A NEW OR IMPROVED CLIP OR HOLDER FOR SUPPORTING TICKETS ON ARTICLES EXPOSED FOR SALE AND FOR OTHER LIKE. PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM POTTER the younger of the firm of William Potter and Sons of
Nos 109 and 110 Aldersgate Street in the County of Middlesex Manufacturers
Ticket Publishers and Printers do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED CLIP OR HOLDER FOR SUPPORTING TICKETS ON ARTICLES
EXPOSED FOR SALE AND FOR OTHER LIKE. PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a clip or holder constructed substantially in the manner
herein after described. Clips or holders constructed according to my invention are
especially applicable to the supporting of tickets on articles exposed for sale but are
also applicable to various other like purposes such for example as supporting tickets
on hats and coats in private houses and public places for supporting tickets on
chairs at concerts and the like.
I will describe a clip made according to my invention of a size suitable for
supporting small tickets on hats shoes and the like.
In making the said clip or holder I cut from thin sheet steel or other hard and
elastic metal or alloy a blank of about two inches in length the said blank being
for nearly one third its length about one quarter of an inch broad. From this
part which I will call the narrow part or tongue the blank expands and has a
breadth of somewhat more than half an inch through the other two thirds of its
length. I will call this part the broad part. The end of the broad part has its
middle part cut away so as to leave a fork the two narrow branches of which are
about half an inch apart.
This blank is bent at the junction of its narrow and broad parts into a hook like
form the broad part being so bent that its middle touches or nearly touches the
middle of the narrow part or tongue thereby forming a spring clip. The said
broad part from this point is bent from the tongue making an angle of about ninety
degrees therewith.
The forked ends of the broad part are doubled into the form of small spring
hooks.

page_text: In using one of my new or improved clips or holders say for supporting a price
or other ticket on a hat the tongue or narrow part is inserted between the hatband
and the hat and the clip or holder is thereby attached to the hat. The ticket is
inserted in the two small spring hooks and is thereby supported in an inclined
position on the hat.
The construction and use of clips or holders made according to my invention for
purposes other than for supporting tickets on articles exposed for sale differs in no
essential respect from the construction and use of the clip herein before explained.
Dated this seventeenth day of February 1884.

page_text: ...I WILLIAM POTTER the younger of the firm of William Potter and Sons of
Nos 109 and 110 Aldersgate Street in the County of Middlesex Ticket Publishers
and Printers do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED CLIP OR HOLDER FOR SUPPORTING TICKETS ON ARTICLES EXPOSED FOR
SALE AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES " and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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My invention consists of a clip or holder constructed substantially in the manner
herein after described. Clips or holders constructed according to my invention
are especially applicable to the supporting of tickets on articles exposed for sale but
are also applicable to various other like purposes such for example as supporting
tickets on hats and coats in private houses and public places for supporting tickets
on chairs at concerts and the like.
I will describe a clip or holder made according to my invention of a size suitable
for supporting small tickets on hats boots and shoes and the like.
In making the said clip or holder I cut from thin sheet steel or other hard and
elastic metal or alloy a blank of about two inches in length the said blank being
for nearly one third its length about one quarter of an inch broad. From this
part which I will call the narrow part or tongue the blank expands and has a
breadth of somewhat more than half an inch through the other two thirds of its
length. I will call this part the broad part. The end of the broad part has its
middle part cut away so as to leave a fork the two narrow branches of which are
about half an inch apart.
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This blank is bent is bent at the junction of its narrow and broad parts intó á
hook like form the broad part being so bent that its middle touches or nearly
touches the middle of the narrow part or tongue thereby forming a spring clip.
The said broad part from this point is bent from the tongue making an angle of
nearly ninety degrees therewith. The forked ends of the broad part are doubled
into the form of small spring hooks.
In using one of my new or improved clips or holders say for supporting a price
or other ticket on a hat the tongue or narrow part is inserted between the hat
band and the hat and the clip or holder is thereby attached to the hat. The ticket
is inserted in the two small spring hooks and is thereby supported in an inclined
position on the hat.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation Figure 2 in
section Figure 3 in back elevation and Figure 4 in plan a clip or holder drawn to
a large scale made according to my invention the said clip or holder being suitable
for supporting a small price or other ticket on a hat shoe or other article Figure 5
represents the blank from which the clip or holder Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 is made
Figure 6 represents in front elevation and Figure 7 in section the clip or holder
drawn of the full size in combination with a portion of a hat the said Figures 6
and 7 exhibiting the manner in which the clip or holder is applied to a hat.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
a b is the spring or clipping part by which the clip or holder is attached to the
hat or other article and c c are the small spring hooks at the bottom of the front
of the spring clip a b for supporting the price or other ticket. The tongue or back
part a of the spring clip is made from the narrow part a² of the blank Figure 5
and the elastic hook part 6 is made from the perforated or pierced broader part bª

page_text: of the blank Figure 5. The spring clip a b is made by bending or doubling the
broad perforated part b² of the blank upon the narrow part a² at the dotted line d
and giving the. bent part a hook like form as seen in Figures 2 and 6 the bend or
junction of the two arms of the hook part b touching or nearly touching the middle
of the narrow or tongue part a the lower arm of the hook part 6 being inclined to
the said tongue part a as represented in the drawing. The pinching or gripping
part of the spring clip is marked e and the part of the article on which the clip is
supported is gripped between the said part è and the back or tongue part a. The
spring hooks c c for supporting the ticket are made from the branches c³ c² of the
forked part of the blank Figure 5 the said branches c² c³ being bent into the form
represented in the drawing.
In using the clip or holder for supporting a price or other ticket on a hat the
tongue a is inserted between the hat band h and the hat as represented in
Figures 6 and 7 the hat band h being gripped or pinched between the part e of the
clip and the tongue a as seen in the section Figure 7. The price or other ticket
marked i is inserted in the two small hooks e c and has the inclined position
illustrated in Figure 7.
Instead of attaching the clip or holder to the article by means of the clip part a b
it may be attached by means of a shortened and pointed tongue hooked upon the
article or inserted in or made to pierce the material of the article.
This modification of my invention is represented in section and a portion in back
elevation in Figure 8 where the shortened and pointed tongue is marked a³. Thé
ticket is held in an inclined position by the small hooks c of the holder in the
manner before described and represented in Figure 7.
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The construction and use of clips or holders made according-to my invention for
purposes other than for supporting tickets on articles exposed for sale differs in no
essential respect from the construction and use of the clip herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
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 The new or improved clip or holder for supporting tickets on articles
exposed for sale and for other like purposes herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing that is to say a clip or holder consisting of the
combination of the gripping or pinching parts a be for attaching the clip or holder
to the article with the spring hooks c c for supporting the price or other ticket the
said clip or holder being made from a blank of the kind and bent in the way
substantially as described and illustrated also the modification described and
represented in which a short pointed tongue is used in place of a long and broad
tongue.
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of Dincomber 1994.