UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AZEL II. COPELAND, OF VES'I BRID GEXVATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IM PROVEM ENT IN SAN D-PAPER HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,681, dated January 27, 1852.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AZEL H. CoPELAND,of fest Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand usefulShoe-MakersImplementcalled a Sand-Paper Holder, for Smoothing the Bottoms or Soles of Boots and Shoesyand I do hereby declare that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my sand-paper holder when half opened; and Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken in the plane of the line A B, Fig. 1, with the two sides closed.

My sand-paper holder is made of two like pieces of Wood a a b b, one side of each of which is made fiat and the other side `rounded to the fiat edges and terminating in the handles c c d CZ at the ends. These pieces ct a, b b are joined together lengthwise by a piece of cloth or leather e e, fastened or glued to and around their rounded sides, thus forming a hinge, on which the two pieces can turn and be brought together on their i'lat sides by the handles c c CZ d. Near each end of the fiat side of one of the pieces a pin or dowel ff is inserted,which when the fiat sides are brought together enter corresponding holes in the opposite piece, and thus hold the two pieces firmly together. Near the outer edge of the fiat side of each piece are inserted several` small Wire pins g g g, dac., which when the fiat sides' are brought together enter corresponding holes in the opposite sides. The rounded edges may be covered with one or several pieces of cloth. A sheet of sand-paper h, of suit-able size, is fastened by means of the small pins g g, &c., to the inside fiat edge of one piece, and then drawn smoothly over the round covered sides of both pieces and fastened to and held by the Wire pins in the other piece, thus forming a sand-paper holder for smoothing the soles of boots and shoes.

Having thus described my invention, I shall state my claim as follows: That Iclaim as my invention, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent, is-

The implement called a sand-paper holder, constructed substantially as above described-that is, of two similar pieces of wood with handles at the ends, the inner sides flat and theother sides rounded, joined together lengthwise by a hinge of cloth or leather, so that the fiat sides can be brought together, the outer edges of the fiat sides havingsmall wire pins inserted in them, by Which the sandpaper is held, and the two pieces being held together when closed by dowels in one of the Ilat sides entering corresponding holes in the other fiat side.

AZEL H. COPELAND. Witnesses:

AUSTIN PACKARD, JOSEPH GAvETT.