AN IMPROVED CLIP OR SUSPENDER FOR EXHIBITTING ARTICLES FOR SALE
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I ERNEST HARRISON LEDGER of Broseley in the County of Salop, Draper, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention for AN IMPROVED CLIP OR
SUSPENDER FOR EXHIBITTING ARTICLES FOR SALE, to be as follows:-
A strip of sheet metal is stamped out broad in the centre and tapering towards
the ends, this is then doubled to form a spring the ends are furnished with side
flanges stamped out of the same strip and these flanges are turned inwards each
forming about three parts of a ring and so arranged that when the spring is closed
the parts engage.
A hook is secured to the crown of the spring by which it may be suspended over
a bar or bracket-An umbrella or walking stick or other article may be placed in
these rings.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
1.00, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I ERNEST HARRISON LEDGER of Broseley in the County of Salop Draper do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVED CLIP OR
SUSPENDER FOR EXHIBITING ARTICLES FOR SALE and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed and
to the letters & figures marked thereon that is to say :-
A strip of sheet metal is stamped out broad in the centre and tapering towards
the ends This is then doubled to form a spring, the ends are furnished with side
flanges stamped out of the same strip and these flanges are turned inwards each
forming about three parts of a ring and so arranged that when the spring is closed
the paris engage.
A hook is secured to the crown of the spring by which it may
be suspended over a bar or bracket.
An umbrella walking stick or other article may be placed in the rings. This
hook for suspending may be stamped out of the same piece of metal as the
remainder of the suspender.
Instead of the clip being formed from a flat strip of bent metal as above
described, wire may be bent into the same form and answer the same purpose.
Referring to the drawings Figures 1 & 2 are side views of the clip or suspended
forined of a strip of sheet metal turned over into the form required, being broad in
the-centre or bent-over-portion-A-and. tapering towards its ends at B: which ends
are furnished with the flanges C. D. E, turned over each to form about three parts
of a ring. F. is the hook for suspending which may be attached or stamped out
of the piece of meinl Figure 2. shews the clip holding the end of a stick or
umbrella, The way in which this clip is brought into uso being as follows. The
two portions of the clip being pressed together the end of the stick or unbrella is
passed up through the loops E. D C and when the pressure is taken off the clip the
spring of the metal obtained by the bending over at A causes the two parts to
spring assunder and catch or clip the stick or umbrella.
To withdraw the stick or umbrella it is simply necessary to press the two parts
of the clip together.
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 construction of a clip or suspender for exhibiting articles for sale by
bending over metal so as to form a spring in the manner herein described whereby
I am enabled to clip the article to be suspended in the manner herein set forth
and specified.
PAYNE & TALBUI,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.