IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPH STANDS to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I ARNOLD ROCHOLL of 70 Alexanderstrasse Berlin in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PHOTOGRAPH STANDS to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to Improvements in photograph stands which can be folded
and are frequently used for exhibiting or displaying photographs in Card de visit
or cabinet size, and has for its object to produce a stand which will adjust itself,
be simple in construction and can be easily folded into a small compass.
The improvements consist in arranging a front foot or rest formed with a lip,
which latter serves to hold the photograph which is inserted between a glass and
back plate. This front foot or rest has an arm fixed thereto, the upper end of
which is hinged to the upper portion of a flexible back rest. The latter has hinged
thereto a selfacting stay formed with a nose, which stay takes up and retains its
proper position selfactingly between the said arm and back rest, as soon as the said
nose has come into contact with the back rest. The free end of the stay may
either be resting loosely against the said arm or it may be formed with a neck and
permitted to slide in a slot formed in the said arm, or such slot may be formed in
the back rest and the stay hinged to the said arm, in which case the said nose is
dispensed with and its function performed by the end of the respective slots.
Dated this 95th day of A100R

page_text: I, ARNOLD ROCHOLL. of 70 Alexanderstrasse, Berlin in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 to improvements in photograph stands which can be folded,
and are frequently used for exhibiting or displaying photograph in carte-de-visite
or cabinet size and has for its object to produce a stand which will adjust itself,
be simple in construction and can be easily folded into a small compass.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to
he appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are longitudinal section and Figs. 6 & 7 sectional plans at
the lines E-B., C-D. respectively. Fig. 5 represents the stand when folded up,
and the remaining figures show the same open.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I arrange
a front foot or rest formed with a lip a which latter serves to hold the photo-
graph g, which is inserted between a glass and the back plate p. This front foot
or rest has an arm c fixed thereto, the upper end of which is binged to the upper
portion of a flexible back rest b. The latter or the arm c, has hinged thereto
a self-acting stay a which comes into contact either with the arm c or back rest b
as the case may be, and in the latter case is formed with a nose a¹, which stay
takes up and retains its proper position self actingly between the said arm c and
the rest b as soon as the said nose has come into contact with the back rest b.
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The free end of the stay a may either be resting loosely against the said arm c,
or it may be formed with a neck k, see Figs. 1. 2. 6 and 7 and permitted to slide in
a slots formed in the said arm c, or such slot s may be formed in the back rest b,
and the stay a binged to the said arm c in which case the said nose a¹ is dispensed
with and its function performed by the end of the slot & and neck k.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In folding photograph stands the employment of the stay a, arranged between
the flexible back rest b and arm c which stay a is self actingly arrested in its
lowest position by coming into contact with the back rest 6 or arm c, causing at
the same time the adjustment of the stand, substantially as set forth.