED LABEL HOLDER AND FASTENER," (a communication to me from
Victor Amilhau, a person resident at Albi, in the Empire of France,
Merchant,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause tho
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof :-
This Invention, communicated to me, relates to a new and improved
label holder and fastener applicable to labels and tickets to be attached
to all sorts of packets and luggage. The contrivance is so arranged
that the ticket or label may be either fixed firmly or hung loosely to the
package or luggage.
In the first place when fixed firmly it consists of one or two brass or
other suitable strips of metal from about one to two inches long. Each
strip of metal is terminated by a point at both ends, which pass through
the label or ticket, which is itself fastened to the package or luggage by
passing said strips of metal through the same and twisting them down
together. In the second case when the label or ticket is hung loosely
the contrivance consists in a strip of brass or other suitable metal from
about half an inch to two inches long. One of the ends of the strip of

page_text: metal is pointed so as to permit of its piercing into the package easily,
and the other end bends upon itself or has an eye hole to hold the cord
of the label or ticket; or the strip of metal may be equally well pointed
at both ends to pierce into the passage, and be twisted together, and in
the middle of the same two eye holes be made to receive the cord of
the label or ticket; or again one of the ends may be rounded, and have
eye holes for the same purpose, or the holes may be substituted by a
cavity or depression in the strip of metal, in which is lodged the label
cord; and, lastly, the strip of metal may have two eye holes for the
cord, and either both of its ends pointed, or the one pointed and the
other rounded, and then be turned up in the form of the letter S, or of a
crescent.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the
manufacture and employment of my improved label holder and fastener,
substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-sixth day of
September, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)