Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 29th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th Apr., 1887.
I WILLIAM BEILBY AVERY of 12 Digbeth, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Machine Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a portable stand or support for a beam
scale or steelyard, to be used in places where convenient means are not available for
hanging up a weighing apparatus.
In carrying out my invention, I employ a pair of A shaped frames, the legs of
which are prolonged, and divided into three parts, the lower part being telescopic, and
hinged or jointed to the upper part.
These two frames are connected together, at top, by a bar provided at its ends with
double hooks constructed in the manner described in the specification of patent
granted to me dated 29th October, 1881, No. 4737, and which hook onto pins suitably
placed at the top of the frames to receive them, thus forming a strong and rigid stand
or support.
The beam scale or steelyard will be hooked onto the bar or attached thereto in any
other convenient manner.
The stand or support, when not in use, will be folded up and placed in a box with
the beam scale or steelyard, for convenience of transport.
Data th: 30th day of Luna 1886
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Portable Stand or Support for Beam Scales
and Steelyards.
I WILLIAM BEILBY AVERY of Digbeth, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Machine Maker, 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 :-
The object of this Invention is to provide a portable stand or support for a beam
scale, steelyard, or other hanging balance or weighing apparatus, to be used in places
where convenient means are not available for hanging up such a weighing apparatus.
It will, however, be evident that the stand or support may be employed for any other
purpose to which it may be applicable.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the portable stand or support.
Fig. 2 is an end view showing one of the supporting frames.
Fig. 3 is a top view of the supporting bar.
Fig. 4 shows a supporting frame folded up ready to be placed in a box for
convenience of transport.
Fig. 5 shews a slight modification in the construction of the supporting frame.
Figs. 6 shew in two positions a modification in the form of joint; and
Fig. 7 shows a further modification in the construction of the supporting frames.
The stand or support consists of a pair of A shaped frames A, the legs of which are
prolonged. The prolongations, which are hinged or jointed to the part A of the
frame, are made in two parts A1 and A2, the part A of which, by preference, telescopes
within the part A¹. The part A2 is provided with a pin a, which works in a slot b
formed in the part A¹, and is secured in the extended or withdrawn position by a
clamping screw c. The parts A A' may of course be jointed together, as shewn at
Figs. 6, or in any other convenient manner, instead of being telescopic, but I prefer
the telescopic form, as being of somewhat less weight.
At the apex of the frame is a projection or lug d, having parallel sides, and through
which two pins e e¹ are inserted. These pins project on both sides of the lug d, and
serve as retaining pins for hooked couplings on the supporting bar B.
The supporting bar B consists of a flat bar of metal of a thickness corresponding to
the thickness of the lug or projection d on the apex of the frame A, and at both ends
of this bar, and on, either side thereof, is rivetted or otherwise secured a hooked
coupling, constructed in the manner described and shewn in the Specification of
Patent granted to me dated 29th October 1881, No. 4737.
When this bar is coupled to the frames A, and the frames are separated as shewn in
Fig. 1, a firm and rigid stand or support is provided for a beam scale or other
hanging balance, or for any other purpose for which such a stand may be useful.
When not required for use, the supporting bar B will be unhooked, and the

page_text: frames A will be folded up, as shewn at Fig. 4, the separated parts being packed
in a box with the weighing apparatus for convenience of transport.
In the modification shown at Fig. 7, the upper part of the frame A consists of an
inverted piece A*, to the arms of which the legs are jointed in any convenient
manner. In this arrangement employ a folding strut or spacing piece, which is
jointed to one leg, and fits into a recess in the other, so as to thrust and keep the
two legs apart when the stand is in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would here remark that I do not
intend to confine myself to any particular inode of constructing the frames A, nor to
any particular mode of jointing the parts of said frames together, as these may be
varied without departing from the nature of my Invention, but what I desire to
claim is:-
1st. The portable stand or support substantially as herein shewn and described.
2nd. The combination with a pair of folding frames, of a supporting bar having
rigid hooked couplings substantially as shewn and described.
3rd. The application to, and use in a portable stand or support, of the rigid hooked
couplings f, as and for the purpose specified.
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