Im- PROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS, SUSPENDERS, and Clip FASTENERS FOR EXHIBITING TICKETED AND OTHER ARTICLES. AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES.”AL
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Potter, of No. 19, Salisbury .Street,
Strand, London, W.C., Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS, SUSPENDERS, and Clip FASTENERS FOR EXHIBITING
TICKETED AND OTHER ARTICLES. AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Potter at the
* - Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition, on the
*4th April 1874.
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I, W ILLIA POTTER, of No. 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, London,
W.O., Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS, SUSPENDERS, AND CLIP FASTENERS FOR
EXHIBITING TICKETED AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES," to be as
follows:
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I form the holders suspenders and clin fastoners of two thin Ant

page_text: face to face and be held by means of projections from the sides of cach,
folded over so as to form clips; and by means of a central slot formed
in one of them it will admit of a stud or turn-buckle being fixed in the
other of them, so as to guide and adjust and (when necessary) fix the
sliding action or extent of separation of the two extreme portions of t
the apparatus, and within which limits the card or ticket is held, the
two suspending hooks forming in cach case the outer end of cach of
the two pieces of the instrument or apparatus, whilst the card, ticket,
or label is hold in and between small hooks or clips formed at the back
of each suspending hook, and they are reversed therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Potter in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 2nd October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
POTTER, of No. 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, London, W.C., Manu. -
facturer, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Potter, Her special
licence that I, the said William Potter, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others às I, the said William Potter, 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, tho
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HOLDERS, SUSPENDERS, AND CLIP FASTENERS FOR EXHIBITING TICKETED AND OTHER
ARTICLES, AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Potter, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describo and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,

page_text: and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Potter, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner tho same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and the accompanying illustrative Sheet of
Drawings:-
I form the holders, suspenders, and clip fasteners of two thin, flat,
pieces of metal stamped and cut into form, and fitted so as to be guided
face to face, and be held by means of projections from the sides of each,
folded over so as to form clips; and by means of a central slot formed
in one of them it will admit of a stud or turn-buckle being fixed in the
other of them, so as to guide and adjust and (when necessary) to fix
the sliding action or extent of separation of the two extreme portions
of the apparatus, and within which limits the card or ticket is held, the
two suspending hooks forming in each case the outer end of each of
the two pieces of the instrument or apparatus, whilst the card, ticket,
or label is held in and between small hooks or clips formed at the back
of each suspending hook, and they are reversed therefrom, being punched
and bent out of the back of each hook.
The main feature of this Invention is that the suspending and
suspender hooks, which form the opposite extremities of the 2 sliding
portions of the holders, suspenders, or clip fasteners herein described,
form the limits within which the card, ticket, or label is contained, and
held by the small hooks formed respectively at the back of each large
hook, as above described, instead of as in previously devised suspenders,
holders, or clip fasteners employed for a like purpose, wherein (heretofore)
whilst the suspending and suspender hooks have been formed at opposite
ends of the same piece of material, and the upper hook for holding the
upper portion of the ticket is made to slide upward above the suspending
hook, and the rail upon which it is hooked (and from which it is
suspended), and whereby the card or ticket, if it exceeds in height the
minimum distance or height between the securing hooks, must project
upwards above the suspending rod, and so has been found to interfere
materially with the proper display of the goods or articles immediately

page_text: above the line of the suspending rod or tray, and so require considerably
moro space for the proper display of goods and wares.
According to my present Invention the suspending and suspender
hooks and the card or ticket sccuring hooks move together, and the card
or ticket does not project either above or below, nor exceed the length 5
of the holder, suspender, or clip fastener, and therefore does not requiro
more room than is necessary for the display of the ticket, according to
its size, whilst its form, shape, or configuration is concealed from view
behind the card or ticket, and the article displayed and referred to on
the ticket is suspended below it.
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. For the purpose of illustrating my Invention and exhibiting the parts
of the holder, suspender, and clip fastener, and the mode in which they
are combined together, I have shown in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings 20 Figures illustrating the same, of which the first ten views
relate to the same suspender, and the second (or from Figure 11 to 20 1
inclusive) in like manner relate to a similar but narrower suspender,
but similarly made to the former, excepting as relates to their respective
proportions and minor details..
Figure 21 shows a susponding rod, show ticket, and a watch sus-
pended; Figures 1 and 2 show the same suspender in its completed and 2
combined form, Figure 1 being an edge view, and Figure 2 a back
view; Figure 11 being an edge view and Figure 12 a back view of a
narrower suspender, whilst Figures 3 to 10 are different views of the
three pieces composing each suspender, and illustrate their shapes and
the forms in which the blanks are cut or punched out of sheet metal. 2
In like manner Figures 13 to 20 inclusive are similar details, showing
different views of the parts of Figures 11 and 12.
In each case each piece is shown separately. Figures 5 and 6, 15 and
16, are the blanks, which are afterwards further worked, and produce
Figures 3 and 1, 13 and 11 respectively, of which Figures 7 and 8, 17 and 3
18, are edge views, whilst two views (9 and 10, 19 and 20) relate to the
turn-buckle fastening or mode of fixing or securing the two sliding
parts together in position when the distance apart thereof has been
adjusted. These blanks, as Figures 5 and 6, 15 and 10, may bo stamped
out of sheet steel, Bristol brass, or other suitable material; and when 3
brass is used they may be dipped and lacquered or plated.

page_text: Although I have shown in Figures 1 and 2, and the other Figures
relating to them a single claw or hook at back of the suspender and
suspending hooks respectively for retaining the card, and such claw or
hook is cut out of the centre of the back of the hook, yet, as will
be scen at Figures 15 and 16 moro clearly, the suspender illustrated
by Figures 11 and 12 has two claws or hooks for holding the upper and
lower pointed ends of the label or ticket, such as is shown in Figure 21,
such claws or hooks being formed from the two sidos of each piece (as
seen by Figures 15 and 16) and shown in Figure 21.
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Instead of making the two sides of each blank smooth, so that tho.
overlapping side clips slide freely back and forth, they may be sorrated,
so that the spring of each of the side clips whilst guiding the one piece
or portion over the face of the other will hold or retain them more
firmly than otherwise they would be held where the edges are smooth:
Again, instead of making the turn-buckles for securing these smooth-
sided sliding pieces firmly together, by reason of its being fixed in the
hole in the one blank and being allowed to slide up and down in the
slot of the other until it is turned at right angles thereto, I in some
cases provide a thin spring clip band having a stud at the back so as
not to interfere by projection with the ticket or show card, but having a
small knob, head, or projection, or it may be a screw, by which it
can be made to secure the 2 sliding pieces together in any desired
position.
Having now described my Invention, and some of the modes in which
I prefer to form, construct, and arrango the parts thereof, and also to
combine them together for the purposes herein stated, I wish it to be
understood that I am aware that heretofore suspenders for similar
purposes have been constructed of two separate picces of metal combined
together, but I have already herein pointed out wherein my present
Invention essentially differs therefrom, and wherein the superiority of
my Invention as compared therewith consists, but what I claim is,-
First. The improvements in holders, suspenders, and clip fasteners
for exhibiting ticketed and other articles and such like purposes, as
berein described and set forth.
Secondly. Constructing holders, suspenders, clip fasteners, and such

page_text: like articles in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth, and as
illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Potter, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the
year of our Lord 1874.
WILLIAM POTTER. (L.s.)
Witness,
H. H. M. SMITH,
Assistant to Mr. W. Smith, C.E.,
(Consulting Engineer),
19, Salisbury Street,
Strand, W.C.