The Construction of Fortable stands for Hold- ing for Reading Purposes Music, Books, Papers, and as an Easel for Sketching or Painting, or Camera Stand.
Year: 1885

page_text: The Construction of Fortable stands for Hold-
ing for Reading Purposes Music, Books, Papers, and as an
Easel for Sketching or Painting, or Camera Stand.
I ALFRED NICHOLSON of 38 Victoria Street Sheffield, in the County of Yorkshire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I construct the stem of stand and legs say three of brass tubing or other
suitable material. In the bottom of stem is fitted a plug with three flat projections :
the upper ends of the three legs have also plugs fitted in with a projecting flat
piece preferably on one side; the legs are pivotted by rivet by the flat, side
projections to the flat projections of plug in stem, one leg to each projection, and
so as to admit of the legs folding upwards. The rivet hole in the leg plug
projections is made a short distance from top to allow a certain distance of projec-
tion, to form a stop. The flat projections of stem plug are formed with a stud or
stop below where the legs are rivetted, to prevent the legs closing in.
The locking of the legs is effected by a collar turning on bottom of stem, carrying
or formed with, three stud projections on outside on the legs being turned down,
and on turning the collar certain distance round the three stud projections on same
lock the legs against the underneath studs or stops, by the upper stops on end of
legs. A suitable shoulder or ring is formed near bottom of stem to keep the locking
collar in place, and an ordinary tap plug stud arrangement to prevent collar turning
further than is necessary. A ball stud is fitted on outside of collar to facilitate the
turning of same. The desk or holder may consist of a usual bottom angle piece to
which are loosely rivetted four uprights formed of say hoop metal, two of the
uprights are rivetted to angle piece in middle one behind the other, one on one
side, and one on other side the other two uprights may be rivetted one at each
end: these uprights may each have two bands of metal rivetted horizontally, the
whole being arranged to fold up.
This desk or holder is hooked in a three claw arrangement, two claws coming in
front of horizontal bands, and one behind the two uprights: said three claw holder
is set to give desk a suitable angle and is carried on top of a tube sliding in stem.
A suitable thumb screw stop is provided in the upper part of stem to adjust the
height of desk or holder.
Or the treble claw may be attached to a knuckle or ball joint fitted to top of
sliding tube, a ball joint being most suitable for camera holding and adjustment.
Dated this 17th dow of Antahan 100
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: ing for Reading Purposes MUSIC, BOOкs, rapers, and 28 ап
Easel for Sketching or Painting, or Camera Stand.
I ALFRED NICHOLSON of 38 Victoria Street Sheffield in the County of Yorkshire,
Engineer, 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 :—
The improvements in the construction of portable stands constituting this inven-
tion, consists, firstly, in an improved manner for holding the desk or other holder
that will admit of the same being quickly adjusted in any position and allow of its
being immediately taken off or put on the stand, and, secondly in an improved
manner for quickly locking and unlocking the legs.
To enable the invention to be properly understood I will proceed to describe the
same by aid of the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 represents a general elevation of my improved stand, figures 2. 3 4 and 5
being detail views of parts of same.
According to this invention I construct the stem a of stand, and legs b, b, b, say
three, of brass tubing or other suitable material. In the bottom of stem a, is fitted
a plug c, with three flat projections d, d, d; the upper end of the legs have also
plugs fitted in with a projecting flat piece e e e preferably on one side, the legs b, b, b,
are pivotted by rivet by the flat projections e e e, to the flat projections d, d, d, of
plug in steam a, one leg to each projection d, and so as to admit of the legs folding
upwards.
The rivet hole in the projections e is made a short distance from top to allow
sufficient length of e to form an upper stop.
The projections & form a lower stop below where the legs are rivetted to prevent
the legs closing in.
The locking of the legs in position is effected by a collar f turning on bottom of
stem a carrying or formed with three stud projections g, g, g, on outside. On the
legs being turned down to the position represented at figure 1, the upper part comes
against the lower part of d, and on turning the collar f, a sufficient distance round,
the three stud projections g, g, g, lock the legs against the underneath stops d, by
the inner side of the upper stops e, on top of legs, as represented at figures 4 and 5.
A suitable shoulder his formed near bottom of stem a, to keep collar fin place
and an ordinary tap plug arrangement i, to prevent collar f turning further than is
necessary to lock legs. A ball stud j is fitted on outside of collar f, to facilitate the
turning of same. kis desk or holder constructed in the usual manner of metal
hooping loosely rivetted to a bottom angle piece, the whole arranged to fold up.
The desk or holder is hooked in a three claw arrangement, two claws 1, l, coming
in front of horizontal middle bands m and m' of desk, and other claw, behind the
uprights n; this three claw holder is set at a suitable angle-see Figure 3-to give
desk a convenient slope, and is preferably carried on top of a ball or knuckle joint o,
which may be tightened up as required in securing position of desk, by screwing

page_text: down cap p, to assist which the outside of cap is provided with a milled edge. This
ball joint is carried on top of a tube q sliding inside tube a, the latter being
provided at upper part with usual thumb screw r, to secure height of desk.
The stem of ball joint may be tubular, and the claw arrangement formed with a
stem to fit in and secured by thum screw as is shown at t figure 2.
This arrangement is to facilitate the claw being removed to enable a camera to
be better secured to the stand when it is desired to use it for such, the camera
being suitably provided with a pendant stem.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In stands for the objects of this invention, the use of the three claw hook to
attach desk or holder to when used with or without a ball or knuckle joint,
substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In stands for the objects of this invention, the arrangements for locking the
legs in position, consisting of the stops d, e, collar f, and studs g, substantially as
hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying drawings.
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