An Improved Meat Label or Ticket and Method of Fastening the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 21st Jan., 1891-Accepted, 28th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Meat Label or Ticket and Method of Fastening
the same.
I, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Accountant, of the City of Wellington and Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved meat label or ticket and method of fastening
the same, and has for its objects making a cheap and durable label which can be
quickly and securely applied to the meat; and also provide a convenient method of
fastening tickets or memoranda to meat or carcases.
These objects I accomplish in the following manner :-I take a piece of sheet or
cast metal suitable for a label, ticket or memorandum, and I form this into any
convenient size and shape according to the purpose or the kind of meat or carcase
to which it is desired to apply it.
I then form a stem of wire or metal with a barbed point similar to a fish hook,
but with one or more barbs, and this stem I attach to the ticket by soldering,
brazing, casting, rivetting, or any other known and suitable method of adhesion,
and so as to form a label or ticket similar to a large nail or button with a barbed
shank to nail the said label or ticket to the meat, so that when the ticket is fastened
on by means of the shank piercing the meat the barb prevents it r m being easily
withdrawn.
I also sometimes make the barbed shank separate from the ticket in the form of a
nail, and pierce the ticket with it, so as to pin the label or ticket on to the meat,
which is especially suitable for cardboard paper or parchment labels or tickets.
Or the head of the barbed label or shank may be formed in the shape of a
hook or an eye, and the ticket or label hung or attached to the same in any suitable
manner.
Instead of a separate barbed stem I sometimes bend down a portion of the ticket
itself to form the barbed stem, more especially when the ticket is made of sheet;
metal; or in case of cast metal the barbed stem can be cast in one solid piece.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Meat Label or Ticket and Method of Fastening
the same.
I, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, of the City of Wellington, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Accountant, 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 relates to a new or improved label or ticket, or fastenings for labels
or tickets, and is more especially applicable for the marking and labelling of
carcases of meat and other similar objects and purposes.
The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and secure method of marking,
labelling, or numbering, so that the mark may be almost indestructible and cannot
easily be removed in the course of transit.
In order that my invention may be most easily understood I will now proceed to
describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to the accompanying sheet of
drawings on which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all
the figures.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a simple form of my improved label or fastener.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of another form of the same but having a
removable head.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of a form of label or ticket in which the shank or shanks
and barbs are made out of the solid material of the head.
Fig. 6 is a plan of the same.
In all the figures (a) is the cap or head, which may be either of small size so as
to form a head suitable for fastening a paper or other label on to the article, as
shewn in Figs. 1 & 2, or of larger size so that the cap er head (1) can be used as the
surface to act as a label, and printed or other matter depicted on the same as shewn
in Figs. 3, 4, 5, & 6.
(b) is the shank and (61) the barb.
It will be seen, therefore, that my invention consists of a head (a) which can be
either in the form of a fastener for labels or tickets &c., or to which labels or tickets
can be fastened or hung, and which head is fastened to a shank (6), having a barb
or barbs (b) and that when the shank (b) is driven into a carcase of meat or other
substance for which such labels are suitable, the barb (61) will take a firm hold and
prevent its return, and thus hold a label in position without it being possible of
removal unless special means are used to remove it, this being a great desideratum,
more especially for cargoes of meat and such like purposes, where the objects are
similar, but having different owners.
It will be seen from the several figures that the shank can be attached to the
head by any suitable means, viz., by soldering or brazing, or it can be made in one
solid piece with the head, and in some cases the prongs or shanks may be cut out of
the solid and bent down at any suitable angle to the head, (see Figs. 5 & 6).
The head or label also can be made of any suitable shape, material, or enamel ;
indeed the invention admits of many methods of manufacture and application.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The label or fastener for a label, formed of a head (a) to act as a fastener or
ticket, combined with a shank or shanks (6) having a barb or barbs ('), substantially
as described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of January 1901
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.