Improvements in the Manufacture of Newspaper Racks or Holders.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 8th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Newspaper Racks or Holders.
1, CHARLES TUCKER, of 17 Greenwich Road, Deptford, in the County of Kent,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to racks or holders made from sheet metal and adapted for the
reception of newspapers and the like.
In manufacturing a rack or holder according to my improved method, I cut from
sheet metal, preferably by stamping, a blank of suitable form, such blank consisting
substantially of the part which is intended ultimately to form the front of the rack
and of two arms which are subsequently bent back and turned upwards to form the
back of the rack. The arms are provided near their outer extremities with
perforations for engaging with nails and enabling the device to be suspended against
a wall.
The outline of the metal forming the front of the rack may be of an ornamental
description, and in order to stiffen the metal it may be ribbed, corrugated or
embossed; and may, if desired, bear an advertisement, as, for example, the name of
the newspaper for which the rack is intended. The arms forming the back of the
rack may also be cut of additional width, and their edges folded and doubled back so
as to afford increased stiffness to these parts.
In stamping the blanks from the plate, I prefer to make the arms of such widths
and to place them in such a manner relatively to the portion of the metal intended to
form the front of the rack, that the metal cut from between the two arms of one
blank furnishes that for one of the arms of another blank cut from the same sheet ;
economy in material being thereby effected.
1000
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Newspaper Racks or Holders.
I, CHARLES TUCKER, of 17, Greenwich Road, Deptford, in the County of Kent,
Merchant, 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 racks or holders made from sheet metal and adapted for the
reception of newspapers and the like.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 represents, in front elevation, a sheet metal rack or holder constructed
according to my invention; Fig. 2 being a corresponding back view.
Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line xx in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the blank.
In manufacturing a rack or holder according to my improved method, I cut from
sheet metal, preferably by stamping, a blank of suitable form, such blank consisting
substantially of the part A, which is intended ultimately to form the front of the rack,
and of the two arms B and B¹, which are subsequently bent back and turned upwards
to form the back of the rack. The arms are provided near their outer extremities
with perforations b and for engaging with nails and enabling the device to be
suspended against a wall. The rack is preferably enamelled.
The outline of the inetal
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forming the front of the rack may be of an ornamental

page_text: description, as illustrated; and, in order to stiffen the metal, it may be ribbed,
corrugated or embossed. The lower edge a a¹ a² of the part A is by preference folded
back, as shewn in the drawings, for the purpose of stiffening the rack, and the front
thereof may, if desired, bear an advertisement, as for example the name of the news-
paper for which the rack is intended. The arms B and B¹ may also be cut of
additional width and their edges folded or doubled back so as to afford increased
stiffness to these parts.
In stamping the blanks from the plate, the arms B and B₁ may be made of such
widths, and be placed in such a manner relatively to the portion of the metal intended
to form the front of the rack, that the metal cut from between the two arms of one
blank furnishes that for one of the arms of another blank cut from the same sheet ;
economy in material being hereby effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :—
The manufacture of sheet metal paper racks or holders substantially as herein
described.
Dated this fith day of October 1890
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.