Improvements in Suspenders for Plaques, Plates, Tablets, and various articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 20th Dec.. 1892--Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspenders for Plaques, Plates, Tablets, and various
articles.
JOHN ARTHUR HASKELL 11 Queens Hill Newport Monmouthshire Grocers
Foreman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in suspenders for plaques, plates, tablets, and various articles.
The suspender consists of three slotted or perforated metal strips (A) of required
shape with screw (B) and suitable nut for adjustment.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1892.
JOHN ARTHUR HASKELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspenders for Plaques, Plates, Tablets, and various
articles.
1, JOHN ARTHUR HASKELL, of 11, Quecns Hill, Newport, in the County of
Monmouth, Grocers Foreman, 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 an improved adjustable suspender or holder for plaques,
plates, tablets, pictures, photographs, showcards, trade price tickets, and various
and innumerable other articles of a like nature, the use or beauty of which can only
be exercised or seen when suspended in some conspicuous position, the object of my
invention being to dispense with the use of the unsightly cord or tape, or the
employment of brackets or hooks as hitherto requisitioned for this purpose, and to
provide a suspender capable of being adjusted so as to be employed for suspending
and holding such articles, of various diameters or sizes, and to guard against the
possibility of the article so suspended from falling and probably breaking.
I attain this by providing three strips of brass, or other metal or alloy of metals,
of any desired length and width, and of such thickness as to be perfectly pliable and
elastic, in each of which I cut or otherwise form a longitudinal slot, one end of each
of said strips being turned up to form a hook or grip for the article to be suspended.
The three strips are placed flatwise, one upon the other, with the aforesaid hooks
uppermost, and a screwheaded bolt passed through the three slots, and this, by the
means of a thumb nut or the like screwed thereon, tightly grips the three strips,
when these are spread out in the form desired, which, when employed for suspending
articles of circular shape, such as plaques, or plates, would be such that, the hooked
ends collectively describe a triangle.
The plaque or other article to be suspended is then laid with its back upon the
said compound strips, and the nut loosened until the three hooked ends are brought
into a position to grip the edges of the article, when the nut may be again tightened
and the whole is ready for suspension where desired, and to effect this I form upon
either or all of the said strips, a circular portion, in which a crescented cut is made,
and in this a hole may be bored or otherwise provided, and by simply bending
outwards, by the metallic piece formed by the said crescented cut, a loop is formed
by which the whole may be suspended.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood reference may be
made to the drawings which accompanied my Provisional Specification, in which
A is the said strip, and B the screw and nut for holding the said three strips in
their adjusted position as described.

page_text: The aforesaid hooked ends being turned up only sufficient to grip the edges of
the article to be suspended, this much of the appliance is all that is seen, the whole
of the remainder being hidden behind the article suspended, thus providing that the
whole of the painting or design upon the plaque, plate, or other article, or the
figures or words upon the advertisement, may be fully exposed to view.
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:
In an improved suspender for plaques, plates, tablets, and various other articles,
the construction and use of three slotted metallic strips A of any desired dimensions,
each of which is bent or hooked at one end, and held in combination with each other
by the means of a bolt and nut B, passing through said slots, either or all of which
strips may be provided with a means for suspending the whole, substantially as
herein described, reference being had to the aforesaid drawings.
Dated this 20th 1
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.