Improvements in Paper Fasteners and Label Holders.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Fasteners and Label Holders.
I SAMUEL LEAROYD of Sherwood House Huddersfield in the County of York
and of 12 Coleman Street in the City of London, Solicitor do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in paper fasteners and label holders of
the kind or class in which pins or points on one side or end of the fastener are
intended to be passed through the papers or materials.
In my Specification Number 24908 of 1895 I have described and illustrated
means whereby the metal blank of the fastener can be cut out of a thin sheet of
metal and the pin out of a thicker metal so as to give greater strength to the pin
than to the bending part of the fastener. My invention consists of other methods
whereby this same result can be more conveniently and more economically
accomplished by the use of one thickness of metal throughout where desired.
I weld together by electrical welding or by any other well known process two
different kinds of metal one of which, such as thin brass, will easily bend and out
of which I form the bending part of the fastener and the other of a rigid metal,
such as steel, out of which I cut and form the pin and then I cut or stamp my
fasteners out of these blended metals. I sometimes blend the two metals in the
sheet and at other times in a bar and at others in wire with alternating pieces of the
two metals of any desired length or width and then roll or draw these bars or
sheets to the desired thickness or guage. By this method I secure one thickness
of metal for the fasteners with rigidity in one part of it and flexibility in the
other.
Where it is desired to have two or more rigid parts and one or more flexible
parts 1 adopt the same process only I then blend two or more rigid parts of the
metal instead of one and two or more flexible parts as desired and I then weld the
whole of the parts together.
In some cases I roll or draw my welded metals in flat wires and in others in
sheets out of which my blanks are cut or stamped as illustrated in my former
specification above referred to only that by this method I produce the fasteners
from one thickness or gauge of metal.
In other cases I produce rigidity in the pins by coating them with another metal
by well known electrical and other processes and in other cases I use a thicker
metal throughout and soften or anneal the part to be bent by an electrical or other
well known process. These processes I do not claim except as applied to the
hardening of the pins and the softening of the parts of bending of my metal paper
fasteners made according to my invention.
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. A paper fastener or label holder formed from a blank of one thickness or
gauge of metal consisting of two or more different metals welded together one
being a rigid metal and the other flexible substantially as described and for the
purposes specified.
2. A paper fastener or label holder in which the pin is formed of a rigid metal

page_text: and the bending part of a flexible metal substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.
3. A metal paper fastener or label holder in which the pin is made hard and
rigid and the bending part soft and flexible substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 18th day of Mar 1806
SAMUEL LEAROYD.