IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COPYING LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT' to Alexander Robert Terry, of 1, Adelphi Terrace,
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COPYING LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Robert Terry
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th March 1855.
b.
I, ALEXANDER ROBERT TERRY, of 1, Adelphi Terrace, Adelphi, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for." IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COPYING LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS" to be as follows:-.
The object of this Invention is to combine apparatus with the covers of a
book (composed of suitable paper) in such manner that the act of closing of the
covers of a book shall be the means of copying a letter or letters or documents
inserted between the leaves of such book." For this purpose at the outside of
each cover of a book I apply and fix a metal frame; these two frames are, when
the book is closed, connected together by links which are attached to the frame
of one cover of the book, and they pass on to projections on the frame of the
other cover of the book, and in so passing on and connecting the two frames
together, the links cause the two frames to be drawn tightly together, and the
paper between the covers is tightly compressed; and thus are the copies made
as effectually as when using a copying press.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Robert Terry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th September 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
ROBERT TERRY, of 1, Adelphi Terrace, Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Robert Terry, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Robert Terry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Alexander Robert Terry, 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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COPYING LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Robert Terry, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Robert Terry, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 (that is to say):-
The object of this Invention is to combine apparatus with the covers of a
book (composed of suitable paper) in such manner that the act of closing
of the covers of a book shall be the means of copying a letter or letters or
documents inserted between the leaves of such book. For this purpose at the
outside of each cover of a book I apply and fix a metal frame; these two
frames are, when the book is closed, connected together by links which are
attached to the frame of one cover of the book, and they pass on to projections
on the frame of the other cover of the book, and in so passing on and con-
necting the two frames together, the links cause the two frames to be drawn

page_text: tightly together, and the paper between the covers is tightly compressed; and
thus are the copies made as effectually as when using a copying press.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a plan, Figure 2 a front edge view, and Figure 3 an end
view, of a book and apparatus combined therewith according to my Invention.
a, a, is the book, composed of suitable paper; b, b, are the covers thereof,
which have fixed thereon strong frames or ribs c, c, of metal. To the ends of
one of these frames or ribs are attached open links d, d, by pin joints, and the
ends of the other frame are made inclined, so that when the links are forced
on those ends they will cause the two covers b, b, of the book to be drawn
closely towards each other, and thus produce the requisite pressure for making
a copy or copies of letters or other documents placed in such book.
I would remark that the form of the frames or ribs, and of the links or
instruments for bringing the two covers forcibly towards each other, may be
varied without departing from my Invention. The arrangement shown is,
however, the most simple and convenient I am acquainted with for the
purpose.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not claim any of
the parts separately; but what I claim is, the combining apparatus with the
covers of a book in such manner that by the act of closing and fastening
the covers the requisite pressure shall be obtained to copy letters or other
documents placed in such book.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Robert Terry, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
ALEX. R. TERRY. (L.S.)