Improvement Drawing
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1397
Improvement
Drawing
1, ALFRED WILLIAM BEVIS 30 Wellington Road Harborne in the County of
Warwickshire Engineer and Director of Manual Training to the Birmingham
School Board, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To enable the drawing pin to be fixed to the board in such a way that it shall
be capable of holding or releasing the paper from the board, without wholly
detatching the pin from the board.
The pin consists of a strip of metal, one end of which is firmly fixed to the board
by means of a screw or a point or points provided at the end to press into the
board, or any other suitable means. The other end of the strip is made so as to
lift up from the board by a hinge or by the spring of the material itself, this end
can if required be provided with a point or points to press into the board.
The manner of using this pin is, one end is firmly fixed to the board as described
above, the other end is raised slightly & the paper, required to be fastened, is put
between this end & the board, the end is then allowed to press firmly on the paper
to hold it from slipping. It will be seen from this that although the paper can be
removed the pin is not wholly detatched from the board.
Dated this 20th dorn of Tonn1806
ALFRED WILLIAM BEVIS.
Improvements in Drawing Pins.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM BEVIS of 30 Wellington Road Harborne, in the County
of Warwickshire Engineer and Director of Mauual Training to the Birmingham
School Board 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 my invention is to enable papers or other thin materials to be
temporally but firmly fastened to boards or walls by means of a pin, the pin
itself being a permanent tixture to the board or wall. The principal use consisting
in the application of my arrangement to fastening paper on to drawing & notice
boards.
For this purpose the pin takes the form of an arm one end of which is to be
permanently fixed to the board the other end which carries the pin point is made
with a binge or spring so as to be capable of being sufficiently raised off the board
to slide the paper under, the point of the pin which is then pressed down holds the
paper from slipping.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure one is a longitudinal elevation;
Figure two, a plan showing a suitable method of carrying my invention into effect
as applied to an ordinary notice or drawing board.

page_text: The arm C Fig. 1 is made of either a material which will allow of its bending
up as shown by the dotted lines in the clevation, or is provided with a separate
spring or hinge near the end B to effect the same purpose. The end B of the
arm C is firmly fixed to the board by the screw S or by any other suitable means.
The end A of the arm carries a point P or points which may be maile by
bending a small portion of the arm down, or by fixing a separate point or points
on; in any suitable manner, it may or may not be slightly lipped as shown at D
Fig. 1 to enable the finger nail to be more easily put under to raise it up.
Although I have described my invention as applied chiefly as to pinning papers ou
to drawing & notice boards, it may be applied as carpet pins, letter files or for
pinning drawings or pictures on to walls, or for any other purpose where it
is applicable.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention, & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is-
A ready method of pinning a sheet of paper to & unpinning it from a board
without removing the said pin wholly from the board, consisting of a pin one end
of which is fixed to the board and the other end capable of being raised to allow
of the paper being slipped under & the raised end which bears the pin's point is
pressed on to the paper all substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of October 1896
ALFRED W. BEVIS.