IMPROVE- MENTS IN CASES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND WINDING TAPE MEASURES OR OTHER BANDS." PROAL SPFICATION
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Wilson, in the Employ of Messieurs
Henry William Dee and Louis Dee, of 8, Sherwood Street, Golden
Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CASES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND WINDING TAPE MEASURES
OR OTHER BANDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Wilson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th June 1868.
I, GEORGE HENRY WILSON, in the Employ of Messieurs Henry William
Dee and Louis Dee, of 8, Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND WINDING TAPE
MEASURES OR OTHER BANDS," to be as follows:-
The Invention mainly consists in the arrangement in a case or holder,
as hereafter described, of two wheels, two pinions, a roller which receives
the measure, and a barrel containing a spring. The barrel is fixed and

page_text: 'contains a recoiling spring having for its centre an arbor which has on
the upper pivot working just free of the barrel cover a wheel driving a
pinion to which is fixed another wheel driving another pinion; this
second pinion forms the axis of the roller on which the measure is
wound, having for its working centres a hole in the top of the inner case
and a hole in the barrel arbor. The case or apparatus is provided with a
check action consisting preferably of a spring and ratchet wheel; the
spring has a nib or paul, and is fixed on the inside of the inner case so as
to lock or take into the teeth of the ratchet, which revolves with the roller
as the measure or band is drawn out. A spring with a projecting nut
or finger piece is fixed on the upper end of the inner case; when this
nut is pressed the locking spring is forced out of the ratchet teeth, the
wheels are thus immediately relieved, and the measure or band is
caused by the action of the spring barrel to fly back and wind upon the
roller.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Henry Wilson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HENRY WILSON, in the Employ of Messieurs Henry William Dee and
Louis Dee, of 8, Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Henry Wilson, Her special
licence that I, the said George Henry Wilson, my exécutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Henry Wilson,
mý executors, 'administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND WINDING TAPE

page_text: MEASURES OR OTHER BANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Henry Wilson, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Henry Wilson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention mainly consists in the arrangement in a case or holder,
as hereafter described, of two wheels, two pinions, a roller which receives
the measure, and a barrel containing a spring. The barrel is fixed and
contains a recoiling spring having for its centre an arbor which has on
the pivot working just free of the barrel cover a wheel driving a pinion
to which is affixed another wheel driving another pinion; this second
pinion forms the axis of the roller on which the measure is wound,
having for its working centres a hole in the top of the inner case and
a hole in the barrel arbor. The case or apparatus is provided with a
check action consisting preferably of a spring and ratchet wheel; the
spring has a nib or paul and is fixed on the inside of the inner case so
as to lock or take into the teeth of the ratchet, which revolves with the
roller as the measure or band is drawn out. A spring with a projecting
nut or finger piece is fixed on the upper end of the inner case; when
this nut is pressed the locking spring is forced out of the ratchet teeth,
the wheels are thus immediately relieved, and the measure or band is
caused by the action of the spring barrel to fly back and wind upon the
roller.
The accompanying Drawings represent an apparatus constructed
according to my Invention.
Figure 1 is an inside view, Figure 2 a section, and Figure 3 an outside
view of the spring barrel; Figures 4, 5, and 6 are respectively an outside
view, a section, and an inside view of the barrel cover; Figures 7, 8,
and 9 are respectively an outside view, a section, and an inside view of
the inner case; Figure 10 is a plan, and Figure 11 a side view of the

page_text: ratchet wheel and tape roller; Figure 12 is a section of the apparatus
complete. Similar letters refer to the same parts in all the Figures.
a is the outer case; b, the inner case; c, the spring barrel; d, the
the barrel arbor; g, the tape
barrel spring; e, the barrel cover;
roller, having for its working centres a hole in the top of the inner case
and a hole in the barrel arbor; is the ratchet wheel; i is a wheel on
the barrel arbor gearing into a pinion fixed to a wheel which in its
turn gears into a pinion m on the spindle of the tape roller; n is a spring
to take into the ratchet wheel h; o is another spring provided with a
projecting nut or finger piece p, so that when the nut p is pressed
inwards the spring o pushes against the spring n and frees it from the
ratchet teeth. The action is as follows:-When the tape or measure q
is pulled out the roller g rotates, and thus by the gearing m, l, k, i, winds
the barrel spring d; the ratchet wheel rotates with the roller, and the
return movement being prevented by the spring catch n the parts are
held. But by pressing on the nut p the spring o releases the spring n
from the ratchet teeth, and the spring barrel being then free to act it
immediately causes the roller g to rotate and wind up the tape q.
C
I do not limit myself to any particular size of apparatus, but I may
mention that in measures for domestic purposes I prefer the size to be
about one-fourth that shewn in the Figures.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
Improvements in Cases or Apparatus for Holding and Winding Tape
Measures or other Bands," the barrel spring d, gearing i, k, l,'m, roller g,
ratchet wheel h, and spring catch n, acting in combination with cach
other, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Wilson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.