US443210A

US443210A - Clip or paper-holder

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Publication number: US443210A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-23
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-23

Description

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

EDlVARD DAYTON ROCIUVELL, OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

CLIP OR PAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,210, dated December 23, 1890-.

Application filed May 1890. Serial No. 351,970. (No model.)

To all whom it 11mg concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD DAYTON ROCK- WELL, of Bristol, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Clip or Paper-Holder, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient card-holder, blotter-holder, or paper-holder adapted to be hung up on a pin or hook of a desk or the like, and at the same time so light that a blotter or other thing held by it need not necessarily be detached from it for use.

I make my improved clip of a single piece of wire by bending it and forming the jaws of the clip and folding the ends of the wire into any desired species of hook or eyelet from which to suspend the clip.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of my improved clip, and Figs. 2, 3, and at are also plan views showing formal modifications.

Referring to the letters upon the drawings,

- A A indicate bent portions of the wire forming jaws of the clip upon one side, and B another bent portion of the wire forming another jaw upon the other side and extending across the space between the two jaws first described. The jaws upon one side are not coincident with that upon the other side. Consequently it is easy to slip a piece of paper, card-board,

fabric, or the like between the jaws by a wedging sort of action.

C 0' indicate the Wire ends, which are formed into hooks D or eyelets D as shown, or in any desired manner.

I thus produce a simple, cheap, light, and convenient clip, which may be used for many different purposes. Being made of small wire of suitable resilient quality, it does not materially cover up any writing or printed matter upon papers or cards held by it, so as to prevent reading them while the clip is serving to hold them. It can readily be detached from one thing and applied to another, and it can readily be removed from a hook or pin 011 which it is suspended without detaching it from the thingit holds by its jaws. Then an eyelet D is made as shown, the clip can be pulled off without unhooking, the wire ends 0 C separating for the purpose, as shown in 2.

hat I claim is A clip or holder for paper, cards, &c., formed of a single piece of wire having jawsAA' and jaw B, extending across the space between the jaws A A, and a suspending hook or eyelet, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

EDWARD DAYTON ROCKWELL.

Witnesses:

ORRIN F. IvEs, CARLOS V. MASON.