Improvements in Clips for Attaching Inflators, Show-cards, or other Articles to Velocipedes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Attaching Inflators, Show-cards, or other
Articles to Velocipedes and the like.
We, HORACE WALTER DOVER, of 15 Beaconsfield Terrace, Northampton,
Engineer, and EDWARD RICHARD WRIGHT, of 45 Hillfield Road, West
Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Clips used for attaching inflators, show-cards, and other articles to veloci-
pedes and the like have hitherto been made of spring steel but it has been
found that clips so made are liable to scratch or damage that part of the machine
over which they are passed and our present invention has for its chief object to
overcome that defect.
According to our invention we line the spring steel or other clip with xylonite
or like material. This lining may be made separate from the casing and of such
size as to fit therein and may be rivetted or otherwise suitably secured thereto or
the process of lining may be effected in any other convenient way. In applying
our invention to an inflator clip we may line that part intended to embrace the
inflator itself as well as that part intended to embrace the machine; or in some cases
the latter part only may be lined as described; this is especially the case with
show-card clips which consist of one lined spring part adapted to embrace the
article to be ticketted and another unlined spring part so shaped as to hold a ticket
or card.
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A. F. SPOONER,
124 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Clips for Attaching Inflators, Show-cards, or other
Articles to Velocipedes and the like.
We, HORACE WALTER DOVER, of 15 Beaconsfield Terrace, Northampton,
Engineer, and EDWARD RICHARD WRIGHT, of 45 Hillfield Road, West
Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 :-
Clips used for attaching inflators, show-cards, and other articles to velocipedes
and the like have hitherto been made of spring steel but it has been found that
clips so made are liable to scratch or damage that part of the machine over which
they are passed and our present invention has for its chief object to overcome that
defect.
The accompanying drawings illustrate our invention, Figure 1 showing in per-
spective one form of inflator clip, and Figures 2, 3 and 4 a show-card clip, Figure 2
being a plan view, Figure 3 a side and Figure 4 an end elevation.

page_text: According to our invention we line the spring steel or other clip a with xylonite
or like non-scratchable material b. The parts a and b may be of equal width or
the non-scratchable lining may be of greater width than the spring steel or like
part a which latter in that case is but a strengthening strip to the xylonite or like
material. The lining b may be made separate from the casing a and of such size
as to fit therein, in which case the two parts are preferably rivetted together as
shown at c, though they may be otherwise suitably secured to each other or the
process of lining may be effected in any other convenient way.
In applying our invention to an inflator clip we may as shown in Figure 1, line
that part intended to embrace the inflator itself as well as that part intended to
embrace the machine; or in some cases the latter part only may be lined as
described. This is especially the case with show-card clips which, as shown in
Figures 2, 3 and 4, consist of one lined spring part d adapted to embrace the
article to be ticketted and another unlined spring part e so shaped as to hold a
ticket or card.
We do not limit ourselves to the precise forms of clips shown in the drawings
nor to the precise way of lining them hereinbefore described it being obvious
that the xylonite or like lining might be moulded within and secured otherwise
than by rivetting to the part b or even that part might be embedded within a
non-scratchable casing.
We are aware that it has been before proposed to line clips with textile material,
cork, sheet rubber and the like but those substances are not durable and they soon
become torn away and destroyed. We do not claim such linings, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A spring steel or like clip lined with xylonite or like non-scratchable
material.
2. A clip consisting of a lining or casing of xylonite or like non-scratchable
material and a strengthening strip of spring steel or its equivalent on the outside
thereof or embedded therein substantially as set forth.
3. Clips for attaching inflators, show-cards or other articles to velocipedes
and the like substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 11th day of November 1895.
A. F. SPOONER,
124 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.