Improvements in or connected with the Rests for Music Stands, Reading Desks, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Rests for Music Stands,
Reading Desks, and the like.
I, FREDERICK CHARLES HARE, of Rifle Hill Works, High Street, Aston, near the
City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows: -
This invention relates to the construction of the rests for music stands, reading
desks and the like, and its object is to provide improved means whereby the said
rests may be secured at any convenient angle in a simple but efficient manner.
Upon the pillar or stand, the one fixed part of a pivot joint is formed, consisting
of a pivot plate, to which is pivotted a somewhat similarly shaped adjustable
movable plate to which. latter the rest itself is attached. In this movable plate
is formed a circular slot concentric with the pivot pin. A clamping screw pin
now passes through this slot into a screwthreaded hole in the plate upon the
pillar or stand, so that when the movable plate is moved to any desired position
within the range permitted by the slot hole, by tightening the clamping screw
the rest may be readily and firmly fixed thereat. The weight of the rest and its
burden is therefore divided between the pivot pin and the clamping screw.
stud pin or projection may be formed upon the fixed plate which shall travel in
the path of the slot so that at an extreme angular position of the rest, it shall
prevent further movement of the same. Of course the slotted plate and the fixed
plate may be reversed if desired.
Dated this 11th day of September 1897.
A.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in or connected with the Rests for Music Stands,
Reading Desks, and the like.
I, FREDERICK CHARLES HARE, of Rifle Hill Works, High Street, Aston, near the
City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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; --
This invention relates to the construction of the rests for music stands, ending
desks and the like, and its object is to provide improved means whereby the said
rests may be secured at any convenient angle in a simple but efficient manner.

page_text: In order to more clearly explain this my invention. I have appended hereunto
an illustrative drawing, upon which are figures and numbers of reference, in
which similar numbers refer throughout the several views to the same thing or
part, and in which:-
Fig. 1, shows a side view of a complete stand made according to this my
invention.
Fig. 2, is an enlarged side view and Fig. 3, a similar front view of my improved
arrangement of joint, showing the rest in its elevated position for use.
Fig. 4, shows the position &c. of the joint when the rest is turned down and
folded up
for transit &c.
Upon the pillar or stand 6, the one fixed part of a pivot joint is formed, con-
sisting of a pivot plate 7, to which is pivotted at 8, a somewhat similarly shaped
adjustable moveable plate 9, to which latter the rest 10 itself is attached. In
this moveable plate is formed a circular slot 11, concentric with the pivot pin 8.
A clamping screw pin 12, now passes through this slot into a screwthreaded hole
in the plate 9, upon the pillar or stand, so that when the movable plate is moved
to any desired position within the range permitted by the slot hole, by tightening
the clamping screw, the rest 10, may be readily and firmly fixed thercat. The
weight of the rest and its burden is therefore divided between the pivot pin 8,
and the clamping screw 12.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
1. In rests for music stands, reading desks, and the like, the combination with
the rest 10, having formed upon its lower end the circular plate 9, of the concen-
trically slotted plate 7, pivotted thereto by pin' 8, and adjustably clamped by
means of slot 11, and pin 12, the whole carried upon stand 6, all substantially as
set forth and shown.