An Improved Cabinet for Storing and Preserving Music and other similar Things.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1:96
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1896--Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cabinet for Storing and Preserving Music and other
similar Things.
MATTHIAS ROBINSON 13 St. James Villas Winchester Lay Vicar Winchester 1
Cathedral, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A cabinet with a door on either side, and the doors are constructed to fall open
obliquely from hinges at the bottom of the cabinet, and checked by 2 brass elbow
joint hinges from falling open at the top more than 8 or 10 inches. There is also a
bevelled partition in middle inside for dividing the music and throwing it forward on
to the doors when they are opened, and so making it convenient for sorting out the
music &c. And at the bottom of the cabinet there are some narrow strips of wood to.
prevent the music getting displaced when there are only a few copies.
Dated this 1st day of April 1896.
MATTHIAS ROBINSON.
An Improved Cabinet for Storing and Preserving Music and other
similar Things.
MATTHIAS ROBINSON 13 St. James Villas Winchester Lay Vicar Winchester-
Cathedral, 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 :-
It is designed to store music and other similar things in a compact and convenient.
manner, the things so stored will be kept on edge, free from dust, and easy to
get at.
My invention consists of a cabinet with doors, each opening from the top on either
side to about eight inches, and is kept in that oblique position (Fig. 1. a.) by a screw
screwed into the body of the cabinet, and which works in a slot, (Fig. 1. B.). The
music is placed oblong in the false bottom, (Fig. 1. C.) from the back of the false
bottom, and moving with it, there is screwed on a polished wooden flap, the width of
the door, working on hinges (Fig. 1. d.) when the music is put into the said false-
bottom, and the door is shut, the said flap is kept in an upright position, and thrust.
firmly against the sides of the false bottom by a broad spring (Fig. 2. e.) and as the
door is opened the said flap keeps the contents of the cabinet upright, until it has got
over the perpendicular, and as the door recedes from the body of the cabinet, the..
music is laid in nice order upon it by the said flap, that done, the flap being released
from the pressure of the spring is checked in its onward movement by two buttons.
screwed on just inside of the cabinet, (Fig. 1. f.) which causes the flap to fall back.
into an upright position, in a line with, and just inside the front of the body of the
cabinet, and reaching up to the top thereof (Fig. 1. g.). When the door is closed it..

page_text: returns into an upright position against the spring on tension, in the middle of the
inside of the cabinet (Fig. 2. h.).
The bottom of the cabinet where the music is placed, is made into long groves,
which prevents that part of the music from moving about when the door of the
cabinet is opened. The whole is fixed on castors, and to be made in various sizes.
Having now particularly described and asertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. An improved cabinet for storing music and other similar things, keeping them
from dust, and easy to get at.
2nd. Device and arraingment of flaps to put the music when wanted on to the
doors of the cabinet when in an oblique position, as herein before more particularly
described and illustrated.
3rd. Groving the bottom of the cabinet where the music is placed, so as to prevent
that part of it moving about when the doors are opened.
Dated this 16th day of December 1896.
MATTHIAS ROBINSON.