Improvement in Holders or Cases for Manuscripts and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Holders or Cases for Manuscripts and the like.
I, LEOPOLD GILLRATH, of 19, Breitestrasse, Cologne, Germany, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in holders or cases for manuscripts
and the like and especially to those holders or cases in which side-registers are
provided. The object of this improvement is to make it possible to easily register
the manuscripts according to their contents and to immediately take hold of any
required group of manuscripts thus registered.
I attain this object by supplying the tongues of the side-register with numbers,
letters or other signs and by providing an index bearing the same numbers, letters
or other signs, respectively. This index may be fully completed, that is, with the
table of contents printed, or the corresponding spaces might be left for written
entrances. In both cases, the contents of the index must correspond to those
groups of manuscripts which bear the same numbers, letters or other signs respec-
tively.
I prefer to put the numbers, letters or other signs of the index at the same height
as the corresponding tongues of the register to enable a person to find the required
register-tongue at the side of the corresponding contents of the index.
It will be seen that in my improved holders the registering of the manuscripts
according to their contents can easily be effected as by the help of the index pro-
vided with numbers, letters or signs the tongue of the register under which any
manuscript is to be attached can immediately be found. In the same way any
wanted group of manscripts can be taken hold of.
It will be understood that it is not always necessary to provide a separate sheet
for the index, in fact according to necessity the index can be printed or written
on the cover or on the back of the holder or case.
Dated this 20th day of October 1808
Improvement in Holders or Cases for Manuscripts and the like.
I, LEOPOLD GILLRATH, of 28, Lütticherstrasse, Cologne, late of 19, Breitestrasse,
Cologne, Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this my invention,
[Price 8d.]

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improvement in holders cases or registers for manu-
scripts and the like, and especially to those holders or cases or registers in which
side-registers are provided. The object of this improvement is to make it possible
easily to register the manuscripts according to their contents, and immediately to
take hold of any required group of manuscripts thus registered.
I attain this object by providing the sheets, which serve for separating the differ-
ent groups of manuscripts to be registered, with tongues or flaps, after the manner
of index-books. On the first of these sheets a table of contents is supplied, in such
a way, that the contents of each compartment of the case holder or the like is
written at the same height from the bottom thereof as that of the tongue or flap
of the sheet, which separates the manuscripts of one compartment from those of
the preceding one.
To facilitate the finding of the respective tongue or flap, numbers or reference
characters may be printed on them which correspond with such numbers or char-
acters in the contents table, or behind each indication of contents arrows may be
drawn, pointing to the tongue or flap which serves for opening the respective
compartment.
Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings is a holder for manuscripts, Fig. 2 and 3 show
a desk register, both provided with the arrangement hereinbefore described.
The latter shows how the device for registering manuscripts may be used at the
same time as a memorandum book by using the sheets, which serve for separating
the different groups of manuscripts for such memorandums.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
In a holder, case or register for manuscripts, the arrangement of tongues, flaps,
ribbons or the like, fixed to the sheets for separating different groups of manu-
scripts, at the same height as that at which the nomination of the group is written
in the index supplied on the first sheet of the holder, case or register substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 4th day of April 1899
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.