Improvements relating to the Labelling of Articles of Commerce, and to Devices for Use therefor.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1894
Improvements relating to the Labelling of Articles of Commerce,
and to Devices for Use therefor.
I ADOLPH POHLMAN of Hohenaspe Holstein in the Empire of Germany, of no
occupation, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to so provide for the labelling of articles of
commerce, that the customer may be provided with the means for assuring himself
or for being assured by the person from whose factory or otherwise the article is
presumed in the first instance to have emanated, that the article so labelled is the
genuine product of such factory, or that it is a deceptive fabrication as the case
may be.
To attain this end the label is made in the form of a pocket, envelope, or the
like to contain a postcard; and is provided with a number or numbers, or a sign or
signs the same being also placed on the post card which latter will also bear on its
face the name and address of the producer whose produce or merchandise the article
is pretended to be.
By use of such devices as labels and of appropriate registers in which the
numbers or signs are noted with the dealers or others to whom the respectively
numbered or indicated goods have been sent, each article being marked with
different number or numbers, the manufacturer or producer is in position to answer
any customer forwarding the numbered card whether the article is genuine or
whether, having regard to the nature of the card, or to the fact that a similarly
numbered card has been previously sent in, or to the fact that goods so marked
could not have come into possession of the seller, or where more than one number
is used to the fact that no such combination of numbers has been sent out; the
alleged product may be pronounced an imitation and not genuine.
As an example I have shown the combined label and post card as applied to a
champagne bottle in the annexed drawings;
Fig. 1 is an elevation of such bottle with a label shaped or made like a pocket
into which the folded post card may be placed.
Fig. 2 a bottle with label made like a postal envelope.
Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the labels separately.
Fig. 5 horizontal cross section of Fig. 3.
Figs. 6 and 7 vertical sections on lines x. ., y. y, respectively.
a is the label proper. 6 the post card-on which latter the purchaser should
write his name and address before sending it off to the producer whose name and
address appear on its face.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
A label for articles of merchandise and adapted to be affixed thereto in any
convenient manner the same comprising a nortion 80 affixed and marked with

page_text: use as a post card or to be forwarded to the alleged producer for testing the
genuineness of the indication of origin of the goods substantially as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of January 1894.
R. HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agent for Applicant.