An Improved Embroidery-frame Holder or Work Fastener.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Embroidery-frame Holder or Work Fastener.
I, George Frederick Redfern, of the Firm of 'G. F. Redfern & Co., The General
Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me
by Krautheimer & Co., of 5, Hallstrasse, Fuerth, in the Kingdom of Bavaria and
German Empire, Manufacturers,) to be as follows :—
My invention relates to an improved embroidery frame holder designed to be fixed
to a table, the object of my invention being to provide a frame holder which has a
greater amount of adjustment than holders as hitherto constructed whereby it is
adapted for holding frames of varying size.
A frame holder constructed according to my invention has secured to the clip,
which serves for attaching the holder to the table, a vertical standard which forms
one jaw of the holder; the other jaw is pivoted upon the end of a bar which slides
horizontally through a hole or guide in the fixed jaw, a set screw being provided in
the fixed jaw for clamping the said bar in any position according to the distance
which the jaws are to be apart.
Through the lower end of the pivoted jaw is passed an adjusting screw the end of
which bears against the fixed jaw, the said screw serving, after the approximate
distance between the jaws has been adjusted, for giving a final move:nent to
the said pivoted jaw in order to firmly clip the frame which is placed between the
jaws.
In practice the sliding bar to which the pivoted jaw is connected has its rear end
turned upwards to form a support which carries a cushion to which work can be
pinned and which also serves as a pin-cushion.
An Improved Embroidery-frame Holder or Work Fastener.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The General
Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me by
Krautheimer & Co., of Promenadestrasse (formerly of 5, Hallstrasse), Fuerth, in the

page_text: Kingdom of Bavaria and German Empire, Manufacturers,) and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved embroidery frame holder designed to be
fixed to a table, the object of my invention being to provide a frame holder which
has a greater amount of adjustment than holders as hitherto constructed whereby
it is adapted. for holding frames of varying size.
A frame holder constructed according to my invention has secured to the clip,
which serves for attaching the holder to the table, a vertical standard which forms
one jaw of the holder; the other jaw is pivoted upon the end of a bar which slides
horizontally through a hole or guide in the fixed jaw, a set screw being provided
in the fixed jaw for clamping the said bar in any position according to the distance
which the jaws are to be apart.
At the lower end of the pivoted jaw is arranged an adjusting screw, the said
screw. serving, after the approximate distance between the jaws has been adjusted,
for giving a final movement to the said pivoted jaw in order to firmly clip the frame
which is placed between the jaws.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved holder; and,
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same:
Figure 3 is a plan view:
Figure 4 is a side elevation illustrating a modification of my invention.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
is the clip which serves for attaching the holder to the table and 6 is the
vertical standard which forms one jaw of the holder, the said standard being
mounted upon a pin or pivot c on the clip a so that it may be turned to any required
position. d is a set screw adapted for fixing the said standard in any position
relatively with the clip a. e is the pivoted jaw between which and the standard b
which forms the other jaw the embroidery-frame is held, for instance as indicated by
the dotted lines in the drawing.
As shewn in Figures 1, 2 and 3 this jaw e is pivoted upon one end of a bar f
which is adapted to slide horizontally through a hole or guide in the fixed jaw
and to be adjusted in any position according to the thickness of the embroidery-
frame by the set screw g.
h is the adjusting screw, which, as shewn in Figure 1, is screwed into a hole in
the fixed jaw b and presses against the lower end of the movable jaw for the
purpose of tightening the clip upon the embroidery-frame.
In the modification of my invention shown in Figure 4, the bar f instead of being
adjustable in the fixed jaw b is fixed thereto, for instance, by a pin j, and the
movable jaw e slides upon it and is adjusted thereon by means of the nut k which
is carried on screw threads formed on the said bar f. The lower end of the movable
jaw e has screwed through it the adjusting screw h which bears against the fixed
Jaw b.
It will be understood that in this modification the jaw e must have sufficient play
upon the barf to admit of its being moved in the required manner to permit of clamping
the embroidery-frame when the screw his operated.
In practice the sliding bar to which the pivoted jaw is connected has its rear end
turned upwards to form a support which carries a cushion to which work can be,
pinned and which also serves as a pin-cushion.
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. An embroidery-frame holder or work fastener comprising a vertical jaw
carried upon a table clip, a movable iaw mounted upon a bar carried in the fixed jaw

page_text: and adjustably movable relatively with the fixed jaw, and an adjusting screw serving
for operating the movable jaw for the purpose of gripping the article to be held
substantially as described.
2. The manufacture and use of embroidery-frame holders or work fasteners
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 and
in Figure 4 of the accompanying drawing.
11L
T1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.