Improvements in or connected with the Fastening or Securing of Address Labels to Portmanteaux, Travelling Trunks, Bags, and the like
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
Improvements in or connected with the Fastening or Securing of
Address Labels to Portmanteaux, Travelling Trunks, Bags, and
the like.
I, DAVID NICHOLAS THOMAS of, Rock Cottage, Penrhiwtyn, Neath, Glamorgan,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with the fastening or
securing of address labels to portmanteaux, travelling trunks, bags and the like, the
object of which is to provide simple and efficient means whereby the label can be
safely and conspicuously carried without running any risk of its becoming detached or
lost, and in carrying my invention into practical effect, a suitably shaped slot or
opening is formed in any convenient part of the article required to be furnished with
an address label, while over same is placed a sheet of horn or other suitable trans-
parent material and over which is arranged a suitable metal frame or ring, the whole
to be rivetted or secured in any suitable manner to the article, and thus forming
between the outside portion of the article and the sheet of horn or other transparent
inaterial a pocket wherein the address label is placed through the aforesaid slot or
opening.
Dated this 17th day of November 1806
Improvements in or connected with the Fastening or Securing of
Address Labels to Portmanteaux, Travelling Trunks, Bags, and
the like.
I, DAVID NICHOLAS THOMAS Rock Cottage Penrhiwtyn Neath Glamorgan,
Gentleman, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with the fastening or
securing of address labels to portmanteaux and the like, the object of which is to
provide simple and efficient means whereby the label can be safely and conspicuously
carried without running any risk of its becoming detached or lost, and in carrying
my invention into practical effect, a suitably shaped slot or opening is formed in any
rn 0

page_text: convenient part of the article required to be furnished with an address label, while
over same is placed a sheet of horn or other suitable transparent material and over
which is arranged a suitable metal frame or ring, the whole to be rivetted or secured
in any suitable manner to the article, and thus forming between the outside portion
of the article and the sheet of horn or other transparent material a pocket wherein
the address label is placed through the aforesaid slot or opening.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, 1° will now refer to the
annexed drawings, in which, for purposes of illustration I have shewn my invention
applied to a portmantenu.
Figure 1. is a front elevation shewing my invention applied to a portmanteau.
Figure 2. sectional side elevation through line x-y. a is a frame of suitable
material such as metal which is secured to the portmanteau or the like by means of
rivets or other convenient means. is a transparent material such as horn which
is carried by the frame a. d is a slit in the portinanteau or the like through which
a card or label e may be inserted, and may be viewed through the transparent
plate c.
It will be readily seen that a label or card bearing the required address can be
inserted and removed when required, and cannot be destroyed or lost as so frequently
occurs with the case of ordinary labels which are tied or pasted upon portmanteaux
or the like, as the transparent plate forms a protecting surface.
Again, the card or label cannot be removed without opening the portmanteau unless
the protecting surface is damaged or broken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :-
1. The combined construction and arrangement of the various parts substantially
as described herein.
2. In means for fastening or securing address labels upon portmanteaux, travelling
trunks, bags and the like. A frame or casing attached to a portmanteau, travelling
trunk, bag or the like by means of rivets or other suitable form of attachment; said
frame carrying a plate of transparent material such as horn or other suitable
substance in conjunction with a slot or aperture formed in the portmanteau for the
purpose of enabling a card or address label to be passed through said slot so that
the same may be viewed through the transparent plate aforesaid, thus protecting the
card or address label from damage.
Dated this 11th day of August 1807