An Improved Clip or Holder for Letters, Books, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Loft, 31st July, 1980 Accepted, 31st Aug., 108
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip or Holder for Letters, Books, and the like.
I, JAMES MAC NAUGHTON of 26 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gunmaker,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved clip or holder for letters, printed matter,
books, stationery and the like and the said improved holder consists of a stationary
base or plate to which there are attached two parallel guide rods. On the said rods
there is situated a movable plate which is forced towards the fixed base or plate by
means of spiral or like springs surrounding the guide rods and the movable plate is
provided with a thumb or finger piece to enable it to be drawn back against the
pressure of the springs with one hand whilst the other hand is free to insert the papers
in position between the two plates.
Dated this Thirty first day of October 1888.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip or Holder for Letters, Books, and the like.
I, JAMES MAC NAUGHTON of 26 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gun-
maker, 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 relates to an improved clip or holder for letters, printed matter,
books, stationery, and the like and as constructed under one modification illustrated
in front elevation at figure 1 and in side elevation at figuro 2 sheet 1 of the annexed
drawings the said improved holder consists of a fixed or stationary base or plate a,
to which there are attached two parallel guide rods b, these, at their upper ends,
preferably terminating in an eye c, to enable the clip to be hung or suspended. On
the said rods b, there is situated a movable plate d, which is forced towards the
stationary base or plate a, by means of spiral springs e, surrounding the guide rods
and the movable plate is provided with a thumb or finger piece f, to enable it to be
drawn up or back, against the pressure of the springs, with one hand whilst the
other hand is free to insert the papers g, in position between the two plates. The
springs are confined between collars or ruffs h, formed on or secured to the guide rods b,
and sleeves i, formed on or attached to the movable plate d, and through which the
guide rods b, pass and whilst this form of the clip or holder may be made of any
desired suitable material or combination of materials it may, inclusive of the springs e,
be conveniently manufactured in ebonite, vulcanite or the like.
Figure 1 sheet 2 illustrates in front elevation, figure 2 in side olevation and
figure 3 in plan, another modification of the Invention in which, instead of employing
two guide rods with a separate spring for each, one guide b, only is used the said
guide at its lower end being mortised into and glued or otherwise fastened to the
back of the base plate a. The guide is composed of two thicknesses of material
glued or otherwiso secured together at the centre of the meeting faces of each of
which a channel x, is made to receive a spring e, the upper end of the spring bearing
on an abutment y at the top of the guide whilst its lower end rests upon a tongue or
pine, projecting into the channel from the back of the movable plate d, which slides
on the guide. A finger piece k, is formed on or secured to the upper end of the

page_text: guide and by holding upon the said piece and raising the plate d, by the thumb or
finger applied to the piece f, the papers may be inserted between or withdrawn from
between the plates a and d.
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-
A clip or holder for letters books, printed matter, stationery and the like con-
structed substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the two sheets of
drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this Thirtieth day of July 1880
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.