Improvements in Cases or Holders for Manuscripts and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases or Holders for Manuscripts and the like.
I, FRANZ FRIEDRISHS of Cologne, 5 Quatermarke Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved case or holder for manuscripts and the
like, and has for its object to provide a means by which these articles can be easily
and effectively secured.
The device I propose to employ consists of two pairs of catches which are
rigidly attached to a hinged joint. The axis of this hinge is not placed as in the
usual arrangement in the centre line of the back but at one edge where the cover
meets with the back. Owing to this arrangement no special means are necessary
to form a fulcrum for the catches so that the device can be attached partially to
the back and partially to one of the covers.
This permits a larger device being attached to the case than has hitherto been
possible. The catches are provided with projections which prevent the device
being opened unless the catches are pressed together or removed one from the
other freeing the projections of the catches on one side from those on the other.
Instead of forming these projections on the catches they may be made separately
and a spring may also be provided keeping the manuscripts together.
Dated this 24th day of March 1896.
GÉO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases or Holders for Manuscripts and the like.
I, FRANZ FRIEDRISHS Manufacturer, of 5 Quatermarke, of Cologne, in the
Province of the Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire do hereby declare
the nature of this my invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in holders or cases for manuscripts and
the like, and especially to those holders or cases in which a pair of curved pins
operate in conjunction with another corresponding pair, thus receiving the manu-
scripts previously perforated, and the objects of my improvements are, first, to
provide a very simple mechanism, and, second, to provide means by which the
operation of registering the manuscripts can be carried on more easily than hitherto
has been the case.
I attain these objects by attaching the curved pins to the leaves of a hinge the
fulcrum of which is placed into one of those lines where the back of the case meets
with the covers, and by providing the curved pins with catchnoses.
In order to make my invention more clear I refer to the accompanying drawing,

page_text: 10 which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the different views, and in
which
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the mechanism;
Fig. 2 a top view of the same;
Fig. 3 a vertical section of a slightly modified mechanism, and
Fig. 4 a top view of the latter.
a and b are parts of the case-covers, and c is the back of the case. To the back c
and to the cover ba hinge dfis attached the fulcrum of which is placed into the
line gh, that is to say into that line where the cover b meets with the back c.
Curved pins i, l, k, and m provided with catchaoses are rigidly fixed to the leaves
of the hinge.
The manuscripts previously perforated are put over the pins. If, now, the case
is shut the noses of the pins catch each other and prevent the manuscripts from
leaving the case. For removing a manuscript from the case, the latter must be
opened and the pins i l must be pressed together for freeing the noses on the one
side from those on the opposite side.
In the Figures 3 and 4 the catchnoses are not fixed to the curved pins, but
seperate catching devices no are attached to the hinge in such a manner that those
catching devices work in the same way as the said noses.
When the case is shut, elastic tongues p q pressing against the uppermost
manuscript or against the interior edge of the same keep the manuscripts in proper
position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. In cases or holders for manuscripts and the like curved pins ilk m rigidly
attached to the members of the hinge à f, the junction of the members of the hinge
being coincident with the junction of the cover b and back cof the case, substantially
as set forth and for the purpose described.
2. In cases or holders for manuscripts and the like curved pins ilk m rigidly
attached to the members of the hinge df, the junction of the members of the
hinge being coincident with the junction of the cover b and back c of the case, aud
noses forming part of the curved pins, substantially as set forth and for the purpose
described.
3. In cases or holders for manuscripts and the like curved pins ilk m rigidly
attached to the members of the hinge df, the junction of the members of the hinge
being coincident with the junction of the cover b and back c of the case, and
catching devices no attached to the hinge, substantially as set forth and for the
purpose described.
Dated thi003 1
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, 'London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.