IMPROVE- MENTS IN BOXES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PIECES OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR USE OR DISTRIBUTION
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Christopher César Azémar, of Laurence
Pountney Hill, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOXES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PIECES OF PAPER OR OTHER
MATERIAL FOR USE OR DISTRIBUTION,"
Sealed the 28th January 1 GS, and dated the 31st July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Christopher César
Azémar at the Office of the Commissioners of l'atents, with his l'etition,
on the 31st July 1867.
I, JOHN CHRISTOPHER CESAR AZÉMAR, of Laurence Pountney Hill, in the
City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PIECES OF PAPER OR OTHER
MATERIAL FOR USE OR DISTRIBUTION," to be as follows:-
The chief object of my Invention is to construct a box or apparatus for so
holding pieces of paper for use in waterclosets that the pieces can be readily
taken out separately or otherwise when required, and without making any
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page_text: litter or waste; but boxes or apparatus constructed in the same manner may
be employed to hold business cards or other like articles for distribution
separately or otherwise.
The box or apparatus is constructed as follows:-Its horizontal section is
equal to the size of the pieces of paper which it is intended to hold, and it is
provided at the top with a lid or cover which has an opening at the front; this
opening together with an opening at the top of the front side of the box allows
the top piece or pieces of paper to be grasped and withdrawn. The under
side of the lid becomes thinner towards the front, so as to exert a gradual
diminution of pressure, and it may be provided with springs to check the
delivery of the paper; or the necessary pressure may be produced by a roller
or otherwise; the lid may be held down by any suitable fastenings. The
pieces of paper are piled one above another in the box, and the bottom of the
pile rests on a loose board, from the two sides of which bands are carried up
passed over rollers, and connected on the other side of the rollers to weights.
The under side of the board has a spring connected therewith, which exerts a
counter action against the weights, so that the board with the pile of paper is
always forced up with about the same amount of power, no matter how small
the pile may become.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Christopher César Azémar in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHRISTOPHER CÉSAR AZÉMAR, of Laurence Pountney Hill, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Christopher César Azémar, Her special licence, that I, the said
John Christopher César Azémar, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Christopher César Azémar, my 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, use, exercise, and vend, within

page_text: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR APPARATUS FOR
HOLDING PIECES OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR USE OR DISTRIBUTION," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Christopher César
Azémar, ny executors or administrators, by au 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 John Christopher César Azémar, 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 :-
The chief object of my Invention is to construct a box or apparatus for so
holding pieces of paper for use in waterclosets that the pieces can be readily
taken out separately or otherwise when required, and without making any
litter or waste; but boxes or apparatus constructed in the same manner may
be employed to hold business cards or other like articles for distribution,
separately or otherwise.
The box or apparatus is constructed as follows:-Its horizontal section is
somewhat larger than the size of the pieces of paper which it is intended to
hold, and it is provided at the top with a lid or cover which has an opening at
the front; this opening together with an opening at the top of the front side of
the box allows the top piece or pieces of paper to be grasped or withdrawn.
The under side of the lid becomes thinner towards the front, so as to exert a
gradual diminution of pressure, and it may be provided with springs to check
the delivery of the paper; or the necessary pressure may be produced by a roller
or otherwise; the lid may be held down by any suitable fastenings. The
pieces of paper are piled one above another in the box, and the bottom of the
pile rests on a loose board or support, from the two sides of which bands are
carried up, passed over rollers, and connected on the other side of the rollers
to weights. The under side of the board has a spring or springs connected
thereto which assist the action of the weights, so that the board with the pile
of paper is always forced up with about the same amount of power, no matter
how small the pile may become.
The accompanying Drawings represent a box or apparatus constructed as

page_text: herein-before described intended for holding a supply of paper in a water-
closet.
Figure 1 is a perspective external elevation of the box when the lid is
closed; Figure 2 is a similar view with the lid open; Figure 3 is a similar
view to Figure 2, but with the front of the box removed to show the internal
parts. In Figure 3 the paper is shewn in the position it occupies against the
lid; in Figure 2 the paper is shewn as it is when unchecked by the lid;
Figure 4 is a section of the lid on a larger scale; Figure 5 represents in plan
the board, rollers, bands, and weights, the bands being laid out flat or
developed to shew the parts more clearly; Figure 6 isa plan of the box with
the lid and the internal parts removed.
a is the box, and the lid, hinged at the back at c; d is an opening at the
front of the lid; e is an opening at the top of the front side of the box; these
two openings d and allow the top piece or pieces of pape: to be taken hold
of and withdrawn. The under side of the lid b, as before inentioned, and as
seen in Figure 4, becomes thinner towards the front, so that it may exert a
gradual diminution of pressure; it is provided with springs or pins f to check
the delivery of the paper. 9. g, are fastenings to hold down the lid; h repre-
sents the pile of pieces of paper, the bottom of the pile rests on a loose
board, from the two sides of which bands h, k, are carried up, passed over
rollers 1, 1, and connected on the other side of the rollers to weights m, m.
The axes of these rollers are supported in grooves or holes at the back and
front of the box; the position of the rollers and of the grooves is shewn in
dotted lines in Figure 6. n is a spring fitted between the under side of the
board and the bottom of the box: To keep the weights m from contact with
the part of the bands & next the board I make divisions in the box at o, o.
As the quantity of paper in the pile gradually diminishes the relative action
of the weights increases, but the action of the spring n at the same time
gradually diminishes, so that the board i with the paper is as before stated
always forced up with about the same amount of power, no matter how small
the pile may become. Sometimes I hinge the lid b at the front of the box
as shown in Figure 7, instead of at the back, so that the fastenings for holding
the lid down may be at the back out of the way.
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,―
First, constructing boxes or apparatus substantially as herein-before
described for holding pieces of paper or other material for use or dis-
tribution.

page_text: Second, the combination in a box of the board i, bands k, k, rollers 6, 7,
and weights m, m, with or without the spring n, substantially as and for the
purpose herein-before described and represented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Christopher César Azémar, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
J. C. C. AZEMAR. (L.s.)