Portable or Folding Swing Looking Glasses or Mirrors.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr.. 1890-Accepter, 17th May, 1390
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Portable or Folding Swing Looking Glasses or Mirrors.
I, GEORGE HENRY BROWNHILL of No. 9 Smith Street Hanley in the county of
Stafford Cabinet Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is intended for the convenience of persons travelling and others
requireing a useful toilet case with swing glass attached that may be instantly
detached and folded up into as small a compass as to be easily packed into an
ordinary traveling or other bag and may be constructed in the following manner,
that is to say. I make a flat hox or case the lid of which being loose I utilize
for the purpose of a glass frame in the inside of which I fix the mirror. In the
lower or bottom part of the box or case at either ends or sides I fix two standards
or brackets upon which I intend the glass to swing each standard is cut at its base
at an angle with a block ent at a corresponding grade so as when hinged (i.e.) the
standards to the blocks "when up" to be perfectly perpendicular and opposite to each
other but with the grade on either standard to be vice versa when fixed in their
respective places the effect of this being that when turned down it. will throw each
standard at an angle contrary to each other and thereby pass and lie flat upon the
bottom of the box or tray without overlapping each other.
Or in some cases I fix the standards by a pin passing through their base to act as
a hinge the one to be hinged to a block the thickness of the opposite standard so
as to allow of it overlapping the other easily within the box when turned down they
may be made in any shape or size and of any suitable material.
Dated this 13th day of July 1889
GEORGE HENRY BROWNHILL
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Portable or Folding Swing Looking Glasses or Mirrors.
1, GEORGE HENRY BROWNHILL, of 9 Smith Street, Hanley, in the County of
Stafford, Cabinet 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 :-
My invention relates to a portable or folding swing looking glasses or mirrors,
and is intended for the convenience of persons travelling, and for others requiring
a toilet case with a swing glass attached; the said swing glass may be instantly
detached from the supports and folded up into a small compass, so as to be easily
packed into an ordinary travelling bag.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1. represents the interior of the bottom portion of the mirror stand a, with
the supports e, e, folded up in a flat position. Each support e is hinged at d to a
taper block c.
placed at
Figure 2. is the elevation of figure 1, with the looking glass or mirror
the top to act as a cover, this said cover being secured by the catch on the
tapered swivel g, both at the back and the front of the stand or box a.
T'he
Figure 3. is the front elevation of the mirror fitted up ready for use.
swivels g, g, sliding and working in the bevelled slotted plates h, h, on each of the
supports e, e. The dotted lines in this figure discribes the taper blocks c, c.
This invention is constructed with a flat box or case a, the lid of which being

page_text: loose I utilize for the purpose of a glass frame, and in the inside of which I fix the
mirror. In the lower or bottom part of the box or case u at either ends or sides I
fix two standards or supports e, e, or brackets, upon which I intend the glass to
swing, each standard is cut at its base at an angle, with a block e cut to the corre-
sponding grade and fixed to the case, the said standards are hinged at d to the
aforesaid blocks c, c, so as when hinged the standards may be placed perpendicular
and opposite to each other, but with the grade on either standard to be vice versa
when fixed in their respective places; the offect of this being that when turned down
it will throw each standard at an angle contrary to each other and thereby pass
and lay flat upon the bottom of the box or tray a, as in figure 1, without overlapping
each other.
If preferable I may fix the standards by a pin passing through their base to act
as a hinge, the one to be hinged to a block the thickness of the opposite standard so
as to allow of it overlapping the other within the box when turned down.
This invention or any parts thereof may be made in any shape, size, and of any
suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First The combination of the apparatus to form a portable or folding swing
looking glass or mirror, and a general toilet case, substantially as herein described
and according to the accompanying drawings.
:
Secondly The combination of the box a, and the standards e, e, hinged to
blocks c, c, fixed to the bottom of the box, to lay flat, as in figure 1, or to stand up
to support the lid or mirror fas in figure 3, with the catches b, b, to close up the
apparatus as in figure 2, substantially as herein described.
:
Thirdly I claim to make the apparatus of any size, shape, or material, substantially
as herein described.
Dated this 16th day of April 1890.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.