IMPROVEMENTS IN INVOICE AND OTHER PAPER HOLDERS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Willoughby Montgomery Moore, of Balscadden
Howth, in the County of Dublin, Esquire, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INVOICE AND OTHER PAPER HOLDERS."
Sealed the 2nd February 1869, and dated the 6th August 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Willoughby Mont-
gomery Moore at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 6th August 1868.
I, WILLOUGHBY MONTGOMERY MOORE, of Balscadden Howth, in the
County of Dublin, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN INVOICE AND OTHER PAPER HOLDERS," to be
as follows:
This Invention relates to a simple and economical construction of
holder for containing invoices, letters, and other documents in such
a manner as to afford facility for the inspection of any portion of any
of the documents when required without necessitating their removal
from the holder.
According to this Invention the papers are held between two boards
of wood, cardboard, or other suitable material, one of which is divided
by a flexible hinged joint or joints into two or more parts, so as to enable
more or less of the said board to fold back or open, and consequently

page_text: expose more or less of the surface of the documents contained between
such boards. The two boards are held firmly but elastically together
by being nipped between a pair of laths or strips of wood or other
suitable stout material, such laths being held together by india-rubber
or other suitable springs applied to their extremities. A ridge or
projection is formed near one edge of both the boards to prevent the laths
from being accidentally disengaged from or slipped entirely off the
boards. When these laths are brought into a diagonal position, so as
to pass across the joint or joints in one of the boards, the entire surface
of that board will be maintained flat against the documents, effectually
covering or protecting them and securing them in their places; but by
moving the laths along the boards so as to leave one or other of the
joints free, then the corresponding part or parts of the jointed board may
be folded or turned down so as to expose any desired portion of the
document; or (if the document is provided with a wide margin) to
expose the whole of the writing, on one side, the margin alone being
concealed and held between the boards.
If desired the usual appliances for hanging or suspending the invoice
holders from nails may be adapted to the back board, but if intended to
lie on the table or desk the suspending loop may be dispensed with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Willoughby Montgomery Moore in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 6th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLOUGHBY
MONTGOMERY MOORE, of Balscadden Howth, in the County of Dublin,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Willoughby Montgomery Moore, Her
special license that I, the said Willoughby Montgomery Moore, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Willoughby Montgomery Moore, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to

page_text: time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN INVOICE AND OTHER
PAPER HOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Willoughby Montgomery Moore, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Willoughby Montgomery Moore, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-.
panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
My said Invention relates to a simple and economical construction of
holder for containing invoices, letters, and other documents, in such a
manner as to afford facility for the inspection of any portion of any of
the documents when required without necessitating their removal from
the holder.
According to this Invention the papers are held between two boards of
wood, cardboard, or other suitable material, which is divided by a
flexible hinged joint or joints into two or more parts, so as to enable
more or less of the said board to fold back or open, and consequently
expose more or less of the surface of the documents contained between
such boards. The two boards are held firmly but elastically together
by being nipped between a pair of laths or strips of wood or other
suitable stout material, such laths being held together by india-rubber
or other suitable springs applied to their extremities. A ridge or
projection is formed near one edge of both the boards to prevent the
laths from being accidentally disengaged from or slipped entirely off the
boards. When these laths are brought into a diagonal position so as
to pass across the joint or joints in one of the boards the entire surface
of that board will be maintained flat against the documents, effectually.
covering or protecting them, and securing them in their places, but by
moving the laths along the boards so as to leave one or other of the,

page_text: joints free, then the corresponding part or parts of the jointed board
may be folded or turned down so as to expose any desired portion of the
document or (if the document is provided with a wide margin) to expose
the whole of the writing on one side, the margin alone being concealed
and held between the boards.
If desired the usual appliances for hanging or suspending the invoice
holders from nails may be adapted to the back board, but if intended to
lie on the table or desk the suspending loop may be dispensed with.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood
I shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for
that purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding
parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a side elevation of the simplest
form of my improved invoice holder shewn as closed; and Figure 2 is
a perspective view of the same, showing it open.
A, B, are two boards between which the invoices, letters, or other
documents (indicated by the dotted lines a, a, in the Drawings) are
placed, such boards being entirely disconnected from each other, and
merely held in contact face to face by the gripping action of the india-
rubber or other springs C, which are mounted on the ends of the two
parallel laths D, between which laths the front and back boards are
gripped with a view to holding the documents securely between the two
boards. A fixed ridge or other stop piece E is made on either or both
of the boards A, B, in order to prevent the laths from being accidentally
slipped from off the boards. With a view to affording ready access
either to the upper or lower portion of the document, the front board A.
is free to fold along the line B, C, which enables either the upper part 1
to be turned down (as shewn in Figure 2, thereby exposing freely the
upper half of the invoice) or the lower part 2 of the said board to be
turned up with a view to exposing the lower half of the documents con-
tained between the boards without in either case releasing the grip or
hold upon the papers, it being simply necessary to slide the laths Dover
the lower or upper half (as the case may be) of the folding board A.
When inspection of the contained documents is not required the board A
is maintained in full and complete contact with the papers by simply
bringing the laths D into a diagonal position, so as to cross the hinge
or line of bend or fold b, c, as shewn in Figure 1.

page_text: Figure 3 represents a side elevation of a similar holder wherein the
board A is divided into three parts 1, 2, and 3, by the two folding or
hinged lines b, c, and d, e; and Figure 4 is a perspective view of the
same with the upper and lower portions 1, 3, opened out so as to expose
the upper and lower extremities of the document behind the board A.
By raising or lowering the laths D to the parts 1 or 3, then the two
lower parts 2 and 3, or the two upper parts 1 and 2 may be turned back
so as to expose two-thirds of the upper or lower part of the invoice or
other document. Figure 3 shows the diagonal position of the laths
for maintaining the holder closed.
At Figure 5, a holder similar to that shewn in Figure 1 is illustrated,
but the line of fold b, c, is disposed near to one side and runs vertically,
this holder being intended for documents having a wide margin on one
side. When the holder is opened (as shewn in the perspective view,
Figure 6), the whole of the writing or printing on one) side of the
document will be exposed, the margin alone being held between the
two boards. The laths D are shewn in their closed position in
Figure 5.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
construction of holders for the reception of invoices, letters, and other
documents, of two boards, one of which is provided with one or more
flexible or hinged joints, and is held in contact with the other by the
gripping action of springs exerted through a pair of adjustable laths,
substantially as and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Willoughby Montgomery Moore,
have to this my Specification set my hand and seal, the Fifth
day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
WILLOUGHBY M. MOORE. (L.S.)