US717888A - Newspaper-holder. - Google Patents

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N6; 717,888. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB. I, 1902; no monnn.

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FREDERICK W. MILLER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

tPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,888, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed February 1; 1902. Serial No. 92,107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, FREDERICK W. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combined devices for holding newspapers, means for indicating the name of the paper to be placed therein, and means for indicating the name of the subscriber of such pa- It is a well-known fact that when several newspapers are subscribed for by the several tenants of a single flat or other building it often becomes difficult for the difierent subscribers to identify their paper or distinguish it from that of other cotenants when such papers are thrown together upon the steps or entrance of the building, and it is still more difficult for the newsboys delivering such papers to remember the names of their patrons, so as to deliver the papers to the right. parties, and owing to the fact that the papers are often thrown in an exposed place upon the exterior of the building they are often blown away, stolen,or otherwise lost,whereby the subscriber is annoyed and thenewspaper officials overburdened with a multiplicity of complaints. I

The object of my-invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive device for securely holding the papers, so that the liability of thepapers being blown away or lost isavoided, while at the. same time the names upon the paper-holding device serve as a means of advertising the particular papers which are indicated thereon.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front view thereof as secured to the vertical wall of the building. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section drawn on line 00 0a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a modified form in which the paper-supporting clamps and nameretaining base are formed in a single piece of elastic wire. Fig. eis a transverse section of the device, drawn through the detachable name-plate and the plate-retaining flanges.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout the several views.

A represents the elastic clamping-springs between which the newspapers are securely held. The springs A are preferably formed of two separate plates or strips of thin elastic material and are secured at their contiguous ends tothe base B by a rivet 0. As the springs A are subject to considerable tension when forcing a large paper between them, it becomes advisable to reinforce them at each side of the rivet. This object is accomplished by passing the fixed ends of the plates through apertures D D, formed in said base, whereby the strain upon the rivet O and springs A is diminished and the springs are more securely held in place.

When the clamps are controlled by the publishers of newspapers, the names of the papers published by such parties will be conspicuously stamped or otherwise printed upon the base-plate B of the holder, as indicated at E, while the name ofthe subscriber is if desired, said springs may be formed integral of a single strip of metal and such strip centrally secured to the plate B, as shown, by a rivet. It is also obvious that, if desired, the clamping-springs and base may be formed integrally from a single piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 3, in which case the name plates may be held in place by the same fastening-screws I that are used for securing the device to the walls of the building.

Owing to the fact that the holder is sometimes used to hold several papers at a time or a large edition of one paper, the central portions of said arms are curved outwardly from the fastening-plate and converge in a circular direction toward their free ends, as shown in Fig. 2, whereby a large circular Patent, is-

1. As a new manufacture, a newspaperholder comprising two separate paper-holding clamping-springs; a base-plate provided with apertures for the reception of the stationary ends of said clamping-springs; means for securing the contiguous ends of said clamping-springs together and to the under side of said. base-plate; a name or title permanently printed upon said base; and a separate name-plate detachably secured to said base, as set forth.

2. In a newspaper-holding device, the com bination of two separate clamping-springs A, A; metallic base-plate B, provided with apertures D, D for the reception of the ends of said clamping-springs; plate-retaining lugs H, H; name or title E printed upon the metal of said base; and name-plate G detachably secured in place on said base by said retaining-lugs H, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK W. MILLER.

Witnesses:

J AS. B. ERWIN, O. L. Roman.

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