Improvements in Newspaper-holders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1893-Accepted. 23rd Sept.. 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Newspaper-holders.
I, ANTON TYPLT, Manager, of 63 Baaderstrasse, Munich, in the Kingdom of
Bavaria, German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by following statement :-
The present invention consists of a newspaper-holder, which instead of having a
fixed supporting frame for the paper, when being read, is provided with moveable
rods, adapted to be spread out behind the paper when the same is being read,
whilst the same may be folded into the back rod of the holder when the paper is
not in use.
In order to make this Specification more easily intelligible, reference is had to
the accompanying drawing in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout
the several views.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the holder with the supporting rods folded
therein,
Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the said rods spread,
Fig. 3 a section on the line ax Fig. 2 and
Fig. 4 a cross section on line y y Fig. 1.
The back rod of the holder is provided with a rectangular groove a, in which
the steel rods b 66" and the mechanism for moving the same are mounted.
The back rod of the holder is split and one side c of the same is detachable, being
held in position on the said rod at one end by the handle fand at the other by the
cap g, both of which are provided with interior threads and screwed on the ends of
the rod, after the newspaper has been inserted between the rod and its detachable
part c. One end of each of the rods b 61 611 is attached to a small metallic angle i
said angles being pivotally mounted in the groove a on pins h h. The other arms
of the angles i are pivoted to a rod k extending along the groove a. Of the three
angles i the two lower ones have springs o' and o² tending to press their lower arms
outwards, whilst the upper angle i has a spring o tending to press its vertical arm
inwards. The ring at the top of the holder rod is provided with a stem extending
down through the cap g and to this stem is connected by a link the upper end of
the rod k. The lower end of the rod k is similarly connected to rod m by means
of a link, said rod m being guided in the handle of the holder, in that its cross
section corresponds to the shape of the orifice through the said handle. The guide
rod m has a button n and a notch just above the said button, in which a spring p
is located, said spring being adapted to project outwardly when the rod is drawn
down and to hold it in the extended position by contacting with the lower
surface of the handle f, thus preventing the return of the rod before it is pushed
back into its notch.
The device operates in the following manner :-
After the newspaper has been adjusted in the back holding rod by means of the
detachable part c and the pins h h, which pierce the paper, the cap g, and the
handle fare screwed into position. If now the button n is drawn down the angles i
will be thrown over in the direction of the arrows (Fig. 2) and the rods bb 611
will be extended against the pressure of the springs o o¹ o, being held in this
position by the spring p which prevents the return of the rod k. When the paper
is done with, the spring p should be pressed back into its notch and the upper ring
drawn out, so that the springs o o¹ o are free to act upon the angles iii throwing
the same back and folding the rods 6 6 6 into the groove of the back rod of the
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page_text: holder. The rod k has sufficient lateral play in the groove to allow of the move-
ments of the angles i, owing to its being connected to the upper and lower rods m
and by means of links.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A newspaper-holder, having the extending arms or rods 661 611 connected
to a slide rod k by means of angles, as specified, the link connections of said
slide rod to the upper and lower rods and m and springs o o¹ o", all parts.
co-operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described and
shown.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.