IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS AND SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING AND SUSPENDING TICKETS, LABELS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Allan Dalzell, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Pin Maker, for the Iuvention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS
AND SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING AND SUSPENDING TICKETS, LABELS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 16th September 1864, and dated the 19th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Allan Dalzell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
July 1864.
I, ALLAN DALZELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Pin
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HOLDERS AND SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING AND SUSPENDING TICKETS, LABELS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-.
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in holders
and suspenders for tickets, labels, and other articles. I make the said holders
and suspenders wholly of wire bent and shaped in the following manner:-I
make the holder of a piece of wire pointed at one end, and bent or doubled
near its other end, the portions of the wire at the doubled part being nearly
parallel, and so close together that a ticket or label, such as is used for
describing and iudicating the price of articles in shop windows, when pushed
into the said doubled part is held firmly therein, the said ticket or label being
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page_text: grasped and retained by the elasticity of the doubled wire. The whole of the
doubled part of the holder is bent out of the line of the other part so as to
make a small angle therewith. In using the holder the ticket or label is
inserted in the doubled or spring part of the holder, and the pointed end or
pin of the holder is inserted or stuck in the article to which the ticket or
label is to be attached, similar to the way in which a piu may be stuck or
inserted into an article.
In making a suspender according to my Invention, I make a doubled
spring part in the wire in the manner described with reference to a holder,
but the wire constituting the pin in the holder is in the case of the suspender
again doubled or bent up at or near the doubled spring part in which the
ticket or label is held. The end of the wire is bent into a hook, by which the
suspender can be hung from a line, the ticket or label held by the suspender
being below the point at which the suspender is hung. The hooked end of
the suspender may be pointed so that it may be stuck into any article to
which it may be wished to attach it.
Although the holders and suspenders described are principally useful for
holding and suspending price and other tickets and labels, yet the said holders
and suspenders may be used for holding and suspending other articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Allan Dalzell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALLAN
DALZELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Pin Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Allau Dalzell, Her special licence that I, the said Allan Dalzell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
time
Allan Dalzell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN

page_text: HOLDERS AND SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING AND SUSPENDING TICKETS. LABELS,AND
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Allan
Dalzell, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same"
was to be performed, aud cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
Baid Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Allan Dalzell, do hereby declare the
nature of the said. Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
holders and suspenders for tickets, labels, and other articles. I make the
said .holders and suspenders wholly of wire bent and shaped in the following
manner make the holder of a piece of wire pointed at one end and.bent
or doubled near its other end, the portions of the wire at the doubled part
being nearly parallel, and so close together that a ticket or label, such as.is
used for describing and indicating the price of articles in shop windows, when
pushed into the said doubled part is held firmly therein, the said ticket or
label being grasped and retained by the elasticity of the doubled wire. The
whole of the doubled part of the holder is bent out of the line of the other
part so as to make a small angle therewith. In using the holder the ticket
or label is.inserted in the doubled or spring part of the holder, and the
pointed end or pin of the holder is inserted or stuck in the article to which
the ticket or label is to be attached similar to the way in which a pin may
be stuck or inserted into an 'article.
In making a suspender according to my Invention,1 make a doubled spring
part in the wire in the manner described with reference to a holder, but the
wire constituting the pin in the holder.is in the case of the suspender again
doubled or bent up at or near the doubled spring part in which the ticket or
label is held. The end of the wire is bent into a hook by which the suspender
can be hung from a line, the ticket or label.held by the suspender being below
the point at which the suspender is hung. The hookediend of the suspender
may be pointed so that it may be stuck into any article to which it may be
wished to attach it. Although the holders and suspenders described are
principally useful for holding and suspending price and other tickets and
labels, yet the said holders and suspenders may be used for holding and

page_text: suspending other articles, such as prints, or engravings, or cards containing
articles.
Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the mauner in which the same
is to be performed.
Figures 1 and 2 represent in side and front elevation respectively a holder
made wholly of wire according to my Invention. The said holder consists of
a piece of wire a pointed at one end and doubled at the other end. The
doubled part is marked b, the said part constituting an elastic or spring clip.
The doubled portions of the wire at b are nearly parallel and lie nearly close
to each other. The said doubled part at b is also bent out of the line of the
pina, so as to form a small angle therewith. The extreme end of the doubled
part of the wire is bent or shaped into a loop c, the said loop being turned out
of the plane of the other part of the holder. When a price or other ticket or
label d is pushed or inserted between the sides of the doubled or spring part b
of the holder the said doubled part yields and by its elasticity grasps and
firmly retains the said ticket or label 7. The holder carrying the price
or other ticket or label is attached to the required article by inserting or
sticking its pointed end a therein in a way similar to that by which ordinary
pins are stuck or inserted into articles.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 illustrate other forms of holders differing somewhat
from that represented in Figures 1 and 2. In Figure 3 the end of the
doubled or spring part 6 has a head similar to that of an ordinary dress pin,
while in Figure 4 the end of the said part projects at right angles from the
body of the holder. In Figure 5 the end of the doubled or spring part b is
bent into a loop as in Figures 1 and 2, but the said loop is situated in the
same plane as the other part of the holder. The holders may be made of
various sizes and strengths to suit the tickets, labels, cards, or other articles
to be held by them.
Figure 6 represents in side elevation and front elevation a suspender made
of one piece of wire according to my Invention. The said suspender has a
doubled or spring part 6 at one end, between the double of which the price or
other ticket label or article d is held, similar to the spring part in the holder
already described. The other and pointed end of the wire is bent or doubled
so as to form a pointed hook e; by means of this hook the suspender can
either be hung from a line, the price or other ticket, label, or article being
below the point at which the suspender is hung, or the hooked and pointed
may be stuck into any article to which it may be wished to attach it, as
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page_text: illustrated in Figure 7. When, however, the suspenders are to be hung
from a line I prefer to make the hooked end without a point. Where the
suspenders cannot be conveniently supported upon a line, or stuck or inserted
into the articles to which the tickets or articles are required to be attached,
I provide at the upper end of the suspenders a spring or elastic clamp which
can be readily fixed to or detached from the edge of a shelf or other con-
venient support. Suspenders of the last-described kind are represented in
Figures 8, 9, and 10 of the Drawing. The doubled or spring part, by which
the price or other ticket or article is held, is marked b, and the spring clamp
for affixing the suspenders to a shelf or other projection is marked fin the
said Figures 8, 9, and 10. The said spring clamps are made by bending or
shaping the wire into a rectangular figure. By pressing the open side of the
spring clampf of the suspenders upon the edge of the shelf or other projec-
tion the nearly parallel sides are expanded and are made to clip by their
elasticity the said shelf or other projection, and fix the said suspenders firmly
thereto, as illustrated in Figure 8. Or the upper end of the wire of the
suspenders may be bent into a semicircular loop in order that they may be
supported upon a rod or wire, as illustrated in Figures 11 and 12, in which
Figures 11 and 12 the semicircular loops are marked g. The lower end of
each of the suspenders, Figures 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, is bent into a hook
marked h, by which hook any article may be hooked to the suspenders.
Having now described the nature of my Invention,and the manner in which
the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood, that I do not limit myself
to the precise details herein described and illustrated in the Drawing, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention;
but I claim as my Invention,-
Firstly, the improvements in holders for holding tickets, labels, and other
articles herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of
the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making the said holders of pieces
of pointed wire bent or doubled at their upper ends so as to form spring or
elastic clips, by which clips the price or other tickets, labels, or other articles
are held or grasped, as described and illustrated.
Secondly, the improvements in suspenders for suspending tickets, labels, and
other articles herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 6,7,8, 9, 10,
11, and 12 of the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making the said
suspenders wholly of wire, the said wire being bent or doubled at one end or at
or about its middle so as to form a spring or elastic clip, by which the price
or other tickets, labels, or other articles are held and suspended, the said

page_text: suspenders being suspended or supported in either of the ways described and
illustrated, and where requisite furnished with a hook at the lower end.
In witness whereof, I, the said Allan Dalzell, have hereunto set my band
and seal, this Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
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