AN IMPROVEMENT IN HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING OR SUSPENDING CARDS TICKETS AND PAPERS IN SHOP WINDOWS AND OTHER PLACES AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I MICHAEL TURNOR of Icknield Port Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturor do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS FOR
HOLDING OR SUSPENDING CARDS TICKETS AND PAPERS IN SHOP WINDOWS AND
OTHER PLACES AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES to be as follows:-
"
My invention has reference to the spring tongues or those parts of the said
holders or suspenders by which the cards tickets or papers are gripped and my said
invention consists in constructing the said spring tongues in the manner hereinafter
described whereby the cards tickets or papers are held very firmly and their edges
are not liable to the injury which they suffer when held in holders or suspenders of
the ordinary kind.
My invention may be applied to holders or suspenders having either one or two
tongues.
I will describe my invention as applied to a holder or suspender having two
tongues.
I make the holder or suspender from a nearly oblong shaped blank of thin sheet
steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy each end of the blank having a piece
from which a hook is formed by which the holder or suspender may be hooked to
a line or cord stretched across the shop window or other place. I pierce the oblong
blank on opposite sides of its middle part and from each of these piercings I raiso
a spring tongue the base of which joins the holder or suspender near the middle
thereof. Each spring tongue has a double curvo or bend that is the part near the
base of the tongue is bent of a convex curve and the point or free end of the
tongue is bent upwards so as to make the said end concave. The convex or base
part of the spring tongue is situated out of the plane of the holder or suspender
while the concave free end of the tongue is situated nearly in the same plane as
the holder or suspender. The concave free end constitutes the gripping or pinching
part of the spring tongue,

page_text: When the card ticket or paper is passed under the spring tongue the latter is
lifted and the edge or marginal part of the card or ticket passes into the space
under the convex part of the tongue the card or ticket being gripped or pinched
only by the front concave part of the tongue. The edge or marginal part of the
card or ticket is thus prevented from being injured by the gripping action of the
tongue and the card or tickot is gripped very firmly by the front concave part of
the tongue.
My improved holder or suspender may be used as a letter or paper file. In this
case it may be furnished either with a hole or a hook at one end by which it may
be suspended.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
I MICHAEL TURNOR of Icknield Port Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HOLDERS OR SUSPENDERS FOR HOLDING
OR SUSPENDING CARDS TICKETS AND PAPERS IN SHOP WINDOWS AND OTHER PLACES
AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and' by the following
statement:
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My invention has reference to the spring tongues or those parts of the said
holders or suspenders by which the cards, tickets or papers are gripped and my
said invention consists in constructing the said spring tongues in the manner.
heroinafter described, whereby the cards tickets or papers are held very firmly and
their edges are not liable to the injury which they suffer when held in holders or
suspenders of the ordinary kind.
My invention may be applied to holders or suspenders having either one or two
tongues.
I will describe my invention as applied to a holder or suspender having two
tongues.
I make the holder or suspender from a nearly oblong or other shaped blank of
thin sheet steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy, each end of the blank
having a piece from which a hook is formed by which the holder or suspender
may be hooked to a line or cord stretched across the shop window or other place.
I pierce the oblong blank on opposite sides of its middle part and from each of
theso piercings I raise a spring tongue the base of which joins the holder or
suspender near the middle thereof. Each spring tongue has a double curvo or bend,
that is, the part near the base of the tongue is bent of a convex curve and the
point or free end of the tongue is bent upwards so as to make the said end
concave. The convex or base part of the spring tongue is situated out of the plane
of the holder or suspender while the concave free end of the tongue is situated
nearly in the same plane as the holder or suspender. The concave free end
constitutes the gripping or pinching part of the spring tongue. When the card,
ticket or paper is passed under the spring tongue the latter is lifted and the edge
or marginal part of the card or ticket passes into the space under the convex part
of the tongue, the card or ticket being gripped or pinched only by the front.
concave part of the tongue. The edge or marginal part of the card or ticket is
thus prevented from being injured by the gripping action of the tongue and the
card or ticket is gripped very firmly by the front concave part of the tongue.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing reprosents the blank of thin sheet steel
or other clastic metal or alloy from which I make my improved card or ticket
holder or suspender, a being the body of the blank and b, b the end projecting
pieces from which the end hooks are formed; Figure 2 represents the blank

page_text: Figure 1 after it has been pierced, the pierced parts being marked c, c.
:
From the
pierced parts c, c the spring tongues of the holder or suspender are made by raising
tools Figure 3 represents in front elevation and vertical section the holder or
suspender after the spring tongues have been partly made and the hook pieces b, b
raised at right angles to the body of the holder and Figure 4 represents the same
views after the figure of the spring tongues and hooks has been perfected.
Figure 5. represents in front elevation and Figure 6 in side elevation a completed
holder or suspender drawn to a larger scale, tho said Figures exhibiting the manner
in which the card or ticket is held by the holder or suspender.
other concave.
It will be seen by an examination of the drawing that each spring tongue of the
holder or suspender has a double curve or bend, one part being convex and the
The base or convex curve is marked d and the front concave curve
is marked e. The front concave curve e constitutes the gripping or pinching part
of the spring tongue, the bottom of the said concave curve e being situated nearly
in the same plane as the holder, while the convex curve d is situated out of the
plane of the holder thereby leaving a space between it and the said holder.
The manner in which the card or ticket is held in the holder is illustrated in
Figures 5 and 6. When the card or ticket f is passed under the spring tongue e, d
the concave front end e is lifted and the top edge of the card or ticket passes into
the space under the convex part d of the tongue as seen in Figure 6 so that the
card or tickot is gripped or pinched only by the front concave part of the tongue...
By this construction of spring tongue, the top edge of the card or ticket is
prevented from being injured by the gripping action of the tongue the ticket itself
being gripped only by the front concavo part of the tongue.
"
The hooks by which the holder or suspender is hooked to a line or cord in a shop
window or other place or otherwise suspended, are marked g, g.
The hooks g, g at the ends of the holder or suspender also serve to hook a series
of the suspenders end to end instead of hooking each suspender to a line or cord.
That is, the top suspender may be hooked to a line or cord and the suspenders
below that hooked to the line or cord may be hooked end to end by means of the
hooks at g,g.
My improved holder or suspender may be used as a letter or paper file. In this
case it may be furnished either with a hole or a hook at one end by which it may
be suspended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is of "An improvement in holders or suspenders for holding or suspending
cards, tickets and papers in shop windows and other places and for other liko
purposes
"
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Making the spring tongue or spring tongues of the said holders or suspenders of
a double curve or bend, the base part of the tongue being convex and the free
front end concave, the said front concave end constituting the gripping or pinching
part of the spring tongue substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.