US675083A

US675083A - Label or tag.

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Publication number: US675083A
Application number: US5228101A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ellsworth F Bullard
Original assignee: CONTINENTAL TOBACCO Co
Current assignee: CONTINENTAL TOBACCO Co
Priority date: 1901-03-22
Filing date: 1901-03-22
Publication date: 1901-05-28
Anticipated expiration: 1918-05-28

Description

No. 875,088. Pateted May 28, 1901.

E. F. uLLAnn.

LABEL 0B TAG.

(Appnmion med mu. 22, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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T FFICE ELLSVORTH F. BULLARD, OF HACKENSAOK, NEW'JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CONTINENTAL TOBACCO COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LABEL OR TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 675,083, dated May 28, 1901.

Application filed March 22, 1901. Serial No. 52,281. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LELLswoRTH F. BULLARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hackensack, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements .in Labels 'or Tags, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in labels or tags.

The identifying-tags commonly affixed to or packed with Various kinds of merchandise are ordinarily of a simple and inexpensive Character and can therefore be readily counterfeited. This is particularly true, for instance, of the metallic tags usually affixed to plug-tobacoo, and when, as is the case with tobacco, the appearance of the merchandise can be readily imit-ated it is possible for unscrupulous dealers to affix or pack with inferior merchandise spurious labels or tags and to do this with little fear of detection,since the inferior character of the goods can only be detected by actual consumption. Inferior merchandise may be thus palmed off as goods of better quality and high reputation, the purchaser and the manufacturer of the genuine merchandise being thus defrauded and the reputation of the merchandise injured.

It is the object of this invention to produce a label or tag which may be packed with or affixed to merchandise and which cannot be easily counterfeited.

Vith this and other obj ects in View the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and more fully pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the improved tag. Fig. 2 is a central Vertical section of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an under side plan View of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Figs. '-l and 5 illustrate modifications.

' Referring to the drawings, the tags or labels which have been selected to illustrate the invention are more particularly intended for use with plug-tobacco, although they might be used with other classes of merchandise.

The tag shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 consists of a circular disk of sheet metal l, having prongs 2, which are preferably integral therewith, said prongs servin g to attach the tag to the tobacco or other goods. The under side of the tag bears a piece of Safety-paper 3-2'. e. paper so made or treated that it possesses characteristics' which can be readily identified and which cannot be changed or obliterated without detection. A particular design of paper will be selected which can be procured from one manufacturer only, and in addition the paper will preferably bear some distinguishing marks, such marks being indicated by the letters C T C 0. This paper may be affixed to the label or tag in any suitable or desired manner, but will preferably beafl'lxed by a suitable adhesive. In the preferred form of the construction the paper will be applied to the under surface of the tag, although it might be applied to either surface, and will preferably be coextensive with said surface. Vhile, fu rther more, the paper may be applied to the tag after the same is made, it will preferably be applied in sheets to the sheets of material from which the tags are cut or formed. Thus in making metallic tags the thin sheet of metal from which the tags are cut will first have a sheet of Safety-paper secured to it and then the tags will be stamped out from the composite sheet.

When the paper is applied to the under side, the face of the tag may bear any desired label or trade-mark. p

The tags shown in Figs. 4 and 5 are similar to that shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, eXcept that they differ in shape, the tag in Fig. 4 being generally triangular in shape and that shown in Fig. 5 being horseshoe-shaped.

While the tags shown to illustrat-e the invention are directly affixed to the tobacco or other merchandise with which they are to be used, it is understood that they might be packed with the merchandise, and the terms *label and 'tag as used herein are to be construed as covering devices which may be packed with goods as well as aflixed to them.

i What is claimed is-- 1. A label or tag having on one of its sur- VIS faces a piece of identifiable Safety-paper, substantially as described.

2. A metallic label or tag having on one of its snrfaees a piece of identifiable Safety-paper, substantially as described.

3. A label or tag provided with affixing means and having on one of' its surfaces a piece of identifiable Safety-paper, substantially as described.

4B; A met-allic label or tag provided with affixing means and having on one of its surfaces a piece of identifiable safety-paper, substantially as described.

5. A label or tag provided with affixing means and having on its under surface a piece of identifiable Safety-paper, substantially as described.

6. A metallic label or tag provided With affixing means and having on its under surface a piece of identifiable Safety-paper, substantially as described.

7. A label or tag, one of the surfaces of ELLSVORTH F. BULLARD.

VVitnesses:

MARTIN'S. WATTS, GEO. M. GALEs.