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Description

(No Mode-1.)

G. C. HENNING.

LABEL.

No. 334,437. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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UNITED STATESM I ATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. HENNING, OF VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,437, dated January 19, 1886.

Application tiled January 30, 1895.

Serial No. 154,403.

(No model.)

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11, asin Fig. 2, with the letters 13. M and To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE C. HENNING, southeast, southwest, and northwest. Vilh of IVashington, in the District of Columbia, this indicator a simple stroke of the pen or haveinvented certain new and useful Improvepencil opposite or across the proper line will 5 ments in Labels, of which the following `is a indicate at a glance, and even to an ignorant specification. person, the direction of the place to which My invention relates to address cards or the parcel is to go, giving an idea of the lolabels for the use of merchants and others, cation by the position of the line in the figand is designed to facilitate the givingof diure, as well as by the designation printed on 6o Io rections to the porter or messenger. such line. Thisindicatorbis preferably placed The invention consists in a novel arrangeat the end of the lines provided for the name ment of words and devices whereby a simple of the person and street. stroke or mark of a pen or pencil gives the y It is commonly desirable that packages be required information to the porter as to each delivered at, before, or after a stated time, 15 of the several matters to which the directions and on a given day, and to quickly designate relate. and clearly indicate the hour and day, I pro- Figure 1 represents the card or label in its vide one or more circular rows or lines, c d, preferred form complete; Figs. 2, 3, 4. 6, of figures, from 1 to 12, or from 1 to 24, as and 7, views illustrating details and slight vapreferred, and blanks cfg for the year, month, 7o 2c riations. and day, thus: 18...., .,month,

Hithe'rto address cards or labels have gen- .day. erally contained simply a number of blank The arrangement'of the figures may be vaspaces in which the necessary directions were ried considerably without affecting their use, required to be written out as fully as time and the preferred arrangement being that shown 25 space would permit. Though the time and in Fig. 1, in which two concentric rows or labor required to thus fill out the few direccircles containing figures from 1 to 12 andfrom tions embraced by such cards or labels were 13 to 24, respectively, are used. To indicate small in any single case, much time and labor the hour ofthe day it is then ony necessary were involved in preparing the large number to mark any figure required, instead of writ- 8O 3o of cards required by mercantile houses doing ing out the instructions in full, the indicaa large business, and even then the compara tions A. M. and PJMJ being rendered tively small size of the card and the time reunnecessary by the use of the twenty-four diquired to read the directions prevented the visions consecutively numbered. giving of such full instructions as experience It frequently happens that instructions are 3 5 shows to be desirable. given to deliver before or after a designated My invention is designed to obviate these hour, and to give the necessary directions in difficulties, to permit a large amount of infor such case I provide the two circles c d, above mation to be plainly given in small compass, mentioned, and print in or by them, respectand to enable a clerk to till out and a porter ively, the words deliver after and deliver 4o or messenger to read the directions quickly before.

and with certainty. With these objects in The blanks c f g are iilled in the usual view the label or card contains one or more way-as, for instance, 1885, lst month, 30th lines, a, for the name of the person to whom day. the package is to be sent, and for the name of Instead of the two concentric rows of figures 4 5 the street and number of the house. running jointly from 1to 24, each may contain To enable the direction of the place or sectgures from 1 to 11, the twelfth space being tion of the city in which the house is located occupied in one row or circle by the letters to be speedily indicated, and with certainty, I A. M and in the other by the letters D provide the card or label with an indicator, b, M. as in the left-hand circle of Fig. 3, or a ICO 5o showing by radial lines the cardinal points of single row of figures may be used from 1 to the compass-north, south, east, and west- A. M., respectively, inside, and outside of the circle at a point between the figures indicating l and ll.

So, too, the single row or circle of figures 1 to 12 may be used, as in the righthand circle of Fig. 3, the letters A. M. and 1). M. being placed above and below the figures indicating 12, or a single circle of figures indicating hours from l to 24 may be adopted, as in Fig. 4.. Finally, instead of arranging the gures in the circles, they maybe arranged in straight lines, as in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, eitherin two rows from 1 to 12 each, or in one or more rows from l to 24. If in two rows, each containing figures indicating hours from 1 to l2, theletters A. M.77 and 1). M. will be used, as indicated. The circular arrangement is preferred for the reason that the resemblance to a clock-dial thus secured enables the hour to be more readily noted and with greater certainty than when the figures are differently arranged.

To provide for the delivery of parcels or packages to depots, stations, or wiiarves at proper time for shipment, or at such time as will insure their arrival at their destination by a stated time, I provide a similar arrangement of circles, h z', and blanks j lc Z, the circles bearing, respectively, the words train leaves and boat leaves.7

Besides the matters mentioned, the card or label bears the words Sold by; Examine; Collect;7 Exchange;" Take Clik, Leave5 xchange5 Paid5 Carriage paid; each Within a separate space containing additional room sufcient to receive an arbitrary mark of any kind to give the porter or messenger the required information. For instance, the space containing the words Sold by may be marked with a letter, figure, or other arbitrary symbol recognized in the'store or establishment as the mark ofa certain employ. The space bearing the query Collect will be filled in with the amount to be collected, or left blank, as circumstances require, and so as to the remaining spaces, if not marked, they may be understood to require no consideration. This plan gives the information only to those knowing the rule of the house sending the parcel. The wording may of course be varied as the particular line of business requires; but the important point of arranging the instructions in the manner indicated, so that a single arbitrary mark shall convey the required information to the porter or messenger without imparting the same to the purchaser or others, shouldbe followed in all cases.

Any further instructions and any suitable advertising matter may of course be combined lwith the foregoing; but the above includes the matter which I deem novel and of special importance.

With the card thus arranged, it is necessary onlyto write out the name of the person, name of street, and number of house. All the rest may be filled in or indicated by a simple penstroke, with the exception of the date and amount to be collected, if any, which may be quickly done by a few figures.

I am aware that a notched dial provided with figures indicating hours has been combined with aspring-locking device and pointer and attached to a clasp for application to boots and shoes and like articles, to indicate the hour at which said articles were to be returned to the owners apartment. This I do not claim.

Mylabel is designed to be printed on paper, and to be thrown away after being once used. The particular hour to beindicated is crossed" or marked out by a pen or pencil stroke, and the necessity of apointer, catch, or likedevice is obviated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. A card or label provided with space for the name and general address, and with an indicator showing the points of the compass, whereon may be designated the general direction or section of the city, substantially as described, and adapted to be marked by a simple pen-stroke to indicate the particular direction required.

2. Alabel provided with a space for an ad- 95 dress, and with figures indicating the hours of the day, both printed or produced directly thereon, wherebya simple pen or pencil mark may be made to designate the time at, after, or before which a parcel is to be delivered to the address written on the card.

3. An address card or label provided with a series of questions adapted to be marked to constitute directions, as explained, whereby the necessary information may be given to a porter or other person without being disclosed to a purchaser.

ft. The herein-described card or label provided with space a for the general address, indicator b, adapted, when marked, to indicate the general direction, circles odia z', bearing figures indicating hours of the day, and instructions as to delivery of goods, spaces efgj k Z, to receive indications as to dates, and a series of instructions in the form of questions, all snbx15 stantially as set forth and shown.

` GEO. C. HENNING.

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Witnesses:

JNO. W. BLAKELocK, S. KATZENSTEIN.

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