THE ARRANGE- MENT AND EXPEDITIOUS REMOVAL OF PATTERNS, INVOICES, LETTERS, PAPERS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Appleton, 25, Clarence Road South,
Kentish Town, London, N.W., for the Invention of "THE ARRANGE-
MENT AND EXPEDITIOUS REMOVAL OF PATTERNS, INVOICES, LETTERS, PAPERS,
Scaled the 27th July 1860, and dated the 31st January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Appleton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
January 1860.
I, LEONARD APPLETON, 25, Clarence Road South, Kentish Town, London,
N.W., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE ARRANGE-
MENT AND EXPEDITIOUS REMOVAL OF PATTERNS, INVOICES, LETTERS, PAPERS, &C.,
MORE PARTICULARLY TAILORS' PATTERNS," to be as follows:-
If for tailors' and other patterns, it consists of a peg A, projecting from a flat
piece of metal B (which is screwed to the wall) in a horizontal position, the
end of which has a knob C, to prevent the patterns slipping off; connected with
plate B and extending over A is an arm D, which comes down in a curve to
opposite the point of A, attached to the end of which by means of a hinge
joint is a moveable peg E, of the same length as A, the end of which is formed
to drop down and fit into a groove in the knob of A, so that patterns placed
on A can be slipped on to E in the same manner that they could be removed

page_text: from one end of the peg to the other, by which means it is apparent that
patterns, &c., being arranged alphabetically on A, a single pattern may be
referred to, and immediately detatched by sliding the preceding patterns on to
peg E, raising the same (peg E), & slipping the pattern required from peg A.
To replace the pattern or patterns, see commencing letter of name, remove
preceding patterns from peg A to E, place pattern on A by raising E, then
slip the other patterns from E to A.
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For invoices, letters, &c., the same as above, with the following excep-
tions Peg A, instead of having a knob, terminates in a sharp point for
piercing the invoices, &c.; peg E has a spring attached to the hinge; the end
which meets A is half hollowed out to overlap the sharp point of A. This
one for invoices, letters, &c., being smaller and often laying on the desk, &c.,
requires a spring at the hinge to keep the peg E in its proper place. I do not
confine myself to a particular form of arm D.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Leonard Appleton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEONARD
APPLETON, of 25, Clarence Road South, Kentish Town, London, N.W., send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Leonard Appleton, Her special licence that I, the said Leonard Appleton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Leonard
Appleton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE ARRANGEMENT AND EXPE-
DITIOUS REMOVAL OF PATTERNS, INVOICES, LETTERS, PAPERS, &C., MORE PARTI-
CULARLY TAILORS' PATTERNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Leonard Appleton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leonard Appleton, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
that is to say-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture bill, invoice, or pattern clips
or files in such a manner that any one invoice or pattern may be removed
therefrom without taking the whole number off.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible,' I will now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrated Sheet of
Drawings hereto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS."
Fig. 1 is a side view of a tailor's pattern clip or file as it would appear when
about to place a pattern thereon; Fig. 2, parts of another pattern clip
detached; and Fig. 3, side view of letter or invoice clip, similar letters of
reference denoting corresponding parts at each of the Figures respectively.
At Fig. 1 will be seen a bent metal arm a, having a projecting peg or pin b
securely fastened thereto; the end of the arm a having a hinge c, to which is
attached a lifting peg or pin d; the end of this pin d is flattened, and drops
into a slot cut in the knob at the end of the horizontal peg b, so that when
any particular pattern is required to be taken off the peg b, those in front are
to be slipped on to the pin d, which is then raised, when the desired pattern
can be taken off the peg b. At Fig. 2 will be seen that the horizontal peg b
is pointed, and the end of the moveable pin d is flattened, and drops into a slot
in the end of b. At Fig. 8 will be seen a side view of a letter or invoice clip,
which is slightly different from the pattern clips, inasmuch as they are at times
lain on the desk or table when the pin d might accidentally get out of place,
when the invoices would fall off the other pin b, and thus cause confusion, to
prevent which I secure the arm a to a piece of mill-board e, and turn the
jointed end the pin d up slightly at about right angles with the pin itself;
upon the end of the piece so turned up the end of a spring f catches, the other
end being secured to the arm a, so it will appear that the spring acting on the
end of the bent end of the pin d will prevent the liability of its getting out of
its place.

page_text: Having now described the nature and objects of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark in
conclusion that I do not confine or restrict myself to the precise shape of the
arm a, nor to other details. herein described and shewn in the accompanying
Sheet of illustrative Drawings, as many slight modifications and variations
may be made therein without in any way departing from the principle of my
Invention; but what I claim as my Invention intended to be secured to me
by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, making or manufacturing
pattern or invoice clips or files for the more easy removal of such patterns in
the manner shewn and herein described for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leonard Appleton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand' eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,.
LEONARD APPLETON.. (L.S.)
4, Trafalgar Square,.
Charing Cross..