IMPROVEMENTS IN WATCHES, TOY WATCHES, PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS, WALKING STICKS, AND CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Goldberg, of Love Lane, in the City of
London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATCHES,
TOY WATCHES, PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS, WALKING
STICKS, AND CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 22nd February 1870, and dated the 30th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Goldberg at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th August 1869.
I, Louis GOLDBERG, of Love Lane, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATCHES. TOY WATCHES, PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS,
WALKING STICKS, AND CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES," to be as follows

page_text: In applying the Invention to a watch or toy or dummy watch I
produce or attach or cause to adhere photographs or other pictures or
representations on or to a band or strip of paper, cloth, or other flexible
material capable of being folded; I cement or attach one end to the
interior of the case of the watch, leaving the other end free. When the
band or strip is folded it will be compressed into a small space, and can
be enclosed entirely within the case of the watch, but by unfolding the
band or strip all or the desired number of pictures or photographs
thereon will be exhibited or exposed to view. The photographs or
pictures may be produced on or attached to thin parallel plates of metal
or other rigid material hinged or jointed together so as to form a long
jointed band which will fold up and be unfolded in manner and for the
purpose above described.
The Invention may be applied in like mauner to lockets, brooches,
medallions, and other trinkets, also to pocket books, purses, and other
receptacles, and to walking sticks, umbrellas, parasols, and other similar
portable articles, that is to say, to articles which themselves form or
parts of which form or in which can be formed a case, socket, or holder
for receiving and enclosing a folding band or strip and for retaining one
end thereof, as above described.
Secondly. I sometimes combine and apply with and to watches, or
other above-named articles, a folding band or strip in the manner above
described, in order to serve for writing memoranda or making sketches
thereon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Goldberg in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
GOLDBERG, of Love Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Louis Goldberg, Her special licence

page_text: that I, the said Louis Goldberg, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Goldberg, my exccutors,
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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATCHES, TOY WATCHES, PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS,
WALKING STICKS, AND CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Goldberg, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an 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 Louis Goldberg, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manuer the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompany-
ing Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
2017

page_text: similar portable articles, that is to say, to articles which themselves form
or parts of which form or in which can be formed a case, socket, or
holder for receiving and enclosing folding band or strip and for
a
retaining one end thereof, as above described.
Secondly. I sometimes combine and apply with and to watches or
other above-named articles a folding band or strip in the manner above
described in order to serve for writing memoranda or making sketches
thereon.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify in what manner the Invention
may be carried into practical effect, and shewn by way of example as
applied to a toy watch containing photographs.
Figure 1 is a plan of a toy watch constructed according to my
Invention shewing the photograph strip partly open, or extended;
Figure 2 is a side elevation shewing the same closed.
A, A, is a case consisting of two parts A and A* hinged together
as is usual in toy watches. On the outer side of A may be a repre-
sentation of a watch dial, and on the outer side of A* may be a painting
or a coloured engraving. B is a long strip of paper, which at one end
is attached to the inner side of the part. A. The strip folds up and opens
easily; is is cut into any desired shape, and to it a row of photographic
pictures is attached.
When the watch is opened and the strip extended
a series of photographs is exposed to view; but when it is desired to
close the article the photographs are folded and placed in the hollow
portion or case A, and when the part A is closed over it the photo-
graphs are concealed. c is a tag at the end of the strip for convenience
of drawing it open and closing it up.
Although I have particularly described the Invention as applied to a
toy watch, it is evident that it may be applied in like manner to lockets,
brooches, medallions, and other trinkets, that is to say, to cases, recesses,
sockets, or receptacles formed therein or formed by the same, also to
cases, sockets, recesses, or receptacles formed in or forming part of pocket
books, purses, and other such articles, also to or to receptacles formed in
walking sticks, umbrellas, parasols, and other similar portable articles,
that is to say, articles which themselves form or parts of which form or
in which can be formed a case, socket, or holder for receiving and
enclosing a folding band or strip and for retaining one end thereof.
Sometimes the folding band or strip may be blauk or nearly blank (instead

page_text: of having photographs or pictures thereon) in order that memoranda
may be written or sketches made thereon.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, combining
photographs or other pictures or representations with watches, toy
watches, dummy watches, lockets, personal ornaments, purses, pocket
books, walking sticks, and certain other portable articles, substantially
in the manner and for the
described.
purpose
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Goldberg, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
E. EDMONDS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
LOUIS GOLDBERG. (L.S.)