IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS FOR MAPS, TABLETS, PRINTS, BLINDS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Turner, of the City of Bristol, Schoolmaster,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS FOR MAPS,
TABLETS, PRINTS, BLINDS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 13th March 1868, 'and dated the 17th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Turner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
September 1867.
I, THOMAS TURNER, of the City of Bristol, Schoolmaster, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS
FOR MAPS, TABLETS, PRINTS, BLINDS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing mounts or holders of two half rollers.
or cylinders, that is to say, a roller or cylinder divided longitudinally, and in
providing means for fastening the half 'rollers or cylinders together at each
end. The provision for fastening may consist of a circular groove formed near
each end of the roller to receive an elastic band, or of two internally threaded
conical or other suitably formed caps made to receive the two ends of the
roller which are of corresponding form. The top of the map, tablet, or other
article or articles to be held is placed between the two half rollers, and the
elastic bands or caps are then fitted over their ends so as to keep them
together, whereby the map or other article is securely held between them.

page_text: Although I prefer the holder or mount to be cylindrical in order that the map
or article may conveniently be rolled round it when required, yet I do not
limit myself to that form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
TURNER, of the City of Bristol, Schoolmaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Turner, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Turner, 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 MOUNTS OR HOLDERS FOR MAPS, TABLETS, PRINTS, BLINDS, AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas Turner, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Thomas Turner, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say:
My Invention consists in constructing mounts or holders of two half rollers
or cylinders, that is to say, a roller or cylinder divided longitudinally, and in
providing means for fastening the half rollers or cylinders together at each
end. This provision for fastening consists either of a circular groove formed

page_text: near each end of the roller to receive an elastic band, or of two plain or
internally threaded conical or other suitably formed caps made to receive the
two ends of the roller which are of corresponding form. The top of the map,
tablet, or other article or articles to be held is placed between the two half-
rollers, and the elastic bands or caps are then fitted over their ends so as to
keep them together, whereby the map or other article is securely held between
them.
.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents the two halves A, A, of
a mount or holder constructed according to my Invention; each of these
halves is semicircular in section, the faces a, a, being flat transversely; b, b, are
grooves to receive elastic rings. Figure 2 represents the two halves brought
together and held by rings c, c, passed over the ends of the mounts into the
grooves. Figure 3 represents a mode of fastening the two half rollers together by
means of screw-threaded caps; this Figure is shown in section at one end. The
ends of the half rollers are screw threaded, as seen at d, and when the halves
are brought together the caps e, e, which have corresponding female threads are
screwed on to them. Instead of the ends of the half rollers being screw
threaded to receive threaded caps the ends may be plain and the caps also
plain, as seen in section in Figure 4. Sometimes I employ one or more
spring clips, as seen at g, g, Figures 2 and 3, to assist in pressing the half
rollers together at one or more points; rings h, h, may be attached to these
clips to serve for suspending the mount from a nail or otherwise; or instead
of the clips 9, 9, Figures 2 and 3, I sometimes employ small pins or points, as
shown at ff, Figure 1, to assist in holding the map or sheet placed in the
holder. I also find it preferable to make the half rollers slightly curved longi-
tudinally, as seen in Figure 1, so that when their ends are secured by the elastic
rings or caps the middle portion of the half rollers may be kept in contact
with each other. It is also desirable for some kinds of wood to glue or paste
paper or other material to the flat faces a, a, in order to prevent the map or
other article slipping. When I employ caps to hold the ends of the two half
rollers together I find it convenient to make a hole through the cap, as seen
at i, Figures 3 and 4, and to leave a spacej within the cap; the hole and
space allow of a cord being introduced and knotted, as shown, so that the
mount may be suspended thereby. Although I prefer the holder or mount to
be cylindrical in order that the map or article may conveniently be rolled
round it when required, yet I do not limit myself to that form.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim constructing
mounts or holders of two parts or halves, and with means for securing or

page_text: fastening the parts or halves together at their ends, substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said. Thomas Turner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.