Year: 1888

page_text: I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex 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 Chamois-holders and consists of the novel
construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and' pointed out in the
claims.
Fig. 1 of the drawings, is a front elevation of my improved device.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of same.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of one end taken on the broken line a-x, in Fig. 1–
and showing a plurality of chamois skins secured upon the holder.
Fig. 4 is an end elevation partly in section showing a modified form of
construction.
Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the holding spur taken on the broken line x-x,
in Fig. 4.
My improved device is especially designed for use by retail dealers in chamois
skins, and similar articles.
Dealers are inconvenienced and annoyed by customers while selecting from a
bundle of chamois skins, whether loose or tied, the particular one desired, and the
appearance of the skins is injured by excessive and rude manipulation during the
process of selection.
My improved holder consists of two or more pointed spurs C-erected one from
each end of a rod or bar A-adapted to be forced through one edge of the skins E-
as shown in Fig. 3.

page_text: The spurs are each provided with a keeper. D-supported by a bracket arm B-
erected from the bar and secured thereto as by a rivet K-and the spur.
The bracket arms terminate in a head a--tapped in line with the subjacent spur
and are each provided with a screw D-threaded to fit the threaded aperture in the
head. The stem of the screw is provided with an open cavity J-which may be
called à spur-seat as it is adapted to receive the point of the spurs as shown in
Fig. 3.
The screws, manipulated by the head b-are adjusted in a position above the spurs
so that the skins one or more at a time may be inserted between them and the spur-
points and forced down upon the spurs to the position shown in Fig. 3.
The screws are then readjusted to the position shown in Figs. 1-&-2-which
keeps the skins from slipping off the spurs.
The spurs are provided on their sides adjoining the bracket arms with a sharp or
thin edge d-and when it is desired to remove a selected skin, a slight pull will cause
the sharp edge of the spur to cut through the narrow edge e-of the skin, and release
it from the spurs.
The cut through the narrow margin works no injury to the skin, and the operation
is easily and quickly performed.
A packet of skins thus secured may be hung upon hooks, or nails, adapted to
support the bar, or it may be laid upon a table or counter and the skins separately
turned and examined, like the leaves of a book, without injury to the skins, and with
little or no inconvenience.
Any well known form of keeper may be employed, and I have shown in Fig. 4-
a modified form in which the hollow stem F-is provided with an annular flange H
which forms a bearing for one end of a coil spring S-contained within the stem-
inclosing barrel G-the other end of the spring having its bearings upon an intro-
verted flange on the upper end of the barrel.
While in use the springs retain the keepers in place, and it is only necessary
to raise the keepers against the resilient force of the springs, to introduce more
skins.
My improved device is adapted to hold flexible sheets of any material, which can
be easily punctured and cut by the pointed and edged spurs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
First As an article of manufacture a Chamois-holder, consisting of a rod or bar,
having a right angular spur and keeper, erected from each end, the spurs being
pointed and edged on one side, substantially as described.
Second The combination with a bar A-of end spurs C-and bracket arms B-
erected therefrom, and stems provided with spur-seats and vertically adjustable in the
ends of the bracket arms, substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of September 1888.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.