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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JAMES MORTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GOLD-PEN TRAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,217, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed September 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MORTON, or" the city and State of New 'York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gold Pen Trays; and I hereby declare that the following is a description of my invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part 'of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top View of the loop and card Fig.2, a plan view of the metal spring and under side of the card.

Similar letters refer to like parts.

The invention is intended to provide a more durable and superior loop for holding a gold pen in the card of a tray used for such articles.

In the common trays used for holding gold pens a band of elastic vulcanized india-rubber is secured in a series ofloops in the card, each loop holding a pen, and permitting its removal and insertion by simply extending the elastic loop. Although simple, this kind of loop is very defective, for the india-rubber band soon loses its elastic power and tlieloop becomes loose and useless, especially when exposed to sunlight. Another defect of a serious nature belongs to the character of the material itself, as sulphur forms part of the rubber composition. This substance in this combination is volatile at common temperatures, and it acts upon gold pens and other alloys of gold and silver and opper; hence the surface of gold pens confined in such loops for sometime becomes black by the formation of sulphide thereon. Thisis very injurious to such articles.

M 'nvcn tion obviates such evils and defects.

It consistsin providing a finemetallic spring on the under side of the card of the tray and uniting it with a cord of silk or other suitable material which forms the pen-loop on the surface of the card. I thus secure a permanent elastic or spring loop for holding the pen and dispense entirely with the india-rubber band.

My gold-pen tray consists of a neatly-made shallow box of suitable size, and containing, besides the bottom proper, an auxiliary bottom, which I call a card. The tray is usuallylined and covered with colored velvet, and

,the loops in the card for holding the pens are arranged in a row or rows upon the upper surface of the card A, as shown in Fig. 1. To form this series of loops in a card I arrange a fi'ne' steel wire, W, in zigzag form, as shown in Fig. 2, and fasten it on the under side of card A. This wire thus forms a spring, to

which I fasten silk or other suitable cord, (3,

at suitable intervals, and by passin git through perforations in the card I form distinct loops on the upper surface, each loop capable of holding a pen, as represented by G in Fig. 1.

The wire W, arranged as shown, forms a dis 6o tinct spring for each loop. A series of such loops on a card is shown in Fig. 1, and a card so made and properly secured in a suitable box forms,with the box, the gold-pen tray. The

loops, made as described, possess the quality of permanent elasticity secured by the use of the metallic spring.

The material employed for the loop to hold the pen may be of soft silk or anyother suitable card that will not affect the surface of the pen. I prefer steel for the spring but other metal may be used, anditmaybe flat or round. One or mpre series of loops may be arranged in different rows upon a card. Each loop has a separate spring, and holds its pen securely,

while still permitting it to be inserted and removed with facility. For gold-pen trays this improvement is very useful, and may be extended to other similar uses. Such loops rctain their elastic character, and do not become Q0 loose and useless, as do the loops of ordinary gold-pen trays. Moreover, I'desire it to be understood that I do not limit my invention to the use. of a zigzag form of spring,nor to a set of springs made of a connected piece of wire, 8

for the spring-wire may plainly assume a variety of forms, and each spring may be independent of others.

I claim- The card of a gold-pen tray, having a spring 0 formed of a single wire, flat or round, made zigzag or in the form shown, at the back of the card, and with loops of a soft ribbon or cord passing through perforations in the card, as

described, the single wireformingacontinuous 5 spring for all the loops and the single cord a string of loops for all the pens on the card, as

set forth.

JAMES MORTON.

Witnesses:

ALFRED G. HOLGOMB'E, JAMES H. HUNTER.

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