Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Notices, Newspapers, and the like
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan.. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Notices,
Newspapers, and the like.
I, WILLIAM CREASY of Clopton, near Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk,
Registrar of Births and Deaths, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
This invention has for its object to provide effective means for securely affixing
sheets containing advertisements, notices, newspapers and the like to displaying
frames, bill or notice boards, or other surfaces and consists essentially of a
horizontal gripping bar or jaw with pivotal extensions rotatively working in
suitable bearings, and being normally pressed against a seat carrying spikes which
are received in corresponding holes or recesses in the said bar so that, when a sheet
is introduced between said gripping bar and its seat the spikes pass through it and
into the corresponding holes by which means it is effectively secured.
In one arrangement of notice or advertisement board constructed according to
this invention a flat bar, of suitable cross section, is provided, at the ends of one of
its edges, with pivotal extensions rotatively working in suitable brackets or luge
secured to the board, a helical or spiral spring on one of the said extensions
causing its lip or remote edge to normally press upon the board from which it may
be raised by means of a milled button-head on either of the beforementioned pivotal
extensions. A number of spikes project through the board. and are normally
received in corresponding holes or recesses in the gripping bar or jaw. In order
to affix an advertisement or other sheet in the apparatus the gripping jaw is raised
aud the sheet inserted beneath it, the beforementioned spring causing the said
gripper jaw to press the spikes through the sheet into the corresponding holes and
effectually secure it.
Several parallel gripping bars may be mounted on one board at suitable
intervals apart; and in order that the affixed sheets may lie flat upon the boards,
the gripping bars are placed in sunken grooves or channels so that their upper
surfaces may not project beyond the surface of the board.
Spanning rods at a suitable distance from the surface of the board keep the
sheets in position.
Instead of the abovedescribed arrangement, with wooden base, the gripping
devices may be mounted on a skeleton metallic framework of any suitable design,
which may be secured by screws or otherwise to doors or other surfaces.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Notices,.
Newspapers, and the like,
I, WILLIAM CREASY, of Clopton, near Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk,
Registrar of Births and Deatha, 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 has for its object to provide effective means for securely affixing
sheets containing advertisements, notices, newspapers and the like to displaying
frames, bill or notice boards or other surfaces and consists essentially of a
horizontal gripping bar or its equivalent with pivotal extensions rotatively
working in suitable bearings and being normally pressed against a seat carrying
spikes so that when a sheet is introduced between them the said spikes pass through
it and effectively secure it.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and
Fig. 2 a vertical section of an apparatus constructed according to this
invention, and
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modification of the same.
In one arrangement of notice or advertisement board constructed according to
this invention and shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a flat bar a is provided at the ends of
one of its edges with pivotal extensions b and c rotatively working in brackets or
plates & secured to the board. e, a helical or spiral spring fon one of the said
extensions & causing its lip or remote: edge to normally press upon the board from
which it may be raised by means of a milled button head 9 on the beforementioned
pivotal extension c. A number of spikes h project through the board and are
normally received in corresponding holes or openings i in the gripping bar.
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In order to affix an advertisement or other sheet in the apparatus the gripping
bar a is raised and the sheet inserted beneath it, the beforementioned spring
causing the said gripping bar to press the spikes. through the sheet into the
corresponding holes or openings and effectually secure it..
Several parallel gripping bars may be mounted on one board at suitable intervals
apart and in order that the affixed sheets may be flat upon the boards the gripping bars
are placed in sunken grooves or channels so that their upper surfaces may not
project beyond the surface of the board all as shown.
Spanning rods at a suitable distance from the surface of the board e keep the
sheets in position.
In the modified arrangement ahown in Figs. 3 and 4 instead of the flat bar a
(Figs. 1 and 2) a rod m bearing in lugs no on a. plate p secured in a channel in a
base board e has securely mounted on its opposite ends two crank arms qr between
which are tightly stretched two wires s as shown.
The rod m is sunk in a groove in the bar p which is also hollowed out so that the
points of the spikes i do not project beyond the level of the surface of the board e.
Normally the wires are pressed by the spring t upon the face of the bar
P, but
they may be raised for the insertion of a sheet of paper by pressing the tail the
release of which allows them to be again pressed upon the bar p so as to force the
spikes i through the paper and thereby secure it. Preferably the upper surface of
the bar p is flush with that of the board e.
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. An apparatus for displaying advertisements, notices, newspapers and the like

page_text: comprising a hinged gripping bar mounted on a base board and pressed thereon by
a spring so as to force holding spikes through the sheet to be secured, substantially
as described.
2. The arrangement and construction of apparatus for displaying advertisements,..
notices, newspapers and the like, substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.
3. The arrangement and construction of apparatus for displaying advertisements,
notices, -newspapers and the like, substantially as described with reference to-
Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents..