A Combined Clip or Holder and Price Indicator for Articles of Jewellery and other Small Goods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb.,
1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Clip or Holder and Price Indicator for Articles of
Jewellery and other Small Goods.
I FRANK EDWIN SALSBURY, of 5 Sydney Terrace, Guildford, in the County
of Surrey, Jeweller, 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 a combined clip or holder and price indicator for
articles of jewellery and other small goods, and has for its object to provide neat,
inexpensive and efficient means for holding the said goods in position upon covered
trays, shelves or other window fixtures having a wooden body, said means also
serving to indicate the price of the goods.
I will now proceed to more particularly describe my invention and the manner of
performing the same, having reference to the accompanying drawings in which
similar letters refer to corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which :-
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 represent in front elevation, side elevation and plan respectively,
a combined clip or holder and price indicator constructed in accordance with my
invention.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew the same applied to a portion of a covered tray, shelf or other
window fixture having a wooden body.
a is the clip which may be produced by stamping or in any other suitable manner
and which consists of a strip of thin metal bent at about right angles and having at
one extremity a point a 1 and at or near the other extremity a tablet or label b of
celluloid, ivory, card, metal or other suitable material for indicating the price of
In the
the article, said price being preferably marked thereon in soluble ink.
drawings, the tablet is represented as being secured to the clip a by means of the
small claws a 2 but it may if desired be made integral with the clip a or secured
thereto in any other convenient manner. a 3 are shoulders formed on the clip a,
the object of these shoulders being to receive the thrust of a pair of pliers or other
suitable tool when the pointed end of the clip is thrust into the wooden body of
the window fixture, as shewn in Figs. 4 and 5. The article is held between the
clip a and the covered surface of the window fixture c with sufficient firmness to
cause it (if a brooch, ring or like article) to stand up from the covered surface in
lieu of lying down thereon, thus giving a neat and attractive appearance to the
window fixture. In Figs. 4 and 5 d represents a ring thus held by the clip.
If desired the combined clip or holder and price indicator may be formed with a
screw thread at one end so that it may be screwed into the window fixture
in lieu of being thrust. therein, the shoulders a 3 being in this case dispensed
with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The application to a window fixture in the manner set forth of a combined
clip or holder and price indicator consisting of a thin metal strip a bent at about
right angles, one end of said strip being adapted for insertion into the window
fixture and the other end thereof carrying a tablet or label b, substantially as
described.

page_text: 2. The combination of the clip a bent at right angles and pointed at one end,
the tablet or label b carried thereby, and the shoulders a 3 formed on the pointed
end of the clip, substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
Dated this 31st day of December 1895.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.