A New or Improved Adjustable Stand for Music, Reading, Painting, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 2nd Oct., 1897
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Adjustable Stand for Music, Reading, Painting,
and the like.
I, GUSTAV BISCHOFF of 62 Saliering Cologne in the Empire of Germany,
Engineer 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 adjustable stand or desk for music
reading painting drawing and the like provided with folding insertions serving
as abutment and support.
Figures 1, 7 and 8 of the accompanying sheet of drawings show the desk or
stand in front elevation, Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 are side views and
represent each a view in a series of the four different positions of the desk.
Figures 12, 13, 14 are front and side views of a desk or stand capable of being
folded.
The desk or stand consists of a frame a of suitable size and strength in
accordance with its special purpose and is furnished with central and transverse
laths. Along its lower edge it is provided with a lath or strip a' for supporting
books, music drawings and the like. Between the upper and lower frame the
central and transverse laths or strips forming the central panels bb is fixed the
adjusting arrangement consisting of lattice insertions provided with transverse
laths cc and the inserting frame d (a half frame which has no transverse laths.
The lattice insertion occupying the panel bis fixed at its lower edge by means
of hinges to the upper edge of the central lath and is foldable rearwards.
The lattice insertion c¹ in the panel is connected next by the upper frame
lath with the half frame & forming the axis of the latter and is foldable rear-
wards, but the half frame d is with its lower unconnected ends of the side laths
connected by means of hinges with the upper edge of the lower laths of the main
frame a and is also foldable rearwards, so that the half frame d and the lattice
insertion c may be unfolded as shown by the positions taken up and shown in
Figures 6 & 11 and the lattice bars of the insertion c¹ serve as abutment for the
upper insertion c now used as support.
In Figure 3 the lattice rods of the unfolded insertion c serves as abutment and
the insertion e as support.
The bars of the insertion c¹ Figure 4 which still rests in the unfolded half-
frame d, serves as abutment, and the insertion c as support and finally the inser-
ion Figure 5 still in its original position, serves as abutment and the insertion c¹
is support.
Instead of only one adjustable arrangement being in the twa central panels
wo adjustable arrangements may be provided in such a manner that as represented
n Figure 8, the outer panels may be provided with the insertions c c¹ as described,
o that the frame, after unfolding the lattice insertions, may be supported at
oth ends or held in a given position respectively. This arrangement will re-
ommend itself for specially large drawing or writing desks.

page_text: For drawing or writing the desk or stand is used in conjunction with a wooden
board but for writing only strong paper board may be used.
The supporting lath a¹ of the desks a which are to serve as a stand or writing
desk is made of two parts of which one part is detachable whereby not only a
desired depression of the lath when writing but also a shifting of the detachable
part of the lath provided with inserting pins and a wood and elevating and
supporting lath on the surface of the desk is obtained as represented in Figures 7
to 11.
In Figures 3 to 6 and 10 and 11 the desk is shown in four different positions
and it may be further adjusted as desired, that is to say from a nearly per-
pendicular to a nearly horizontal position it being more evenly adjustable in
proportion to the height of the lower panel above that of the upper one. If
the desk or stand is to serve only as a reading or music desk or stand
it is made with panels of equal height (Fig. 1). If it is to serve also as a
writing and drawing desk it is made with lower panels of greater height than the
upper ones Figures 7 and 8.
The latter construction allows the device to be fixed in a more level position
than the former as already stated and shown in Figures 6 & 11. The transverse
laths of the framed shaped insertions to be used as supports may be of a round or
angular cross section if of an angular cross section the edges are suitably formed so
that a good fit into one another is secured. The use of the desk or stand is
explained by the Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 and 11, whereby the inclination of the
desk is more or less according to whether the lower insertion is left in its frame
or folded out of it or according to the position of the upper insertion and whether
the upper or lower insertion serve as a support. Instead of making the frame a
solid the same may be divided in the central lath and both parts connected by
hinges as represented in Figures 12 to 14 so that the desk or stand may be folded
and carried comfortably in the pocket.
The desk or stand is comparatively light and has when the adjusting arrange-
ment is folded together a plane back and front surface and also a very neat
appearance. When not in use it may be hung up upon the wall being then within
reach when required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An adjusting arrangement for desks whereby the frame of the desk or stand is
provided with lattice insertions c c laying one above the other and so arranged
that the upper insertion c is fastened direct to the middle lath whereas the lower
insertion is hinged to a special folding frame d which is on the one side connected
with the lower frame lath so that by an alternate or combined inclination of both
lattice insertions as support or abutment different inclinations of the desk or
stand are obtained substantially as herein described and shown in the accom-
panying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 30th day of April 1897.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, London, Agent for the Applicant.