Improvements in or relating to the Sealing or Securing of Cords and the like for the Protection of Parcels or Packages and other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 11th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Sealing or Securing of Cords
and the like for the Protection of Parcels or Packages and
other Purposes.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co. Patent Agents of
18 Buckingham Street Strand W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me
from abroad by Heinrich Zwanziger of Vienna in the Empire of Austria, Engineer,
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the sealing or securing of cords and the like by means of
metal seals so that unfastening of the cord etc. may be detected, the seals being
principally for use with parcels or packages for sealing or securing the cord, string or
the like with which the parcel is fastened.
Heretofore seals of metal preferably lead have been used, the same consisting of two
disks which may or may not be fastened together, the knot or ends of the cord or
string being placed between said disks and the latter pressed firmly together over the
same by means of a suitable press, which also stamps upon the outer faces of the disks
such design arms, monogram, trade mark or the like as may be peculiar to the sender
or sealer of the package.
The improvements relate to the metal seals used for this purpose and their object
is to prevent the separation of the two disks after they have been pressed together.
Such seals have heretofore be made with smooth surfaces to be pressed upon the cord⚫
or knot of the cord and it is possible with such to release the cord by separating the
disks of the seal and again to fasten them together so as to obviate detection. The
improvements consist in providing the under sides of the disks, that is to say those
which lie next to the cord, with projecting teeth, ribs, or offsets adapted on each disk
to arrive between similar teeth, ribs, or offsets on the opposite disk. The teeth ribs etc.
may have any desired plan upon the surface of the disks and are preferably rectangular
in elevation therefrom. When such seals are pressed together the teeth etc. are so
interposed that the disks cannot be separated without so much violence and destruction
of the seal as would ensure detection."

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Sealing or Securing of Cords
and the like for the Protection of Parcels or Packages and
other Purposes.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert & Co. Patent Agents of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, a communication to me
from abroad by Heinrich Zwanziger of Vienna in the Empire of Austria, Engineer,
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 the sealing or securing of cords and the like by means of
metal seals so that unfastening of the cord etc. may be detected, the seals being principally
for use with parcels or packages for scaling or securing the cord, string or the like
with which the parcel is fastened.
Heretofore seals of metal, preferably lead, have been used, the same consisting of
two discs which may or may not be fastened or formed together, the knot or ends of
the cord or string being placed between said discs and the latter pressed firmly together
over the same by means of a suitable press, which may also stamp upon the outer faces
of the discs such design, arms, monogram, trade mark or the like as may be peculiar
to the sender or sealer of the package.
The improvements relate to the metal scals used for this purpose and their object is
to prevent the separation of the two discs after they have been pressed together.
Such seals have heretofore been made with smooth surfaces to be pressed upon the
cord or knot of the cord, and it is possible with such to release the cord by separating
the discs of the seal and again to fasten them together so as to obviate detection.
The improvements consist in providing the under sides of the discs, that is to say
those which lic next to the cord, with projecting teeth, ribs or offsets adapted on each
disc to arrive between similar teeth, ribs, or offsets on the opposite disc. The teeth
ribs etc. may have any desired plan upon the surface of the discs and are preferably
rectangular in elevation therefrom. When such seals are pressed together, the teeth
etc. are so interposed that the discs cannot be separated without so much violence and
destruction of the seal as would ensure detection.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the improved seal, Fig. 1 represents the new
seal with triangular teeth or ribs in an open state and Fig. 2 in a pressed or sealed
state, Fig. 3 is a seal with rectangular teeth or ribs in an open, and Fig. 4 in a closed
state. Figs. 5 and 6 represent such seal in plan and side elevation respectively.
a a are the discs held together by strips or posts b. These posts allow a sufficient
opening Fig. 6 for the pulling in of the knot at c Fig. 6.-The channel or passage
between the discs a being divided on the other side by a central post to form two
ways e e, through which the ends of the cord pass. The inner surfaces of the two

page_text: discs were hitherto plain, but in the improved seals the same are toothed or ribbed to
effect a close connection. The teeth or ribs may be of any shape, it is preferable
however to employ rectangular teeth (as shown in Figs. 3 and 4) because by the
pressing together of the teeth a spreading of the same takes place.
ends of the cord are also so strongly pressed into the lead, that they may be retained
even if they are only passed through without knot.
The
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A seal composed of two discs, the inner or uniting edges of which are
provided with teeth ribs or projections, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
Dated this 11th day of November 1887.
H. J. HADDAN.
By Herbert & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.