Improved Device or Means for Preventing the Tearing or Slipping of Tracing or Drawing Paper or Cloth.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device or Means for Preventing the Tearing or Slipping
of Tracing or Drawing Paper or Cloth.
I, CHRISTOPHER HODSON of 55 Regent Street, Derby in the County of Derby,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to prevent the tearing and slipping of tracing or
drawing paper or cloth and in carrying out my said invention I provide discs or
pads of rubber or other resilient material or composition and fix or attach the same
to the undersides of drawing pins in any suitable manner so that the rubber discs
or pads will bear upon the face of the tracing or drawing paper or cloth and so
distribute the strain over a larger surface than is the case with ordinary drawing
pins in which the "pull" very often comes upon the spike of the pin only, the
tracing or drawing paper or cloth being thus very easily torn especially if thin; my
invention will also be found very useful in holding down tracings or drawings which
have been cut off round the margin and in which it is undesirable to make any
drawing pin holes, by putting in the drawing pins close round the outer edge and
allowing the rubber or other pad or disc to overlap the same.
The said pads or
discs may either be made loose and adapted to fit on the said pins and up to the
heads thereof or they may be fixed or attached thereto in any suitable manner, the
undersides of the said discs or pads may be roughened or corrugated if desired but
are preferably made smooth.
Dated this 25th day of November 1893.
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device or Means for Preventing the Tearing or Slipping
of Tracing or Drawing Paper or Cloth.
I, CHRISTOPHER HODSON, of 55 Regent Street, Derby in the County of Derby,
Engineer, 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 :-
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood I have caused to
be annexed to this Specification a drawing which will be hereinafter referred to as
forming a part of the said Specification.
The object of my invention is to prevent the tearing and slipping of tracing or
drawing paper or cloth and in carrying out my said invention I provide discs or
pads A of rubber or other resilient material or composition and fix or attach the
same to the underside of drawing pins B in any suitable manner so that the rubber
discs or pads will bear upon the face of the tracing or drawing paper or cloth C
and so distribute the strain over a larger surface than is the case with ordinary
drawing pins in which the "pull" very often comes upon the spike D of the pin,
only, the tracing or drawing paper or cloth being thus very easily torn, especially if
thin; my invention will also be found very useful in holding down tracings or
drawings which have been cut off round the margin and in which it is undesirable
to make any drawing pin holes, by putting in the drawing pins close round the outer
edge E and allowing the rubber or other resilient pad or disc to overlap the same:
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page_text: the dotted line E' shewing the continuation of the drawing paper when not previously
cut off. The said pads or discs may be either made loose and adapted to fit on the
said pins and up to the heads thereof or they may be fixed or attached thereto in
any suitable manner; the undersides of the said discs or pads may be roughened or
corrugated if desired but are preferably made smooth. F is the drawing board,
desk or the like into which the drawing pin is fixed.
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
The improved device or means for preventing the tearing or slipping of tracing
or drawing paper or cloth, namely; of introducing an india-rubber or other resilient
pad or disc between the head of the drawing pin or other securing device and the
surface of the said tracing or drawing paper or cloth substantially as described and
illustrated.
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.