An Improved Form of Clip or Device for Holding Open the Pages of Musio or the like, applicable also for Suspending Curtains, Looping-up Dresses, or for similar purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 15th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Form of Clip or Device for Holding Open the Pages
of Musio or the like, applicable also for Suspending Curtains,
Looping-up Dresses, or for similar purposes.
I, WILLIAM COWEY HAMILTON, Chester Sth. Moor, via Chester-le-Street
Miner, 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 an improved form of clip or device for holding open the
pages of music or the like, applicable also for suspending curtains, looping-up
dresses, holding letters and papers together, or for similar purposes of a like
nature, and has for its object to provide a device of the above class that
shall be effective in operation, simple of construction and inexpensive of
manufacture.
And in order the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device closed, its position when open being
shewn by dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the device, and
Fig. 3 a view of the device in use as a means for suspending a curtain.
In carrying the invention into practice, I fashion the device preferably of
suitable wire, such device consisting as shewn, essentially of a straight portion or
leg a and a bent or elbowed leg a'. The said device is formed by twisting or
plaiting together two or more lengths of wire, which twisted or plaited length
resulting, is bent at a point nearer one end than the other, so as to form a double
loop a and the two legs a and a¹ aforesaid. By reason of this peculiar con-
struction and the nature of the material of which the device is constructed, the
said legs a and a' are extremely resilient.
At a suitable point b the leg a¹ is bent at a right angle to form a rigid elbow,
such dropped portion 61 of the leg being passed through an opening or ring c
provided for the purpose in the leg a and formed by diverging the two wire strands
composing same, or in any other suitable manner. The wire strands composing
the leg a are left untwisted or unplaited below the bend b so as to form a double
end as shewn, the extremities of the said wire strands being looped or bent
into rings d, the extremity d¹ of the leg a being also given a similar form as
shewn.
In operation, the article to be held or clipped is inserted between the said
extremities d and d', the leg a being depressed to enable this to be accomplished.
Immediately the pressure is removed from the said leg a¹, same springs back
into its normal position and securely grips the article interposed between itself and
the leg a.
For use in suspending curtains, or under similar circumstances a hook e is
provided, the lower hooked end e of which is passed through the loops a' of the
clip, while the upper hooked end e is inserted through the curtain-pole or like
article f. In lieu of fashioning the device of twisted or plaited wire strands as
before described, I may if desirable, form such device of one piece of thicker wire
or other suitable material,

page_text: 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 :-
The clip or device for holding open the pages of music or the like, applicable
also for suspending curtains, looping-up dresses or for similar purposes, consisting
of a wire or plaited or twisted wires, bent to form a double loop and two legs, one
of which is bent or elbowed and provided with double ends which pass through an
opening in the other leg and are looped, the corresponding end of the other leg
being also fashioned into a loop or ring, substantially as described, and as
illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of November 1894..
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.