A New or Improved Leaf-holder for Music and other Stands or Desks.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 10th Sept.. 1890-Accepted. 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Leaf-holder for Music and other Stands
or Desks.
I, JOHN RICHARD WILKINS of 28 Walton Crescent Oxford, Builder, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to a new or improved leaf holder for music and other stands
or desks and consists of a small handy device which is fixed in the ordinary manner
at each end of the front edge of the bottom rail of a music or other stand or desk,
and is not only capable of being turned off sideways but of being moreover depressed
Forward by merely pushing against it a music leaf intended to be folded upon those
placed behind and held by the device which after having been thus depressed returns
automatically, i.e. by gravity into position.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a tapered pin or rod formed at
its lower end with a disc of brass or other suitable metal and I pivot such pin or rod
near the disc and within two ears or lugs formed integrally with another similar
disc, perforated just below the said lugs to allow for the passage of a screw designed
to tix the device to the bottom rail of a music stand. This second or lower disc
upon which the first and upper disc rests when the device is standing in a vertical
position and turns therewith when pressed down on either side, may instead of being
perforated as above stated be furnished with a screw threaded projection at the
back to be fixed directly in the stand. The pin and upper disc aforesaid form a
weighted finger, as the disc is made heavier than the pin formed therewith.
As my improvements are capable of some modifications without departing from the
principle thereof I do not restrict myself to materials, dimensions or to the precise
form or placement of the several parts thereof.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Leaf-holder for Music and other Stands
or Desks.
I JOHN RICHARD WILKINS of 28 Walton Crescent Oxford Builder do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to a new or improved leaf holder for music and other stands
or desks and consists of a small handy device which is fixed in the ordinary manner
at each end of the front edge of the bottom rail of a music or other stand or desk
and is not only capable of being turned off sideways but of being moreover
depressed forward by merely pushing against it a music leaf intended to be folded
upon those placed behind and held by the device which after having been thus
depressed returns automatically i.e. by gravity into position.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a tapered pin or rod formed at
its lower end with a disc of brass or other suitable metal and I pivot such pin or rod
near the disc and within two ears or lugs formed integrally with another similar
disc perforated just below the said lugs to allow for the passage of a screw designed
to fix the device to the bottom rail of a music stand. This second or lower disc apon
which the first and upper disc rests when the device is standing in a vertical position
and turns therewith when pressed down on either side may instead of being perforated
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page_text: as above stated be furnished with a screw threaded projection at the back to be fixed
directly in the stand. The pin and upper disc aforesaid form a weighted finger as
the disc is made heavier than the pin formed therewith.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have shown the
same in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a front view of two holders applied to the lower rail of a music or
piano stand,
Figure 2 being a plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a cross section of the holder.
Figure 4 shows the holder depressed.
Figures 5 and 6 illustrate in front view and cross section respective ::__ modifica-
tion .e. another form of holder.
The
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depressed
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Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.
My improved leaf holder consists of a lever or arm a weight at a' and
pivotting at c between the lugs 1 of a back disc b loosely screwed at d o the front
edge of the lower rail R of a music or other stand or desk.
weight al is
circular and rests against the disc b when the device is in its normalition being
on the contrary separated or raised from the latter as the holder"
(Figure 4) by the loaf of the music book which is being turned.
Figures and 6 show a modified form of my holder the back.
dispensed with. The lever or arm a consists of a finger a° and of a lo r weighted
part a which is solid and is pivoted at e to the projection 6' of a small ring 6 fixed
to the front edge of the rail R by means of a screw d. This ring b and projection b¹
fits into a corresponding opening of the weighted part of the lever when the holder
is at rest but when the arm a is depressed by a music leaf the weight is separated
or raised from the said ring. The screws d are somewhat loosely fixed so that in th.
two cases illustrated the arm a may be capable of being depressed on either side as
shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1, as well as in front that is to say laterally as well as
downwardly so as to offer no resistance whatsoever to the pressure of the music leaf
which is being turned over. Immediately the said music leaf has been pushed beyon
the extremity of the weighted arm a the same returns quickly by gravity to i
former position. This music holder may be made of any desired metai chased or
ornamented in any suitable manner and placed at each end of the rail R so as to
hold the two halves of an open music book or piece. It may further be applied to
any other stand or desk to enable the leaves of a reading or other book being easily
rapidly and conveniently turned.
CLAIMS.
1. The improved music holder consisting of a weighted lever or arm pivoted to
the lugs of a disc loosely screwed to the front edge of the lower rail of a music or
other stand or desk such holder operating by gravity substantially as and for the
purpose described and shown in Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4 of the drawings.
2. The modification of my holder shewn in Figures 5 and 6 consisting of a
weighted arm pivoted to the projection of a ring loosely screwed to the front edge
of the rail aforesaid and located in an opening of the weighted part of the said arm
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 10th day of September 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.