An Improved Clip Stand or Easel for Photo Frames and other articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb. 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip Stand or Easel for Photo Frames and other
articles.
I REGINALD WILLIAM GRIFFITHS of 38 Lawford Road, Kentish Town,
London, Glass Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My clip stand or easel is intended principally for holding glass photo frames,
mirrors, china plates, plaques and such articles as it is inconvenient to attach rings
or hooks to direct.
It is made of thin strips of metal or other springy material in the form of an
inverted Y, the three extremities being bent over into small hooks. The stand is
placed flat against the back of the article to be held which is fixed within the three
hooks. For easily fixing and removing the stand I employ the following con-
struction: If the article to be held has a straight bottom edge the two lower arms
of the stand are kept apart by a bent spring fixed between them. When so spread
out the article is firmly held within the hooks. To take the stand off the two arms
are pressed together by which means the hooks are drawn away from the article
sufficiently to allow of its being removed.
If the article to be held has a rounded bottom edge the reverse of this is done.
Instead of using a bent spring to keep the arms apart I use a coiled spring to draw
them together and to release the article held draw the arms further apart.
For holding circular or oval shape articles the stand may be made in the shape
of au X so as to hold the article at four points. It may also have rings or hooks
attached to it for hanging on a wall or a hinged prop to the back for standing on a
table as is already used in other forms of stands. The bent and coiled springs have
been found most suitable but any other form of metal or indiarubber spring may be
used.
In the stand described above for a circular article the two arms connected by the
spring are supposed to be longer than the radius of the article held.
If they are
made shorter they must be constructed with a spring to push them apart as described
for a square article.
Dated this Sixteenth day of May 1892.
REGINALD WILLIAM GRIFFITHS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Olip Stand or Easel for Photo Frames and other
articles.
I REGINALD WILLIAM GRIFFITHS of 38 Lawford Road, Kentish Town
London N.W. Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED CLIP STAND OR EASEL FOR PHOTO FRAMES AND OTHER
ARTICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention refers principally to a holder for such articles as cannot con-
veniently have screws or rivets attached to them and is made of thin metal or other
material in the form of an inverted Y. The three extremities are bent over to
form clips. The two lower arms are kept apart by means of a spring of flat steel
or any other convenient form of spring fixed between them. To fix the stand the
upper edge of the article to be held is placed within the upper clip, the two lower.
arms are pressed together and the article to be held placed flat against the stand.
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page_text: If of a proper length the clips will then just clear the lower edge of the article and
when the arms are allowed to spread out the article will be firmly held within the
three clips.
arms longer than the radius and,
If the article to be held is of a circular shape the same form of stand may be used
providing the two lower arms are made of a less 'ength than the radius of the article
to be held but it is more convenient to make the
instead of fixing a spring between them to keep
form of spring to draw them together. In this
the upper and one of the lower clips, the other
will clear the edge of the article and when dra
firmly held within the three clips.
m apart, to fix a coiled or other
the article is first placed within
is then drawn out until the clip
back by the spring the article is
By using one or other of these springs and by making the arms of a greater or
lesser proportionate length the stand eau be manufactured to hold any special
shaped article such as ovals or shields.
DESCRIPTION OF. DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a front elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation of the stand first
described.
A is the article held, B is the framework of the stand C is the spring, D is a prop
that may be used for supporting it and E are the clips. The drawing shews the
stand fixed. The dotted lines shew the position of the lower arms when pressed
together for fixing them.
Figures 3 and 4 shew the front and side elevations of the stand with a spiral
spring for drawing the arms together.
The letters denote the same parts as in the stand described above.
One of the arms is shewn by dotted lines in the position when pulled out for
fixing on the article.
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
A stand for holding photo frames and other articles within clips at its extremities
operated by spreading out or drawing together two of its converging arms by a
spring fixed between them as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Ninth day of February 1893.
REGINALD WILLIAM GRIFFITHS,
38, Lawford Road, Kentish Town, London, N.W.