Improvements in Holders for Pictures and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1895-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1895
DIEVIELATIVA,
Improvements in Holders for Pictures and the like.
I CARL WINZER of 71 Mariannenstrasse Leipzig-Neustadt in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to holders intended to receive and support photographs or
other pictures upon cards or the like, or other articles of a like nature, together
with the covering glass if such is used.
The improved holder consists of a board, tablet or frame having at one end
immoveable hooks preferably two in number, and at the other end a hook made of
spring metal. At the sides of the frame there may be projecting ears to prevent
Jateral displacement of the picture or other object held under the said hooks, that
is to say between the hooks and the board, tablet or frame. These holders may
have props for supporting them, or rings for suspending them, or they may be
fixed upon a larger board or frame in suitable number for simultaneous exhibition
of a number of such pictures or the like so that the whole may form a multiple
holder from which any picture may be removed to be replaced by another as
desired.
Dated this 4th day of March 1894
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Pictures and the like.
I, CARL WINZER of 71 Mariannenstrasse Leipzig-Neustadt, in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturer 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 holders intended to receive and support photographs or
other pictures upon cards or the like, or other articles of a like nature, together
with the covering glass if such is used.
The improved bolder consists of a board or bar, tablet or frame having at one
end immovable hooks preferably two in number and at the other end one or more
hooks made of spring metal. At the sides of the frame there may be projecting
ears to prevent lateral displacement of the picture or other object held under said
hooks, that is to say, between the hooks and the board or bar, tablet or frame.
These holders may have props for supporting them, or rings for suspending them,
or they may be fixed upon a larger board or frame in suitable number for
simultaneous exhibitions of a number of such pictures or the like so that the
whole may form a multiple holder from which any picture may be removed to be
replaced by another as desired.
In the annexed drawing,
Fig. 1 shows a holder in the form of a cross consisting of the frame P with the

page_text: fixed hook H¹ the spring hook H and the two side ears A, A¹. Fig. 2 is a side or
elge view thereof.
Fig. 3 shows a holder in which the frame is replaced by a board or tablet P¹
having at its lower edge two fixed and rigid hooks H, H, and at the upper edge
the spring hook E, the side ears being omitted. Fig. 4 is a side view of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 shows the holder provided with a prop for its support and an eye or ring
for its suspension, these parts being similar to those fitted to holders of other kinds
as at present in use.
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In using this holder the card or picture for which the holder is suited in
size, is inserted by placing one edge under the rigid hooks, whereupon a simple
pressure will spring the card under the spring hook. For releasing the card it is
sufficient to simply pull its edge upwards so that it deflects and passes out of the
spring hook or hooks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. A picture or card holder comprising a frame, board, bar or tablet having at
one of its edges rigid hooks and at the opposite elge thereto a hook or hooks of
spring metal adapted to receive and hold the picture or card in the manner
described.
2. A picture or card holder having rigid and spring hooks as above set forth
and also lateral ears at the remaining edges as illustrated and for the purpose
described.
3. A board having affixed to it a plurality of picture or card holders of the
construction above set forth for the purpose of grouping said pictures or cards.
Dated this 15th day of July 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.