US517123A

US517123A - Wall-book

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Publication number: US517123A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1911-03-27

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(No Model.)

y1.11.1111s11. WALL BOOK.

a110. 517,123. Patented Mar. 27, 1894.

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`JOHN B. NASH, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

WALL-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersatent No. 517,123, dated March 27, 1894.

Application filed January 14,1893. Serial No. 458,358. (No model.)

To all whom it, may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. NASH, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Books, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is essentially a book having a few thick detachable leaves, to be hung upon the wall. Upon the faces of these leaves may be written or printed memoranda or other similar matter. Or when used for other special purposes matter relating to the particular purpose may be written or printed thereon as, for instance, lists of offices; lists of employs; lists of fire alarm boxes, with advertisements, dac. The leaves of this book may also be paged and indexed should its use in any particular business require it.

The invention is hereinafter fully described and more particularly pointed out.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of myimproved wall book parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top view seen as indicated by arrow 3 in Fig. l. Fig. 4, drawn to a larger scale, better shows the form of the holders for the rods.

Referring to the parts shown, A is the backboard or frame designed to be hung or secured against a Wall of the room, holding thick leaves, B, which are usually made of stiif pasteboard. The back-board is formed with a rest c, projecting at one side and near its lower end to receive and rigidly hold the lower ends of rods b. These rods are parallel.

and inclined backward at their upper; ends, as shown in Fig. 2, the rest a being preferably also inclined to form a right angle with the rods. These rods are placed in the rest so as to stand normally about in the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, that is to say in positions less inclined, but when in use are sprung slightly backward and caught in hooks or holders c, clearly shown in Fig. 4. After being caught under the hooks the elasticity of the rods tends to keep them in place; These hooks are similar and in one piece with a bar d, secured rigidly to the back-board in a horizontal position. The leaves are each provided with metal loops e, at their rear edges adapted to slip over the respective rods. That is to say when a rod is released from its hook and assumes its normal position as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 the leaf held by it may 55 be readily slipped in an upper direction 0E thev rod and a new leaf slipped in a downward direction upon the rod. The lower ends of the leaves are in contact with the part a, which forms a stop for their downward motion upon 6o the rods.

To prevent the rods becoming accidentally disengaged from the hooks I employ a lock or keeper f lying horizontally upon the hooks, and partly covering them back of the upper ends of the rods, as shown in Fig. 4. This keeper is preferably a round rod held at one end upon a pivot h rigid in the back-board, so as to turn in a vertical plane away from the hooks as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 7o 1. When in place upon the hooks the keeper covers so much of the openings within the hooks that the rods are confined and cannot escape from the hooks by accident. To release any or all the rods from the hooks it is only necessary to swing the keeperupward away from the hooks when the rods may be readily carried out therefrom. Thus any leaf of the book may be quickly removed and replaced by another one without disturbing or 8o interfering with any of the rest. And the rods being rigid in the rest a are not taken out when the leaves are removed for the purpose of being replaced by new ones.

The keeper is held to its place upon the hooks by gravity, and it may be made to turn with slight friction upon the pin h so as to remain in any position in which placed by the hand. Devices similar to this have been heretofore known; but my improvement consists 9o in the matter of holding and detaching the upper ends of the rods for holding the leaves.

The leaves are adapted to turn over from "left to right or right to left as in the case of other books.

What I claim in my invention is- 1. In a wall book, in combination, a frame, the upper end of which is provided with a series of hooks, a series of rods rigidly secured in the frame with their upper free ends normally rco in front of the hooks, and adapted to be bent back and be engaged thereby and a leaf upon each rod provided with loops whereby, when the upper end of the rod is released frornthe hook it will move forward of the hook and the leaf may be removed from the rod, substantially as set forth.

2. In a wall book, in combination, a backboard, the upper end of which is provided with a series of hooks and the lower end is provided with a rest, a series of rods rigidly secured in the rest with their upper ends normally out of engagement with the hooks, but adapted to be bent back and be engaged thereby, a leaf upon each rod provided with loops, whereby when the upper ends of the rods are released from the hooks they will move forward of the hooks, and the leaves may be removed, and means for locking the ends ofthe rods within the hooks, substantially as set forth.

3. In a wall book, in combination, a frame,

a bar at the upper end of the frame provided with hooks, a series of rods in the frame with their upper ends adapted to be engaged by the hooks, a leaf detaohably secured upon eaeh rod, and a locking bar pivotally secured to the frame at one side of the rods and. adapted to be moved between the frame and the ends of the rods above the hooks when the rods are in engagement with the hooks, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this '7th day of January, 1893, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. NASH.

Witnesses:

ENOS B. WHrrMonu, i M. L. WINSTON.