An Improved Ticket Holder for Use in Shop Windows, Shops, and Warehouses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ticket Holder for Use in Shop Windows, Shops,
and Warehouses.
WILLIAM BURGESS 65 High Street Battle Sussex Draper do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved ticket holder for shop windows, shops and warehouses which is
made of a flat piece of metal of an oblong or other suitable shape, and having one,
two or more small holes punched through it. See Fig. 1. B. C. D.
The metal is then bent in the centre, and the two ends brought flat together,
forming a a clip to hold the ticket, the bend in the central portion of the metal
forming a spring which keeps the ends together to hold the ticket firmly. See
Fig. 2. B. C. D.
The holder is then ready for use, which is done by inserting an ordinary pin or
piece of wire or a wire staple with pointed ends, through the holes.; the pin or
staple being of suitable size to hold in the holes firmly and of any length required
to pin the holder securely to the article to be ticketed. See Fig. 2. B. C. D.
The holder can then be fastened by the pin to any article and holding the ticket
at the same time. See Fig. 3.
The holder may be fastened to articles in other ways, by different sized pins or
staples as required. See Figs. 3 and 4.
Dated this 14th day of February 1895.
An Improved Ticket Holder for Use in Shop Windows, Shops,
and Warehouses.
I WILLIAM BURGESS of 65 High Street Battle Manufacturer 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:
My invention has for its object an improved ticket holder for use in shop
windows shops and warehouses by which I provide a cheap & effective holder for
show cards and tickets thus enabling such cards or tickets to be readily attached to
the articles which require to be market with the price.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended a sheet of drawings to my Provisional Specification
upon which I have fully illustrated the nature of my said improvements together
with various modes of carrying the same into effet.
Figure 1 shews three modified views of the blanks from which my holders are
formed.
Figure 2 shows three views of the next process in the formation of the holder.
Figure 3 shews views of the holders attached to garments one being shewn with
the ticket in the clip.
Figure 4 are views shewing various modifications of the pin or hook attachment.
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page_text: In carrying my invention into effect I form the body of my holder of a flat piece
of metal of oblong or other suitable shape such as shewn by B. C and D in
Figure 1 and in these blanks I punch one two or more holes as may be desired.
The blanks are then bent into the forms shewn by Figure 2 the two ends being so
brought together by the spring of the bend that a spring clip is formed which holds
the ticket in position firmly.
The holder being then ready for use it is only necessary before utilizing it to
insert an ordinary pin through the two holes as shown by B Figures 1 and 2 or a
piece of wire bent into hair pin form as shewn by C and having pointed ends for
attachment to the garment or the holder may be so bent that the pin will pass
through three points as shewn by D by which means the holder may be securely
pinned to the article to be ticketed.
In Figure 4. various modifications in the form of pins are shewn together with
the means for attaching the same to the garments or other articles from which the
general application of my invention will be readily understood.
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 :-
:-
A ticket holder for ticketing articles in windows shops and warehouses consisting
of a clip such as B, C, and D provided with holes for the reception of an ordinary
pin wire or hook substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewp.
Dated this 4th day of September 1895.
WILLIAM BURGESS.