Roller Picture Box
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 15th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
ARTHUR LOCKETT CUTBILL 6 Princes Street Bank London Ship & Insurance
Broker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Roller Picture Box consisting of a wooden box with hinged or sliding lid fitted
with a mount & glass or without the mount & glass. The inside of the box is
fitted with an arrangement of rollers on which a continuous roll of pictures can
be made to move behind the picture frame. One end of the roll of pictures is
attached to one of the rollers & the other end to a second roller, these rollers are
niade to revolve, & move the roll of pictures in either direction by turning small
multiplying wheels worked by small handles placed at one side of the box.
The rollers are made removable.
The small wheels to be cog wheels or drums with belting.

page_text: Roller Picture Box.
I ARTHUR LOCKETT CUTBILL of 6 Princes Street, Bank, London, Ship and
Insurance Broker, 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 :-
The object of the invention is to construct a device or apparatus by means of which
a number of pictures can be readily exhibited or brought into view in succession.
For this purpose I make what can be appropriately termed a "Roller Picture Box."
In this box as constructed according to this invention a number of pictures in a con-
tinuous roll or length can be brought in turn to the front of the box.
The roller picture box is composed of an outer box or case preferably fitted with a
hinged or sliding lid having a glass covered opening in the middle; the lid, however,
is not essential. In this box are two rollers to which the two ends of the roll of
pictures are respectively attached, and there are also guide rollers over which the roll
passes in its travel from one of the first named rollers to the other. The rollers that
hold the roll of pictures are fitted with multiplying gear worked by handles outside
the box. It will readily be understood that by rotating the rollers by means of the
gearing in the one direction or the other, the roll of pictures will be gradually pulled
and wound up by the one roller and given off or unwound by the other, while the
pictures will pass in turn along the front of the box. The box may have a board in
the middle to support the pictures.
The accompanying drawings represent a roller picture box constructed according to
my invention. Figure 1 is a plan of the box with the lid open and the supporting board
above referred to removed. Figure 2 is a vertical section of the box and Figure 3
a side elevation with the side removed. M is the outer box or case. N is a hinged
lid to the box, this lid being in the form of a mount or frame in which a sheet
of glass (not shown in the drawings) can be secured by means of catches P P. A and E
are the two rollers to which the ends of the roll of pictures Q are respectively con-
nected; the trunnions of these rollers turn in bearings in blocks R R fixed to the
sides of the box. On the trunnion of each of these rollers AE is fixed a toothed
pinion F which gears with a wheel G whose spindle passes through the side of the
box and is provided with a handle H for turning it. Instead of the pinions F and
wheels G drums or grooved wheels can be employed, motion in this case being com-
municated from one wheel to another by cords or belts. B and D are the guide
rollers over which the roll Q passes during its travel from the roller A to the roller E
or vice versa. C is the board for supporting the pictures at the middle of the box; it
rests on ledges S S cut in the blocks R R and keeps the pictures well up to the glass.
In order to insert the four rollers AE BD into place their trunnions at one end are.
simply introduced into circular bearings or holes in the blocks R at one side of the
box, and their other trunnions are dropped into bearings in the blocks R at the other
side, the caps LL being temporarily lifted on their hinges as indicated in dotted lines
at L', after which the caps L are returned to position.

page_text: I and K are a pair of spare rollers for carrying a second roll of pictures; they with
their roll can be substituted for the rollers A and E and the roll that these carry.
The rollers I and K when out of use simply rest on supports TT which are recessed
to receive the roller trunnions; these rollers are fitted with pinions which, when in
position for use, gear with the wheels G.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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A roller picture box constructed and operated substantially as hereinbefore
described, whereby a number of pictures in a continuous roll or length can be
brought in succession to the front of the box, as set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1889.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agent.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agent.