A Combination Stand or Support for Holding a Menu or Advertise- ment Card, a Flower or a Bouquet, a Candle, Fairy Lamp, or other Article.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1889
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Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Stand or Support for Holding a Menu or Advertise-
ment Card, a Flower or a Bouquet, a Candle, Fairy Lamp, or
other Article.
I, RICHARD ROBERT HARPER, of 86 Clifton Street, Finsbury, Middlesex, Electrician,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a stand or support suitable for table decoration, and
fitted with swivel or pivotted appliances for holding several articles, such as a menu
card, and a small posey of flowers, the holding appliances being readily adjustable to
any desired angle.
For the purpose of my invention, I form a fork on the upper part of a pedestal,
and pivot or binge on this fork, a spring clip for holding a card, a gimbal ring for
supporting a glass water tube for flowers, a candle socket, or a bracket upon which
the chain of a fairy lamp can be hooked, the hinge joint or joints being provided
with a pinch screw as a hinge pin for tightening up the several appliances, so that
they will be held at any angle within a certain range at which they may be adjusted.
The fork may have a foot or short stem for fitting into the socket of a candlestick,
in which case the pedestal would be dispensed with.
The stand is designed chiefly for the purposes of table decoration but it is equally
applicable as a music stand, or as an advertisement holder, and similar uses.
Dated this 26th day of June 1889.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said R. R. Harper.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Stand or Support for Holding a Menu for Advertise-
ment Card, a Flower or a Bouquet, a Candle, Fairy Lamp, or
other Article.
1 RICHARD ROBERT HARPER, of 86, Clifton Street, Finsbury, Middlesex
Electrician do hereby declare the nature of my 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 this invention is a stand or support suitable for table decoration, and
fitted with swivel or pivotted appliances for holding several articles, such as a menu
card, and a small posey of flowers, the holding appliances being readily adjustable to
any desired angle.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus complete, and with two candle or
fairy lamps in position.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of a complete apparatus with the fairy lamps
removed.
Figure 3 is an elevation of a modified arrangement for supporting fairy lamps.
Figure 4 is another modification of the upper part of the apparatus and shewing an
incandescent lamp.
For the purpose of my invention and with reference to Figures 1 and 2 1 form a
fork A on the upper part of a pedestal B, and pivot or hinge on this fork A a spring
clip C for holding a card, say D. The fork also holds another fork or strap E for the
attachment of a gimbal ring F for supporting a water tube G for flowers. Projecting
from the top of the pillar B are candle sockets or brackets H for receiving fairy
lamps I, I, which may however be suspended by chains J, as at Figure 3. The
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page_text: fork A which supports the spring clip Cand the strap E has a hinge pin K as a pinch
screw for tightening up the several holder appliances to determine the angle at which
they shall remain.
The fork A may have a foot or short stem Las indicated, at Figures 3 and 4 for
fitting into the socket of a candlestick, which would then serve, as the pedestal.
It will be understood by the annexed drawings that any system of lighting can be
adopted, and the fairy lamp or other decorative appliances, say an incandescent
lamp M, such as I show at Figure 4, having coloured or ground glass, can be fitted
to or suspended from the projecting brackets H for ornamental effect.
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
1. The combination stand or support shewn at Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed
drawings with the adjustable parts arranged as and for the purposes described.
2. The appliances shewn at Figures 3 and 4 as an attachment, to a candlestick.or
other pedestal or support as hereinbefore described.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said R. R. Harper.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said R. R. Harper.