Improvements in Covers or Holders for Music, Papers, Unbound Publications, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 2nd May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Holders for Music, Papers, Unbound
Publications, or the like.
1, CHARLES HENRY TENNIERS Junr., 4, Hoole Park, Chester, Professor of
Music, 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:-
Although the primary object of my invention is to provide a cover or holder for
sheet music, nevertheless I do not restrict it to that one use, as it is equally
applicable to the covering of business and other papers, documents, letters, serial
and other periodicals or to any analogous purposes.
In carrying out my invention. I provide a piece of suitable material such as
cardboard, covered or not with leather, paper, textile fabric or other suitable
material. The size of the piece of material may be rather more than twice the
width of the music or the like to be covered, and rather more than equal to the
length of the music. This piece of material I fold over at the centre of its width,
thus forming a two leafed cover of rather more than the width and length of the
music. Along the centre of the fold is a strip of flexible wire, preferably copper
wire. This extends from near the bottom to near the top of the fold, and is kept
in place, (except an inch or so at each end,) by sewing, or by covering it with
Each free end of the wire
paper, fabric, leather, or by any other suitable means.
is sharpened and bent at a right angle to the length of the wire.
To use my invention for covering a piece of music, the copy of music is opened
out, the two sharpened ends of the wire are forced through the fold of the music
and the upper point turned down in the fold towards the lower point, and the lower
point towards the upper one. An alternative way to use the cover would be to
open the music as before and lay it on the wire and turn the free ends of the wire
over the top and bottom ends of the fold in the music, instead of forcing the ends
through as first described.
When there is no fold in whatever is to be covered, as for instance, in the case
of a single leaf of paper, then a piece of one side may be doubled over to form a
fold. More than one wire can be provided so that several pieces of music or the
like can be accommodated within the same cover. In order that my invention
inay be more readily understood, I make reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view of a cover opened out flat.
Fig. 3 shows a front view of a piece of music retained by the turned down ends
of the wire.
Fig. 4 shows a perspective view with the ends of the wire simply turned over
the top and bottom of the music, instead of the wire ends being forced through.
Similar letters indicate the same parts where they occur in the different views.
a, b, c, d is a piece of material folded at e, f: g, h, is a length of flexible wire
attached to the fold from i toj leaving the free ends ig and hj, which were to be
sharpened, and then bent over at a right angle to the fold as shown at Fig. 2.
k, l, m, n, is a piece of music after its fold has been forced over the sharpened ends
of the wire, and the latter turned so as to lie within the fold of the music.
I do not restrict myself to the precise shape, details, proportion or disposition
of parts described in the above Specification and exemplified in the accompanying

page_text: drawings, as any or all of them may be varied without departing from the spirit of
my invention.
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,
1. A cover or holder for music or like articles, and consisting of a piece of
suitable material such as cardboard folded in the middle of its width, and having
attached within the fold a piece of flexible wire the opposite ends of which are free
and pointed, for the purpose of being forced through, and folded down towards one
another, within the fold of the piece of music or the like placed within the cover,
the whole substantially as described in the above Specification, and exemplified in
tbe accompanying drawings.
2. A cover or holder for music and like articles, and consisting of a piece of
suitable material such as cardboard fulded in the middle of its width and having
attached within the fold a piece of flexible wire the opposite ends of which are free
and intended to be bent over the top and bottom of, and folded down towards one
another within, the fold of the piece of music or the like placed within the cover,
the whole substantially as described in the above Specification and exemplified in
the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of parts together forming a cover or holder for music and
like articles, substantially as described in the above Specification, and exemplified
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of March 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.