Improvements in Adjustable Supports for Drawing and other Copies, Books, Papers, Music, or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept.. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Adjustable Supports for Drawing and other Copies,
Books, Papers, Music, or the like.
I, JOSHUA SHAW WARD, 2 James Street, Rotherham, Schoolmaster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to provide a support for the purposes set forth in
the title, which may be attached to the top of a drawing board, table, or other
article, and although intended for any analogous use, is more especially designed
to fasten to a drawing board to support the copy in front of the pupil, and the
invention relates more particularly to an arrangement whereby the support may be
used on boards on the like of different widths and thicknesses.
In carrying out my invention I provide a frame of any form suitable to supporting
the diawing copy or other article The lower end of the flame is attached to a
strip of wood or other suitable material and the under part of this strip is grooved
out and provided with two slules, one drawing out to the left and the other to the
right, and kept in the groove by a plate of biass or other suitable material. The
upper part of the strip has two slots cut in it, each of which communicates with
the groove below, and a screw or the like of slightly less diameter than the width
of the slot is screwed into each slide the head of the screw resting on the top of
the strip to which the supporting frame is attached, awl when the slides have been
drawn out to then full extent the screws strike against the ends of the slots and so
prevent the slides being drawn out entirely. Each slule has a chip at the end of
it, with a rabbet to clip the edge of the drawing board or the like on which the
appliance is being used A sciew on the like is passed though a hole somewhat
laiger than its own diametci made in the end of the slide, and screwed into the
clip The head of the screw is allowed to stand a little above the slide end, and
under the head and surrounding the screw in a spital spring. This allows of the
clip opening to suit bonds of different thicknesses.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Adjustable Supports for Drawing and other Copies,
Books, Papers, Music, or the like.
1, JOSHUA SHAW WARD of 2, James Street, Rotherham, Schoolmaster do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what inanner the saine is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement.
The object of my invention is to provide a support for the purposes set forth in
the title, which may be attached to the top of a drawing board, table or other
article, and although intended for any analogous use, is more especially designed
to fasten to a drawing board to support the copy in front of the pupil, and the

page_text: invention relates more particularly to an arrangement whereby the support may be
used on boards or the like of different widths and thicknesses. In callying out
my invention I provide a fiame of any form suitable to supporting the drawing,
copy, or other 'ai ticle The lower end of the fame is attached to a strip of wood
or other suitable material and the under part of this strip is grooved out and
provided with two slides, one diawing out to the left and the other to the night,
and kept in the groove by a plate of brass or other suitable material. The upper
part of the stup has two slots cut in it, each of which communicates with the groove
below, and a sciew or the like of slightly less diameter than the width of the slot
is screwed into each slide the head of the screw resting on the top of the strip to
which the supporting frame is attached, and when the slides have been drawn out
to their full extent the screws strike against the ends of the slots and so prevent
the slides being diawn out entirely Each slide has a clip at the end of it, with a
abbet to clip the edge of the diawing board or the like on which the appliance is
being used. A sciew or the like 19 passed through a hole somewhat larger than its
own diameter made in the end of the slide, and screwed into the chip. The head
of the screw is allowed to stand a little above the slide end and under the head
and surrounding the screw is a spiral spring. This allows of the clip opening to
suit boards of different thicknesses.
In order to more clearly show the nature of my invention I make reference to
the drawings on the accompanying sheet in which
Fig. 1 shows a front view of the appliance with the slide closed, (in full lines)
and open (in dotted lines).
Fig. 2 is a plan of the slide.
Similar letters in each figure refer to the same parts.
a is the supporting frame. stup to which it is attached. ce' the two slides in
grooves formed in b. d d' the two slots in which run the two screws e el. f the
strip of metal or the like for keeping the slides in the grooves 9, 9 the clips,
baving the rabbet A to clip the edge of the board or the like. the screw passing
through the end of the slide and into the chip g the head of the screw. k the
spiral spring. screws to keep clips from turning round on screws 2.
The appliance can be made of any suitable material or combination of materials.
I do not confine myself to the precise shape details or disposition of parts,
herein mentioned, or shown in the diawing, as any or all of them may be varied
without departing from the spuit 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, 1 declare that what I
claim 18.
In supports for the purposes set forth in the title, the method of adjustment to
suit boaids or the like of different thicknesses, consisting of two slides running in
grooves loined in the strip of material to which the bottom of the supporting
frame is attached the said slides being drawn out to suit the width of the board,
table, or the like ou which it is used, and finished at the ends with spring clips,
for clipping on and adjusting themselves to, any reasonable difference in the
thickness of the said board, or the like-the whole substantially as descubed in
the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying diawings.
Dated this 21st day of July 1896
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, EC., Agents for the Applicant.