Improved Means for Holding, Exposing, and Passing Newspapers, Matches, Flowers, and other Articles to Intending Purchasers of same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Holding, Exposing, and Passing Newspapers,
Matches, Flowers, and other Articles to Intending Purchasers of
same.
I, GEORGE BEVAN HAYWARD, of 90 Hatton Garden, London, in the County
of Middlesex, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of the present invention is to provide simple means whereby vendors
of articles, such as newspapers, matches, flowers, and other articles, may be
exhibited and brought close to persons to whom they wish to sell same, so that such
persons may if they choose readily remove the article when they are at a distance
from the vendor. The device will be found of particular advantage for passing
articles to the occupants of vehicles, such as omnibuses, trams, cabs, trains or boats,
but may be used in any circumstances where the vendor has any difficulty in
reaching the persons to whom he wishes to sell.
These improved means will enable the article to be sold to be fully exposed so
that the person may inspect same before purchasing.
The invention consists of a spring clip secured to one end of a stick or rod of
any desired length, such clip bing caused to grasp the newspaper or other article
to be sold in such a way that while holding same firmly it will leave such article
exposed for inspection, and allow it to be readily removed by simply pulling the
article.
The clip may be of any suitable construction but preferably consists of a lever
hinged or pivotted to a base plate, and one end of which is forced towards such
plate by means of a spring, so that the turning of the lever on its pivot against
the action of its spring enables the article to be inserted, when the lever will grasp
same firmly, so that it can be passed by means of the stick to within reach and
inspection of a purchaser, who can then remove it if he desires by simply pulling
same out of the clip. The purchaser can then insert a coin representing the value
of the article within the clip so that the vendor of the article can remove it there-
from, or the stick or rod may be made hollow, and the coin inserted in the upper
end of same, so that it will pass down into the hand of the vendor.
The clip employed might if desired be secured by a catch, so that the article
could only be removed therefrom after a coin has been first forced through a
suitable aperture or slot so as to release the catch.
The stick might also be made telescopic if desired, or be made otherwise
adjustable at will, to suit different conditions where possible purchasers of the
articles are at varying distances from the vendor.
Two or more clips may be fixed on the same stick or rod if desired, so as to
cuable more than one article to be exposed to view at the same time.
Dated this 20th day of March 1893.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Holding, Exposing, and Passing _Newspapers,
Matches. Flowers, and other Articles to Intending Purchasers of
same.
I, GEORGE BEVAN HAYWARD, of 90 Hatton Garden, London, in the County
of Middlesex. Watchmaker, 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:-
The object of the present invention is to provide simple means whereby vendors
of article, such as newspapers, matches, flowers, and other articles, may exhibit
and bring such artich else to persims to whom they wish to sell same, so that
such persons may if they close reality remove the article when they are at a
distance from the vendor, while at the same time the coin representing the value of
the article taken may be inserted in the apparatus by the purchaser and be caused
to pass to the hand of the vendor.
The apparatus may also be employed for collecting money for charitable or other
pushprei font truds, etc., in which case the coins will be
caused to pass to a suitable receptacle, which may if desire1 be under lock and key,
so as to prevent the removal of the coins from such receptacle except by duly
authorized
persons.
The device will be found of particular advantage for passing articles to the
occupants of vehicles, such as omnibuses, trams, cabs, trains or boats, or for
collecting money 15 m such persons, but it may be used in any circumstances where
the vendor or collector as the case may be has any dithculty in reaching the
persons to whom he wishes to sell or from whom he wishes to collect.
These improved means will enable the article to be sold to be fully exposed so
that the person may inspect same before purchasing,
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is n front elevation, and
Fig. 2 a vertical section of the top and bottom parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 3 a rear el vation of same, aind
Fig. 4a perspective view of the apparatus complete, drawn to a smaller scale.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a front elevation and vertical section of the
apparatus as constructed for the purpose of collecting funds.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, A is a stick or rod of any desired length, and
which at its upper end is provided with any desired number of clips or holding
devices B, B', the form of which may vary to suit the particular article such clips
or holding devices are required to hold. The clip B is shown as being in the
form of a spring steel blade, while B is made of wire, both of such clips being
suitable for holding newspapers or other articles. The stick A is made hollow, the
space a formed therein, as shown in Fig. 2. proceeding from the upper end of the
stick down to near the lower end or handle of same, at which latter point it opens
out on the outside of the stick. Near the top a slot a² is formed in the stick and
communicates with the space a, so that a coin inserted through such slot will pass
down the space a and be delivered into the hand of the holder of the stick at the
point a'. Instead of forming the slot a" in the side of the stick, same might be
formed in the top thereof as shown in dotted lines at a³.
It will be readily seen that upon the upper end of the stick A being brought
near an intending purchaser he will be able to remove the newspaper or other
article he desires to purchase from either of the clips B, 13, and then upon placing
the coin representing the price of such article into the slot a or a, sanic will pass
down the inside of the stick and be delivered to the vendor at the point a'.
In the stick shown in Figs. 5 and 6 it will be seen that the space a nt its lower
end communicates with a box or receptacle C, so that when a coin is inserted in the

page_text: slot a2 at the upper end same will pass down the hollow stick through space a and
be delivered into such box or receptacle (. This box or receptacle may be fitted
with a door secured by a lock and key so as to prevent same being opened
except by duly authorized persons. Further, a hinged flap acted upon by a weak
spring may if desired be placed at any suitable point in the space, so as to yield
upon the weight of a coin acting thereon in its downward course and thus permit
such coin passing into the box or receptacle C, while such flap would prevent coins
passing upwards through space and so being removed from the slot ², after samme
have once entered the box or receptacle (.
1 will be readily understood that the box or receptacle C, either together with
or independently of the hinged tap in space, night if desired be applied to stick-
for the sale of articles, as well as those intended for use for the purpose of
collecting funds for charitable or other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved apparatus for bringing ney papers or other articles within
reach of intending purchasers situated at a distance from the vendor and for
conveying the cost of such articles to the latter, consisting in a stick, bar or rod
provided with a clip or clips or other holding device at its upper end, and having a
hollow space within it, with which a sio in the upper end of the stick communicates,
while at its lower end such hollow space opens out either on the outside of the
stick or into a suitable box or receptacle, substantially as specified.
2. The improved apparatus for collecting money from persons at a distance from
the collector, consisting in hollow stick, bar or rod with an opening or slot at its
upper end communicating with the hollow space in such stick, ban or red, while at
its lower end such hollow space opens out either on the outside of the stick or into
a suitable box or receptacle, substantially as specified.
Dated this 10th day of October 1893.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.