US1013299A - Label. - Google Patents

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Y W. P. MAUDONALD.

LABEL. A APPLICATION FILED 00T.8, 190B.

1,01 3,299. Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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Unirnn ysra'riis PATENT OFFICE WILSON P. MACDONALD, 0F TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE G. FOX

COMPANY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 8, 1908.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 456,690.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILSON P. MACDON- ALD, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Labels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to labels and particularly to labels to be applied to bakers products.

It is the object of my invention to provide an inexpensive label of very simple construction which can be quickly applied to a pie or the like to indicate its kind, price, maker, etc., without injury or any detriment to the structure or contents of the pie, and without liability of the label being displaced through handling the pie notwithstanding that it is not secured 1n the ordinary way by gum or the like. Heretofore it has been the custom to secure a label in the form of a band of paper completely around a pie which label bore the desired inscription, but such labels were frequently displaced or broken in handling. Y

My invention obviates the above objections and it consists of a label comprising two cards pinned together by a spike that is adapted to be driven into a pie to fasten the label in place, said spike being preferably made of wood so as to not aifect or be affected by the filling of the pie. Of the two cards the rear one has on its face a series of inscriptions such as the names of several different kinds of pies, while the front card is cut away in part so as to expose only one of the inscriptions and blanket or cover from view all of the other inscriptions on the rear card. This permits of assembling the parts so as to produce, for example, a label indicating by its exposed inscription any one of the several different,

kinds of pies, or of adjusting the two cards rotatively to change the exposed name. The shank of the spike is made irregular or angular in cross-section so that the two cards are locked thereby against displacement rotatively.

Other features of my invention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure l is a plan view of a label embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the front or index card hereinafter referred to; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the rear inscription bearing card hereinafter referred to.; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of a modified form of rear card; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modified form of index card.

My new label comprises two cards A and B made from stiff pasteboard or the like and assembled with the card A in front of the card B. These two cards A and By are impaled on a wooden spike C by forcing the latter through both as shown in Fig. 2. The card A is cut away as at a so as to eX- pose any one of a circular series of words a inscribed on card B concentric with spike (j, and to cover the other words. Thus by adjusting the two cards rotatively either before or after they are impaled on the spike C the label may be made appropriate to a pie of any kind included in the series of words a.

The spike C employed inconnection with the two cards A and B consists of a head c and a shank c', the latter tapering from head c to substantially a point and being made triangular in cross-section so that when forced through the cards A and B the latter will be locked against rotative displacement. The dotted lines at the middle of the cards shown in Figs. 3 and 4 show the shape of the holes produced in said cards when the latter are impaled on spike C. The holes thus produced in cards A and B are both triangular and, as will now be clear, the card B may be drawn partly off from spike C and rotatively adjusted with relation to card A so as to expose any one of the words on the card B. Thus a label may be transferred from one pie to another, the adjustment just described providing for changing the exposed inscription as may be necessary.

Another feature of my invention consists in providing two cards A and B to be substituted for the cards A and B, which differ from the latter in that the card A is made with a central triangular perforation a2 to receive the shank c of the spike C, while the card B is made with a central star shaped perforation b2 each point of which is pointed toward one of thewords of the series a. By this construction the card B may be withdrawn from spike C and rotatively adjusted so as to expose any one of the six words on the card B without change in the shape of the central perforation of the latter, the star points serving as a sure guide to position.

I claim:

l. A label comprising a rear card bearin a series of inscriptions and made from sti sheet material so as to hold its shape unassisted; an index card in front of the rear card formed so as to partially expose the series of inscriptions, and a rigid attaching spike adapted to be driven into a pie or the like, the two cards having registering per` forations which are angular in shape and the Spike being made with a shank angular in cross section and removably mounted in the perforations so as to separably connect the two cards and lock them against relative rotative displacement.

2. A label comprising a rear card bearing a series of inscriptions and made with a star shaped aperture; an index card'in front of the rear card cut away in part to expose one of said inscriptions and cover the rest, and a rigid attaching spike adapted to be driven into a pie or the like, said spike being made triangular in cross-section and extending through the index card and the aperture of the rear card so as to lock the Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing Jthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

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