Improvements in and relating to Ticket or Label Holders for Railway Trucks, Wagons, or other Vehicles or Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ticket or Label Holders for Railway
Trucks, Wagons, or other Vehicles or Purposes.
We, JAMES HENDERSON, of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, Engineer, and Joux
SIME, of 13, South Apsley Place, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of our invention, to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to and comprises improvements in spring holders,
for securing addresses and forwarding envelopes, tickets or labels on railway
trucks, wagons, or other vehicles or purposes requiring such; which improvements
will enable the tickets or labels to be more freely inserted into the holder, and
make the spring holders themselves more convenient, elastic, and durable in their
construction and action, than they have been as heretofore constructed.
And the nature and novelty of our invention consist all as follows:-First, in
making the new or improved holder proper of a long broad or narrow spring
blade, band or strap, either of thin plate or blade steel, or other metal, or of
rolled flattened wire or round wire, which would be equivalent to the narrow flat
bands, above named. And second, in making this spring blade or band holder
to have within itself, all the elasticity or spring yielding and gripping power
of opening up and closing necessary to grip the ticket or label between it and
the plain flat side of the vehicle, or any special board on the latter for the purpose.
All without the necessity for hinges or moving gripping plates or frames, while
being directly screwed or otherwise fixed at their ends so as generally to have no
motion, or have a slight sliding movement at their ends, where they are secured
to the vehicle, the elasticity of the spring itself being by these improvements made
sufficient to grip the ticket or label across the centre and yield with perfect freedom
for this purpose. A grooved bar or plate rest is screwed to the vehicle parallel
to and a few inches below or to the one side of these improved spring gripping
holders for the one edge of the ticket or label to rest in, and when thus made in a
plate form would have a hole in the check for running off any moisture. Instead of
having a plate rest, the rest might be made in the form of raised or checked
studs or equivalent which would not collect water, but support and retain the
edge of the card close to the vehicle. The improvements further and specially
consist, in various ways of giving the yielding elasticity to these new or improved
spring blades, bands, or straps, to enable them to maintain their gripping power
with great durability and little liability to break whether directly secured at their
ends to the vehicle, or secured by cross straps so that they may
shorten and lengthen at the ends when the centre part is drawn out to insert the
ticket or label.
move or

page_text: By one improvement these spring band or strap holders, are directly fixed
at their ends to the outside of the truck or vehicle, by screws through them, or
through straps over their ends or it might be by staples. In this case the band
has to shorten and lengthen at each action to admit the ticket or label and grip
it between the band and the vehicle. And this elasticity is given in various ways
under the improvements of this invention. These spring steel or other metallic
bands or straps may be of various lengths, and widths or thicknesses, according to
the size of cards, tickets, or labels to be secured by them, and the strength of
the spring desired to be used, according to the length. The lengths may generally
vary from about fourteen inches to seven inches, and the breadths from ths to
1th of an inch, and the thickness inversely as from 10th to 10th of an inch
respectively, or they may be made of one, two or more bands of spring round or
flattened wire of a suitable thickness.
Under one construction or modification specially suitable for the thinner and
broader band or strap form, this elastic yielding action within the metallic
band or strap ticket holder, is effected by bending or otherwise forming it with a
complete spring circular or bow loop in the centre, preferably large enough for
the finger to enter, (and pull it out as well as give the spring action) leaving the
two side parts of the blade to extend out in line to opposite sides and bear tight
against the flat side of the vehicle. When the blades are broad, a part would be
cut away at the bow part where they cross each other, and the outer ends would
each be secured direct to the vehicle or to a board on it as before stated, preferably
by one or two screws, passed through the outer ends of the blades, either doubled
over or not to strengthen the ends where they are secured; or they might be
secured by cross checked straps or buckles secured over them, with curled up
ends to act against the straps when longitudinal movement was desired at the
ends in expanding and contracting to insert the card or label.
When the bands or straps are made narrow, they may be bent to form the
bow loop and pass each other without being cut away at the parts where they
cross each other.
Instead of making this central open loop or bow a complete circle as described,
it may be bent to an open bow loop, in which the adjacent parts of the bow do not
cross each other, but are extended out on the same sides to the right and left, and
remain open sufficiently to give the said elastic lengthening and shortening move-
ment whether loose or secured at their ends. These narrow bands or wire forms of
spring holders, however, whether made with complete crossing loops or bows or
open loops as stated, would be secured at their ends by bending these into hollow
eyes or circles through which the screws would pass to secure their ends to the
vehicle. Instead of making a complete circular or open bow or loop in the centre,
for giving the elasticity to these gripping metallic spring bands or straps, a few
deep undulating corrugations or narrow open bows would be formed as an
equivalent, and used also to pull out the band by; or by preference a ring might
be fitted in these narrow open corrugations to pull out the band gripper by.
By a further improvement the straight band parts of these spring metallic
holders, between the centre bow and their fixed outer end would be made with
corrugations of any number desired to give the full amount of spring or elastic
action, but still straight on the inside to allow the straight parts not corrugated,
and the points of the corrugations to grip the card or ticket against the side of
the vehicle and the corrugation or corrugations nearest the end cross bars would
prevent the springs from shifting out of their end retaining cross checked bars,
which would be made solid with spiked ends so as to dispense with securing
screws. When spring wire or narrow bands are employed, the corrugations might
be made to undulate to-and-fro transversely, so as to give great elasticity and
holding power while the inner sides of the whole of the corrugations would
lie flat against the sides of the vehicle and grip the card or ticket in an equivalent
manner to the flat blade form of the holder. And as an equivalent to these
corrugations in the narrow or wire form of bands, one or more complete. circular

page_text: or bow loop coils might be formed, preferably near the ends or their securing
straps to give the increased elastic action obtained by the corrugations.
When these metallic spring band grippers are made narrow or of wire as
described, two of them may be used nearly close together, or at some distance
apart connected by their pulling loops or by separate short bands. These broad
metallic spring blade forms of card or ticket holders hight be made of a single
thin metallic blade, springing more at the ends, and made more rigid and of a
bar form at the centre by curving or embossing up the edges, and inserting or
securing a pulling ring at the central gripping part. While the ends would in
this case be made with curled up spring ends, and secured by transverse checked
plates or by staples, in or on which the spring ends of the blade would move
laterally, sufficient to allow for the lengthening and shortening of the blade
between its securing ends, while being pulled out to insert the ticket and shorten
to secure it again on being let go, by its own elasticity.
By a further improvement the outer edges of these spring blade holders would be
turned or slightly flanged outwards on their outer surface along their longitudinal
length from near each end, and form the pulling eye on themselves as in some of
the other modifications described, and which would give them increased strength
and durability.
When these metallic spring bands are made broad they might in some cases
when fixed in line at their outer ends be cut through at their middle part as free
ends connected by a loose pulling bow or ring which would cause both the free
adjacent ends of the spring to open up equally to insert the ticket and grip it on
closing as well as when made in one piece. Otherwise the spring blade might
have a great part of the two fixed ends doubled up, at right angles to the central
gripping part of the blade with the pulling bow or ring fixed to the central part
to open it up to insert the ticket, and which on closing would grip the ticket by this
central part as well as by its two short spring blades acting at right angles, and
this arrangement would require no separate rest piece for the ticket.
Dated the 20th January 1801
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow,
Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Ticket or Label Holders for Railway
Trucks, Wagons, or other Vehicles or Purposes..
We, JAMES HENDERSON, of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, Engineer, and Joux
SIME, of 13, South Apsley Place, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of our invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, that is to say:―
Our invention has reference to and comprises improvements in spring holders,
for securing address and forwarding envelopes, cards, tickets, or labels on railway
trucks, wagons, or other vehicles or purposes requiring such which improve-
ments will enable the tickets or labels to be more freely inserted into the holder,
and make the spring holders themselves more convenient, elastic, and durable in
their construction and action, than they have been as heretofore constructed.
The new or improved holder proper consists of a long broad or narrow spring
blade, band or strap, either of thin plate. or blade steel, or other metal, or of rolled
flattened wire or round wire which would be equivalent to the narrow flat bands

page_text: above named. This spring blade or band holder to has within itself, all the
elasticity or spring yielding and gripping power of opening up and closing
necessary to grip the ticket or label between it and the plain fiat side of the
vehicle, or any special board on the latter for the purpose. All without the
necessity for hinges or moving gripping plates or frames, while being directly
screwed or otherwise fixed at its ends, where they are secured to the vehicle, the
elasticity of the spring itself being by these improvements made sufficient to
grip the ticket or label across the centre and yield with perfect freedom for this
purpose. A grooved bar or plate rest is or may be screwed to the vehicle parallel
to and a few inches below or to the one side of these improved spring gripping
holders for the one edge of the ticket or label to rest in, and when thus made
in a plate form would have a hole in the check for running off any moisture.
Instead of having a plate rest, the rest might be made in the form of raised or
checked studs or equivalent which would not collect water, but support and retain
the edge of the card close to the vehicle. "The improvements further and specially
consist in various ways of giving the yielding elasticity to these new or improved
spring blades, bands, or straps, to enable them to maintain their gripping power
with great durability and little liability to break.
By one improvement these spring band or strap holders, are directly fixed at
their ends to the outside of the truck or vehicle, by screws through them. In
this case the band has to shorten and lengthen at each action to give the
clasticity to admit the ticket or label and grip it between the band and the
vehicle. And this lengthening and elasticity is given in various ways under the
improvements of this invention. These spring steel or other metallic bands or
straps may be of various lengths, and widths or thicknesses, according to the
size of cards, tickets, or labels to be secured by them, and the strength of the
spring desired to be used, according to the length. The lengths may generally
vary from about fourteen inches to seven inches, and the breadths from "ths to
th of an inch, and the thickness inversely as from oth to th of an inch
respectively, or they may be made of a band of spring round or flattened wire of a
suitable thickness.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, we have hereunto
appended two explanatory sheets of drawings representing in perspective elevation
various constructions of label holders illustrating the application of our improve-
ments. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to indicate corre-
sponding or equivalent parts in the several figures.
Referring to these drawings:-Under one construction or modification specially
suitable for the thinner and broader bands or strap form, the elastic yielding
action within the metallic band or strap ticket holder a, is effected by bending
or otherwise forming it with a complete spring circular or bow loop in the
centre, as shown in perspective Figure 1 and straightened out and broken away
in the detached view Figure 1ª, preferably large enough for the finger to enter,
(and pull it out as well as give it the spring action) leaving the two side parts a
of the blade to extend out in line to opposite sides and bear tight against the
flat side A of the vehicle. When the blades, are broad, pieces would be cut
away at at the bow part a where they cross each other at all, and the outer
ends would each be secured direct to the vehicle A or to a board on it preferably
by one or two screws, passed through the outer ends of the blades, either doubled
over, as shown at ², or not, to strengthen the ends where they are secured.
When the bands or straps are made narrow, they may be bent to form the bow
loop a and pass each other without being cut away at the parts where they cross
each other, as shown in Figures 5 and 6.
These narrow bands or wire forms of spring holders, would be secured at their
ends by bending these into hollow eyes or circles through which the screws
would pass to secure their ends to the vehicle, as shown in Figures 5 to 8. Instead
of making a complete circular or open bow or loop a' in the centre, for giving

page_text: the elasticity to these gripping metallic spring bands or straps a, a few deep
undulating vertical or horizontal corrugations a, as shown in Figures 2 to 4 and
7 to 9 or narrow open bows a³, as shown in Figure 6 would be formed at any
parts along their length as an equivalent, and those in the centre may be used also
to pull out the band by; or by preference a ring or strap a, as shown in
Figure 9, might be fitted in these narrow open corrugations at or bows a¹ to pull
out the band gripper a by.
By a further improvement the straight band part a of these spring metallic
holders, between the centre how a and their fixed outer ends a² would be made
with corrugations at, of any number desired, as shown in Figures 2, 3, 8 and 9, to
give the full amount of spring or elastic action, but still straight on the inside to
allow the straight parts a not corrugated and the points of the corrugations to
grip the card or ticket C against the side of the vehicle A.
When spring wire or narrow bands are employed, the corrugations at, might be
made to undulate to-and-fro transversely, as shown in Figure 7, so as to give
great elasticity and holding power while the inner sides of the whole of the
corrugations would lie flat against the sides of the vehicle A. and grip the card
or ticket in an equivalent manner to the flat blade form of the holder a. And
as an equivalent to these corrugations at in the narrow or wire form of bands, one
or more complete circular or bow loop coils a might be formed, preferably near
the ends, as shown in Figure 6 to give the increased elastic action obtained by
the corrugations a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
First. The constructing of ticket or label holders for the purpose described, of
blade steel or wire or other elastic metal formed from opposite ends with a central
loop with parts cut away at a", or forming a complete coil or circular part, sub-
stantially as and in the manner herein described in reference to and by way of
application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. The constructing of ticket or label holders for the purposes described
of blade steel or wire or other elastic metal, with corrugated or fluted surfaces
over the whole or part of their length, or with equivalent circular loops, sub-
stantially as and in the manner herein described in reference to and by way of
application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Third. The construction and use of tickets or label holders for the purposes
described, of blade steel or wire or other clastic metal, arranged substantially
as described in reference to and shown in Figures 1 to 9 of the accompanying
drawings.
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