Improved Means applicable for Use in connection with Type-writing Machines for Holding the Original whilst being Copied.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1896
:
TROVISIONAL DE
VATION.
Improved Means applicable for Use in connection with Type-writing
Machines for Holding the Original whilst being Copied.
We, JAMES RICHARD GREENHALGH, of 25, Lisburne Road, South Hampstead,
in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, and JOHN ERSKINE MCLACHLAN, of 45, Lis-
burne Road, as aforesaid, Editor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means applicable for use with "Yost" and
other type-writers, for mounting in a particular position the manuscript or other
original whilst undergoing the process of transcription.
A carrier constructed and arranged according to our invention comprises a tablet
which may be of wood, metal or other material, and is furnished towards one side
with hooks or equivalent means for attaching the carrier to the frame of the
machine, support being afforded to the other side by means of a leg which extends
to the table. The carrier is, moreover, furnished with spring or other clips for
holding the manuscript or other "copy," and with a sliding bar which extends
across the page, and serves as a marker.
The carrier is arranged either to the right or to the left of the key-board, as
close as possible thereto, and at the same angle of inclination as the keys, so that
in transferring the vision from the "copy" to the key-board, the necessity for a
change of focus may so far as possible be avoided. By these means, the work may
not only be carried out with greater expedition, but with less fatigue to the visual
organs.
Improved Means applicable for Use in connection with Type-writing
Machines for Holding the Original whilst being Copied.
We, JAMES RICHARD GREENHALGH, of 25, Lisburne Road, South Hampstead,
in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, and JOHN ERSKINE MCLACHLAN, of 45, Lis-
burne Road, as aforesaid, Editor, 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 improved means applicable for use with "Yost" and
other typewriters, for mounting in a particular position the manuscript or other
original whilst undergoing the process of transcription.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of our invention to a
copy-holding device suitable for a "Yost" typewriter; Fig. I being a perspective
view and Fig. 2 a transverse section.

page_text: A copy-holder or carrier constructed and arranged according to our improved
method comprises a tablet a, of wood, metal or other suitable material (in the
present example metal is employed), furnished towards one side with hooks b bor
equivalent means for attaching the carrier to the frame A of the typewriter;
support being afforded to the other side of the tablet by means of a leg c which
extends to the table or other surface for the time being supporting the machine.
This leg is hinged at e in order that it may be folded (as shewn in dotted lines in
Fig. 2) against the under side of the tablet a, when the device is out of use. The
carrier is, moreover, furnished with a spring or other clip d arranged to hold the
manuscript or other copy, in such a manner that the leaves may be turned over
without the necessity for loosening and readjusting the said clip. A sliding bar e,
weighted at one end and extending across the page of the original serves as a
: marker; the said bar being carried on a rail a¹ secured to the tablet a.
In placing "copy" in the copy-holder, say, for example, a shorthand writer's
note-book, the book is passed on to the tablet a from the rear. The leaves which
have no notes upon them, or which, having notes, are not at the moment required
for purposes of transcription, are allowed to pass beneath the clip d, and the latter
is then tightened up. The leaves to be transcribed and which are not gripped by
the clip will now accommodate themselves above the flat portion or tongue of the
said clip, and upon the weighted bar e being brought to bear on these leaves, they'
will be maintained in a flat condition.
When the device is no longer required for use as a copy-holder, it may be
detached from the machine, and, the leg having been folded as shewn in the dotted
lines in Figs. 2, laid over the keys of the typewriter to shield the keys from dust.
The carrier is arranged either to the right or to the left of the key-board, as
close as possible thereto, and at the same angle of inclination as the keys, so that
in transferring the vision from the "copy to the key-board, the necessity for a
change of focus may so far as possible be avoided. By these means, the work may
not only be carried out with greater expedition, but with less fatigue to the visual
organs.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. The improved device adapted for attachment to a typewriter and designed to
hold the "copy" during the process of transcription as near as practicable to, and
approximately in the same plane as, the keyboard of the typewriter, substantially
as herein described.
2. For use with typewriters, a copy-holder or carrier arranged substantially as
herein described and comprising a tablet a furnished with hooks bb, or attaching
the same to the machine, a support or leg c, a clip d for securing the "copy," and
siding bar or marker e.
asiang Da or marker e.
Dated this 20th day of December 1895.
For the Applicants,
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.