An Improvement in Tags, Tallies, or Labels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1893--Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Tags, Tallies, or Labels.
We, EDWARD WESTMORE ALLEN and HENRY JAMES DAVIES, both of
9 Nelson Street, in the City and County of Bristol, Wholesale Stationers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to tags, tallies or luggage labels of the kind designed for
attachment by means of string or the like.
It consists in the provision of a plate of zinc, tin, or other suitable metal as a
means of assisting the label to withstand strains exerted on it from any direction
when attached to a parcel or the like. The said metallic plate is laid in a fold
produced by bending the label towards one end until the part so bent lies on the
other part. In the plate is a hole for the string and this hole coincides with a
corresponding hole in the label. The plate, which has one edge bearing against
the inner part of the bend in the label, is fixed by means of glue or the like. The
part of the label folded over is similarly fixed to the other part and to the plate.
The plate may be of various shapes provided that it presents sufficient bearing:
surface to the interior of the bend in the tag, tally or label.
Dated this 28th day of April 1892.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Tags, Tallies, or Labels.
We, EDWARD WESTMORE ALLEN and HENRY JAMES DAVIES, both of
9 Nelson Street, in the City and County of Bristol, Wholesale Stationers, 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 tags, tallies or luggage labels of the kind designed for
attachment by means of string or the like.
It consists in the provision of a plate of zinc, tin, or other suitable metal as a
means of assisting the label to withstand strains exerted on it from any direction
when attached to a parcel or the like. The said metallic plate is laid in a fold
produced by bending the label towards one end until the part so bent lies on the
other part. In the plate is a hole for the string, and this hole coincides with a
corresponding hole in the label. The plate, which has one edge bearing against.
the inner part of the bend in the label, is fixed by means of glue or the like..
The part of the label folded over is similarly fixed to the other part and to the
plate.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 represents a tag, tally or label fitted with a strengthening plate for
assisting to withstand the strain exerted upon the tag, tally or label from any
direction when attached by a string or wire to a parcel or the like.
The tag, tally or label is shown with the plate a exposed by raising and turning back
the part 6 which, when the tag, tally or label is complete for use (as represented at
Fig. 2), is folded down on the plate a to which and to the other part of the tag,
tally or label the part b is made to adhere by the application of gum, cement or
other suitable adhesive matter. The plate a is, by like means made to adhere to
the said other part of the tag, tally or label.

page_text: The plate a, placed in the position shown, enables the tag, tally or label to better
withstand the strains exerted upon it when attached to anything by a wire, string
or the like passed through the hole c which extends through the tag, tally or label
and through the plate.
The plate may vary in shape; care being observed that a sufficient bearing
surface is retained at the fold or bend of the tag, tally or label.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In a tag, tally or label, the provision of a plate such as a having a string-hole c,
and being fixed by gum, cement or other adhesive matter; a part of the tag, tally
or label being folded down and made to adhere to the said plate and to the other
part, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
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