Improvements in Clips or Suspenders for Holding and Suspending Cards, Tickets, and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Suspenders for Holding and Suspending
Cards, Tickets, and other Articles.
HARRY WHITFIELD Steel Pen Factory Manager 68 Broad Street Birmingham do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of suspenders or clips
for holding, and hanging cards tickets and other articles, and for displaying the
same in shop windows and other purposes. My improved Clip or Suspender is of a
circular form and I construct my said clip or suspender of two circular discs of
metal. These two discs are rivetted or in some other way fastened together at their
centres, after having been raised to such a form that when the two discs are
applied to each other, they touch each other all round at a short distance from
their edges, the edges standing away each from the other, which allows for the
easy insertion of a card.
Thus the parts at a short distance from their edges where the two discs touch
each other are the gripping or holding parts of my improved clip. The said
gripping or holding parts are of a circular shape and the cut edges of the blanks do
not touch the article held.
The card or article to be held is inserted between the two discs of metal.
The metal dises having been raised or formed are tempered in order to give the
requisite elasticity.
To one of the metal discs is attached a hook which serves to suspend the clip or
susnandar
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Suspenders for Holding and Suspending
Cards, Tickets, and other Articles.
HARRY WHITFIELD Steel Pen Manufactory Manager (late of) 68 Broad Street
Birmingham (now of) Gladstone Works Watery Lane Birmingham do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of suspenders or clips
for holding and hanging cards tickets and other articles, and for displaying the
same in shop windows and other purposes. My improved clip or suspender is of a
circular form, and I construct my said clip or suspender of two circular discs of
metal. These two discs are rivetted or in some other way fastened together at their
centres, after having been raised to such a form that when the two discs are applied
to each other they touch each other all round at a short distance from their edges,
the edges standing away each from the other which allows for the easy insertion of a
card or other article.
Thus the parts at a short distance from their edges, where the two discs touch each
other are the gripping or holding parts of my improved clip. The said gripping or
holding parts are of a circular shape, and the cut edges of the blanks do not touch
the article held. The card or article to be held is inserted between the two discs of
metal.

page_text: The metal discs having been raised or formed are tempered in order to give the
requisite elasticity. To assist in giving the requisite elasticity the metal discs may
be split, part of the distance from the circumference to the centre on one or more
radii.
To one of the metal discs is attached a hook which serves to suspend the clip or
suspender.
My improved clip may also he constructed without a hook.
I shall now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the drawings.
Fig. 1 is the circular disc of metal split on part of four radii and showing the
small round hole B in the centre for rivetting.
Fig. 2 is a section of one of the circular discs taken at CD in fig. 1-but
sections taken at any points which pass through the centre give the same result-
showing its shape when raised to the required form.
A. A. are the gripping or holding parts and B, the hole at centre for revetting.
Fig. 3 is a section of my complete suspender taken on a diameter and showing the
holding or gripping parts A. A. A. A. the hook C and the rivet B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The construction of a new clip or suspender as above described, that is formed
of two circular discs of metal raised or forined to a requisite shape, and tempered to
a requisite elasticity.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1889
HARRY WHITFIELD.