US648926A - Card-holder. - Google Patents

Description

No. 648,926. Patented May 8, I900.'

C. C. CLEMENT.

' CARD HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 1, 1899.)

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CHARLES CROSBY CLEMENT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,926, dated May 8, 1900. Application filed September '7, 1899. Serial No. 729,744. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CROSBY CLEM- ENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Card-Holder, of which the followingis a specification. Y

This invention relates to card-holders in general, and more particularly to that class employed in holding a price card or ticket to a box containing articles for sale; and the ob-' ject of the invention is to provide a construction which will be simple and cheap of manufacture, which will hold the card yieldably, and which, moreover, may be adjusted to support the cards either at an angle or horizontally and even vertically when preferred.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box, showing the application of the cardholder thereto. Fig.2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the positions of the parts when supporting a card horizontally. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the holder in a position to support a card slantingly or at an angle to the box. Fig. 4 shows a different elastic connection. Fig. 5 shows acloth tagholder.

Referring now to the drawings, the holder consists of two elements, one of which is formed of a piece of spring-wire bent upon itself to form two parallel legs 5 and 6, having.

a connecting web orbight 7. The ends of the legs 5 and 6 are bent in parallel planes to form claspiug-hooks, comprising bills 8 and 9 and bights 10 and 11, these hooks lying parallel and adapted to be sprung to receive the edge of a box 12. In connection with this element is employed a second element consisting of a wire bent upon itself to form parallel legs 15 and 16, having a connecting web or bight 17, the wire from which this element is formed being bent at the ends of the bight 17 to form eyes 18 and 19, lying in a common plane, the adjacent faces of the bight 17 and the sides of the eyes 18 and 19 forming jaws which are adapted to receive a price card or ticket 20.

The ends of the legs 15 and 16 are bent to form substantially closed hooks 21 and 22.

In order to connect the two elements above described, a short rubber band 23 is slipped upon each hook 21 and 22, and through the bands are also passed the bills 8 and 9. These bands are adjustable with respect to the hooks that they engage, and, as shown in Fig. 1, the bands may engage the curved portions of the hooks of the first-nam ed element intermediate the bills and bights thereof and may also engage the bights of the hooks of the second element, when the card supported by the second element will lie at an angle to the upper surface of the box. The sizes of the rubber bands are such that they will remain in their adjusted position, and to facilitate this action the bights l0 and 11 are separated by a lesser space than the books 22 and 23 in order that they may hold the rubber bands under tension.

If it is desired that the pricecards shall lie horizontally, it is only necessary to shift the rubber bands onto the bights 8 and 9, and if it is desired that the cards shall stand erect the bands may be shifted full upon the bights or webs 10 and 11.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings there is shown a structure similar to that shown in the. other.

figures, with the exception that the hooks 21 and 22 are omitted and the ends of the legs '26 of the legs 27 and 28, corresponding to the legs 5 and 6, the hooks 29 and 30 being adapt ed to engage the side of the box, as above described.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings the card-holding element is the same as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the exception that the hooks 21 and 22 lie at the opposite side of the element. With these hooks are engaged elastic bands 23, forming a means of connection with the supporting element. This supporting element consists of a wire bent upon itself to form parallel legs 35 and 36, having a connecting web or bight 37, which latter is bent to lie in a plane parallel with the legs 35 and 36, resulting in the formation of a hook comtie bands 23 are engaged. The ends of the legs 35 and 36 are pointed to adapt this form of the invention for holding a card or tag to a fabric.

What I claim is- 1. A card-holder comprising an element having hooks adapted for connection with a box, and a second element adapted to receive a card and having elastic and adjustable connection With the first-named clement Whereby the elements may be adjusted to lie normally at various angles to each other.

2. A cardholder comprising an element having hooks adapted to receive a portion of the box, a second element adapted to receive a card and having hooks, and rubber bands disposed upon the hooks of the elements, and forming elastic connections therebetween.

3. A card-holder comprising an element having hooks adapted to clamp upon a box, a second element having hooks and adapted to receive a card, and elastic bands connecting the corresponding hooks of the elements and adjustable thereon to hold the elements at different angles.

4. A card-holder comprising an element having hooks adaptedto clamp upon abox, a second element having clamping-jaws adapted to receive a card and comprising hooks, and elastic bands connecting the corresponding hooks of the elements and adapted for adjustment thereon to hold' the elements yieldably at various angles.

5. A card-holder comprising an element adapted for connection with a support and a In testimony that I claim theforegoing as my own I-have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES CROSBY CLEMENT. Vito esses:

FREDERIC H. FRENCH, CHESTER W; CLEMENT.

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