US821113A - Device for holding target-stickers. - Google Patents

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No. 821,113. 1 PATENTED MAY 22, 1906. A. MOUNT.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING TARGET STICKERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 44, 1905.

UNITED srA rns PATENT OFFICE.

AUSTIN MOUNT, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO CLARENCE JOHNSON, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed May 4, 1905. Serial No. 258,372.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, AUsTIN MOUNT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Holding Target- Stickers, of which the following is a, specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding target-pastors, and it consists in certain improvements in the construction thereof, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

More particularly the device is designed to hold in convenient form for handling a series of pasters such as are used in target practice for covering perforations made on a paper or canvas target when hit.

Preferably it consists of twin holders, one for black pasters and the other for white.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows: Figure 1 is a plan view of the device Fig. 2, a side elevation of same; Fig. 3, a section on the lines 3 3 in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 4, a side elevation with the top stop withdrawn to permit of the loading of the device.

The holder consists of the shell A, which is ordinarily cylindrical in shape, closed at the bottom and preferably open at the top. Arranged in this shell is a coil-spring D, the purpose of which is to act as a follower in crowding up the pastors E. One side of the shell has the tongue a formed in it, and secured to the upper end of this tongue is the stop a. A ring B extends around the shell in contact with the tongue. The tongue preferably is sprung out, so as to maintain the position when relieved from the influence of the ring B. (Shown in Fig. 4.) Such an arrangement of the finger tends to hold the ring B in place. The part of the shell immediately opposite the stop a has the opening a which exposes the edge of the pasters. The stop is preferably arranged to permit of the grasping of the paster and turning the same up sufliciently to get a suflicient hold on it to remove it. As before stated, it is preferable to have two of these arranged togetherone for the black pasters and one for the white. I have secured two shells together by the connecting pieces a and a leaving the slots or openings C between the shells. The shell A, united by this method with the shell A, is a counterpart of the shell A and the parts operate in like manner. The slot Ois of sufficient width to permit of the operation of the rings B independently of each other, so that either shell may be loaded without disturbing the other.

It will be noted that the wall of the shell extends more than half around the shell at the top with a sufficient height to engage the edges of the stickers arranged in the shell. When one of the stickers is raised up or pulled out, this wall projects out and retains the next adjacent sticker and prevents its removal.

What I claim as new is 1. In a device for holding target-pasters, the combination of a case open at its side and top to permit of the turning up and grasping of the uppermost paster; a stop arranged at the top of the case to limit the upward movement of pasters in said case; the opening through the side of the case having less width at the plane of the stop than the largest cross dimension of the case at the place of the stop, and a spring-follower in the lower part of the case arranged to crowd the pasters upwardly against the stop.

2. In a device for holding target-pasters, the combination of a case open at its side and top to permit of the turning up and grasping of the uppermost paster; a removable stop arranged at the top of the case tolimit the upward movement of stickers in said case; the opening through the side of the case having less width at the plane of the stop than the largest cross dimension of the case at the place of the stop, a spring-follower in. the lower part of the case arranged to crowd the stickers upwardly against the stop and means for locking the stop in place.

3. In a device for holding target-pasters, the combination of a case open at its side and top to permit the turning up and grasping of the uppermost paster; a spring-finger a arranged in one side of the case; a stop a carried by said finger; and the ring B arranged tcl slide over the case for locking the finger in ace.

P 4. In a device for holding target-pastors, the combination of a case open at its side and top to permit the turning up and grasping of the uppermost paster the spring-finger a arranged in one side of the case and being ten sioned to extend outwardly from the case the stop a projecting from the upper end of the finger over the case; and the ring B arranged to lock the finger in its inward position.

5. In a device for holding target -pasters, the combination of two cases arranged side by side with a slot between them; stops arranged over the cases for holding the pasters in said cases and means sliding on the cases and extending through the slot between the cases for locking the stops in place.

6. In a device for holding target-pasters, the combination of the cases A and A each case having a spring-finger a with a stop a extending therefrom over the top of the cases and each case being provided with a ring B I5 surrounding the cases and movable on said cases, said oases being sufficiently separated to permit the movement of said rings.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 20 witnesses.

AUSTIN MOUNT.

Witnesses:

AMY T. WHITE, M. (J. SULLIVAN.

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