Improvements in or connected with Portable Folding or Collapsable Music and Reading Stands.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Portable Folding or Collapsable
Music and Reading Stands.
I, JOSEPH HENRY ROSOMAN, of 13-14 Portland Street, Soho, Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to detail improvements in portable folding or collapsable
Music and Reading stands, the object being to enable the book or music rest to be
adjusted at any desired angle by pivotting its lower part to the upright pillar or to a
frame connected thereto that the weight of the article is borne in a more reasonable
manner than by present systems.
For the purpose of my invention according to one arrangement I attach to the
top of the pillar, a slotted hook like appliance and by a pinching screw fitting the slot
and being passed through two wings or ears of the book or music carrier the
required angle can be set the lower part of the book or music carrier being in advance
of the pillar for placing the centre of gravity over the pillar itself, the shoulder of a
notch between the two wings forming a rest in conjunction with the screw pin and
slot. The hook shaped appliance when the article is folded serves as a finger hold by
which the article can be carried.
In lieu of the pinching screw working in a slot, it may pass through one of the
legs of a slotted pillar to abut against a solid part of the wing or ear of the music
holder or the pillar plate may have ratchet or other teeth, or the book holder be so
provided for the reception of a spring paul to hold the book holder at the required
angle.
1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Joseph Henry Rosoman.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Portable Folding or Collapsable
Music and Reading Stands.
1, JOSEPH HENRY ROSOMAN, of 13-14 Portland Street, Soho, Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the 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 detail improvements in portable folding or collapsable
Music and Reading Stands, the object being to enable the book or Music Rest to be
adjusted at any desired angle by pivotting its lower part to the upright pillar, or to a
frame connected thereto that the weight of the article is borne in a more reasonable
manner than by present systems.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is
a detached view of the slotted top plate of the upper pillar and with the stop or
shoulder.
Figure 2 is an elevation of a foldable Book or Music Stand complete with the
bottom legs thrown open and with the Book Rest at top at a good angle for reading

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Figure 3 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 4 shows a top plate with pinching screw in slot and with a roughened top
edge as means for setting the carrier at the desired angle.
Figure
is an elevation of a top plate, in which a spring paul is arranged to
engage in ratchet teeth for determining the angle at which the Book Rest can be set,
whether the pinching screw be used or not.
It will be observed that in all the Figures, the pivot pin, otherwise termed, the
pinching screw is in advance of the supporting pillar for causing the centre of gravity
of the Book and the Book Rest to set over the centre of the pillar or Stand, whereby
great steadyness is obtained and the usual tendency from the weight of the Book for
the Stand to upset, obviated.
For the purpose of my invention, according to one arrangement, I attach to the top
of the pillar A a slotted book like appliance B and by a pinching screw C fitting the
slot and passed through two wings or ears D of the Book or Music carrier E, the
required angle at which a Book can be set can be obtained. The lower part of
the Book or Music carrier E is in advance of the pillar A for placing the centre of
gravity over the pillar itself, the shoulder F forming a stop in conjunction with the
screw pin C and slot. Instead of the stop being on the outside of the slotted plate it
may be in the slot itself as at F¹ for the screw pin C to press against and thereby
limit the back angle at which the rest E can be set. The hook shaped appliance
when the article is folded, is preferably so shaped that it serves as a finger hold by
which the article can be carried.
In lieu of the pinching screw C working in a slot it may pass through the fork of
or an attachment on a slotted pillar or plate G to abut against a solid part of the wing
or ear D of the Music holder, or the pillar plate G may have ratchet, or other teeth,
or the Book holder be so provided for the reception of a spring paul H to hold the
Book holder at the required angle, in which case, the pinching screw need not be in
the slot of the appliance.
The lower part of the Stand, as well as the pillar A are old, and 1 may add that
I am aware of the Specification of Letters Patent No. 11257 of 1888 granted to
John William Deans and Arthur Moss Foster and I wish it to be understood that I
do not claim anything described and claimed therein.
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 :-
:-
1. An appliance as B at the head of a portable folding Music Stand pillar, by
means of which, the centre of gravity of a Book and Book holder or Rest is placed
over the vertical axis, as and for the purposes described.
2. The construction and employment of an appliance on the head of a portable
folding Music Stand pillar, in which the supporting pin of the Rest is in advance of
the pillar as described and substantially as shown on the annexed drawings.
The 1st day of March 1890.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said J. H. Rosoman.