Improvements in or Relating to Tags or Labels and Methods of Securing the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Relating to Tags or Labels and Methods of
Securing the same.
I, GUSTAF LIBERT REENSTIERNA, of 60, State Street, Boston, in the County of
Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Mechanical
Engineer, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements on tags for the purpose of readily
securing the same to boxes etc. by means of nails, tacks or equivalent fastening
devices attached to and forming part of such tag as will hereinafter be more fully
shown and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where;
Fig. 1 represents a top plan view of the improved tag;
Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section on the line 2-2 shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan perspective view of the improved tag, and
Fig. 4 represents a modified form of the improved tag.
Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts
of the drawings.
A in the drawings represents the tag preferably made of paper stock or suitable
fibrous or textile material usually employed in tag making.
Two or more of the edges or corners of such tag blank are turned over on the
underside of the tag in the form of lips or corner flaps A¹, A¹ as shown in the
drawing.
C, C, are headed tacks projecting through the turned over lips or corners A¹
and having their heads arranged between the underside of the tag body and the
turned over lips or corners A¹ as shown.
In practice I prefer to cement or otherwise secure the overturned lips or corners
to the underside of the tag so as to hold the tacks firmly secured to the edges or
corners of the tag.
Heretofore tags had to be secured to boxes, etc. by means of separate tacks or
nails, and this is oftentimes inconvenient as proper size tacks may not be readily
at hand for such purpose.
With my invention, as the tag is being provided with tacks or nails, it is at
all times ready for attachment to boxes etc. without the need of separate tacks or
fastening devices, and thus time and labour is materially saved in attaching my
ready made tacked tags to boxes or similar receptacles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
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1. A tag combined with tacks or nails permanently secured to said tag and
having their points projecting below the underside of the tag for the purpose of
readily securing the tag to boxes etc. substantially as herein described.
2. A tag having its ends or corners turned over combined with tacks or nails
having their heads arranged between the tag body and such turned over portions,
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page_text: and having their points projecting below the underside of the tag, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
3. A tag having its ends or corners turned over and adhesively connected to
the underside of the tag, combined 'with tacks or nails having their heads arranged
between the tag body and the turned over portions and having their points 5
projecting below the underside of the tag substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
Dated thin Let darf A 1000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to the Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.