Improvements in Clips for Holding Address Labels, Cards, or Letters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1892-Accepted; 23rd July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Holding Address Labels, Cards, or Letters.
We, JOHN EBENEZER HOPKINSON of 15 Walbrook in the City and County
of London Engineer and ROBERT KIRKLAND MANSON of 12 Eastburn Place,
Shawlands, Glasgow, 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:—
Our invention has for object improvements in the construction of clips for
holding address and other labels, cards or letters, and is more particularly applicable
to the construction of clips for railway and other wagons, in which case the plate
or lower portion of the clip forms the load plate.
From the construction of our clip one or several cards or letters can be securely
held in position without piercing the card or letter, or the use of any metallic
spring, and the whole address clearly exposed to view. As will be seen upon
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrating our invention and
upon which
Fig. 1. represents a front elevation of our improved clip and load plate arranged
for use on railway wagons.
Fig. 2. being a side elevation of same.
Fig. 3. shows the application of our improved clip to a letter file, and
Fig. 4. is a side view of the same.
The clip consists of a base plate A, which also forms the load or name plate, and
which may be made of metal or other suitable material, or of wood and metal,
provided with two or more projecting hollow arms B. B. within which ȧrms suitable
vulcanized india rubber rollers or cylinders C. C. are secured by means of cotter
pins D. D. or their equivalent.
These vulcanized india rubber rollers or cylinders are made hollow and are so
arranged as to be capable of rolling in a longitudinal direction within the hollow
arm, and to bear upon the surface of the base plate or upon any card or cards E
which may be inserted between them and the base plate.
In order to provide for the admission of a number of cards or letters the
openings C. C. in the centre of each vulcanized india rubber roller or cylinder C is
made considerably larger than the diameter of the cotter pin D, which secures it
within the arm B, in order to permit of the compression of the roller or cylinder C,
which then assumes an elongated or oval section.
Clips thus constructed will retain the card or cards or letters securely, and
without injury for any length of time, and are not affected by any change of
atmosphere.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. In clips for securing address and other labels, the use of hollow vulcanized
india rubber rollers or cylinders arranged so as to be capable of rolling back-
ward and forward within a projecting arm substantially as and for the purposes
described.
2. Clips for securing address and other labels constructed so as to form a

page_text: combined clip and load or name plate substantially
-described.
Dated this 9th day of June 1892
as and for the purposes
Applicants,
VICTOR J. FEENEY,
Agent.