An Improved Adjustable Stand for Holding Glasses to Exhibit Photos, Cards of every Description, and all Articles of like Nature.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May, 1888
An Improved Adjustable Stand for Holding Glasses to Exhibit
Photos, Cards of every Description, and all Articles of like
Nature.
JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS 127 Long Street Sparkbrook Birmingham Tool Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I first of all form the backbone by cutting by tools out of sheet brass or other
metals a strip the length and width required, or when more convenient the backbone
may be made out of drawn metals; I then at a certain distance from one of the ends
of strip of brass force out by tools a small collar to allow of one end of a close wound
spiral spring to pass through, the end of strip farthest away from small collar is then
turned up by tools in shape of a hook, this constitutes the backbone. I next proceed
to form the bottom bar which I cut out by tools to the desired shape, I then form
two openings to allow the backbone to pass through and also pierce a small hole to
allow of the other end of spiral spring to pass through, I next bend it into the
required shape by tools, then pass the backbone through the two openings formed,
fasten the backbone and bottom bar together by means of the spiral spring and finish
by turning up the free end of backbone to keep it from pulling out of bottom bar.
Dated this 28th day of June 1887.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Adjustable Stand for Holding Glasses to Exhibit
Photos, Cards of every Description, and all Articles of like
Nature.
I, JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS of 127 Long Street Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to bo performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an adjustable stand or holder, for holding photographic
and other pictures, tablets and their glasses, and backs if necessary, as hereinafter
described.
My said invention consists of a skeleton frame, made up of a sheet metal back-bone,
hooked forwardly at its top end, and with its lower end fitted with a sliding cross bar,
with forwardly hooked feet or rests, directed from its two opposite undersides, and
which said bar is kept in its adjusted position, or up to the lower edge of a picture
and glass, by a coiled spring, stretched between the back-bone, and the slide.
.
The frame is provided with the usual cross bar, and rest leg, which is jointed and
juts outwardly, when in use.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, a skeleton photographic stand or frame,
constructed and arranged according to my invention, and which said figure represents
the parts of the frame or holder, in the positions, which they respectively assume,
when in use. The dotted lines represent the boundary edges of a picture, secured
within the frame or holder.
Figure 2 represents a back elevation, without the frame or glass, and with tho
parts in the positions which they assume, when removed, before a glass and the
picture behind it, is placed in position.
Figure 3 represents a transverse vertical section of the said frame, upon the dotted
lines A B figure 1.
The same letters of reference, indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the back-bone, consisting of a strip of sheet metal, whose upper end a², is
hooked forwardly, and whose lower end a³, passes through a slitted bridge b², of an
adjustable and sliding cross bar b, whose lower edge is provided with rests b³, which
are forwardly hooke, and upon the insides of which, the picture glass, and sometimes
the back, rests, while the undersides of the said rests, support both frame and picture
as aforesaid.
c is a coiled spring, hooked at its lower end to the sliding cross bar b, and at its
other end, to an outwardly bulged loop a',-fashioned from the metal of the back-bone.
d is a fixed cross bar, secured by riveting the inner end of a leg bracket
passes through both back-bone and bar.
is a leg, jointed at 2. to the bracket e
which

page_text: When a photographic picture and its glass is required to be secured within its
frame, the upper end a², is hooked over the top edge of the picture, and glass, and
the adjustable cross-bar b, is moved outwardly, to near the lower end of the back-bone,
when on releasing the said cross bar, the inner sides of the rests, hook under the
lower edge of the photographic picture and glass, thereby securing them in position.
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 :-
First. The sliding and lower cross bar b, combined with the lower end of the
back-bone a, as set forth.
Secondly. Providing the adjustable and sliding cross bar b, with a bridge
piercing 2, for the taking over, and sliding upon the lower end of the back-bone, or
its equivalent, substantially as set forth.
Thirdly. Bulging the loop at, from the metal of the back-bone, for the purpose,
as specified.
Fourthly. Hooking forwardly, the upper terminal end of a back-bone, in com-
bination with an adjustable slide b, as set forth.
Lastly. The construction and arrangement of the parts of skeleton frames and
holders, for holding photographic and other pictures, and their glasses, and if
necessary, their backs, as set forth.
Dated this Nineteenth day of March 1888.