Improvements in Newspaper Holders.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Newspaper Holders.
I, JOSEF LANDSIEDL, Coffee-house Keeper, of Steyr, in the Empire of Austria,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to a newspaper portfolio or case in which one or more
numbers, layers, or sheets can be separately laid and held-fast, so as to protect
both the paper and the case itself.
This improved case is composed of an ordinary portfolio, wherein, on the inner
side of the back a small tube provided with a longitudinal slit or opening is secured
in such a manner that the said slit is on the opposite side of the back. The tube is
secured by means of bars or straps and split pins or tacks to the case.
At the top, the tube is closed by an ordinary cap or socket or by a cap secured
by a bayonet-joint, and contains a spring in order to prevent any automatic opening
of the joint the spring pressing the projection into the horizontal part of the
bayonet-slot.
Suitable rods after the paper with its folded line has been wrapped or folded
round them, are introduced singly from below into the tube. The slit does not
extend quite to the top of the tube, and is also surrounded at the bottom by a
closure-cap, so that the rod or rods may be thus prevented from dropping down,.
out of the tube.
For the insertion of a new number or daily issue of a newspaper, a rod is laid
on the central folding line of the sheets which are then turned over or folded
thereupon, i.e., the newspaper is closed. The lower cap having first been taken off
by unscrewing, the back edge of the newspaper, with the rod inside, is passed up
the tube by means of the slit and the covering cap screwed on again. A second
and third or other issue of the newspaper can also be separately inserted in the
same manner, when received.
Dated this 21st day of June 1895
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, JOSEF LANDSIEDL, Coffee-house Keeper, of Steyr, in the Empire of Austria
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:-
This invention relates to a newspaper portfolio or case in which one or more
numbers, layers, or sheets can be separately laid and held-fast, so as to protect
both the paper and the case itself.
This invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in which
I, JOSEF LANDSIEDL, Coffee-house Keeper, of Steyr, in the Empire of Austria
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:
This invention relates to a newspaper portfolio or case in which one or more
numbers, layers, or sheets can be separately laid and held-fast, so as to protect
both the paper and the case itself.
This invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section ;
Figure 2 is a perspective view; and
Figure 3 is a transverse section,

page_text: Figures 6 to 9 inclusive show the top and bottom closing or covering caps; and
Figure 10 the back-bar of the apparatus.
This improved case comprises an ordinary portfolio, wherein, on the inner side of
the back a a small tube provided with a longitudinal slit or opening b, is secured
in such a manner that the said slit is on the opposite side of the back a.
The
tube c is secured by means of bars or straps d and split pins or tacks e to the case,
as shown in Figure 1.
At the top, the tube c is closed by a cap or socket for by a cap f¹ secured by
a bayonet joint, and contains a spring g in order to prevent any automatic opening
of the joint by the rods h, the spring pressing the projection k into the horizontal
part of the bayonet-slot.
Suitable rods h, after the paper with its folded line has been wrapped or folded
round them, are introduced singly from below into the tube c. The slit b does not
extend quite to the top of the tube c and is also surrounded at the bottom by a
closure-cap i, so that the rod or rods h may be thus prevented from dropping down,
out of the tube.
For the insertion of a new number or daily issue of a newspaper, a rod h is laid
on the central folding line of the sheets which are then turned over or folded
thereupon, i.e., the newspaper is closed. The lower cap having first been taken
off by unscrewing, the back edge of the newspaper, with the rod inside, is passed
up the tube by means of the slit, and the covering cap i screwed on again.
A second and third or other issue of the newspaper can also be separately inserted"
in the same manner, when required. Figure 4 e.g., shows a single number already
inserted and Figure 5 two such numbers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A newspaper case or portfolio with fastening device comprising an ordinary
portfolio having a tube such as c secured on the inner side along the back of the
portfolio and provided with a slit, an upper and a lower closure-cap for the tube,
and rods such as h for the purpose of separately introducing and securing in the
case single numbers or sheets of a newspaper or the like, or of removing any
number singly, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 21st day of February 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.