IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PHOTOGRAPHIC OR OTHER PICTURES OR OBJECTS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rupert Sherwin and George Evans, both of the London
Road, Worcester, in the County of Worcester, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PHOTOGRAPHIC OR OTHER
PICTURES OR OBJECTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rupert Sherwin and George
Evans at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th March 1881.
ROPERT SHERWIN and GEORGE EVANS, both of the London Road, Worcester,
in the County of Worcester. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING
PHOTOGRAPHIC OR OTHER PICTURES OR OBJECTS."
In effecting our improvements the photographic or other pictures or objects are
applied to frames or mounts, which at one edge of them are each connected by
canvas or other suitable guards or hinges to step by step rising pieces or to an
inclined surface, so that at one time the frames or mounts with their objects may
be sustained upright fronting each other, and then for the examination of the
objects carried by them respectively the frames or mounts may be progressively
folded down and then returned again to their upright position.
Such frames may be formed for single sets turning in one direction only, or in
double sets turning in opposite directions, or in other combinations, the whole
being enclosed in a box or case as a cabinet album.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Rupert Sherwin and George Evans in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th September 1881.
RUPERT SHERWIN and GEORGE EVANS, both of the London Road, Worcester,
in the County of Worcester. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING
PHOTOGRAPHIC OR OTHER PICTURES OR OBJECTS."
In effecting our improvements the photographic or other pictures or objects are
applied to frames or mounts, which at one edge of them are each connected by
canvas or other suitable guards or hinges to step by step rising pieces or to an
inclined surface; so that at one time the frames or mounts with their objects may
be sustained upright fronting each other, and then for the examination of the
objects carried by them respectively the frames or mounts may be progressively
folded down and then returned again to their upright position.
Such frames may be formed for single sets turning in one direction only, or in
double sets turning in opposite directions, or in other combinations, the whole
being enclosed in a box or case as a cabinet album..
But, that the nature of our said Invention may be the better understood, we will
by the aid of the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe the same more in
detail.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a series of frames or mounts a, a, each at their edges a³, a¹,
connected by canvas or other suitable guards or hinges to step by step rising
pieces b; b, or it may be to an inclined surface, so that at one time these frames or
mounts with the objects may be sustained upright fronting each other as at a*,
and then for examination of the objects carried thereby they may in succession
be turned down as at a**, being returned to their former upright position out
of use.
Figure 2 shews an arrangement of these frames or mounts a, a, and their step
by step rising pieces b, b, arranged to be folded up against or turned down from a
central partition c, which may be made to form a handle for transport or other
numbers of series of frames or mounts thus binged to step by step rising pieces, or
it may be inclined surfaces can be arranged to form portions of a desired design.
For instance, Figure 3 shews by a sketch of a quadruple series one adaptation of
our mode of connecting the frames or mounts.
In witness whereof, we, the said Rupert Sherwin and George Evans, have:
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth day of September, in the
year One thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
RUPERT SHERWIN (LR)