A New or Improved Means or Method of Labelling Portmanteaus, Hand Bags, Ladies' Satchels, also to be used on Omnibuses, Tram Cars, and Railway Cars to Indicate the Names of Places where Travelling to and from.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Means or Method of Labelling Portmanteaus,
Hand Bags, Ladies' Satchels, also to be used on Omnibuses,
Tram Cars, and Railway Cars to Indicate the Names of Places
where Travelling to and from.
We, WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE, of 26 Hanover Street, Sowerby Bridge, in the
County of York, Joiner and Builder, and RICHARD HARTLEY of Law Terrace
Rastrick in the said County Assistant Overseer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to the application of a novel device for the purpose
of labelling articles such as portmanteaus, hand-bags, railway carriages and
the like.
In carrying out our invention we employ any suitable form of plate to which
are attached projections for supporting yielding studs. Between these yielding
studs we place reels or bobbins for carrying an endless strip of fabric having
marked thereon, say, the names of towns, which endless reels may be made to
rotate by a key or other device for the purpose of presenting to
name of a town where a traveller may be going.
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In combination with the endless fabric a space is allowed on which to be
inscribed the private address of the traveller so that if the portmanteau or travelling
bag be lost, the finder can ascertain the owner of such lost luggage. We prefer
that the address be covered over by a sliding plate or lid. Instead of employing
a pair of rollers for carrying the endless fabric upon which the names of towns are
inscribed only one roller may be used on which the names of towns may be
marked.
Although we have referred in the above description as applying the label to
travelling bags, we wish it to be understood that a similar device may be advan-
tageously used in connection with omnibuses and railway carriages to denote where
such vehicles are journeying, as the conductor of such vehicles can rotate the
bobbins to indicate the place to which they are going. The device herein described
may be compounded or quadrupled or trebled.
Dated this 16th day of December 1891
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Means or Method of Labelling Portmanteaus,
Hand Bags, Ladies' Satchels, also to be used on Omnibuses,
Tram Cars, and Railway Cars to Indicate the Names of Places
where Travelling to and from.
We, WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE, of 26, Hanover Street, Sowerby Bridge, in the
County of York, Joiner and Builder, and RICHARD HARTLEY, of Law Terrace,
Rastrick, in the said County, Assistant Overseer, 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:-
Our invention has reference to the application of a novel device for the purpose
of labelling articles such as portmanteaus, hand-bags, railway carriages and
the like.
Such being the nature and object of our invention, we will now proceed to

page_text: explain same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings, wherein
Fig. 1 is sectional plan of our improved label;
Fig. 2 is end view thereof, and
Fig. 3 side elevation.
a represents a box or casing having prongs b which can be passed through holes
made in a portmanteau, which prongs are afterwards bent under so as to secure the
label to the bag as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3.
The box is provided with stays e which in addition to giving strength to the box
they form supports for the spindles d. Within the box, there are also two spools
or bobbins e made with slots to receive the ends of a strip of paper or woven
fabric, each end of the said strip being secured to each of the spools so that the
strip can be wound off one spool onto the other spool, and this is done by means of
a key which fits onto the ends of the spindles c which spindles are surrounded by a
spiral spring for the purpose of keeping the endless strip at a suitable state of
tension.
The spools at each end are provided with pivots resting in suitable recesses
formed in the stay c¹ and also entering corresponding recesses in the flanged end of
the spindles ; and to insure that the spindles will revolve with the spools when
turned by the key, the flange of the spool may be connected to the flange of the
spindle by a pin or other equivalent device. On the endless strip, there is printed
the names of the principal cities and towns, so that a traveller, who is moving from
one city to another, may turn the spindles and spools with a suitable form of key
and bring to sight through a slot or aperture the town to which he is next pro-
ceeding. In order to make our improved label a traveller's companion, we provide
on the top of the box, sliding lids and under the latter a space is formed in which
to receive the name and private address of the traveller, so that if the bag be lost
during a journey, the owner and his residence can be ascertained by sliding or
otherwise the platej from its position; and we also prefer 'that each sliding lid
should be marked with a number clearly visible so that the traveller if leaving
his bag at the left luggage office of a station, instead of giving his name as
is usual, the number on the sliding lid will be sufficient for the purpose, the
other sliding lid i is employed to permit the spools to be got at to change for other
spools and for other purposes.
Fig. 4 shows a plan view of our label with the lids open as indicated in dotted
lines whilst,
Fig. 5 is a plan view with the lids closed, and as the label will appear on the
portmanteau or bag, and
Fig. 6 is a cheaper form of label without the spools and spindles shewn in Fig. 1;
in this case the label is a flat one, with prongs b as in the previous case for the
purpose of being attached to a bag, this label is also provided with sliding lids i
and under which a card is placed or a strip of paper having on it the name of
the next town to which the traveller is journeying. Provision is made under the
lid to receive the card of name and address of owner of bag.
Although we have referred in the above description as applying the label to
travelling bags, we wish it to be understood that a similar device may be advan-
tageously used in connection with omnibuses, and railway carriages, to denote
where such vehicles are journeying, as the conductor of such vehicles can rotate the
bobbins or change the cards to indicate the place to which they are going. The
device herein described may be compounded or trebled or quadrupled.
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 :-
Firstly. A label, containing adjustable spools and an endless strip on which
names are inscribed, showing through an aperture the names of towns and cities,
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page_text: such label being attached to bags and the like by fangs or eyelets, all as
described.
Secondly. A label, containing adjustable spools and an endless strip on which
names are inscribed, in combination with lids and receptacles for purposes
described.
Thirdly. A label, for containing cards or tickets covered by moveable lids, such
label being attached to bags and the like by fangs or eyelets as described and
shewn in Figs. 6 and 7.
Dated this 15th day of Santamber 1802
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.