Improved Price Tag or Ticket for Blocked Goods or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct.. 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Price Tag or Ticket for Blocked Goods or the like.
I HENRY BIRKBECK of the firm of Tongue and Birkbeck Patent Agents of
34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane London W.C. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by Frederick Olin
Clarke of the Town of Listowel, in the County of Perth, in the Province of
Ontario, Canada) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to design a price tag or ticket which will remain
concealed when not required for inspection and it consists essentially of a tag or
ticket fitted into a recess formed in the blocking board a spring being attached to
the said tag or ticket in such a manner that the tension of the said spring shall
hold the tag or ticket in the recess substantially and for the purpose hereinafter
more particularly explained.
Figure 1 is a view of my device in which the tag or ticket is actuated by a spiral
spring.
Figure 2 is a view of my device in which the tag or ticket is actuated by a coiled
or watch spring.
All merchants and others handling dry goods have experienced annoyance and
trouble by the accidental destruction of the price tags and tickets now common in
use and have also observed the untidy appearance given to the shelves by the tags
hanging loosely out of the blocked goods. By the adoption of my invention the
price tags or tickets in their normal position will be invisible and at the same time
they can be readily inspected as desired.
In the drawing A represents a blocking board in which a recess is made to
receive the card or ticket B which may be made of strong paper celluloid or other
suitable material.
In Figure 1 I show this tag or ticket B actuated by a spiral spring C which is
connected at one end to the ticket B and at its other end to a cross bar D which
is screwed or otherwise connected to the board A inside of the recess.
In Figure 2 the spring C is shown as a watch or coiled spring. When provided
with this spring attachment the ticket B may be connected to the spindle by a
tape F or it may be made sufficiently pliable to roll upon the said spindle.
I may say however that I prefer to connect the ticket B to the spindle by means
of the tape F as in this case the ticket will always remain perfectly flat and may
be made of stronger material than will be possible were it made sufficiently pliable
to roll upon the spindle.
With the view of protecting the ticket and its operating spring from the cloth
I prefer to paste or otherwise fix over the recess containing the ticket a piece of
paper or other material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
A tag or ticket fitted into a recess formed in a blocking board in combination

page_text: the said spring shall hold the tag or ticket in the recess substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 30th day of October 1891.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.