An Improved Holder for Manuscripts or the like for the use of Copyists, Typewriters, and other Persons.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder for Manuscripts or the like for the use of
Copyists, Typewriters, and other Persons.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Bucking-
ham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Otto Siedentopf, of
Leipzigerstrasse 131, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany, Engineer, and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
For this
This invention relates to an improved manuscript rest or holder and is prin-
cipally intended to enable a copyist or the operator of a typewriting machine to
sit in a straight and healthy position and to display the manuscript or other
matter to be copied or typewritten in the most advantageous manner.
purpose the manuscript rest or holder is arranged so that the frame, carrying
the manuscript or other matter, is straight before the eyes of the operator and
can be arranged higher or lower, nearer or farther from the eyes of the operator,
just as required, without limiting or hindering the working of the machine in
any way.
The annexed drawing shows the invention in several forms. The manuscript
rest consists of a vertical bar a whereon a displaceable arm d is arranged, carrying
the frame for holding the manuscript. The bar stands upon a suitable formed
foot behind or beside the machine or is screwed by means of a connecting bar e
onto the frame of the typewriting machine f Fig. 1 or is connected with the
tablet or other support Fig. 8 by means of a screw clamp but in each case in
such a manner that the arm d lies square to the typewriting machine, in order
that the operator has the manuscript lying on the frame c, always straight before
the eyes.
The arm carrying the frame c is connected to a clamp y movable up and
down on the bar a and can be secured in any position by means of the screw h.
If the clamp g and herewith the arm dare to be supported in a movable manner,
the screw remains unscrewed, the arm is then supported at the desired
position by the separate clamping ring i lying beneath the clamp g.
In order that the frame may be arranged not only in the required vertical
position but also with regard to its distance from the eyes of the operator, the
arm can be moved parallel to the sides of the machine.
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For this purpose the armi d can be movable in the clamp g (Figs. 1 to 3) or it
can be formed telescopically (Figs. 4 5 and 8) or similarly to "lazy tongs
(Figs. 6 and 7). In any case the fastening of the arm & in its horizontal position
is effected by means of screws or the like k or k¹.
In the form shown in Fig. 8 the vertical position of the frame is regulated by
means of the telescope like stand a, the vertical arm of which can be fastened in any
vertical position by the screws. The upper curved part of this arm can hereby
be turned in the lower part, whilst the arm is joined to the upper part of the
stand and can turn horizontally thereon.
The frame e is provided with springs 7 for fastening the manuscript and can be

page_text: also provided with pivoted or sliding arms m (Fig. 3) for use when holding and
supporting larger manuscripts or for this purpose the frame c may be provided
with auxiliary frame pieces c¹ and (Fig. 9) which can be drawn out respectively
sideways and upwards or which are hinged so as to fold together (Fig. 10).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. An improved holder for manuscript or the like for the use of copyists, type-
writers, and other persons in which arm & carrying a frame c is arranged on a
stand a in such a manner that it can be displaced thereon both vertically and
horizontally.
2. An improved holder for manuscripts as in Claim 1 in which the arm d,
carrying the frame c is arranged in a binding clamp g seated on the bar a so as
to be movable vertically and horizontally and secured in position by means of
a screw k.
3. An improved holder for manuscripts as in Claim I in which the arm d
carrying the frame is constructed telescopically (Figs. 4 and 5) or in a form
similar to "lazy tongs" (Figs. 6 & 7).
4. An improved holder for manuscripts as in Claim 1 in which the frame e can
be enlarged by means of pivoted or sliding arms m which can be folded or drawn
out or by means of sliding or hinged auxiliary frame pieces c¹ c².
Dated this 3rd day of December 1898.
R. HADDAN.