Improvements in Display Cards for Lead Pencils and other Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar.. 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Display Cards for Lead Pencils and other
Articles.
A communication by BYRON 'BENJAMIN GOLDSMITH, of 19 East 74th Street,
New York, in the County and State of New York, United States of America,
Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick and 322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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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This invention has reference to improvements in display cards for lead pencils,
pen-holders, vials, and other articles, and its object is to facilitate the assembling
of the articles on the cards, and their removal therefrom, to prevent the finish of
the articles from being marred by the fastening devices, and to provide a means
whereby the cards may be stacked for shipment without additional means interposed
between the cards, for protecting the articles.
It has been customary, heretofore, to secure pencils, pen-holders and other
articles to display cards, by means of metal fasteners or wire, cord or elastic loops,
which, in order to bold the articles securely were made to bind them with
considerable force. It has been found difficult, and consequently costly, to assemble
the articles on such cards, and it is also difficult to replace an article, when, for any
cause, it has been removed.
Also, with such display cards the fastening devices, necessarily binding the
articles with considerable force, produce an unsightly mark upon the finish where
they touch the articles and where they force the latter against the display card.
For this reason, pencils, penholders and the like, when mounted upon display cards
in the manner heretofore practiced, never look perfect when removed from the
cards for sale.
These objections are obviated by this invention which consists in making the
fastening devices, preferably in the form of loops, of such large size that the
articles may be inserted lengthwise into them or be removed from them, with
the greatest ease, while no pressure whatever is brought to bear upon the said
articles, so that their perfection of finish is in no manner marred. In order to
prevent the articles from moving longitudinally and so escaping from the fastening
devices, a stop is arranged at each end of the series of articles on a card, but in
order to readily assemble the articles or to remove or replace one or more of them,
the stop at one end of the series is made removable.
Each stop may be co-extensive with a whole series of articles on the card, or
individual stops may be used for each article. The stops are utilized as spacing
blocks when the cards are stacked for shipment, by making them project from the
card to a greater extent than the articles on the card.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a display card with pen-holders thereon,
constructed in accordance with this invention, with some of the parts removed;
Fig. 2, is a cross section of the same, and
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page_text: Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, there is shown
a rectangular card 1, which in practice is usually made of card-board, but any
other shape may be adopted and any other suitable material may be used.
In the drawings my correspondent has shown one form of display card adapted
to carry one dozen pen holders 2, arranged parallel to each other.
The card is perforated to form two series of slots 3, 4, one series near one side
of the card and the other series near the other side of the card, the slots 4, being of
less length than the slots 3. Through the slots 3, there project U-shaped wire
loops 5, and through the slots 4, there project other and smaller U-shaped loops 6.
Each loop 5 and 6, has the free ends of both legs bent opposite at right angles, as
shown at 7, Fig. 3, to constitute stops engaging the underside of the card at the ends
of the slots and thereby limiting the projection of the loops above the face of
the card.
These loops are sufficiently elastic to maintain their positions when sprung into
place.
The loops 5, are, moreover, of such size that the penholders may be freely
passed lengthwise through them, while the loops 6, are large enough to receive the
smaller ends of the penholders without in any manner binding the same.
The two series of slots 3, 4, are so arrauged that the larger loops 5, surround
the penholders at the ferrule end, and the smaller loops 6, surround the pen-holder;
near the small end, while the swell of the penholders rests on the card, but the
penholders are only loosely held in place by the loops and consequently their
finish is not marred, as is the case where the holding devices bind the penholders
firmly in place.
The renholders are locked against lengthwise movement by two stops 8, 9,
formed, in this instance, as prismatic strips, one of them 8, being permanently fixed
to the card adjacent and parallel to the slots 4, while the other stop 9, is removably
held to the card adjacent to the slots 3, and the distance between these two stops
is slightly greater than, or approximately the same, as the length of a penholder.
These stops may be of the shape shown or of any other suitable shape, and they
may be solid, as shown in Fig. 2, or hollow, as shown in Fig. 7, in which latter
case they may be made of card board.
The stop 9, is attached to the card by two loops 10, of elastic cord, one near
each end of the stop, so that the said loops may be slipped over the ends of the
stop either to secure it in place or for the purpose of removing it.
It will, of course, be understood that the stop 9 may be attached in other ways
to the card, so that it may be readily removed in order that the penholders may
be put upon or taken from the card.
The two stops 8 and 9, are made of such height above the face of the card that
a second card placed upon the first will be supported, by the stops, out of contact
with the penholders or other articles on the card below. By this means the cards
may be stacked for shipment, without the articles being subjected to pressure or
chafing from the overlaying cards, and, being, therefore, saved from injury from
such cause, will be received in perfect condition by the purchaser, instead of being
more or less damaged in transit, as heretofore.
Instead of forming slots 3, 4, for the loops 5, 6, the card may be provided with
pairs of perforations 11, as shown in Fig. 4, through which perforations the legs
of the loops are passed and the ends 7, then bent over at right angles as in the
form shown in Fig. 3. Or the entire series of loops 5 or may be formed of a
single piece of wire, appropriately bent, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
In Fig. 5, the wire is bent into a series of loops 5, spaced and shaped to pass
through slots 3, in the card with connecting branches, 71, which engage the under
side of the card and limit the projection of the loops above the face of the card,
as in the forms before described. In Fig. 6, the series of loops 5' is formed of
one piece of material with connecting branches 711, arranged to rest upon and be
secured in any suitable manner to the face of the card, the slots 31, or perfora-
tions 11, being unnecessary in this instance.

page_text: My correspondent does not limit himself, however, to the use of loops formed in
the manner shown and described, but may use any form of loop or holder made.
in any manner or of any material, adapted to the purposes of the invention.
Likewise he does not limit himself to the prismatic stop strips shown in Figs. 1,
2 and 7, but may use any other forms of stops, especially when they serve, at the
same time, as spacing blocks for packing the cards for shipment.
Each article may have an individual stop at each end, and in Fig. 8, are shown
a few of the many possible forms by way of illustration.
Each individual stop may be made of a tongue 81, cut from the material of the
card and bent up at right angles to the face of the latter; or it may be a tongue 8³,
made separately and glued at one end to the face of the card or otherwise fastened
thereto, and bent upwardly at right angles. Still another of the many forms of
stops that may be used may consist of a strip 83, fast on the card and provided.
with suitably spaced tongues 84, that are bent up as shown.
It will also be clear that if the display card is designed to be normally set up
in such manner as to have the articles mounted thereon extend vertically or in
a plane inclined to the vertical, there need only be used the fixed bottom stop or
stops and the removable stop or stops may be dispensed with altogether when the
card is set up for displaying the articles.
It will be seen, therefore, that the details of construction of the improved
display card may be variously modified without departing from the invention, it
being only necessary that the articles be held in place on the card without injurious
pressure and be easily inserted into and removed from the holding devices, and that
there be spacing devices for holding the cards apart for stacking for shipment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A display card for pencils, penholders and other articles, provided with loops
or holders of such size as to receive the articles loosely, and a stop or stops, for
holding the said articles in said loops or holders, substantially as described.
2. A display card for pencils, penholders, and other articles, provided with loops
or holders for the articles and stops for each end of the articles, substantially as
described.
3. A display card for pencils, penholders, and other articles, provided with loops.
or holders for the articles, a fixed stop or stops at one end of the articles and one
or more stops, capable of being removed or displaced, at the other end of the
articles, substantially as described.
4. A display card for pencils, penholders and other articles, provided with loops
or holders for the articles, and stops, at each end of the articles, of greater height
than the projection of the articles above the face of the card, substantially as
described.
5. A display card for pencils, penholders and other articles, provided with
holding devices for the articles, comprising U-shaped spring loops, sprung into
slots in the card, so as to project above the face thereof, substantially as
described.
6. A display card for a series of pencils, penholders, and other articles, provided
with loops or holders for the articles, a fixed stop co-extensive with the series, at
one end of the articles, and a removable stop co-extensive with the series, at the
other end of the articles, substantially as described.
Dated this 15th day of February 1897
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.