Pictures and Show and other Cards.
Year: 1885

page_text: Pictures and Show and other Cards.
I FRANK BISHOP of the Firm of Marion & Co of Nos 22 & 23 Soho Square in the
County of Middlesex, Dealers in photographic Materials and Fancy Goods do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention for "AN IMPROVED STAND FOR EXHIBITING
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES AND SHOW AND OTHER CARDS" (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by J. F. Knipp & Co of Offenbach on Main, Germany,
Album Manufacturers) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved folding stand for exhibiting or displaying
photographic and other pictures, show cards and the like, and the invention consists
in the application to the purposes above mentioned of the principle of the lazytongs
in such a way as to constitute a stand whereby a number of photographs &c may
be exhibited collectively or individually and which admits of the stand and its
contents being folded into a small compass when not required for use.
The base of the stand consists of a horizontal system of lazytongs-levers
furnished on the lower side with feet and on the upper with means of holding the
photographs or cards in position. These means consist preferably of a set of open
frames of section in which the photographs &c are placed in pairs back to back
so as to be visible at opposite sides of the frame which, besides the photographs,
may contain suitable mounts or borders for the pictures. These frames are of
metal and are pivotted at their lower ends to studs or ears standing up from the
upper side of the lazytongs-levers so as to admit of folding the frames down flat
upon the lazy tongs levers for the purpose of inserting the photographs &c into the
frames by slipping them in at the bottom thereof, and also for the purpose of
enabling the frames and their contents to be folded down for the purpose of
examining any one of the pictures individually. The pair of studs to which any
one frame is pivoted are both carried by the same lever so that their relative
position is not changed by extending or compressing the system of lazytongs whilst
the position of the frames with regard to each other does change according as the
lazytongs are extended more or less. According to a modification the frames may
be dispensed with and the photographs &c merely inserted in slits in the studs or
pillars on the lazytongs-levers.

page_text: Pictures and Show and other Cards.
-I, FRANK BISHOP of the Firm of Marion and Company of Nos 22 and 23 Soho
Square in the County of Middlesex, Dealers in photographic materials and Fancy
Goods do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (a communication to me from
abroad by J. F. Knipp and Compy of Offenbach on Main in the Empire of Germany
Album Manufacturers) 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 an improved folding stand for exhibiting or displaying
photographic and other pictures, show cards, and the like; and the Invention
consists in the application to the purposes above mentioned of the principle of the
Lazy tongs' " in such a way as to constitute a stand whereby a number of photo-
graphs etc may be exhibited collectively or individually and which admits of
the stand and its contents being folded into a small compass when not required
for use.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings wherein Figures 1 and 2
are plans, and Figures 3 and 4 elevations of one form of stand respectively in the
compressed and extended positions. Figure 5 is a perspective view of part of
another form of stand extended. Figure 6 is a face view, and Figure 7 an edge
view of one of the frames of the stand shown in Figure 5. The same letters of
reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
g
The base of the stand consists of a system of crossed levers a pivoted together
at the middle or crossing point b and at the ends certain of the undermost of the
crossed levers being furnished with feet d whilst the uppermost levers are provided
with means of holding the photographs or cards in position. The means shown in
Figures 1 to 4 merely consist of pairs of studs or pillars e having vertical slits fin
which the photographic mounts or other cards are held as shown in Figure 4. The
preferred means of holding the photographs consist of a set of open frames of
☐ section in which the photographs etc are placed in pairs back to back so as to
be visible at opposite sides of the frames which, besides the photographs, may
contain suitable mounts or borders h for the pictures. These frames g are of metal
and are pivoted at their lower ends to studs or ears i standing up from the
is
side
upper
of the uppermost of the crossed levers a so as to admit of folding the frames down
flat upon the levers a as shown in Figure 7 for the purpose of inserting the photo-
graphs etc into the frames by slipping them in at the bottom thereof and also for
the purpose of enabling the frames and their contents to be inclined for the purpose
of examining any one of the pictures individually. Each frame g is retained in
the vertical position by a spring k rivetted to the lever a beneath the frame the
springs bearing against the square lower ends of the frames as shown in Figure 6.
The pair of studs to which a frame is pivoted, or in which a photograph or card is
held are both carried by the same lever a so that their relative position is not
changed by extending or .compressing the system of "Lazy tongs" whilst the
position of the photographs with regard to each other does change according as the
Lazytongs are extended more or less.
"

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is;
1. An extensible stand for exhibiting photographs etc consisting of a horizontal
system of crossed or "Lazytongs" levers a furnished with means such as slitted
studs e for holding the photographs etc in parallel vertical planes whether the stand
be collapsed or extended more or less substantially as described and illustrated in
Figures 1 to 4 of the drawings.
2. An extensible stand for exhibiting photographs etc consisting in the combi-
nation with a system of crossed or " Lazytongs" levers a of frames g pivoted to
the "Lazytongs" levers and retained in the vertical position by springs & substan-
tially as described and illustrated in Figures 5 to 7 of the drawings.