Labels and Vouchers for Guaranteeing Authenticity of Products.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1897-Accepted, 18th Sept., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Labels and Vouchers for Guaranteeing Authenticity of Products.
We, ANDRÉ BRALY, Gentleman of 8 Rue St. Beuve, Paris, and LoUIS BRALY
Gentleman of 19 Cours de la Liberté, Lyons, both in the Republic of France, 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 improvements in labels and vouchers for guaranteeing
the authenticity and origin of products such as are described in our previous
Patent No. 6662 of 1897.
One of these improvements consists in printing upon the reverse or obverse or
on both sides of the label, neck band, and counterfoils any signs or characters
differing for each label.
These signs or characters may also be marked in the paper itself which serves
for the manufacture of the label and form a water mark of any suitable design.
This arrangement renders the stamping useless, for the verification may be made
in the same way by bringing together the several portions of the label.
Another improvement which will hereinafter be described permits the counter-
foils and the neck band to be done away with at the same time preserving means
for identifying the label in as certain a manner.
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Thus only the label properly so called is preserved, it may be termed the
bulletin," and is composed of a detachable portion and of two side strips gummed
upon the bottle. Instead of placing this label in any position on the receiver,
we attach it preferably around the neck or stopper or cover of the receiver.
label bears upon its obverse a serial number under which are printed characters
varying with each label. Also each label is provided with visible signs peculiar
to itself. Further it bears upon its reverse two non-visible signs which may be
made visible by means of two different reagents.
The processes employed for this object are well known for example signs may
be printed in an ink of the same colour as the paper. These signs will not be
visible but if a reagent which gives to the non visible printed characters another
colour to that of the paper is passed over the inscription, the signs will become
visible and the inscription may be read.
These two non-visible impressions are made with the same tool, they therefore
always correspond two and two for each particular label. They consist in suitable
signs or characters the key of which is preserved by the manufacturers and the
agent.
One of the impressions will serve for the verification which should be made by
the agent. He will make the impression visible by means of his reagent. The
other impression will serve for the manufacturers to verify the label when it may
be sent to them, they will make the impression visible by means of their particular

page_text: 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. The improvement in the labels and vouchers described in the Specification of
the Patent No. 6662 of 1897 which allows the stamps on the said labels and vouchers
to be done away with, and which consists in printing on the reverse or obverse
or upon both sides of the label, or obtaining by means of a water mark in the
paper itself, suitable signs, drawings or characters different for each label
substantially as described.
2. The improvement in the labels and vouchers described in the Specification
of the Patent No. 6662 of 1897 which consists in doing away with the counterfoils,
and neck band and only preserving the detachable portion and its two side strips,
the said detachable portion being provided on its obverse with a serial number
under which are corresponding signs or characters and on its reverse with two
non-visible corresponding but different impressions only made visible by means of
special reagents substantially as described.
Dated this 1st day of July 1897
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.