A Celluloid or other Transparent Material Map Case with a Map specially cut or folded to show two sections at once.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 21st Mar. 1899-Accepted 13th May 1890
A Celluloid or other Transparent Material Map Case with a Map
specially cut or folded to show two sections at once.
JAMES HORNE, Manager of Printing Works, residing at Edina House, Edina
Place, Easter Road, Edinburgh, in the County of Midlothian, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
A map case made from transparent celluloid or other transparent material
generally about six inches long by three and a half inches broad and a quarter
of an inch deep open at one end only, but the size may be varied larger or
smaller according to the size of the map the case is intended for. The invention
is to supersede the present form of folded maps for cyclists and tourists by road
rail or steamboat which require to be, opened out every time they are referred
to. The map is folded and put in this celluloid map case in such a way that
two sections are readable at one time without the necessity of unfolding the
map in wind or rain from which it is protected.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1898.
A Celluloid or other Transparent Material Map Case with a Map
specially cut or folded to show two sections at once.
I, JAMES HORNE, Manager of Printing Works, residing at Edina House, Easter
Road, Edinburgh, 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:
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The object of my invention is to make a map case from transparent celluloid
or other transparent material, generally about six inches long by three and a
lialf inches broad and a quarter of an inch deep open at one or both ends, but the
size may be varied, larger or smaller, according to the size of the map the case
is intended to cover.
My invention is intended to supersede the present form of folding maps in
book form for cyclists, or tourists by road rail or steamboat, or pedestrians which
require it to be unfolded and exposed to the weather every time they are referred
to in the open air.
My process is to take a sheet of transparent celluloid or other transparent
material, cut it to the required size, turn in the edges and fix them with the
material itself in solution, when dry the case is complete. The map which is
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page_text: intended to fit the case I then cut into sections a quarter of an inch or so
smaller than the size of the inside of the case and fix the sections with paste
or glue in regular order a quarter of an inch or so apart on thin cotton or linen
cloth so that the map can be folded inwards or outwards so as to show on the
outside any two folds or sections at once in the same line of travel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and the manner in which the same is performed I declare that what
I claim is:
(1) The preparation of a map case from celluloid or other transparent material
to contain a map so cut and folded as to enable a rider on horseback, a cyclist,
a motor car driver or a traveller by any other conveyance or a pedestrian to
frequently refer to a map or plan of the country through which he is travelling
without the necessity of dismounting and unfolding the map in wet or stormy
weather, and saving the map from damage by wind or water and frequent
folding and unfolding for the purpose of reference.
(2) As a new article of manufacture in connection with maps and plans meant
to supercede the present form of making up maps and plans in large sheets folded
in book form which require always to be opened out, frequently to their full
extent on every occasion of reference.
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