IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS APPLI- CABLE TO BOOK AND OTHER SHELVES
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
JUPE, of New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Cabinet Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second day of September, in the seventh year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Jupe, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Robert Jupe, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Robert Jupe, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS APPLI-
CABLE TO BOOK AND OTHER SHELVES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained.
a proviso that I, the said Robert Jupe, shall cause a particular description:
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be.
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within.
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Jupe, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say) :-
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My Invention consists in constructing folding stops or supports, which,
being applied to book and other shelves, will give the requisite support
thereto, and will, when it is desired to move such shelves, offer great facility
to such movement being made; and such folding stops or supports, when the
shelf to which they are applied is in its place, will not be in the way of books
being slided between two shelves, as is the case when peg or slips are employed
to support such book or other shelves; nor will there being be any necessity of
cutting grooves at the sides or ends of book cases or other surfaces to which
shelves are applied, which is another means heretofore resorted to for supporting
shelves, but by the application of my Invention great simplicity, steadiness, and
security is obtained in the supporting book and other shelves.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a plan of folding stops or supports for book and other
shelves constructed according to my Invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of that side which is let flush into the under side of the
shelf.
Figure 3 shews the under side of a shelf having my Invention applied
thereto.
In each of these Figures the same letters indicate similar parts. a, a, are
two plates of brass or other suitable material, having countersunk holes b, b,
formed therein for the passage of screws, in order to affix them to the under
surface of a shelf. These plates a, a, are hinged or connected to the part c by
pins or axes, as is clearly shewn, thus allowing of the folding down of the
part c.
On this part c are formed the projecting studs or stops d, d, which,
when placed in suitable holes in the upright ends or divisions of book cases or
other places, become the supports of the shelf. In Figure 3 it will be seen
that the folding stops or supports are only applied to one end of the shelf, the s
shelf having fixed stops e applied thereto, or they may be applied at both
ends. It will readily be understood that in order to place a book or other
shelf into its desired position, the fixed stops e are to be inserted into their
holes, which for this purpose are similar to those when pegs are employed.
This will readily be done by slightly elevating the other end of the shelf, the
stops d, d, being permitted to hang down. Having inserted the stops e into
their places, and the shelf at the other end being still slightly elevated, as
above stated, the stops d on the folding part c may then be raised, and readily

page_text: inserted into their holes, and on lowering the shelf to its proper horizontal
position it will be well supported by the stops or supports e, d. When it is
desired to remove the shelf from one position to another, this will readily be
done by forcing the end of the shelf to which the following stops are applied
upwards, which will withdraw the stops or supports d, d, when those at e, e,
may be drawn out, and the shelf removed.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would remark, that I do not confine myself to the
precise shape or form of the parts constituting the folding stops or supports.
But what I claim is the constructing of folding stops or supports moving on
axes or hinges, as at a, c, d, d, for book and other shelves, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Jupe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.