US1141925A - Freight-car-card holder. - Google Patents

Description

T. A. BIGGS. FREIGHT CAR CARD HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, I914.

Patented June 8, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed February 1914. Serial No. 821,174.

This invention relates to freight car cards and holders therefor.

The general objects of the invention are to improve and simplify devices of thecharactor referred to so as to be comparatively simple and inexpensive and so designed as to hold cards in such a manner as to be easily and conveniently applied or removed, and thereby dispense with the necessity of using the hammer and tack method now commonly employed in placing cards on freight cars.

In carrying out the invention the card holder is so designed that it is provided with a button which is adapted to enter an opening in the card, and after the button is thus entered the side edges of the card are engaged under flanges on the sides of the holder, whereby the card is held flat against the car body or door and yet is prevented from dropping out by reason of the button on the holder. The button is of elongated or elliptical formation and the hole in the card is correspondingly shaped.

so that the card in being applied is held with the major axis of the opening parallel with the major axis of the button, and after the button is entered in the card the latter is turned half way around and then the edges of the card are slipped under the retaining flanges of the holder. A card applied in this manner can be easily removed and used over again as often as required, and in fact both sides of the card may'contain appropriate matter descriptive of the contents of the car, or any other desired informative matter. Of course all the cards will be the same size and shape so as to be always ready for, use in the holders that are permanently fastened to the cars.

For a more complete understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and claims taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the card i and card holder applied to a car; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the holder with the card removed; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view. on the line 33, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a freight'car card and'B the holder therefor. This card is printed according to any suitable form and is a fiat, rectangular piece of cardboard or other stiff material and provided with a central. opening 1 which is preferably elongated in a vertical line. The holder B is made of sheet metal or other suitable stock and is of plate-like formation fastened against the side of the car body or door by screws or other fastenings 2, and the vertical edges of this plate are bent out- 4 of the card. At the center of the holder is a card-engaging button formed by oppositely-disposed lugs 5 which are stamped out from the metal plate of the holder and are connected therewith by stem or shank portions 6 that form together the shank of the button. The major axis of the button head formed by the lugs 5 is horizontal, and the button performs the two functions of supporting the weight of the card and preventing it from bulging out at the center, which latter-would be objectionable, as the edges of the card would be likely to disengage from the retaining flanges 3.

In applying a card to the holder the card is held in such a way that the opening 1 will have its major axis horizontal, and while held in this position the button of the holder is entered in the opening 1 of the card. The

card is now turned through ninety degrees around the button as a center, whereby the edges of the card are in a position'where they can he slipped under the flanges 3,

which completes the operation of attaching the card. Of course in engaging the edges of the card under the flanges 3, the lateral portions of the card must be sprung inwardly far enough to pass under the flanges. Obviously the card can be removed as easily as applied, and as it is not destroyed in being applied or removed, the card can be used over and Over again indefinitely, or it can have informative matter on both sides so that either side can be used.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily underthe invention appertains,

the art to which and While I have described the dBVlCe which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire stood by those skilled in to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustratlve and that such changesmay be made when desired as are withm the scope of the appended claims.

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

1. The combination of a card having. an elongated opening, a holder having a button formed with an elongated edge to enter the open ng when the card is in a certaln po-, sition, and flanges with which the edges of the card'may be engaged when the latter is turned on the button to a differentposition.

2. A card holder comprising a plate hav-v v ing a pair of members bent into oppositely disposed L-shaped lugs forming together a button outstanding from the plate and integral therewith, the head of the button being elongated, devices on the plate to either

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