A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER AND FASTENER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND LABELS."
Year: 1875

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LETTERS PATENT to Charles Holme, of Bradford, in the County of
York, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
HOLDER AND FASTENER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND LABELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Holme at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
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18th September 1875.
I, CHARLES HOLME, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER AND FASTENER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND LABELS," to
be as follows:-
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In the numbering, marking, and pricing of textile fabrics it is
customary to attach the tickets, cards, or labels thereto by gum or
other adhesive material. In consequence of the imperfect way in which
from various causes the gummed tickets adhere to the fabric, especially
when exposed to the high temperatures of warm climates, the gummed
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page_text: consisting of a frame plate or disc, the back of the holder having prongs
or points or other analogous means for attaching the ticket holder to
the fabric.
Although my Invention is specially useful for tickets, cards, and
labels for numbering, marking, and pricing fabrics, yet my said Inven-
tion is also useful for tickets, cards, and labels for other analogous
purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions or the Letters atent
filed by the said Charles Holme in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HOLME, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of. September, in the
year of our Lord' One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Holme, Her
special license that I, the said Charles Holme, my executors, admini-¨
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Holme, 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, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER AND FASTENER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND
LABELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Holme, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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.

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same-is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say
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In the numbering, marking, and pricing of textile fabrics it is
customary to attach the tickets, cards, or labels thereto by gum or
other adhesive material. In consequence of the imperfect way in which
from various causes the gummed tickets adhere to the fabric, especially
when exposed to the high temperatures of warm climates, the gummed
tickets become readily detached from the fabrics and great inconvenience
results.
The object of my Invention is to supersede the use of gummed
tickets for the purposes described and for other analogous purposes,
and to construct a combined holder and fastener for tickets, cards, and
labels in such a manner that the ticket, card, or label shall be held
rigidly thereby and firmly attached to the fabric or other article.
I construct a combined holder and fastener for tickets, cards, and
labels according to my Invention essentially in the following manner :-
I eut out at a press from thin sheet brass or other ductile sheet metal
or alloy a series of nearly radial arms projecting from a central cross
piece, so as to form a flat holder, the extremities of the arms following
the general figure of the card or ticket to be held, the said arms being
somewhat longer than is necessary to make their ends follow the outline
of the card, ticket, or label. Projecting from the back of the middle
cross piece of the-holder-and-at-right angles thereto, are points or prongs
constituting the fastener, the said points or prongs being made in one
piece with the holder. To fix the ticket, card, or label to the flat holder
the said ticket, card, or label is laid upon the bars or arms of the holder,
and the projecting ends of the said arms are bent around and made to
clip the edges of the ticket. The ticket thus fixed firmly to the holder
is attached to the fabric by piercing the fabric by means of the points
or prongs at the back of the holder, and turning down or clinching the
points or prongs on the side of the fabric opposite to that at which the
holder is situated. The ticket is thereby held rigidly by the metallic
_holder and firmly attached to the fabric.
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The combined holder and fastener may be applied to circular,
rectangular, and other shaped tickets, the arms or crossing parts of the
holder having the required lengths.

page_text: I do not limit myself to any particular shape of the metallic holder,
nor to the particular manner of fixing the ticket, card, or label thereto.
For example, the holder may consist of a continuous or nearly continuous
plate or disc, the fastening points or prongs being made from the middle
of the plate or disc, and the edges or portions thereof being turned
around the edges of the ticket, card, or label to be held.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in
which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan the blank, from which I make one of my
improved combined ticket holders and fasteners.
The frame part of the holder consists of four radial arms a, a, a, a,
the extremities a³, a², of which are expanded as represented. Those
expanded parts a², a³, constitute the clips, by which the ticket, card, or
label is grasped. Cut from the same piece of metal as the arms a, a²,
are the points or prongs b, b; these points or prongs constitute the
fastener, and are situated in the finished article in the middle and at
the back of the holder a, a², and at right angles to the said holder.
After the points or prongs b, b, have been bent as represented in
Figures 3 and 4 the flat holder a, a, is ready to receive the card, which
is laid upon the holder, and the expanded ends a³, a³, bent around' and
made to clip the edges of the card c, as illustrated in Figures 2, 3,
and 4, Figure 2 representing a plan of the upper face of the card, and
exhibiting the bent or clipping ends a² of the holder, Figure 3, a plan
of the under side of the same, and Figure 4 a section of the same.
In Figures 3 and 4 the position of 'the central prongs or points b, b,
constituting the fastener is best seen. The ticket or card c thus fixed
to the holder a, a², is attached to the fabric or article by piercing the
said fabric or article by means of the points or prongs b, b, and turning
down or clinching the said points or prongs on the inner side of the
fabric or article, as illustrated in Figure 5, where the fabric is marked d.
The fabric or article may however be pierced for the insertion of the
prongs b, b, by an independent instrument.
Instead of making the holder of four radial arms it may be made of
two V shaped pieces or arms jointed together at the centre of the
holder, the outer edges of the said V pieces or arms being serrated, the

page_text: Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the new or improved holder
and fastener for tickets, cards, and labels herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, a holder
consisting of a flat frame, disc, or plate of a circular, rectangular, or
other figure made from sheet metal, the said holder having at its back
one or more points or prongs constituting the fastener, the ticket, card,
or label being secured to the holder by closing the ends or edges or
portions of the holder upon the edges or other parts of the ticket, card, or
label, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Holme, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
JOHN LAPAGE,
Yarn Buyer,
Bradford.
CHARLES HOLME. (L.S.)