Improvements relating to Labels for Sacks and other Goods, Cycles, Plants, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Labels for Sacks and other Goods, Cycles,
Plants, and the like.
I, JOHN ALSOP, of Station Road, Kirkby Stephen, in the County of Westmore.
land, Grocer, 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:-
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The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and economical
combined label and attaching device, which can readily be securely fixed in
position, and of which a number can be packed together for sale so as to occupy
but little more space than a like number of ordinary label tablets. My invention
will be found of special advantage for securing labels to sacks and other goods
enclosed in or composed of easily penetrable material it may however be used
with equal facility for securing labels to hampers, ropes, rods, handles, cycles,
plants and the like.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I will now describe the
same with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein similar letters refer to
like parts in all the figures, and in which,
Figure 1 is an elevation of a combined label and attaching device constructed
in accordance with my invention the attaching device being shewn extended
ready for use.
Figure 2 is a like view the attaching device being represented as folded back so
that the label may be packed.
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1, except that the attaching device is
somewhat longer.
Figure 4 shews a method of attaching the label to a string, cord, or the
like, and
Figure 5 shews a slightly modified form of the attaching device.
A, is the label tablet, which may be of card, paper, thin metal, cloth, canvas
or other suitable material, and B is the attaching device, consisting of a strip or
rod of metal, such as brass, having a barbed or harpoon point at one end and
secured at its other end to the label A by a pivotal eyelet connection C, which
permits the attaching device B when not required for use to be revolved in the
plane of the label and folded back over the latter as shewn in Figures 2 and 5.
Since the connection between the attaching device and the label only permits the
former to be turned in the plane of the latter, the attaching device will always
lie close against the label when not required for use thereby ensuring compactness
when packed for sale and preventing damage. The label is secured to sacks and
the like by simply thrusting the barbed pointed end of the attaching device B
through the material, or the end of the attaching device may be bent round as
shewn in Figure 5, in which case the insertion of the barbed point is effected by
a pull in lieu of by a thrust. The label may be secured to a string, cord or the
like by folding the attaching device (which in this case is made flexible and
somewhat longer, see Figure 3) round the same and passing the barbed pointed

page_text: end up through the pivotal eyelet connection C as shewn in Figure 4, the barbed
end (which should just be able to pass through the eyelet) is then bent down so as
to lie flat on the label and cannot become accidentally disengaged or by thrusting
the attachment through the string or cord. If preferred, the label may be attached
by string passed through the eyelet after the fashion of an ordinary luggage label,
the attaching device remaining folded back on the label.
Although I prefer that the pivotal connection between the label and attaching
device should be of eyelet form as shewn in the drawings, an ordinary rivet or
solid pin may form the pivot if desired, but in this case the label could only be
attached to goods contained within or composed of easily penetrable material and
the method of attachment shewn in Figure 4 could not be employed. If desired
the said attaching device may be duplicated and may be attached to each end
of the label tablet by a pivotal eyelet connection as aforesaid so as to insure
the said label tablet lying flat against and close to the sack or other article as
aforesaid to which it may be attached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe that I
am aware that it has before been proposed to provide labels with barbed pointed
attaching devices of metal, and that therefore I do not claim this combination
broadly as my invention, but I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A label having a barbed pointed attaching strip or rod of metal secured
thereto by a pivotal connection which latter permits the said strip or rod to be
turned in the plane of the label only, substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.
2. A label having a barbed pointed attaching strip or rod of metal secured
thereto by a pivotal connection, said connection permitting the attaching strip to be
turned only in the plane of the label, and being of eyelet form, so that the label
may, if desired, be secured by the alternative method of bending over the attaching
strip of rod and passing the barbed end through the pivotal eyelet connection,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Date : 01
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