IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES FOR PORTABLE LOOKING GLASSES AND THE LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Wirth, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent
Solicitors, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES FOR PORTABLE LOOKING GLASSES
AND THE LIKE ARTICLES." A communication from Ferdinand Roeder, of
Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Wirth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th June 1881.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES
FOR PORTABLE LOOKING-GLASSES AND THE LIKE ARTICLES." A communication
from Ferdinand Roeder, of Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany.
According to my Invention, and in one arrangement, the loop or bracket, which
is secured to the back of the glass or other like article, has its two ends tapered or
ground to a conical shape, and they take into a sleeve or tube (attached to the back
of the article), the ends of which terminate in conical recesses widened at both ends.
As the loop or bracket is of a springy nature, and by reason of the conical shape of
the two ends of the sleeve or tube a glass or other like article provided with such
bracket or loop can bo placed in any position and at any inclination to the object
on which it is to be placed without the risk of its falling, moreover as any
position can be given to the bracket or loop, the glass or other article may be
suspended on any object, and when handling the same the bracket or loop may be
used as a handle. The bracket or loop is constructed according to the shape of the
glass or other like article, and may be either quadrangular, oval, round, or of other
suitable form.
In another arrangement or modification the two conical ends of the bracket 'or
loop enter the sleeve or tube from the interior outwards, whilst in the first
arrangement the opposite is the case.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frank Wirth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th December
1881.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany. *" IMPROVEMENTS IN FRAMES
FOR PORTABLE LOOKING GLASSES AND THE LIKE ARTICLES." A communication
from Ferdinand Roeder, of Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany.
This Invention relates to improvements in frames for portable looking glasses
and the like articles, and it has for its object to render the same capable of standing
or being suspended in any position.
The Invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
Drawings, which show the improvements applied by way of example to a hand
glass or mirror.
The essential feature of the Invention consists in the loop or bow A, A, (Figures
1, 2, 3, and 4), which at its two ends B, B, is ground or tapered to a conical shape.
These ends take into a box C, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, which terminate in conical recesses,
or they may take into a sleeve or tubular piece C, Fig. 3, conically recessed at both
ends. As the loop or bow is of a springy nature, and as by reason of the conical
shapo of the two ends B, B, of the sleeve or box C it is possible that a mirror
provided with such loop or bow may be placed or set in any position and at any
inclination whatsoever to the object on which it is to be placed or set without the
risk of its falling, also as any position can be given to the loop or bow, the mirror
may be suspended from any object, and when handling the same the loop or bow
may be used as a handle. The loop or bow is constructed according to the shape.
of the glass (or other like article), and it may be either quadrangular, as shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2, or it may be oval, as shewn in Fig. 3, the cylindrical boxes C,
shewn in Fig. 2, being in this instance so contrived as to form one box, the
ends of which form the bearings for the conical or tapered ends of the loop or
bow A.
In Fig. 4 the loop or bow A is so contrived that its branches or legs A have a
tendency to separate one from the other, whilst in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, they tend to
approach each other.
Although I have described and illustrated the Invention as applied to a hand
glass or mirror, it may be applied in like manner to frames of photographs, pictures,
and other like articles.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, I declare that I claim,-
In frames for portable looking glasses and like articles the springy loop or bow A,
with the two conical or tapered ends B, B, in combination with the sleeve, box, or
tubular picce C fixed at the back of the article, substantially as described and shewn
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Wirth, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of December, in the year 1881.
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