An Improved Contrivance for Use as Combined Holder, Hand Protector, Case or Covering, or either separately, for Resin or other Material, Substance or Compound, when Carried, Stored, Used or App to Bows, or for purposes Player on Bowed especially, or Person generally.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Contrivance for Use as Combined Holder, Hand
Protector, Case or Covering, or either separately, for Resin or
other Material, Substance or Compound, when Carried, Stored,
Used or Applied to Bows, or for other suitable purposes by
Players on Bowed Instruments especially, or by other Persons
generally.
I, AMY BIRCH, of 22, Wisteria Road, Lewisham, Kent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
The
My contrivance is a piece, or pieces of cloth, felt, leather, or any other suitable
material, substance, fabric or texture, or any combination of materials, substances,
fabrics or textures, preferably of such a nature as to serve as a bad, or non-
conductor of heat and for protection from moisture, powder or particles to any
substance covered by, contained or enveloped within it "B Fig. 2.
piece or pieces of cloth or other material as above specified, may be of any
suitable shape, configuration, color, colors, thickness or thicknesses, but preferably
of a circular flat form and of uniform thickness, with or without, but preferably
with button and loop "C." "D." Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 or other suitable arrangement
for closing or fastening.
Fig. 2, shows a general view of the contrivance open before use:
"A," represents
a piece of resin or other, as before specified substance preferably, but not
necessarily moulded upon or otherwise attached to the contrivance "B."
Fig. 3, shows contrivance serving as case and covering for carrying or storing
resin or other substance as before specified.
Fig. 4, represents the contrivance when in use, and shows how the hand is
protected by the cloth or other material "B," from particles or powder detached
or set free by friction or action of a bow or other means.
9th October 1895.
An Improved Contrivance for Use as Combined Holder, Hand
Protector, Case or Covering, or either separately, for Resin or
other Material, Substance or Compound, when Carried, Stored,
Used or Applied to Bows, or for other suitable purposes by
Players on Bowed Instruments especially, or by other Persons
generally.
I, AMY BIRCH, of 410, Essex Road, Islington, London, N. formerly of
22 Wisteria Road, Lewisham, in the County of Kent, Spinster, do hereby declare
he 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:-
This invention relates to the enclosing or protecting of a cake of resin or other

page_text: material or other substance or compound in a coherent or solid state, which may
require to be carried, stored or used or applied by hand and which might without
covering or enclosure become soiled or deteriorated or soil or deteriorate the hands
or articles with which it comes in contact.
The purpose of the invention is to provide a contrivance which will serve as a
holder, hand protector and case or covering in a manner hereinafter specified,
reference being made to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification in
which
Fig. 1 is a view of the contrivance aforesaid from the back or exterior. Fig. 2 a
perspective view of the same combined with the cake of resin or other material
which it is destined to enclose.
Fig. 3. is a view of the contrivance gathered or closed.
Fig. 4 is a view illustrating its service as a hand protector when applying a bow
to the cake of resin.
The invention consists essentially of the combination with the cake A of a
holder consisting of flexible material extending from the cake A for a distance
away from the same on all sides, in such a way that it may be folded over or
gathered above the cake to enclose it, or alternatively may be spread out sufficiently
to leave free the cake or the top of the same and to serve as a guard for the hand
grasping the cover where it is attached to or holds the cake.
The invention further consists in combining with this holder a means for
gathering the same or for holding the same gathered so as to enclose entirely the
cake A when it is not required for use.
The cake A may be cylindrical and attached by one of its circular ends at or
near the centre of a circular or other shaped piece of cloth of sufficient extent by
pressure of the resin into contact with the cloth when sufficiently warm to
adhere. At a suitable distance laterally from the cake of resin or of the place
where the latter is to be attached is affixed on the reverse side a button and a loop
of elastic cord or an elastic cord or ribbon with ring and button or hook with a
tab attached to the ring to lift it over the button or hook, or other convenient
fastener adapted to hold the material gathered around a central field. I do not
however confine myself to the use of cloth, nor of the button and elastic cord as a
fastener, nor to a circular form to the cake A or cover B nor to making the latter
so that it is flat when extended nor to any particular method or means of its
attachment to the cake A, but :-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
For portage, storage or hand protection when in use:
1. The combination substantially as described with a cake or portion A of resin
or other material or compound, of a holder B therefor consisting of a flexible sheet
of material extending from said cake on all sides and attached to the base thereof
and capable of being folded or gathered together around and over the cake so as
to enclose the same.
2. The combination with the cake A and bolder B as set forth, of a means
of fastening for retaining said holder folded, gathered or closed around the
cake A.
3. The combination with the cake A and holder B of the button C and elastic
loop D for retaining said holder gathered around the cake A.
4. The construction of the contrivance adapted for use as holder, cover and
hand protector in the manner and for the purpose described.
5. As a new article of manufacture for the purpose set forth, the combination
of a circular or equivalent sheet of flexible durable material with a fastener
attached on the reverse or outer face thereof at a distance from the centre of the
material, said fastener surrounding or adapted to surround or embrace a central

page_text: field of said sheet in order to gather the same to enclose an object in said field,
the whole for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to the Applicant.