IMPROVEMENTS IN
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th September 1864.
I, KEDGWIN HOSKINS LANE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS," to be as follows, that is to
say:
say.
I form a square, polygonal, or cylindrical box, inside which I place a case
or chamber mounted upon a spindle, which has its bearings in the top and
bottom of the outer box; upon this inner case the photographs are placed;
which case can thus, by means of the spindle before-named, be caused to
revolve so as to bring each photograph in rotation opposite to a door or opening
which is formed in one portion of the outer box. Lockets may be thus made
to contain many miniature photographs in small compass, whilst in larger
forms, such as may be required for drawing-room tables, the case may assume
very ornamental shapes, such as a pagoda, which could be made by mounting

page_text: several cases in tiers one over the other,. each tier containing its revolving
chamber, caused to rotate by the same spindle.
Another modification of my Invention consists in forming lockets or cases
for the same purpose, upon the plan of a ribbon measure, hinging together a
number of frames for photographs, which frames may be made by preference
in thin metal, in such manner that the ribbon or chain thus formed could be
wound round a spindle within an outer box, so that upon the ribbon being
drawn through an opening in the outer box, the photographs may be
successively exposed to view, and by turning the spindle they may be again
enclosed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, KEDGWIN
HOSKINS LANE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, Her special licence-that I, the said Kedgwin
Hoskins Lane, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, 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 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 Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-.
lowing statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say).
I form a square, polygonal, or cylindrical box, inside which I place a case or
chamber mounted upon a spindle, which has its bearings in the top and bottom
of the outer box; upon this inner case the photographs are placed, which case
can thus, by means of the spindle before-named be caused to revolve so as to
bring each photograph in rotation opposite to a door or opening which is
formed in one portion of the outer box. Lockets may be thus made to con-
tain many miniature photographs in small compass, whilst in larger forms,
such as may be required for drawing-room tables, the case may assume very
ornamental shapes, such as a pagoda, which could be made by mounting
several cases in tiers one over the other; each tier containing its revolving
chamber caused to rotate by the same spindle.
Another modification of my Invention consists in forming lockets or cases
for the same purpose upon the plan of a ribbon measure, hinging together a
number of frames for photographs, which frames may be made, by preference,
in thin metal, in such manner that the ribbon or chain thus formed could be
wound round a spindle within an outer box, so that upon the ribbon being
drawn through an opening in the outer box, the photographs may be
successively exposed to view, and by turning the spindle they may be again

page_text: nesses of metal. The outer one having spaces of an elliptical form cut through
it for the display of the photographs, and which spaces may coincide with the
number of sides in the locket, or they may be fewer or more, as preferred, the
inner thickness of metal in the drum or cylinder is closed in by top and bottom
plates around a spindle (d) secured to the said top and bottom plates in any
convenient manner, and passing through the top (e) and bottom plate (f) of
the outer case of the locket. The two thicknesses of metal forming this drum
or cylinder are kept slightly apart by thin distance pieces or ribs of metal
at (9), thus forming spaces (h) into which the photographs are inserted at the
top of the drum. This will be more clearly seen upon reference to the larger
plan, Figure 7, which, though octagonal-in form, is upon the same principle,
the whole of the parts being put together, the spindle (d) and drum (c) con-
taining the photographs are free to revolve (when turned by the finger) within
the outer case of the locket (a) and thus the photographs can be in succession
brouglit opposite to the open side of the case (a).
The larger form of case shewn in Figure 5, is similar in principle to that
already described, but is intended for a table or chimney ornament; and
shewn with one side (6) opened. It is intended to be constructed in orna-
mental wood, papier maché, ivory, metal, or any other suitable material. The
photographs are inserted by removing the top and placing them, as already
described; in the spaces provided in the drum or cylinder within the case, the
terminal (C) being fixed upon the spindle to afford the means of turning the
inner drum or cylinder.
Figures 6 and 7 shew a design for a case to contain a larger number of
photographs, it is constructed in stages or tiers, one side of each tier opening
as shewn at (b). This design would contain forty photographs, but that
number may be increased by extending the height or multiplying the sides,
and thus extending the base. The photographs are to be inserted as in the
design last described, but in making the inner drum or cylinder for this
description of case it will require to be telescopic in form, each stage or tier
being slightly less in diameter than the one below to admit of the insertion of
the photographs at the top of each tier or stage. One spindle to which the
terminal (C) is secured governs all the tiers' or stages in the drum, so that
upon turning the spindle one side in each tier of the case being open; a fresh
-series of photographs is brought into view.
.
Figure 8 represents a case constructed upon the plan of a tape or ribbon
measure, and it may be worked in a similar manner, either by means of a
spring around the spindle, making it self-acting, or by the hand. The photo-
graphs may be mounted upon a strip of any suitable flexible material, or in

page_text: very thin metal frames hinged together, in which latter case each will have to
be slightly less in size as the series approaches the spindle to admit of their
folding one over the other.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I claim, without limiting myself to these
exact details, the several improvements in cases or receptacles for photographs,
substantially as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Kedgwin Hoskins Lane, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
KEDGWIN HOSKINS (L.s.) LANE.