Improvements in Ticket Holders for Rolled Textile Piece Goods.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 3rd Aug., 1893—Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in Ticket Holders for Rolled Textile Piece Goods.
I, JAMES JOHNSTON FISKEN, of 24 Sandyford Place, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises the manufacture and use of ticket
holders of a more or less ornamental character intended to be applied to and to
cover one end, or it might be both, of the ordinary wooden boards upon which
finished textile piece goods are rolled in preparation for the warehouse or shop, and
into which tickets or cards could be inserted conveying information as to the goods
such as length, price, or whatever may be desired.
According to one modification these improved ticket holders would be formed or
punched out of thin sheet brass, tin, or other suitable metal, of a more or less
ornamental contour, preferably broadest in the middle and tapering away towards
each end. In the middle portion an opening would be formed of an oblong, oval,
or other shape having four tongues one projecting from the centre of each side and
end, and having the metal slightly cut into at the base of and on each side of the
tongues to permit of their being folded out or turned backwards beyond the edge
of the opening. A ticket or card of a proper size a little larger than the opening
being inserted between the bases of the tongues would be securely fixed by folding
said tongues down against the back of the card; but the number and position of
the tongues could be varied. The ticket holder would then be secured to the end
of the wooden board by brass or other nails and the extreme ends might be turned
inwards at a right angle to cover the corners of the board and might be secured
by nails there also. The ticket holder on each side of or around the ticket. might
be embossed with suitable designs or inscriptions while being punched out, or
afterwards.
By another modification the metal at the sides and one end of the opening when
it is rectangular might be cut in such a way as to permit of its being folded back
and forward to forin a groove or guide into which the card or ticket might be
slipped, a tongue at the remaining end sufficing to secure it in place.
Otherwise the card or ticket might be fixed in the front of the ticket holder by
simply punching out the metal to form angled slits or openings into which the
corners of the card could be inserted to secure it in place and in this case no large
opening would require to be formed in the metal. Or in certain cases preferably
when filigree or other ornamental work was employed: for ornamenting the ticket
holder, tongues could be formed in the metal at proper distances to be folded down
over and secure a card placed on the front of the ticket holder; and all these
arrangements are capable of more or less modification.
When the cloth is wound upon round rollers, instead of the flat boards as herein
before described these ticket holders would preferably be constructed in the form
of end discs or dished caps secured by nails or the elasticity of their dished edges,
either cut or folded in, and be formed with recesses to secure the cards all otherwise
as described in reference to the longitudinal ticket holders.
Dated the oond Navambon 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ticket Holders for Rolled Textile. Piece Goods.
I, JAMES JOHNSTON Fisken, of 24 Sandyford Place, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing that is to say :-
This invention has reference to and comprises the manufacture and use of ticket
holders of a more or less ornamental character intended to be applied to and to
cover one end, or it might be both, of the ordinary wooden boards upon which
finished textile piece goods are rolled in preparation for the warehouse or shop, and
into which tickets or cards could be inserted conveying information as to the goods
such as length, price, or whatever may be desired.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 are views looking respectively at opposite surfaces, and Figure 3
a corresponding edge view of a ticket holder for rolled textile piece goods as
formed in accordance with one arrangement of my improvements.
Figure 4 shows face and sectional views, and Figures 5 and 6 show front face
views of three modified arrangements of my improved ticket holder.
Figure 7 is a view of an oval or elongated roll of piece goods, illustrating the
form of ticket holder shown in Figures 1 to 3 applied thereto.
And
Figure 8 shows side and end views of a cylindrical form of cloth beam illustrating
the form of ticket holder shown in Figure 6 applied thereto.
Referring to these drawings:-According to one modification, as shown in
Figures 1 to 3 and in Figure 7, these improved ticket holders would be formed or
punched out of thin sheet brass, tin, or other suitable metal, or of cardboard,
leather, or other suitable material of a more or less ornamental contour preferably
broadest in the middle a and tapering away towards each end a¹. In the middle
portion a an opening is formed of rectangular, oblong, oval, or other shape
having four tongues c one projecting from the centre of each side and end, and
having the metal slightly cut into, as shown at c¹ Figure 1, at the base of and on
each side of the tongues c to permit of their being folded out or turned backwards
beyond the edge of the opening b. A ticket or card 61 of a proper size a little
larger than the opening on being inserted between the bases of the tongues c
would be securely fixed by folding said tongues c down against the back of the
card ; but the number and position of the tongues c could be varied. The ticket
holder would then be secured to the end of the wooden board, as shown in Figure 7,
by brass or other nails and the extreme ends might be turned inwards at right
angles to cover the corners of the board and might be secured by nails there also.
The ticket holder on each side of or round the ticket might be embossed with
suitable designs or inscriptions while being punched out, or afterwards.
b
By another modification, as shown in Figure 4 the metal at the sides and one end
of the opening when it is rectangular might be cut in such a way as to permit of
its being folded back and forward to form a groove or guide a² into which the card
or ticket might be slipped, a tongue cat the remaining end sufficing to secure
it in place.
Or otherwise, as shown in Figure 6, the card or ticket 61 might be fixed in the
front of the ticket holder by simply punching out the metal to form angled slits or
openings e, into which the corners of the card 6' could be inserted to secure it in
place, and in this case no large opening 6 need be formed in the metal. Or in
certain cases preferably when filigree or other ornamental work was employed for
ornamenting the ticket holder, as shown in Figure 5 tongues c could be formed in
the metal at proper distances to be folded down over and secure a card b' placed on

page_text: the front of the ticket holder; and all these arrangements are capable of more or
less modification.
When the cloth is wound upon round rollers, instead of the flat boards as herein-
before described these ticket holders would preferably be constructed in the form
of end discs, as shown in Figure 8, or of dished caps secured by nails or the
elasticity of their dished edges, either cut or folded in, and be formed with
recesses c' to secure the cards or otherwise as described in reference to the
longitudinal ticket holders.
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:
The constructing of ticket holders for rolled textile piece goods, with tongues,
slits, or equivalent fastenings, substantially as herein described in reference to and
by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
A 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.