A New or Improved Rack or Clip for Holding Papers and other Objects.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Rack or Clip for Holding Papers and
other Objects.
I, ARTHUR HENRY WILLIAMS, at present residing at 5 Sydenham Villas,
Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Lieutenant of the Indian Staff Corps
(12th Madras Infantry), do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be. as
follows
My invention relates to a New or Improved Rack or Clip for Holding Papers
and other Objects whereby certain advantages are obtained.
My invention comprises four main parts which I shall hereinafter for the
purposes of this Specification refer to as the flap, the base, the angle loop and
the hanger.
The Hap consists of a flat frame-work of wire of any convenient form and
material and the base may consist of a similar frame-work or in its simpler forms
of say two parallel wires or a single bent wire. The angle-loop consists of a turn
of wire the said wire being in some cases continuous though not necessarily
integral with the wire constituting the flap and or the base, and the said turn
being of not less than 450 degrees or in other words a complete turn and
a quarter.
When in use it is intended that the base should be flush with a wall to which
it, is attached and so that the flap will extend angularly upwards from the
lower edge of the base at which edge are the angle loops. If the turn of the
angle-loop is more than a turn and a half, that is to say more than 540 degrees
then the articles which are held will be gripped between the base and the flap. If
the turn of the angle-loop be less than 540 degrees then the article may either be
clipped or be simply supported this depending on the thickness of the article and
on the amount by which the turn of the angle-loop is less than 540 degrees.
The hanger which may be of the form of a stud or hook or the like is attached
to the upper edge of the base and it is designed to engage either a nail or other
equivalent device (fastened say in a wall) or in an angle-loop of a separate clip
constructed according to my invention.
In a contemplated form of my invention my rack or clip is constructed from a
single wire.
By attaching a clip to a wall as above mentioned and by inserting in its angle-
loop or angle-loops the hanger or hangers of another clip a hanging rack consisting
of two clips is formed and by hanging clips to one another in this way a rack
consisting of a long series of clips may be obtained.
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Dated this 15th day of November 1893.
A. H. WILLIAMS,
Per J. G. Lorrain, M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, London, W.C,
Chartered Patent Agent.

page_text: A. New or Improved Rack or Clip for Holding Papers and
other Objects.
I, ARTHUR HENRY WILLIAMS, at present residing at 5, Sydenham Villas,
Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Lieutenant of the Indian Staff Corps,
12th Madras Infantry, 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 :—
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My invention relates to a New or Improved Rack or Clip for Holding Papers
and other Objects whereby certain advantages are obtained.
My invention comprises four main parts which I shall hereinafter for the
purposes of this Specification refer to as the flap, the base, the angle loop and
the hanger.
The Hap consists of a flat frame-work of wire of any convenient form and
material and the base may consist of a similar frame-work or in its simpler forms
of say two parallel wires or a single bent wire. The angle-loop consists of a turn
of wire the said wire being in some cases continuous though not necessarily
integral with the wire constituting the flap and the base, and the said turn
being of not less than 450 degrees or in other words a complete turn and
a quarter.
When in use it is intended that the base should be flush with a wall to which
it is attached and so that the flap will extend angularly upwards from the lower
edge of the base at which edge are the angle loops. If the turn of the angle loop
is more than a turn and a half, that is to say more than 540 degrees then the
articles which are held will be gripped between the base and the flap. If the turn
of the angle-loop be less than 540 degrees then the article may either be clipped or
be simply supported this depending on the thickness of the article and on the
amount by which the turn of the angle-loop is less than 540 degrees.
The hanger which may be of the form of a stud or hook or the like is attached
to the upper edge of the base and it is designed to engage either a nail or other
equivalent device (fastened say in a wall) or in an angle-loop of a separate clip
constructed according to my invention.
In a contemplated form of my invention my rack or clip is constructed from a
single wire.
By attaching a clip to a wall as above mentioned and by inserting in its angle-
loop or angle-loops the hanger or hangers of another clip a hanging rack consisting
of two clips is formed and by hanging clips to one another in this way a rack
consisting of a long series of clips may be obtained.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figures 1 and 2 are convenient forms of
my invention each constructed of a single wire. A is the flap. The wire con-
stituting this part being bent into a suitable form for holding letters or papers.
B, B' are the angle-loops. C, C' are the wires which in this case constitute the
base. D, D' are the hangers by which the clip is suspended from a wall.
It will be seen that the clip shown in Figure 1 differs from that shown in
Figure 2 merely in the amount of turn of the angle-loop. Thus the angle-loop in
Figure 2 having a turn of more than 540 degrees, the papers which it holds are
gripped or pressed between the flap and the base, whereas in Figure 1 the turn of
the angle-loop being less than 540 degrees, the papers held are not gripped or
squeezed but simply rest in the clip by their own weight.
In Figure 3 I show a case in which three clips are hung together in such a
way as to constitute a single rack consisting of a series of clips. The upper clip is
suspended to nails by its hangers as in Figure 1, the second clip has its bangers
inserted through the angle-loop of the first and the third clip is suspended from

page_text: the second in the same way as the second is suspended from the first. By this
means a long series of clips may be hung one from another. It will be under-
stood that in the case where a series of clips are hung from one another_the
tendency will be for the lower clips of the series to hang some distance out from
the wall and the arrangement is less steady in consequence. To counteract this
defect I give the wires constituting the base a backward bend as shown at c² c³
in Figure 3, this bend being sufficient to bring the angle-loop flush with the wall.
It is generally convenient to give the wire of the flap a bend inwards as shown
at a¹ so as to cause smaller papers to be securely gripped.
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 :-
1. The new or improved rack or clip substantially as set forth.
2. The rack or clip substantially as set forth with reference to Figure 1.
3. The rack or clip substantially as set forth with reference to Figure 2.
4. The combination of clips constituting the series arrangement substantially as
set forth with reference to Figure 3.
et forth with reference to Figure 3.
Dated this 13th day of March 1894.
For the Applicant,
J. G. LORRAIN, M. Inst. E.E., M. Inst. M.E.,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.