An Apparatus relating to the Mounting and Squeegeeing of Photo- graphic Prints and similar Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: An Apparatus relating to the Mounting and Squeegeeing of Photo-
graphic Prints and similar Articles.
I, FREDERICK THOMAS PARSONS, Photographic Manufacturer, of 102, Fortess
Road, London, N.W., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention is to provide a pad of absorbent paper or other suitable material;
attached to a plane rigid support, for squeegeeing, mounting, or blotting off super-
fluous moisture from, photographic prints, or other materials requiring a like
treatment.
The invention consists of a rigid baseboard of wood, or other suitable material,
such as metal; if of wood, suitably supported if necessary by being clamped, or
with battens; to which baseboard is attached, either permanently, or temporarilly
so as to be removable, a pad composed of sheets of absorbent paper or other suit-
able material, in such a manner that one edge is fixed, the sheets being free from
the fixed edge like leaves of a book. The pad may be covered by a protecting sheet
of rubber canvas or other suitable material, preferably waterproof, to take strain
off pad & resist wear by action of squeegee.
The said sheet is fixed to the support
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in like manner to the sheets of pad, and may underlap fixed edge of same.
pad is fixed, with protecting sheet to the support or baseboard, by one edge; per-
manently by suitable means as clips or screws, or temporarily by a strip of suitable
more or less rigid material, screwed or clipped over edge of support together with
pad and protecting sheet; or the said strip may be hinged to support, and overlap
edge of pad and protecting sheet and made to grip them to the basboard by means
of screws, clips, or springs, in such a manner that the pad and protecting sheet
may be readily released for renewal.
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An Apparatus relating to the Mounting and Squeegeeing of Photo-
graphic Prints and similar Articles.
FREDERICK THOMAS PARSONS, Chemist, 102, Fortess Road, Kentish Town, N.W.,
I do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
[Price 8d.1

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement;
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The apparatus in its simplest form consists of a base of wood, or other suitable
material, to which is attached, by one end, sheets of absorbent material, as blot-
ting paper, and over the said sheets a sheet of rubber cloth or other suitable material
to resist the strain of the squeegee on the said absorbent sheets; thus the whole
of the sheet are left free from one end, like leaves of a book, so that the photo-
graphic prints or other articles to be operated upon may be inserted between the
said sheets leaving both hands free for the operation of squeegeeing.
The baseboard, A. Figs. I and II, may clamped or battened as shown, and the
sheets attached by means of a piece of wood or other suitable material B, either
permanently or in such a manner as to be easily renewed; in the latter case the
strip B, may be hinged as shown in Fig. II, and the screws C, C, passed through
the trip and screwed into the baseboard A or into plates H, H, secured to the base-
board. The said strip B may be unhinged if desirable and simply secured by the
screws C C or other suitable means.
When the strip B is clamped by the screws C, C, it will clamp the sheets 1) and E
securely to the basboard A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A baseboard and pad of absorbent sheets and protecting sheets arranged con-
veniently as a piece of apparatus for squeegeeing & mounting photos.
2. The securing of the absorbent and other sheets by means of a hinged or
detachable strip of wood or suitable material.
Dated this 19th day of January 1898.
FREDERICK THOMAS PARSONS.
Applicant.