Improved Holder for Retaining Address Cards, Labels, or Tickets on Railway Vehicles and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Holder for Retaining Address Cards, Labels, or Tickets on
Railway Vehicles and the like.
I, JOHN COWAN, Works Manager, Glasgow and South-Western Railway,
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved construction of
spring holder or device for retaining address cards, labels or tickets on railway
wagons or other vehicles and the like; and which will be more simple, efficient,
light, and cheaper than the card or label holders heretofore in use.
My improved spring holder consists of two main parts, preferably formed of
malleable cast iron, a fixed or stationary hinged part screwed to the sole bar or
side frame of the wagon, and a movable spring clipping or ticket gripping part
hinged to and secured by the before mentioned fixed part.
Under one arrangement the fixed or stationary part would consist of an inverted
saddle or shaped plate with enlarged upper ends in which would be formed side
journal recesses or grooves for the movable clipping part to be hinged or secured
and work freely in. This stationary plate part would be secured to the sole bar
or side of the wagon by countersunk screws through eyes at its upper end below
the joint parts; and be formed with a socket at its lower centre part fitting into a
hole or recess bored in the wagon frame to receive a helical or spiral spring. This
spring would act between the socket in the wagon frame, and a lower centre lever
arm formed on the lower oscillating bar of card gripping part, to keep the latter
always acting with the force of the spring against the card which it clipped for
the time being on the side of the wagon; and this spring might be covered in by a
metal tube or socket part to protect it from the action of the weather. The card
clipping part is preferably formed in one piece of malleable cast iron of half round
or round section, grooved or corrugated on the inner surface to form sharp gripping
edges for the cards, and of an open nearly rectangular frame shape, with slightly
angled sides and a transverse convex curved joining top bar part bending out from
the frame for the finger to grip and pull when inserting or removing a card, the
lower transverse joining bar part of the frame being hinged or secured against
the side of the wagon and working freely in the journal recesses formed in the
stationary plate part. While the abutting lever arm or lug for the spring would
project down from the centre of the lower transverse bar part of the clip and
receive the end of the spring in a recess in its under surface, and compresses down
the spring at each action of inserting into or removing an address card or ticket
from the clipping frame part which would thus always grip the card with the full
strength of the spring. The spring of this holder although described as a helical
or spiral spring, may be a blade or volute spring, although the helical form is
preferred.
Dated the 5th January 1891.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents,

page_text: chief parts A, and B, hinged together by the hooked bearings C, and operated by
a coiled spring, or its equivalent, enclosed in a pocket D, and acting on the arm G,
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
Deted the 25th dox of Sentember 1801
ROBT. F. DRURY, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.