Improvements in Fastenings for Papers, Patterns, Woollen and other Fabrics, Feathers, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Papers, Patterns, Woollen and other
Fabrics, Feathers, and the like.
I, SARAH TUCKER, of 39 George Road, Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Factor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to improvements in fastenings for papers, patterns, woollen
and other fabrics, feathers and other similar purposes and has reference more
particularly to that class of fastening now generally known as paper fasteners,
consisting of a head having two legs of metal which are pointed at their front
ends, and passed through the paper &c. and then turned or bent down flat upon the
rear side, and generally diametric to each other.
In the use of such fasteners it is found to be troublesome to divide these two legs
of metal (after they have been passed through the paper &c.) and in so doing the
thumb or finger is frequently scratched, and the object of this my invention is to
obviate these and consociate difficulties.
My invention consists in providing that the one of these two legs which shall be
shorter than the other shall have a rounded or blunt shaped end so that when side
⚫pressure is applied by the finger or thumb to the longer leg in order to turn it down
the said finger or thumb shall be unharmed in passing over the shorter leg. This
my invention is applicable not only to such fasteners in which the two said legs lie
flat upon each other, that is consisting of two independent strips of metal, but
also when such two legs are formed in one strip by longitudinally slitting the
said strip.
As will be readily seen these metallic legs may be formed upon or attached to
any suitable kind of head or in some cases such head may consist of a holder or
device in which or to which may be secured any ticket or tablet or the like.
The longer leg of the two may be ribbed or otherwise treated so as to strengthen
it for the purpose of piercing the papers or fabric &c. to which it is to be attached,
while the shorter rounded leg is made to lie closely thereto so that it shall readily
follow. When thus pierced the longer leg may as before intimated be easily turned
_down without fear of hurt, and then the shorter one turned down in the opposite
direction.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1895.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Papers, Patterns, Woollen and other
Fabrics, Feathers, and the like.
I SARAH TUCKER, of 39 George Road, Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Factor, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in fastenings for papers, woollen and

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other fabrics, feathers and other similar purposes, and has reference more
particularly to that class of fastening now generally. known as paper fasteners
which consist of a head having two legs of metal which are pointed at their front
ends; and passed through the paper &c. and then turned or bent down flat upon
the rear side, and generally diametric to each other.
In the use of such fasteners it is found to be troublesome to divide these two legs
of metal (after they have been passed through the paper 7) and in so doing the
thumb or finger is frequently scratched, and the object of this my invention is to
obviate these and consociate difficulties, and in order to more clearly explain it,
I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures
and numbers of reference.
Fig. 1, is a front view, and Fig. 2, a side view, of a fastener made according to
this my invention.
Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional view upon line A-B see Fig. 2.
Fig. 4, shows the fastener being operated upon when in use.
Figs. 5 & 6, illustrate its application to various uses.
My invention consists as follows:-10, 10, 10b, is the head of the fastener, which
may be of any shape or size or design, to suit the particular purpose to which it is
applied, as for instance that shown in Fig. 1, may be used as an ordinary paper
fastener, or a separate head may be made of any desirable form and attached
thereto; that shown at 10° (Fig. 5) serves as a suspeuder, while that in Fig. 6 at 10b
serves as a ticket holder, 11, being the ticket which is held by the tips 12, 12, 12, 12,
of the head, being turned over on to the card.
13, is the long leg, and 14, the short leg of the fastener, and I make the long
leg 13, to be pointed at its end, and also to be longitudinally hollow or grooved as
seen in section in Fig. 3. The shorter leg 14, I make with a rounded or semi-
circular end at 15, and make its sectional shape to be flat, so that it shall lie against
the longer leg in the manner shown in Fig. 3.
This grooving of the longer leg gives great strength and rigidity and particularly
so to the point by which it may be pierced readily through material which other-
wise would not be permissible, while it at the same time, protects and clears the
way for the shorter leg to follow. The rounded end of the shorter leg also
furnishes a ready means of following the piercing made by the longer leg. Hence
when the fastener is pushed through the material as seen in Fig. 4, the thumb or
finger may readily and without hurt push back first the longer leg and then as
usual push back the second shorter leg.
In cases such as shown in Figs. 5, & 6, the two legs are made as usual by slitting
the metal at 16 and 17, and then bending the strips thus formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In fasteners for papers, woollen and other fabrics feathers and the like, the
combination with a head such as 10, or others hereinbefore named, of two legs 13
and 14, the one being hollowed or grooved and having a pointed end, and the other
having a rounded end, all substantially as herein described and shown.
2. The combination in a fastener such as those hereinbefore described of a short
leg 14, with a longer leg 13, whose transverse sectional shape is hollowed or grooved
substantially as set forth and shown.
Dated this 17th day of October 1895.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.