Improvements in or relating to Eyeleted Labels for Packages of all kinds.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Eyeleted Labels for Packages of
all kinds.
I WILLIAM WEBBER of 6 Saltram Place, Citadel Road Plymouth, Secretary
of Joint Stock Company 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 eyeleted labels which are specially
adapted for the purpose of keeping an account for stock or other purposes of the
number of bags cases or other packages for which the labels are used, and for
tracing and identifying the said bags cases or other packages. According to this
invention I make the eyeleted labels in sheets containing any number which may
be required instead of making them completely detached as eyeleted labels are
usually made.
To do this I take sheet of cloth, manilla, cardboard, or other material suitable
for labels, of a greater width than is required for the extreme length of the label.
and of sufficient length to form the number of labels required on the sheet. I
cut the sheet into strips of a size to form the required length and breadth of the
labels, but as the sheet of material is wider than the extreme length of the label
the said strips are still held together in a sheet form by means of the uncut margin
of material. These strips can then be eyeleted by any convenient method so as to
make a perfect and complete label. In order that the labels may be more readily
detached from their respective positions on the sheet when required for use I partly
separate them from the sheet at the ends by perforations or by partly cutting
them in some other convenient manner. I then take a number of these sheets of
perfected labels and by means of the margin or duplicate portion of the material
which is thus formed to hold the labels together, I bind them by any convenient
method into books with covers or into blocks with or without a cardboard or other
support on the underside. I make the margin or duplicate portion of sufficient
width over & above what is required for binding purposes to form a counterpart to
each label on which can be printed or written any number or mark to correspond
with a similar number or mark printed or written on each respective label. It is
in this way that I provide means by which any bag case or package for which
any particular label has been used can be identified, by the corresponding number
or mark retained on the duplicate or counterpart which is retained in the book or
block of labels. I bind the labels together in sheets containing an equal number
of labels, and in books or blocks containing an equal number of sheets, thus
providing a ready means by which the number of labels used can be counted
whether numbered in counterpart or not. In this way a correct account for stock
or other purposes can be kept of all the bags cases or packages for which the
labels have been used.
The labels may be made separately instead of in sheets, but with the duplicate
portion attached for the purpose of binding them together in books or blocks, and
for the purpose of providing the counterpart for reference as aforesaid.
In order that my said invention may be better understood I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which:-
Fig. 1 shows a sheet of eyeleted labels which labels are only partly detached at
the ends from the marginal or duplicate portion by means of perforations as
shown, but which are entirely separated from each other at the sides by a clean
cut the entire length of the label. The labels may be only partly separated at

page_text: the sides by perforations or other cuts as at the ends, but I prefer to entirely
separate them at the sides.
Fig. 2 shows a single eyeleted label with a marginal or duplicate portion partly
detached by means of perforations as shown.
The respective parts of the said labels are indicated in the said drawing by
reference letters as follows:-
A. Eyelet.
B. Body of label on which any description, mark, duplicate number or other
matter can be printed or written.
C. Perforations by means of which the said labels can be readily separated from
the marginal or duplicate portion.
D. The marginal or duplicate portion by which the labels are held in sheets and
bound together, and which also serves as a counterpart on which any date
description, mark, duplicate number or other matter can be written or printed.
As herein before described the marginal or duplicate portion of the labels whether
in the case of labels in sheets as shown in Fig. 1, or in the case of single labels
as shown in Fig. 2 is for the purpose of binding together any number of the
heets of labels or of the single labels by any convenient method into books or
blocks as aforesaid, and also for the purpose of providing space whereon any date
description mark duplicate number or other matter can be printed or written.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A number of eyeleted labels (having a duplicate or counterpart partly
separated by perforations or other kind of cuts) bound together singly or in sheets,
in the form of a book with covers, or in the form of a block with or without a
cardboard or other support on the underside.
Dated this Thirtieth day of May 1892.
WILLIAM WEBBER,
6, Saltram Place, Citadel Road, Plymouth, Applicant.