Improvements in Spring Clips or Holders for Suspending or Retaining Decorative Cards, Photos, Price Tickets, Light Carded Goods, and for other analogous purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Clips or Holders for Suspending or
Retaining Decorative Cards, Photos, Price Tickets, Light Carded
Goods, and for other analogous purposes.
I, JOHN TOUGH, of 210 King Edwards Road, Birmingham, Stationers
Sundryman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the construction of spring clips or holders, chiefly
employed for suspending or retaining and displaying such cards, or photographs, as
are adopted at festival times, and light carded goods in shop windows, and price or
descriptive tickets, and for other like purposes.
I will describe my invention thus:-
From a strip of metal (mild steel-by preference on account of its elasticity) I cut
or pierce out a strip of a width and length suitable to the purpose. This strip may
be parallel at its edges, or the same may be configurated; this strip is of a length
sufficient to allow of it being bent or folded to any required number of equal or
unequal lengths, each part where the bend is upper or lower being formed as a
spring and slightly bowed giving elasticity and a grip to what may be placed
between.
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One end of this band may terminate as a pointal hook and thus be engaged with
its ticket of price and ticket of quality or otherwise to all soft goods, or the said.
hook may be so formed as to engage upon a rod or string, this may be termed the
back.
The front in some cases I should pierce so as to form a surface tongue which
would receive a small ticket for the price, or other purpose, this front may he plain
or ornamented with tools in a well known manner, the terminal may be rounded or
formed as a hook upon which goods could be suspended such as watches, &c., &c.
Dated 7th September 1892.
THOS. KENDRICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Spring Clips or
Holders, for Suspending or
Retaining Decorative Cards, Photos, Price Tickets, Light Carded
Goods, and for other analogous purposes.
I, JOHN TOUGH, of 210 King Edwards Road, Birmingham, Stationers
Sundryman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to spring clips, or holders, of that class employed in
shop windows, more particularly for suspending, or retaining, and displaying, cards,
photographs, light carded and other goods with the price or descriptive tickets.
And in order that this my said invention may be more clearly understood I will
now proceed to describe the same, reference being made to the sheet of drawings
hereunto annexed, to the various figures, and letters, marked thereon, that is to
say :-
Fig. 1, a is a strip of metal (blank form) cut or pierced with tools specially
provided, being the first process of manufacture, by the aid of tools it is bent or
folded as Fig. 2, a side view elevation, each number indicating the section of bend,
or fold, which form the springs b, and c, which yield sufficient to receive the cards,

page_text: photos, or carded goods, and yet to hold the same in position, the hend at d, forins
the pointed hook e, which can be suspended from a cord, or rod, g, or affixed by its
point to any material, as wearing apparel, and like purposes.
Fig. 3 is a front view in elevation, h, is the surface tongue for receiving the
ticket i, to denote the price, or quality. In some cases I may extend the terminal
which is slightly bent to facilitate the entry of the card into a hook, upon which
goods such as jewellery, may be suspended, this is indicated by the dotted lines in
Fig. 2, and marked h¹.
Fig. 4 is a view in elevation, and suspended or hung upon the cord or rod g, but
shewn applied to its purpose, i, is the ticket shewing price arranged at the back of
surface tongue h. j,,,j, are cards arranged between the springs b, and c.
Fig. 5 is a view in elevation cut out or pierced from sheet metal, also with
tools, d, is bent to form the printed hook e, for engaging on the cord or rod g, the
terminal, being bent forms the hook ', shewn in Fig. 6, a side view elevation,
and in Fig. 7, a front view elevation, the projections 1, 1, 1, 1, are clips for holding
the circular form of paper, or other material, which is the price ticket and
marked m.
In Fig. 8, a view in elevation, cut out or pierced from sheet metal, with tools, d,
is bent to form the pointed hook e, for the purposes above described, the terminal k,
being bent as h¹, upon which a watch n, is suspended, the numbers 2, and 3, being
sections where the bending or folding up, and then down, forming the springs b
and C,
and the section of bends; numbers 4 and 5 are bent in the same manner as 2,
and 3, also forming springs and spaces between to receive cards, and photos,
between as shewn in side elevation, Fig. 9, and back view elevation, Fig. 10.
The above being my said invention I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details or arrangement of parts, as shewn on the accompanying
sheet of drawings, but that I hold myself at liberty to alter or modify the same
without departing essentially from the principle of my said invention.
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 improvements in spring clips, or holders, for suspending or retaining cards,
light carded and other goods, with price or descriptive tickets of the same, as
herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings,
that is to say, the construction and combination of the said clips or holders for the
suspending or retaining goods as above set forth, substantially in the several ways
described and illustrated.
Dated 6th June 1893,
THOS. KENDRICK,
Agent.