IMPROVED CLIP HOOK AND PLATE FOR SHOW AND PRICE TICKETS
Year: 1887

page_text: 1, CHARLES BEARDALL, of 37 Western Road, Brighton, in the County of Sussex,
Mantle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED CLIP
HOOK AND PLATE FOR SHOW AND PRICE TICKETS, to be as follows:-
A metal plate with, self springing hook combined the plate by covering with, and
cementing buckram or other material over same is held firmly to ticket or the
plate is provided with claws so shaped that by pressure the claws are driven into
ticket spreading out in the interior of ticket without disfiguring same, this way does
away with cementing. The hook is made in wire pin pointed, or is made in flat plate
so that it may suit the requirements of the different trades, the hook is so shaped that
it is self springing and by piercing or placing it on articles it holds ticket firmly in
position. The utility of this invention is to do away with the old systems of using
pins &c. to fix tickets which so soon disfigure and destroy the tickets, and is also a
great bother to keep tickets in position. By the use of the aforesaid invention this is
avoided, and the tickets will last a very long time.
CHARLES BEARDALL,
37, Western Road, Brighton.
G. F. Beardall,
Agent to Applicant.

page_text: I, CHARLES BEARDALL of 37 Western Road, Brighton, in the County of Sussex,
Mantle Maker 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide simple and effective means for holding or
supporting tickets or show cards for exhibition, the use of pins heretofore genorally
adopted for this purpose.soon tending to destroy or at any rate disfigure the tickets,
and they cannot with ease be made effectual for holding the said tickets or show cards
securely or in the desired positions.
By my invention these defects are obviated.
According to my invention I provide metal plates of any convenient form or device
and such as are hereafter described and shewn, combined with self springing hooks
secured to the tickets either by covering and cementing buckram or other material
over same, or the plate is so shaped that by pressure, spreading claws are driven into
the back of the ticket.
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In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect
I will now fully describe the same both in construction and application with reference
to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts
in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined hook and plate constructed according
to my invention, and is adapted to be secured to the ticket by means of a piece of
material such as buckram or parchment as aforesaid..
Figure 2 is a view shewing the fastening in.conjunction or in combination with the
material aforesaid, and Figure 3 shews the back of a ticket or show card having the
combined hook applied thereto; Figure 4 is a back elevation, and Figure 5 is a
transverse vertical section of the hook plate' constructed according to my invention
and as it would appear when applied and fixed to the ticket or show card or
similar article by pressure only, or by the intervention of buckram or other
material.
Figure 6 is a perspective view of the hook and plate shewing same formed of bent
metal. Figure 7 shews this hook as combined with, or applied to, a piece of material
for fixing or securing same to the card, ticket, or similar article. Figure 8 shews
the same (on a smaller scale than the previous figure) when so applied.
A is the metal plate, B is the spring hook preferably made in a piece therewith, and
C is the piece of buckram, parchment or other suitable material for connecting the
combined spring hook B and plate A to the back of the show ticket D or other article
to which it may be desired to affix same. In the drawings I have shewn several
modifications whereby the hook and plate are secured to the buckramı, parchment, or
other suitable material C; for example at Figure 4 the plate A is shewn secured by
pointed clips inserted into the material by pressure. At Figure 2 the hook B is shewn
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page_text: connected to the material by the said hook passing through the material, while at
Figure 7 the hook passes through the material Cat or near one end of same the
other end C passing through the plate A the latter being made of loop form for that
purpose. The hook is thus secured to the material C which latter is securely fixed to
the back of the show or price ticket and in any desired position thereon by means of
some suitable adhesive material.
By these means the clip hooks and plates together with the holding material and
combined as herein before described together form in themselves an article of
commerce, and when so constructed according to my invention are with the greatest
facility attached to show and price tickets and when so secured are firm and will bear
considerable weight while at the same time they can be removed for re-adjustment or
for other purposes as may be required.
I am aware that prior to my invention hooks have been used in connection
with show cards or tickets; gummed tickets have also been used, I lay no claim
to such devices in themselves alone or separately except as hereafter claimed.
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 :
In clip hooks for show cards and price tickets, the spring hook B and plate A
together with the connecting or holding material C, all constructed, combined, and
arranged, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated
with reference to the accompanying drawings together with any mere modification or
modifications thereof.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1888.
G. F. BEARDALL,
Agent for Charles Beardall,
37, Western Road, Brighton, Sussex.