An Easel Card Rest and Ticket Combined for Photographs, Christmas and other Cards.
Year: 1888

page_text: An Easel Card Rest and Ticket Combined for Photographs,
Christmas and other Cards.
HERBERT EDWARD PALMER 6 Barker Street Villa Cross Birmingham Hosier &
Glover do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
I make of Cardboard or other suitable material a Card Rest in shape of an Easel,
by taking a strip of the material and scoring it, or partly cutting it through, or
making a joint in any other convenient manner, so that it shall, when folded be of
the form of a triangle, one side resting on the shelf, table, or other support, & leaving
a narrow strip to fold back & catch the other end, thus preventing it slipping. On
the front side or face 1 cut a slit to form a clip, three sides of a square, or two sides
of a triangle, or of any other convenient form, leaving a portion uncut, which thus
forms a catch or clip to admit & hold the Photograph or card, which thus reclines
against the front side of the Easel. On the aforesaid clip I print a border, so that
it may be used as a Ticket for price of article resting on Easel. In the foregoing 1
thus make a card rest or clip and Ticket combined, which is not at present done, also
obviating the damage resulting from the use of the present metal clips and making
them much cheaper.
No 1888

page_text: An Easel Card Rest and Ticket Combined for Photographs,
Christmas and other Cards.
1 HERBERT EDWARD PALMER 6 Barker Street Villa Cross Birmingham Hosier
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:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a Rest for Photographs, Christmas,
Jewellers & other Cards, which will also, if required, serve the purpose of a Ticket
for the price of the article it supports, or form by itself a self-supporting Christinas
Card, Menu or Almanac etc.
In order to enable my Invention to be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
how the same can be made by reference to the accompanying drawings, similar
letters in all the figures representing similar parts.
1 take a strip (Fig. 1) of Cardboard, Paper, Wood, Zinc, Tin or Brass etc., of any
conveniant size and shape, and make in it three joints (A B (Fig. 1) either by
scoring, partly cutting through the material, pressure, or in any other manner, so
that it may be folded into a Triangular shaped Rest, or self-supporting Christmas
Card etc., standing on base E as in Fig. 2. The narrow strip D.Fig. 1 I fold back
and fit to the hinder part of the Rest G by means of the Tongues D and H, which
I form by cutting slits in the material, thus making the whole firm as shown
in Fig. 2.
On the front face of the Rest F I cut a slit J three sides of a square as in Fig. 1,
or two sides of a triangle, or any other shape so as to leave a portion uncut. I thus
form a Catch or Clip to admit and hold the Photograph or other article (K Fig. 3)
which reclines against the front side of the Rest (F) as shown in Fig. 3. On the
aforesaid Clip (J) I print a border so that it may be used as a Ticket for price of
article resting on the Eusel.
I also make the Rost in various shapes and sizes, for supporting Jewellery etc. as
shown in Fig. 4; or by printing on front face of Rest I use it as a self supporting
Christmas Card, Menu or Almanac etc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. That I make and form this Rest out of Card, paper, wood, zinc, tin or brass etc.,
by means of joints made by scoring, pressure, partly cutting through the material
or otherwise, the ends being held together by slits or Tongues cut in one or both.
ends, as in manner heretofore substantially described and set forth.
2. That I make the Ensel Rest sorve the purpose of Card Rest and Ticket
combined; of a self supporting Christmas Card, Menu, or Almanac etc., and a variety
of similar purposes.
Dated this 30th day of November 1888.