A New or Improved Method of Labelling Travelling Trunks, Boxes, Cases, Baskets, and like articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL ORIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Labelling Travelling Trunks, Boxes,
Cases, Baskets, and like articles.
I, ALEXANDER MANSON CLARKE of Mount Aden, Hamilton, Lanarkshire,
North Britain, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of the attachment to travelling boxes, cases, or baskets of
a permanent receptacle for the address label, said receptacle being so placed that
the closing of the lid or cover of the box will retain the label so that it cannot be
removed except by re-opening the box. While the address label may be of card-
board or paper it will preferably be made of celluloid or like substance so that the
address may be written upon it and erased again, thus allowing the one label to be
repeatedly used to carry varying addresses.
Dated this 16th day of March 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Labelling Travelling Trunks, Boxes,
Cases, Baskets, and like artioles.
I, ALEXANDER MANSON CLARKE, of Mount Aden, Hamilton, Lanarkshire,
North Britain, Clerk, 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 :-
This invention consists of the attachment to travelling boxes, cases, or baskets of
a permanent receptacle for the address label, said receptacle being so placed that
the closing of the lid or cover of the box will retain the label so that it cannot be
removed except by re-opening the box.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings which I will now
proceed to describe.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of part of a box with the lid open, and showing
the card in the act of being placed in position.
Figure 2 is a view of the box with the lid closed and the card in position.
A is the box; B is the receptacle into which the card C containing the address
is placed. When the card C has been slipped into its position the lid of the box is
closed, thus preventing the label from being torn off or removed until the box is
opened, and so saving a great deal of the annoyance and inconvenience often caused
by the labels being torn off in transit under the present system of labelling boxes.
The address label may be of cardboard or paper, but I prefer to make it of
celluloid, or like substance so that the address may be written upon it and erased
again, thus allowing the one label to be repeatedly used to carry varying addresses.

page_text: 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 1
claim is :-
Labelling travelling trunks, boxes, cases, and like articles in the manner substan-
tially as described and shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.