Improved Means for Regulating the Position of Looking Glasses.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1899
Cossifention Laft 26th 120
1900-Accented, 3rd Mar. 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Regulating the Position of Looking Glasses.
I, ARTHUR JAMES HOLLAND, of 2, Price's Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, in the
County of Kent, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to afford a simple, inexpensive and effective
means for readily fixing a looking glass in any desired position.
To effect this I hinge a toothed rod or rack, or other equivalent device, at the
back of a looking glass in a convenient position to allow of such rack or its
equivalent engaging with a stop or detent, which is fixed either to the plateau,
or to the frame of the glass.
By operating the rack, or other equivalent device, either to or fro, and then
allowing it to engage with such stop or detent, the glass can be at once secured
in the desired position.
My invention can be readily applied to existing looking glasses, and will be
found of great utility in cases where the regulating screws work loose in the frame
owing to wear, and consequently fail to keep the glass in position.
Improved Means for Regulating the Position of Looking Glasses.
I, ARTHUR JAMES HOLLAND, of 2, Price's Avenue, Cliftonville, in the County of
Kent, Inventor, 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;
My invention relates more particularly to toilet glasses and has for its object
to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective apparatus for retaining a looking
glass in any desired position.
I attain such object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying draw-
ings in which Figures 1 and 4 shew views in back elevation in perspective of a
looking-glass fitted with my invention, while Figures 2 and 3 shew detail views of
the hinged curvilinear ratch and rack presently described, and Figure 5 shews
a modified form of detent hereafter more particularly referred to.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.

page_text: The apparatus consists of a ratch or rack a hinged to the back of the frame of
the looking-glass, and of a detent 6 screwed to the base of such frame as shewn
in Figure 1. When the glass is adjusted in position the ratch or rack a engages
with the detent 6 thus retaining the glass in such position.
In order to facilitate the rack or ratch so engaging with the detent the ratch or
rack is bent to a suitable curve as shewn, and it may be jointed so as to fold
back as indicated in dotted lines at Figure 2.
When applying my invention to cheval and other heavy glasses, a rack such
as that shewn at Figure 3, may be substituted for the ratch shewn at Figures 1
and 2.
A modification of my invention is shewn at Figure 4 wherein a toothed rod a,
is substituted for the ratch or rack herein before described, while the detent b
consists of a perforated metal strap having its ends turned up to form clips b
Such perforated metal strap is fitted transversely on the base of the frame and
screwed or otherwise fastened thereto while the toothed rod a is hinged to such
frame in the manner already described and takes into such one of the perfora-
tions in the strap as corresponds with the pitch of the glass when adjusted,
thus retaining it in position.
If preferred one or both of the clips 61 may be hinged to the strap b, as shewn
at Figure 5, the dotted lines in which figure indicate the position of the hinged
clips when turned down. Or such detent may be made of spring steel so that
it can be sprung on to the base of the looking glass frame.
By either of these alternative modifications the detent can be fitted on or'
removed from the base of the frame without screwing or otherwise fixing it
thereto.
My invention is readily applicable to existing looking glasses, and will be
found of great utility whenever the regulating screws whereon the glass is pivotted
become loose as so frequently occurs, and consequently fail to retain the glass in
the desired position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In combination with a looking glass frame an apparatus consisting of a
hinged curvilinear ratch or rack a, either jointed or not and a detent b, arranged.
combined, fitted, and operating all substantially as hereinbefore described and
shewn at Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.
2. As a modification of my said invention a toothed rod a and perforated strap b
furnished with clips 61 which may be either rigid or hinged, arranged, combined,
fitted, and operating all substantially as herein before described, and shewn at
Figures 4, and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of January One thousand nine hundred
ARTHUR JAMES HOLLAND.