Improved Construction of Card or Tablet Holder for Hospital, Asylum, and Infirmary Bedsteads.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1899.
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1899-Accepted; 23rd Dec., 1899 -
Improved Construction of Card or Tablet Holder for Hospital,
Asylum, and Infirmary Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT PRYKE, of the Firm Pryke & Palmer, 48, Upper Thames
Street, London, Wholesale Ironmongers, do hereby declare, the nature of this
invention to be as follows:.
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This invention has for object, the construction of a card or tablet holder
affixable by spring clip to the head of a bedstead such as in an asylum, hospital,
or infirmary for indicating the No. name, and condition of inmate and other
necessary information concerning one or of the doctors instructions as to medi-
cine, food, and the like.
For the purpose of this invention, the holder frame consists of two stiff wires
bound together at the corners where they are bent and also near the extreme
ends where the wires are opened outwardly and then bent downwardly as_legs
provided with loops or curls to go over the top head rail of a bedstead and for
the insertion of cross bolts which' by fly nuts secure the frame in place, yet
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ready for removal when desired. The bolts may be hinged to the frame.
card or tablet holder proper is fixed to the frame and is of the hinged lip kind
with internal plates by which the necessary grip is obtained on the card when
slipped or pushed in, or when inserted after the clip plates are opened.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Robert Pryke.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Robert Pryke.
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Improved Construction of Card or Tablet Holder for Hospital,
Asylum, and Infirmary Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT PRYKE, of the Firm Pryke & Palmer, 48, Upper Thames
Street, London, Wholesale Ironmongers, 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 object, the construction of a card or tablet holder
affixable by spring clip to the head of a bedstead, such as in an asylum, hospital,
or infirmary for indicating the No. name, and condition of inmate, and other
necessary information concerning one or of the doctors instructions as to medi-
cine, food, and the like.
For the purpose of this invention, the holder frame consists of two stiff wires

page_text: hound together at the corners where they are bent and also near the extreme
ends where the wires are opened outwardly and then bent downwardly as legs
provided with loops or curls to go over the top head rail of a bedstead and for
the insertion of cross bolts which by fly nuts secure the frame in place, yet
ready for removal when desired. The bolts may be hinged to the frame.
card or tablet holder proper is fixed to the frame and is of the hinged lip kind
with internal plates by which the necessary grip is obtained on the card when
slipped or pushed in, or when inserted after the clip plates are opened.
The
The annexed drawings show two examples of my invention consisting of two
steel or like metal wires A, A, of the same shape or form bent squarely, as at
Figure 1, or artistically, as at Figure 2. These wires are bound with fine
wire B, B, at certain parts of their bends and corners as to rigidly connect
them.
The lower ends C, C, of each pair are bent outwardly and looped, as at D, D,
to form eyes for the reception of a bolt key or screw pin E, the head F being
pushed through the eyes, as at Figure 1, or of eye bolts G passed into the hook
like loops of the ends C, C, for easy removal and for attachment to the head of
a bedstead, such as to the top head rail, the bolts being secured by fly nuts H. H.
The central upper part of the bound wires A, A, have affixed to them by solder
or other means one cheek of a clip I, the other cheek of the clip being spring
hinged to close upon or against the edge of the fixed cheek to hold the card J
firmly when placed between them. I prefer to place thin plates between the
cheeks, or I mount a thin plate doubled over edge of that pait of the card J so
that the clipping device would not injure the card when fitted within it.
The clips are of the ordinary and well known kind and form no part of my
invention, except for their application to bound wires affixable to head rails of
bedsteads for the purpose explained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18:
The improved construction of card or tablet holder shown on the annexed
drawings consisting of two wires A, A, bound together, as at B, B, and bent to
shape and formed with eyes or loops 1), D, for attachment bolts E, E, and
having clipping devices I affixed in the manner and for the purpose specified.
The 8th day of November 1899.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Robert Pryke.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Robert Pryke.