Improvements in Stands for Holding Music, Newspapers, Drawings, and Analogous Objects.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 10th Oct.. 1889-Accepted. 23rd Nov.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Holding Music, Newspapers, Drawings,
and Analogous Objects.
I, JAMES WHEELDON of Albert Terrace Brinnington, Stockport, in the County of
Cheshire, Wood Turner, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a stand for holding music, newspapers,
drawings, and analogous objects, which is readily adjustable in height, and inclina-
tion, may be used on the floor, or a higher level such as a table, and of inexpensive,
durable, & neat construction.
My improvements consist in the first place in the combination of a central shank
with a foot, sliding and secured therein by means of a split bush or socket and
collar.
To this end I preferably form a wooden ball, into which I fix a suitable number of
legs and opposite thereto a split bush or socket of suitable length, externally conical,
and internally cylindrical.
The said bush or socket serves to receive the lower extremity of the shank of the
stand which is made vertically adjustable therein by means of a collar placed thereon
and formed with a conical hole, which collar when slid down causes the split bush or
socket to securely hold the shank in the desired position and when slid upwards, to
release the same, and allow of it being raised or lowered.
My improvements consist in the second place in the combination with the upper
extremity of the aforesaid shank of a removable table, frame or support, on which
the music or other object is placed, capable of inclinatory adjustment, and when
removed serving independently as a stand, for instance on a table.
In carrying out this part of my improvements I provide the upper extremity of
the said shank with a socket, which serves to receive the table, frame, or support on
which the music, etc., is placed, and to which is suitably secured between centres, a
radially adjustable rest.
This rest consists of a spindle furnished with one or more radially movable,
preferably tapered, legs, which when desired to attach the said table, frame, or
support, to the stand, are placed into the corresponding holes formed in the said
socket and when removed and placed elsewhere, serve as a rest for the same.
To facilitate packing of the described stand I employ in lieu of the aforesaid
wooden ball a metal collar formed with legs, to which I attach hinge like, the legs
of the foot of the stand, the upper ends thereof bearing against the collar when
spread out.
Date thin oth loss of Ta1000
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Holding Music, Newspapers, Drawings,
and Analogous Objects.
I, JAMES WHEELDON, of Albert Terrace, Brinnington, Stockport, in the County of
Cheshire, Wood Turner, 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 my invention is to provide a stand for holding music, newspapers,
drawings and analogous objects, which is readily adjustable in height and inclination,
may be used on the floor or on a higher level, such as a table, and which is of inex-
pensive, durable, and neat construction.

page_text: And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a complete stand, Figs. 2 & 3 side views of the upper
portion and Fig. 4 a sectional plan thereof, Fig. is a back view, Fig. 6 an end
view of the upper portion and Fig. 7 a side view, partly in section, of a modified
stand constructed according to my invention.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally my improve-
ments consist in the first place in the combination of a central shank a, with
a foot b, sliding and secured therein by means of a split bush or socket e and
collar d. To this end I preferably form a wooden ball, see dotted lines, or a cone b,
see full lines, into which I fix a suitable, number of legs and opposite, thereto a
split bush or socket c of suitable length, externally conical, and internally cylindrical.
The said bush or socket c serves to receive the lower extremity of the shank a of
the stand, which is made vertically adjustable therein, by means of a collar & placed
thereon and formed with a conical hole, which collar d when slid down causes the
split bush or socket c to securely hold the shank a in the desired position and
when slid upwards, to release the same, and allow of it being raised or lowered.
My improvements consist in the second place in the combination with the upper
extremity of the aforesaid shank a, of a removable table, frame or support e, on
which the music or other object is placed, capable of inclinatory adjustment, and when
removed serving independently as a stand, for instance on a table. In carrying out
this part of my improvements I provide the upper extremity of the said shank a with
a socket a', which serves to receive the table, frame or support e, on which the
music, etc. is placed, and to which is suitably secured between centres f, f¹ a radially
adjustable rest g, g'. This rest consists of a spindle g furnished with one or more,
preferably one, radially movable tapered leg gl, which, when desired to attach the said
table, frame or support e to the shank a of the stand, is placed into a corresponding
socket hole g², (see more particularly, Figs. 5 & 7) formed in the said socket a¹ and
when removed and placed elsewhere, serves as a rest for the same, see Fig. 3.
The leg of the rest g, g¹ permits also of a circular adjustment of its table, frame
or support e in the shank socket a³, see dotted lines, Fig. 4, which will be found
very convenient.
The spindle g of the rest g, g¹ may be attached to the table frame or support e in
various ways, preferably as shown in Figs. 1 & 2, by passing a rod screwed at each
end through the spindle g and the centres f, f¹ and employing one end thereof a
milled nut e¹ and on the other a handle nut e². The latter serves also to lock and
retain the rest g, g' in the desired inclined position and the milled nut el to permit of
positioning the handle nut always at the back so as respectively to prevent the
weight of the object altering its inclination and the landle nut e² being an obstruction
to the object placed on the table, frame or support e.
In lieu of the described arrangement, a ratchet wheel and spring, may be
employed to vary the inclination of the rest g, g' and retain the same in the desired
position relative to its table, frame or support e, as shown in Figs. 5 & 6.
To facilitate packing or transport of the described stand and referring to Fig. 7,
I employ on the said ball or cone b, a metal collar formed with lugs h¹, to which
I attach hinge like, the legs 1 of the foot of the stand, the upper ends thereof
bearing against the collar when spread out and when out of use folding together
as shown in dotted lines.
I may remark that by suitably arranging the upper extremity of the shank a,
the same in combination with the split bush or socket c and collar d described, may
be used equally as well for displaying garments in shop windows.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
"In stands for holding music newspapers drawings and analogous objects"

page_text: 1st. Thhe combination of the foot 6, 61, having attached thereto a split bush or
socket c, with the shank a, capable of vertical adjustment therein, by means of the
collar d, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2nd. The removable table, frame or support e having attached a rest g, gl, capable
of inclinatory adjustment, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3rd. The combination with the shank «, of a removable table, frame or support e,
having attached a rest g, g capable of inclinatory adjustment, the leg g', of which
fits into the shank a and permits of a circular adjustment of the table, frame or
support e, substantially as and for the purpose specified:
Dated this 9th day of October 1889
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
9, Milton Grove, Stockport, Agents to Applicant.