US337544A - Lishing house - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

' L. W. YAGGY.

PORTFOLIU 0R CASE FOR ANATOMIGAL GHARTS. No. 337,544. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT Erre LEVI W. YAGGY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VESTERN PUB--A LISHING HOUSE, LEVI YV. YAGGY AND JAMES J. VEST, PROPRIETORS, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTFOLIO OR CASE FOR ANATOMICAL CHARTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 837,544, dated March 9, 1886.

Application led October 15, 1385. Serial No. 180,019. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.' The charts or otherobjects are attached to the 5o Be itknownthat I, LEVI W. YAGGY, acitii leaves A B in any suitable manner. bein'g zen of the United States, residing in Chicago, l mounted upon thosesuriaces ofthe said leaves in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, which are the inner surfaces when the porthave invented acertain new and useful Imfolio is closed, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. provement in Portfolios or Cases for Anatoinil Vhen it is desired to display the contents of 55 cal Charts, the., of which the following is a the portfolio,thelatterisopened and theleaves specification, reference being` had to the acl A and B bent back into the position shown in companying drawings, in Whieh- Fig. l of the drawings. the leat'C' extending 1o Figure l represents aperspective view of i from the lower edge of the leaf B to the lower my improved case or portfolio in one position; edge of theleal' A and forming a base or sup- 6o Fig. 2, a plan view of the same in another pol port for the latter. In this position the flap sition, and Fig. 3 a central longitudinal seec" is bent upward, as shown, the tongue C tional view taken on the line x x of Fig. 2. thereon being inserted in the catch A', thus Like letters refer to like partsin all the figconnecting the flap C firmly to the leaf Aand ures of the drawings. forming the whole portfolio into a stand or 65 My invention relates to portfolios or cases easel with its contents displayed upon the for anatomical charts, it being also applicaouter surfaces. In this position the portfolio ble for use in -connection with other articles will stand upon a table or any other suitable 2o of similar nature, and has for its object the support withitscontentsdisplayedinamanner 'production of a portfolio or case which when convenient for reference. By iexing or bend- 7o closed will effectually protect its contents and ing the joint connecting the sections c and c be convenient in form, While at the same time of the iiap C the leaves A and B may be it may be readily arranged to support and brought together back to back, thus flattening display the same in an advantageous manner; the portfolio with its contents still on the outand to these ends my invention consists in side, and in this position it may be used as a 75 certain novel features which I will now prowall-chart, being hung up for the purpose, or ceed to describe, and will then particularly it may be supported on an ordinary easel or point out in the claims. other similar support. y In the drawings, in which I have shown my When it is desired to close the portfolio, the

invention practically carried ont in one form, tongue C is withdrawn from the catch A and 8o A represents one leaf or wing of the portfolio, the leaf A swung over until it rests upon the which I will for convenience sake term the leaf B, in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 frontleaf, andBthe otherleaforwing,which 4of the drawings. The fiap C is then brought may be called the back leaf, the two being over into the position shown'in dotted lines in connected at one end by a flexiblejoint, a, of the said ligures, and the tongue C engaged any suitable construction. The front leaf, A, with the catch A2, thus effectually closing the is provided on that surface which is its outer portfolio, which assumes a fiat form with the surface when the portfolio is closed with two face, to which the contents are attached on the 4o catches, A and A2, arranged at suitable disinterior and entirely protected.

tances, for the purposes hereinafter stated. It is obvious that various modifications in 93 C indicates a leaf or flap hinged to the leaf the construction and arrangement of the parts B at b. This ap C is preferably constructed may be made without departing from the prinin three sections hinged together, two of the ciple of my invention. For instance, the ap 45 sections, c c', being ofaboutequal size, andthe C may be constructed in a single piece or in third section, c, forming a small flap provided two pieces only, the sections cc being in that 95 Withasuitable tongue, C', to engage with either case made in a single piece. of the catches A A2. Although I have shown one form of catch The operation of the device is as follows: for securing the portfolio or case in either its open or closed position, I do not wish to be understood as limiting` myself to that partieular form, as any suitable catch may be eniployed for the purpose. w

Although intended principally for the purpose of displaying anatomical charts, it is obvious that the portfolio is equally applicable to the display of many other objects, and is not limited to this particular one. I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting .myself strictly to the precise details of construction hereinbefore described and shown inthe drawings.

I am aware of Letters Patent No. 274,629, granted March 27. 1883, to M. A. Morrill, and I do not wish to be understood as claiming` anything set forth in said Letters Patent.

Having thus described n1yinvention,WhatI cla-im as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isw

l. A convertible portfolio and stand cousisting ot' two main leaves hinged to each other, anda flap hinged to one of the xnain leaves and adapted to forni a base or support to said leaves and to fold over the free end of the other leaf, substantially as and for thepurposes specified.

2. In a convertible portfolio and stand, the combination of the two leaves hinged to each other, and a flap hinged to one of the leaves, the said llap and the other leaf being provided with catches, whereby the whole may beloeked in position either as a stand or portfolio, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a convertible portfolio and stand, the combination, with the main leaves A and B,of the flap C, hinged to the leafB, and eonstructed in two er more sections hinged to each other, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4t. In a convertible portfolio and stand, the combination, with the main leaves A and B, hinged together at a, of the flap C, hinged to the leaf Il, and composed of the sections c, c', and c2, and adapted to be connected to the leaf A, substantially as and for the purposes speciiied.

5. In a convertible portfolio and stand. the combination, with the main leaves A and B, the former provided with two catches, Aand A2, arranged as describef'hof thellap G, hinged to the leat' B, and provided with a tongue, C', to engage the said catches, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

L. NV. YAGGY.

Witnesses:

E. B. Esi-lian, E. S. JUDD.

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