US505924A

US505924A - Label-holder

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Publication number: US505924A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-10-03
Anticipated expiration: 1910-10-03

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(1% Mel) H B PRESBY LABEL HOLDER.

No. 505,924. Patented Oct. 3,1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT B. PRESBY, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,924, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filed November 26, 1892. Serial No. 453,261- (NdmodeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT B.PREsBY, of

Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Card-Support for Labeling Cigars and other Merchandise, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the subjoined claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention as attached to a card and as secured to a box containing merchandise. Fig. 3, is a section on line x.

The object of my invention is to provide a card, with its attachment, which can be readily secured to and detached from boxes, and other packages of merchandise, to indicate its value or quality; that is yielding, elastic and self-righting in case it is by any means displaced, and which can be supplied at small cost; and it consists in the subject matter next herein described and referred to in the appended claim.

Referring again to said drawings, a represents a show card which may have printed or displayed upon it, price, quality, or other facts about the goods contained in box 6. A short strip of india rubber, or other elastic material, shown at b is secured to card a by Fig. 2 is a section through line 2, and

the small wire staple c or by any equivalent means. To the opposite end of strip 1) I attach a hook d, which is formed to inclose strip 1) at one of its ends while the other terminates in a hook by which it is secured to box 6. This hook is looped, as atf, in order that it may cling'to box e and also that it shall have some slightly elastic length between the hook and the loop that incloses the strip I). Said strip may be formed of various materials that are elastic, but I prefer india rubber to any other material; and in order to manufacture these cards rapidly I prefer the staple c as the means of uniting the card and strip b. It

will be readily apparent that with these cards attached to boxes, one can reach over them, and displace them, by crowding them down ward, and yet they will at once resumetheir positions as soon as the object that disturbed them has been removed.

I claim as my invention The combination of card a, flexible strip 1), and hook d, the strip being secured .to the card and the hook to the strip in manner substantially as described and for the purposes specified.

HERBERT B. PRESBY.

Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, L. W. Howns.