Improvements in Holders or Frames for Holding and Exposing to View Newspaper Contents Bills, Newspapers, Notices, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1992-Accepted, 6th Aug.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders or Frames for Holding and Exposing to
View Newspaper Contents Bills, Newspapers, Notices, and the
like.
I, BENJAMIN CORRIOK, of Colegate Street, Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,
Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in holders or frames for holding and
exposing to view newspaper contents bills, newspapers, notices and the like.
Holders or frames according to this invention are constructed with two movable
or clamping bars either or both of which may fit into a recess in the back of the
holder or frame (hereinafter called a holder) or may have a fillet or a groove
adapted to engage with a corresponding groove or fillet, as the case may be, in or
upon the back of the holder, so that a sheet of paper placed between the bars and
the back of the holder will be firmly clamped at two opposite ends or sides and
held in a stretched condition.
In one construction of holder according to this invention, an upper cross. bar is
hinged at its upper part to the top of the holder, and is formed with a longitudinal
groove adapted to engage with a corresponding fillet on the back of the holder.
A spring catch is provided to normally hold the cross piece in the closed position.
The lower cross bar is removable and is held in place by means of a tenon formed
at one end thereof engaging with a mortice in the side of the holder, and by a
spring catch at the other end. It is also provided with a groove adapted to fit over
a fillet on the back of the holder. The contents bill or other sheet to be exposed
to view has its upper edge inserted under the hinged upper cross bar which when
turned down causes it to be tightly held by the groove and fillet. The lower cross bar
is then placed in position and holds the lower edge of the sheet between the lower
groove and fillet.
In some cases the hinged cross-bar may be made of sufficient width to have a
suitable name or inscription thereon and the spring catch may be provided at or
near the centre thereof, while the lower cross bar instead of being removable may
have a hinge in place of the mortise and tenon described. Moreover both the upper
and lower cross pieces may be hinged and spring catches may be dispensed with,
suitable springs being employed in this case to cause the hinged pieces to bear upon
the paper with sufficient force to hold the same firmly in position.
According to a modification the edges of the paper are held each in-a-groove of
suitable width in the back of the holder by means of an elastic band stretched
along the groove between pins, pegs, or projections at each end thereof.
As will be obvious holders according to this invention may if desired be
constructed to hold several news-bills or other sheets arranged side by side.
Doted this 14th day of September 1891.

page_text: Fig. 1 shows in front elevation; and
Fig. 2 in vertical cross section, one construction of holder according to this
. invention.
A is an upper cross bar hinged at its upper part at A¹ to the upper fixed bar B
of the holder. It is formed at its inner side with a longitudinal groove A³ adapted
to engage with a corresponding fillet C on the back D of the holder. E is a spring
catch that serves to hold the cross bar in the closed position. F is a lower
removable cross bar that is. held in place at one end by means of a tenon F¹ formed
at one of the bar and arranged to enter laterally into a mortise in the side G of the
holder, and at the other end by a spring catch E. It is also provided with a
longitudinal groove F adapted to fit over a lower fillet H on the back D of the
holder.
The contents bill or other sheet to be exposed to view represented by a dotted
line in Fig. 2, has its upper edge inserted under the hinged upper cross bar A which,
when turned down, causes it to be tightly clamped within the groove A² by the
fillet C. The lower cross bar F is then placed in position whereby the lower edge
of the sheet will be firmly clamped within the groove F' of the cross bar F by the
fillet, H, and the sheet will be drawn tight and held in a stretched condition.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation and
Fig. 4 a transverse vertical section illustrating a modified construction in which
the hinged cross bar A which is made of sufficient width to have a name or
inscription placed thereon, is formed with a fillet A³ adapted to enter a groove D¹
in the back D, and the spring catch E, is arranged at or near the centre of the bar.
The lower cross bar F instead of being removable, is hinged at one end and
provided with a spring catch E¹ at the other, and instead of being formed with a
groove to receive a fillet on the holder as in Figs. 1 and 2, is arranged to partly
enter a groove D'in the back. D' of the holder.
In the arrangement: shown.in. Figs. 5 and 6, which are respectively a front
elevation and transverse vertical section, both the upper and lower cross bars A
and F are hinged and provided with fillets A' and that enter grooves D³ D³
respectively in the back D. The spring catches used in the other arrangements
being replaced in this case by suitable springs such as I, I' arranged to cause the
hinged cross bars to bear upon the paper with sufficient force to hold the same
firmly in position, but nevertheless in such a manner that the said bars can be
readily turned upon their hinges to allow of a sheet of paper being placed in or
removed from the holder.

page_text: According to another construction the upper and lower cross bars A and F
respectively, are each made removable and arranged to enter a recess in the back D
of the holder, being held at one end by a tenon F¹ that is formed at one end of
the bar and enters a mortise in the side or stile G of the holder, and at the other
end by a catch or button + pivotted to the opposite side or stile G' of the holder
as shown in Figs. 7 and 8 which are respectively a front elevation and horizontal
section of a part of the holder with one of the cross bars. This arrangement
enables the holder to be constructed in a very simple and cheap form.
Fig. 9 is a front elevation and Fig. 10 a transverse section of another arrange-
ment in which the cross bars are dispensed with, the back D of the holder being
formed with upper and lower grooves D' within which the upper and lower ends of
a sheet of paper can be tightly held, by elastic bands J, each of which is stretched
along one of the grooves as shown between pins, pegs or projections K K at the
ends thereof.
Holders according to this invention may be constructed of any suitable material
such as wood, and may if desired be constructed to hold several news-bills or other
sheets arranged side by side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For holding and exposing to view newspaper contents bills, newspapers,
notices and the like, a holder or frame constructed with. two movable clamping
bars either or each of which is adapted to enter a groove or recess in the back of
the holder, or is provided with a fillet or groove adapted to engage with a corre-
sponding groove or fillet in or upon the back of the holder, and with means for
retaining the said bars in their closed positions, the arrangement being such that a
sheet of paper placed between the bars and the back of the holder can be firmly
clamped at two opposite ends or sides and held in a stretched condition, substantially
as described.
2. Holders or frames for holding and exposing to view newspaper contents bills,
newspapers, notices and the like constructed and arranged substantially as herein-
before described with reference respectively to and shown in Figs. 1 and 2; in
Figs. 3 and 4; in Figs. 5 and 6; in Figs. 7 and 8, and in Figs. 9 and 10 of the
drawings annexed.
Dated this 11th dex of June 1802