IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD CASES, AND RETAINING OR FASTENING PAPERS, DEEDS, AND FABRICS
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
YOUNG, of. Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of
June, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the eleventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Young, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas
Young, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Young, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD CASES, AND RETAINING OR FASTENING PAPERS, DEEDS,
AND FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that 1,
the said Thomas Young, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Young, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked 5
Figure 1 shows a plan of a card case which is suitable for large cards, but
the same may be made of such sizes as may be desired to suit other sizes of
cards. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 3 an external end view.
The peculiarity of this arrangement of card case is the employment of an
inclined plane, in such manner as to facilitate the withdrawing of a single card
from the quantity contained in the case.
This case is made with a lid to open,
and is in external figure or shape similar to a book. The shape and arrange-
ment of the case, according to my Invention, may, however, be varied so long
as an inclined plane be employed. a is the inclined plane at one end of the
case where the card is withdrawn, and there is an opening 6 over the inclined
plane by which the case is to be filled, and so that the ends of the cards will,
when the case is placed upright, and with the inclined plane being upwards,
come to the position shewn by the dotted line c, d, Figure 2. e is the lid of
the case, which opens, as shewn at Figures 1 and 3; when it is desired to
remove a card from the case, the case being tilted, the cards will fall to the
inclined plane, and then by pressing on the upper card by a finger, and sliding
the card outwards, it will rise up the inclined plane and separate from the
other cards in the case, and it is the applying an inclined plane at the end of
the case at which the card is removed that constitutes the peculiarity of this
part of the Invention.
I will now describe the second part of my Invention, which relates to various
apparatus for retaining and fastening papers, deeds, and fabrics. Figure 4
shews a front view, Figure 5 an edge view, and Figure 6 a back view of one
apparatus according to this part of my Invention, complete, and Figure 7
shews a perforated cardboard or other suitable material without the cord
which is used therewith. This apparatus is suitable for retaining many folded
papers securely, and yet allowing of ready separation. a is a piece of card-
board or other material, which may be of any desired shape, and have any
printed or written particulars of the nature of the documents or other articles
retained, and this apparatus is also very suitable for receiving and retaining
patterns of calico and other fabrics. The cardboard is perforated with two

page_text: holes, which are bound round with metal in the manner of eyelet holes, but
such binding round of the holes will not be necessary when the material is
strong enough without. The doubled cord b is passed through the two holes,
and the ends of the cord are drawn through the loop which comes at the front,
as shewn, and the papers or fabrics are placed under the portion of the cord
which comes at the back, so that by pulling the ends of the cords tightly the
documents or fabrics will be securely held. Figures 8, 9, and 10 show a front
view, a back view, and an edge view of another arrangement, where three
holes are used with a cord so as to make two compartments for documents
or fabrics, and Figure 11 shows the piece of perforated cardboard or other
material separately. The apparatus may be made with different numbers of
holes, according to the object to be obtained, and Figures 12, 13, 14, and 15
show similar apparatus applied to a portfolio. a, a, are the covers which are
connected by flexible hinge joints to the pieces b, b, and these pieces b are
connected together by flexible joints at 61, 62, as shewn, c, c, are eyelet holes
in the pieces b, to receive the cords d, each of which passes through the eyelet
holes c, c, of two of the adjoining pieces b, which are connected together at b',
and there may
be any
number of such strings or cords d, and each cord being
connected at its two ends by tyeing or otherwise will form two loops to receive
pamphlets, folds of paper, or other fabric, the number of such strings or
cords depending upon the number of separate folds of paper or other fabric
intended to be introduced into the portfolio. e, e, are other eyelet holes in the
pieces b, b, to receive the folded cord f. This cord f is first passed through the
centre holes e, so as to form a loop through which the ends of the cords are
to be passed after the ends have been passed through the end holes e. The
object of this cord e is that the separate folds of paper or other fabric may be
packed closer together when in use in the manner of a book, and so that the
separate folds of paper or other fabric may be readily released when any one
is required to be removed or others are required to be added, and this is accom-
plished in the one case by simply drawing the ends of the cord f tightly
through the loop formed by the cord passed through the centre holes, and in
the other case (to loosen) by simply loosening the cord from the loop formed by
passing the cord through the centre holes.
Figure 16 shews a plan, and Figure 17 an edge view, of other apparatus to
be used for retaining papers and deeds. a, a, are springs which are secured to
the stand of wood or other material by means of screws a¹, as shewn, and the
papers or deeds to be retained are passed between the curled parts at c, c.
Figures 18 and 19 show two views of a slight modification of that shewn in
Figures 16 and 17.

page_text: Figures 20, 21, show two views of another arrangement, the chief difference
in this case being in the application of the piece d, the object of which is to
prevent the ends of the springs a being bent too much by the insertion of
papers or deeds at c, c.
I would here remark that with respect to the apparatus shewn at Figures 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, that the peculiarity of Invention consists in being able
readily to introduce or withdraw papers therefrom by simply using one hand
for that purpose.
Figure 22 shows another arrangement of spring holder, which, like those
last described, allows of papers or documents to be introduced or removed
readily by the use of one hand only.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise details shewn and described so long as
the peculiar character of either part of my Invention be retained. But what
I claim is,
First, the mode of constructing card cases, as described.
Secondly, I claim the apparatus herein described for holding and retaining
papers, deeds, and fabrics, as described in respect to Figures 4 to 15; and,
Thirdly, I claim the modes of arranging spring holders for papers and deeds,
as described in respect to Figures 16 to 22.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Young, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.