US1282560A - Tag-holder. - Google Patents

Description

1. B FELICETTI. WRHING INSTRUMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-26,1918.

Patented 001:. 22, 1918.

CARL FINGLER AND JOHN M. GIBB, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

TAG-HOLDER Application filed March 26, 1918. Serial No. 224,877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CARL FINGLER and JOHN M. GIBB, citizens of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements infa tag holder, and has for its principal object to provide a simple, unitary device constructed to be secured over the edge of a shelf or to stand in an easel-like manner on a table.

Further, the invention seeks to provide a tag holder of the foregoing character that may be economically and expeditiously stamped from a single sheet of metal to present a neat frame forreceiving the cards containing the figures, or the like.

In the drawings I Figure 1 is a front elevation of'the improved tag holder clipped over the edgeof a shelf.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same on line 22 of Fig.'1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the tag holder taken on line 33 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the improvement.

I11 carrying the invention into practice a sheet of metal is preferably employed, the same being out, stamped and formed to provide a frame 1 having an upper, spring clamp member or leaf 2 extending rearwardly substantially at right angles from its top and a lower resilient clamp member or leaf 3 extending from its bottom edge at an acute angle and toward the upper clamping member. The said lower clamp may have portions suitably removed for increasing its resiliency, as illustrated.

The frame 1 has its rectangular edge part rolled or formed concavo-convex, and is divided by a vertical partition or bar 4 located a little to one side of the center to provide window openings 5 of different areas. In removing the metal for these openings, the major portions are left integral with the partitioning bar 4, being depressed or sunken from the frame to form oppositely extending wings 6. Thus, the wings have stop walls or shoulders 7 at their inner edges While their outer edges are rolled back to facilitate the insertion of a card or cards therebeneath.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' provided Patented (lot. 22, rate.

In use, small cards, corresponding in size to the two openings 5, are inserted in the frame beneath the spring Wings 6, said cards 8 to bear the desired numerals or such data as is required. For economy and convenience each card is provided with a number on both the front and back faces. The large sized cards are positioned over the larger right-hand opening 5 and bear the abbreviation for cents following the numeral. However, should the dollar mark be used the left hand 'card would then be enlarged to contain such mark. The central partition 4 serves as a stop for the inward sliding movement of the cards, the inner corners of which latter are protected by the flaring upper and lower-ends of the partition, as depicted at 9 in'Fig. 1.

In applying the tag holder to the edge of a shelf, the clamping members 2 and 3 are slightly sprung to receive the thickness of the shelf so as to afford a frictional grip 'for securely holding the device on the shelf;

When merely resting on a flat surface, as a table, the holder is stood on its lower leaf 3, the inclination of which gives the desired backward tiltv to the frame. The free edge of the lower leaf 3 is deflected downwardly, as at 10, such downturned edge portion serving a dual function by bracing the holder when standing. in an easel-like manner and also by facilitating the entrance of the shelf between said clamping members.

Thus, a simple and neat tag holder .is which may be economically stamped into thedesired form without complicated operations.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A tag holder constructed of sheet metal cut and bent to provide'a frame and upper and lower .clamping members extending rearwardly from the top and bottom edges of the frame, the latter having its edge part rolled and its opening divided by a partition into a plurality of windows, that I rtion removed to form the windows being 1! ft integral with and depressed from the partition to provide oppositely extending wings for holding cards in the windows, the upper and lower end portions of the partition flaring to engage over the inner corners of the cards.

2. A tag holder constructed of sheet metal out and bent to provide a frame and upper sion of the coil around the instrument together with the reversing feature of the end which is adapted to penetrate the clothing, is sufficient to properly secure the holder to the writing instrument. I have shown in Fig. 6 an instrument holder in which the pointed end 9 of the coil is omitted and in lieu thereof the corresponding end 10 remains parallel to and within the confines of the body portion 6. In all other respects the construction shown in Fig. 6 is similar to that described in connection with Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, and I have, therefore, given similar parts corresponding reference numerals.

While I have described my invention as taking a particular form, it will be understood that the various parts of my invention may he changed without departing from the spirit thereof, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction set forth, but consider that I am at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A writing instrument holder consisting of a member wound spirally in the form of a helix and having an end portion bent back upon itself to provide a hook pointing in a direction reverse to that of the spiral portion from which it is bent and adapted to penetrate material, substantially as described.

2. A writing instrument holder consisting of a member wound spirally in the form of a helix and having an end portion bent back upon itself to provide a hook pointing in a direction reverse to that of the spiral portion from which it is bent and adapted to penetrate material, said portion being spaced, adjacent its point of bend, from the convolution from which it is bent, and having a pointed end normally positioned closer to the coiled body portion of the holder than the adjacent part of said spaced por tion, substantially as described.

3. A writing instrument holder consisting of a member wound spirally in the form of a helix and having an end portion bent in a direction reverse to that of the spiral pitch and adapted to penetrate material, the opposite end of said holder being positioned closer to the axis than the portion of the coil which produces the internal diameter thereof so as to penetrate the writing instrument, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

JOHN iiAPTIsTE FELIOETTI. IVitnesses:

MARY A. INGLAR,

CHAS. E. Po'rTs.

' Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Qommissioner of Eatents,

Washington, I). 0.

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