Improvements in Holders for Emery-cloth, Sand-paper, or the like, for Polishing or other purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Emery-cloth, Sand-paper, or the like,
for Polishing or other purposes.
We, JACOB KOEHLER and CONRAD KOEHLER, both of 147, Rochdale Road, Man-
chester in the County of Lancaster, Step-ladder Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in the formation of means for holding emery-cloth,
sandpaper or the like for polishing or other purposes, and consists of so constructing
the parts forming said means that emery-cloth or sandpaper etc., may be more appro-
priately held and its manipulation considerably facilitated as compared with the
inethod of holding same heretofore employed.
To attain this we make use of a suitably formed frame of metal, for example a frame
of rectangular form will suit our purpose very well, and through this frame is an
opening somewhat of tapering form.
A wooden block is made to fit within the opening in the frame and in order to do
so it is made somewhat of tapering form also or in other words it is partly wedge
shaped. The lower edge or surface of the block is covered with some yielding sub-
stance as india-rubber, felt, cork or the like, and to the upper or broader surface is
attached a handle while to each of the outer ends of the frame above described is
attached a small screw or bolt that is made to extend and reach through a projecting
part on the block when said frame and block are brought together. Each of these
screws or bolts carries a suitably winged or other nut for regulating purposes and for
attaching the bleck with its handle to the frame.
From the foregoing it will be seen that by laying a piece of emery cloth or the like
over the thin edge or surface of the wedge shaped block in such a manner that said
emery cloth or the like will extend to cover or overlap the sides thereof, and then
inserting said block through the frame so that said frame will encircle both the block
and its cloth, by the tightening of these parts together with the winged or other nuts
the said cloth will be held as desired, and the yielding substance attached to said
block will contribute considerably to the saving from undue wear of sail cloth or the
like as well as enable same to reach places on rough or uneven surfaces, that have to
be polished, more readily than when used in the ordinary way.
Dated this 6th day of December 1889.
JACOB KOEHLER.
CONRAD KOEHLER.
Per Samuel Hey,
A cent
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Emery-cloth, Sand-paper, or the like,
for Polishing or other purposes.
We JACOB KOEHLER and CONRAD KOEHLER both of 147 Rochdale Road Man-
chester in the County of Lancaster, Step-ladder Manufacturers, 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, that is
to say:
It relates to improvements in the formation of means for holding emery-cloth,
sand paper or the like for polishing or other purposes and consists of so constructing
the parts, forming said means, that emery-cloth or sand-paper etc., may be more

page_text: appropriately held than heretofore while the facilities afforded for its manipulation as
compared by those heretofore presented are considerably enhanced.
In order that our said invention may be more readily understood we have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof to which by letters and figures
reference is made in the following description.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are side and part sectional elevations and top view respectively of
the parts forming our holder and as fitted together while Figs. 4, 5 and 6 shew same
parts detached.
We attain the object of our invention by making use of a suitably formed frame of
metal a (which is shewn in the drawings as being rectangular in shape although it
may be of any other form desired) the opening through which is made somewhat of
tapering form. A wooden block b is made to fit within the opening in the frame a
and in order to do so it (said wooden block) is made somewhat of tapering form or
wedge-shape. The lower edge or surface of the block b is covered with some yielding
substance c such as india-rubber, felt cork or the like, and to the upper or broader
surface is attached a handle d' while to each of the outer ends of the frame a above
described is attached a screw or bolt e e¹ that is made to extend and reach through an
opening in the projecting ends d' d² respectively of the handle d, (these projections
may be formed on the block b if desired) when said frame a and block b are joined as
shewn by Figs. 1 2 and 3.
Each of these screws e e¹ carries a suitably winged (or if desired other shape of)
nut gg for regulating purposes and for attaching the block b together with its
handle d to the frame a.
From the foregoing it will be seen that by laying a piece of emery-cloth or the like
over the thin edge or surface (say.h) of the block bin such a manner that said emery-
cloth or the like will extend up so as to cover or overlap the sides (say k k¹) thercof,
and then inserting said block through the taper opening in the frame a so that said
frame a will encircle both the block 6 and its covering of emery-cloth by the tighten-
ing of those parts a and b together by means of the nuts g g', the said cloth will be
held as desired and the yielding subst. ce c will contribute to the saving of said cloth
(or the like) from undue wear as wel as enable same to reach places on rough or
uneven surfaces that have to be polished, more readily than when used in the
ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The frame a of the shape described, having the screws e e' attached thereto, the
block 6 formed as shewn and having the yielding material c and the handle d fixed
thereon as described, and the nuts g g¹ in combination the same being arranged to be
fit together substantially as specified for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 5th day of September 1890.
JACOB KOEHLER.
CONRAD KOEHLER.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.