Improved Label Case for the Better Holding and Issuing of Luggage Labels and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th dall.,
1005
Ad
16th Nov 180h
Date of Application, TULI Jal., 200
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1806 Accepted, 16th Nov.
1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Label Case for the Better Holding and Issuing of
Luggage Labels and the like.
JAMES HENRY QUINN Railway Clerk 20 Wyndham Road Kingston-on-Thames
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A case made of any, and all woods, of any, and all metals fitted with small
pigeon holes or compartments, running in rows one above the other, in a horizontal
or verticle direction, a groove fixed to the top and bottom edge of each row of
compartments, the bottom groove of each row fitted with small spring catches, one
catch opposite each pigeon hole or compartment, doors or slides each the same size
as the front of each compartment to run in the grooves above mentioned from right
o left, the spring catches slipping into a slot in the bottom edge of each door or
lide preventing the doors or slides being moved in the opposite direction viz: -
rom left to right this preventing a second admission to any one compartment until
he first door or slide in each row is removed by unlocking the left hand side of the
case and placing the door or slide released at the other end of the admission
being obtained by unlocking the right hand side of the case.
row,
Either side of the case is closed and made fast by simply shutting it to and each
mall door or slide being locked by the action of moving them from right to left,
the closing of the case on the left side, completes the locking in both directions, so
hat the normal position of the case when not in use is locked in both directions.
Dated this 15th day of January 1895.
JAMES H. QUINN.
Improved Label Case for the Better Holding and issuing or
Luggage Labels and the like.
I, JAMES HENRY QUINN, Railway Clerk, of 20 Wyndham Road, Kingston-
on-Thames, 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 has for its object the providing of a novel constructed passenger
luggage label case with automatic check or locking device to the movements of
each sliding door or shutter passing its pigeon hole, together with receiving and
discharging doors at the ends of each row of sliding doors or of the complete ends
of the case, for the purpose of the better issuing of baggage labels to the passengers
travelling, thereby giving much more safety to passengers' baggage against
accidental mixing-up or confusion or loss than heretofore, but more especially to
check the movements of the railway porter or person in charge of the issuing of
the baggage labels for every train, also as an instrument of safety against the
lurking or travelling professional thief claiming luggage not his own.
In putting my invention into practice at any railway or other station, or hotel,
or place, I will or may commence the working of my said luggage label case, as

page_text: follows Firstly, slide to the left hand the first left hand sliding door or shutter
from covering its pigeon hole, which shutter when slided clear of the pigeon hole
required cannot again be returned back to the right hand over the pigeon hole from
which it has just been removed, and leaving open only the pigeon hole that is now
required, then hand out from that hole, to the first passenger or his representative
or porter bringing up his luggage for labelling, the exact number of labels (all of
which shall bear one and the same number in addition to any other printed
information or name of from where to where) required for every one case or
baggage of that individual passenger, which labels will be gummed to that
particular luggage as usual, and also one extra of the same identical labels to such
individual passenger as his check or voucher as the owner of the several baggages
bearing its identical numbered label. Immediately on taking out the number of
labels required for the first passenger's luggage and its check or voucher label
which will or may bear on it the number of packages or baggages possessed by its
owner, the person in charge first slides the next right hand shutter over the pigeon
hole which he has just used, which door or shutter on account of its automatic
check locking mechanism cannot be returned back, thus leaving the case ready to
receive say passenger Number Twe, with his baggage. The attendant proceeds in
a similar manner until that row of sliding shutters on the same horizontal row has
been so treated or travelled, then the second or subsequent horizontal rows of
sliding shutters covering the pigeon holes will be used until the whole passengers'
Juggage has been properly labelled according to this method.
When the person in charge of the luggage label case comes to the end of each
or the last row of sliding doors or shutters, he can open the hinged doors at both
ends of the case so as to enable him to take out the sliding shutter at the left hand
side of the case and remove it to the space ready for it at the right hand end of
the same row of sliding shutters and then close up the hinged doors at both ends,
when the case is again ready for receiving the passengers as before. Thus by the
automatic check or locking action to the movements of the sliding shutters, no two
passengers by the same train get the same identically numbered labels.
In order that my invention shall be understood and the manufacturing of same
effected I append an explanatory sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a label case having only two rows of pigeon holes
with a small part of the horizontal direction groove cover removed so as to show
the automatic check or locking mechanism, and also the hinged doors at the right
and left hand ends open ready for the removal of the sliding shutter from the left
hand end into the right hand end of the case.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same case with the hinged end doors shown
open and a part of the case shown in section and showing a plan view of my
automatic clutch.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the sliding door or shutter separate from its
race or groove in the case.
Figure 4 shows in detail one form or modification of my automatic check or lock
device separate from its position in the grooves or recesses of the sliding door or
shutter.
Figure 5 is a view of the striking or rubbing or receiving plate for receiving the
above check lock bolt part.
The same reference letters or marks indicate the same corresponding parts
throughout all the figures where shown, and these drawings here shown may be
subjected to modifications.
In constructing this complete luggage label case I will or may construct the case
preferably of wood and form the pigeon holes or compartments each the same size.
In the drawings A is the case, B is the sliding door or shutter, A' is the pigeon
hole compartment from where the sliding door or shutter has just been removed.
A is the hinged door at each end of the case and is shown open.
Figure 4 is one modification of a side and plan view of my automatic check lock
or bolt which I fix preferably to the race groove of the case. C is the hook part

page_text: of the automatic acting bolt or lock the one end of which is formed as its automatic
spring, which may be made in any spring form so as to engage between any part of
the case and the sliding door or shutter.
Figure 5 is a side and plan view of the rubbing or bolt receiving plate preferably
secured to the bottom or rubbing edge of the sliding door or shutter, C₁ being the
mortice or slot for receiving the hook part of the automatic bolt or lock.
Having now particularly described and 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. In connection with passenger luggage label cases the construction and use of
the automatic checking and locking or controlling sliding doors or shutters of the
pigeon holes or compartments substantially as herein described and distinguished in
reference to and by way of application shown in the several figures of the
accompanying drawings for the purposes herein set forth.
2. In connection with passenger luggage label cases the method of removing the
sliding door or shutter from, and the reinserting same in the races or grooves of the
case for performing the continuous cycle of the intended function of the complete
label case substantially as herein described and distinguished in reference to and
by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
3. A label case for the holding and issuing of luggage labels and the like
constructed and used substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of October 1895.
For JAMES HENRY QUINN,
Henry Williams.