US831385A

US831385A - Copy-holder.

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Publication number: US831385A
Application number: US28902705A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederic Clarke Shobert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-11-25
Filing date: 1905-11-25
Publication date: 1906-09-18
Anticipated expiration: 1923-09-18

Description

PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

F. G. SHOBERT.

COPY HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.25,1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIG CLARKE SHOBERT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COPY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18,1906.

A li ti fil d November 25, 1905. Serial No. 289,027

- had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in copy and manuscript holders, and the invention relates more particularly to a holder adapted to be used by stenographers and type-writers when copying manuscript.

The invention has for its primary object the provision of novel means for adjustably supporting manuscript; also novel means whereby each line of the manuscript may be closely followed. To this end I have devised a copy or manuscript holder adapted to be mounted upon the desk or table where it is used, and I have constructed my improved copy-holder whereby it can be adjusted to hold the manuscript at any desired angle visible to the eye of the person copying or using the same. I have also constructed the holder whereby it may be used as a book holder or support for reading purposes, and throughout the entire construction of the holder I have embodiedbertain novel features of construction which permit ofthe holder being manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

The entire'holder or structure is preferably constructed of pressed sheet metal, and the detail construction of the same, together with other objects which will hereinafter appear, will be described; but reference will first be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several Views, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved copy-holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder detached from the main supporting-standard and positioned to support and retain a book or manuscript. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the upper end of a movable standard used in connection with the main supporting-standard, illustrating the manner in which the movable standard is sheared or cut. illustrating the completed upper end of the movable standard. Fig. 6 is a plan of the Fig. 5 is a similar view same. Fig. 7 is a plan of the retaining-band used in connection with the movable standard. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 9, detail views of a pivotal connection formed between the standard and the copyholder proper. Fig. 10 is a plan of the screw used with the pivotal connection. Fig. 11 is a plan of the base of the standard. Fig. 12

is a side elevation. Fig. 13 is a detail view of the end of the main standard. Fig. 14 is a sectional view taken on 'the line as w of Fig. 13. Fig. 15 is an edge view of a clamp.

To put my invention into practice, I con struct my improved copy or manuscript holder of two partsa manuscript-supporting member 1 and a standard 2, these parts being pivotally connected together, as at 3. The member 1 is constructed of two plates 4 and 5, the plate 4 being slidably mounted upon the plate 5. These plates are substantially triangular in form, havin curved converging edges 6 6 and 7 7, the edges 6 6 of the plate 5 converging to a tongue longitudinally-disposed slot 9 formed therein. The lower end of the plate 4 is bent downwardly, as at 10, and slotted, as at 11, to receive the tongue 8 of the plate 5. The plate 4 is provided at its lower end'with an adjustable screw 12, which extends down-' wardly through the slot 9 of the tongue 8, and said screw is adjusted to lock the plate 4 upon the tongue 8 of the plate 5 in any desired position. By simply gripping the screw 12 and rotating it slightly the plate 4 can be adjusted and then fixed relativeto the plate 5.

The lower edge of the plate 5 is bent upwardly, as at 14, and then at an angle, as at 15, forming a bracket 16, which has its outer edges slotted, as at 17 17. Mounted upon said bracket is a set of pivotally-connected levers 18, said levers being arranged similar to a pair of lazy-tongs. The ends 19 19 of the lazy-tongs, as they will be hereinafter termed, are slidably mounted in the slots 17 '17 of the bracket 16, while the upper ends 20 20 of said tongs are slidably mounted in slots 21 21, formed in an angular metallic follower 22, the upper edge 23 of said follower being adapted to bear upon the manuscript mounted upon the plates 4 and 5.

A conventional form of clamp 24 may be used in connection with the top edge of the plate 4 to hold a manuscript or copy upon the plates 4 and 5, said clamp being illustrated in Fig. 15 of the drawings. Whena 8, having a manuscript is placed upon the member 1, the upwardly-bent edge 14 of the plate 5 is adapted to support the lower edges of the manuscript, while the clamp 24 will firmly hold the upper edge of the manuscript while the follower 22 is being moved over said I manuscript or copy.

The rear face of the plate 5 is provided with two outwardly-extending pierced lugs 25 25, and pivotally mounted between said lugs by an adjustable screw or bolt 26 is the con tracted pierced end 27 of the main standard 28.

The contracted pierced end 27 of said standard, together with the lugs 25 25, are made of a sufficient size to provide a frictional surface between the end of the stand ard 28 and said lugs, the screw or bolt being adapted to govern the friction that exists be tween the end 27 and the lugs 25 25 and hold the member 1 in any desired position relative to the standard 2.

. upper ends of the

standards

29 and 30, as inform pierced lugs dicated at 33, and bend the split edges outwardly to form parallel pierced lugs 34 34. In these lugs is mounted an adjustable screw 35, employed for contracting the upper ends of the standards. When one standard is mounted within the other, the screws 35 are adapted to be adjusted to clamp the upper end of the standard upon the standard which slides into it, and in connection with these clamps the retaining-bands 31 31 are em ployed for limiting the movement of one standard within another, even though the clamps 32 were not used. The retainingbands are constructed by splitting a band, as at 36, and bending its ends outwardly to 37 37, through whicha setscrew 38 passes to expand or contract the split ends of the band. The retaining-bands can be secured upon any part of the standards and when clamped upon the standard the retaining-band is adapted to rest upon the end of a standard in which the first-mentioned standard is mounted.

The portable standard 30 is supported by a base 39, said base being pierced, as at 40 40, in order that it may be secured to a desk or table in connection with which it is used. The base. 39 is provided with an upwardlyeXtending split collar 41, similar to the upper ends of the standards heretofore described, a set-screw 42 being employed to clamp the collar upon the lower end of the standard 30.

The lower end of the main standard 28,is

split or sheared, as at 43 43, to form lugs 44 44, said lugs being bent inwardly to grip a piece of rubber'or resilient material 45, which protrudes out of the end of the standard 28. his piece of rubber or resilient material is employed to prevent the end of a standard 28 from injuring or scarring the polished surface of the desk or tablev in connection with which it is used when the co y-holder or manuscript-holder is being use in the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, where it is adapted to support a book or manuscript in position convenient to a person copying or reading the same.

By the construction of the numerous parts of the standard 2 it will be observed that the same can be readily disassembled and assembled and in the justed to retain the member 1 at any desired height and while in the former condition may be packed in a comparatively small space or assembled to be used either in the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings or as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. In either position the copy or manuscript holder is used for following each and every line of the manuscript or copy, this being accomplished by the person using the same moving the follower 22 as the copying or reading of the manuscript progresses.

The lazy-tongs which I employ for moving the follower may be constructed of resilient and spring steel, whereby the follower will always be pressed in engagement with the manuscript or copy over which it travels, and to facilitate the moving of the follower the same may be provided with a button or knob whereby it can be easily and quickly manipulated.

From the foregoing it will be observed that my improved copy or manuscript holder consists of comparatively few parts that are simple and durable, and such changes in the size, proportion, and minor details of the holder as are permissible by the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

latter position may be ad- What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- Y ters Patent, is-

1. A copy-holder embodying two supporting-plates slidably connected together, one of which has a bracket at its lower end provided with slots, a follower movable across the upper face of said plates and provided with a pair of slots and lazy-tongs having their upper ends connected in the slots of the follower and their lower ends connected in the slots of the bracket.

2. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium adjustable to increase and decrease its length, a folding support, a line-follower hung on said folding support and movable up and down on the copy-holding medium, a

ed to the copy-holding medium, a movable standard into which .said main supportingstandard telescopes, and a cushion fitted in the lower end of the main standard.

3. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding plate,

adjustable to increase and decrease itslength,

combined with a folding support arranged in front of the copy-holding plate, a line-follower carried by said support and movable up and down on said copy-holding plate, a main supportingstandard, and a movable supporting-standard, the main supportingstandard pivotally connected to the copyholding plate and adapted in one position to telescope in the movable supporting-standard, and in another position to act alone as a support for the plate.

4. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding element embodying two slidably-connected plates, one of which has a supporting-ledge at its lower end, a bracket projecting from said ledge and provided with a pair of slots, a linefollower movable on the copy-holding element and provided with a pair of slots, and lazy-tongs having one end slidably connected in the slots of the line-follower and their other end slidably connected in the slots of the said bracket.

5. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, lugs carried on the rear face of said plate, a substantially inverted- L-shaped main supporting-standard pivotally connected at its upper end to said lugs, a cushion fitted in the lower end of said main supporting-standard, and a portable standard receiving the cushioned end of said main supporting-standard.

6. In a copy-holder a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, and lugs carried on the rear face of said plate, combined with a portable standard, and a substantially L- shaped main supporting-standard pivotally connected at one end to said lugs and adapted to support said plate when engaged in said portable standard and when resting direct on the support.

7. A copy-holder embodying two slidablyconnected plates forming the copy-holding medium, one of said plates having an integral bracket at its lower end, said bracket provided with slots, a line-follower movable on the plates and provided with slots and lazy-tongs pivotally connected at one end in the slots of the line-follower and at the other end in the slots of the bracket.

8. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, a line-follower movable up and down on the plate, and springpressed lazy tongs pivotally attached at their upper ends to the line-follower and pivotally attached at their lower ends to the copy-holding medium.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIC CLARKE SHOBER'I.

Witnesses:

JAMES S. CRAWFORD, MALCOLM MOMILLAN.