US152226A - Improvement in copy-holders - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo DAVID T. HALL, OF NORVALK, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COPY-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of vLetters Patent No. 152,226, dated June 23, 1874; application filed February 26,1874.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, DAvrD THoMAs HALL, of Norwalk, county of Huron, State of Ollio, have invented an Improvement in Copy-Holders, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to assist printers, oopyists, and others to perform their work carefully and expeditiously, the nature of which Will be fully understood from the en gravings or drawings.

Theinvention consists of a oorru gated springbar, A, with two or more eorrugations, a a a, a tensionsorew, B, an adjustable bed, C,Wl1ioli can be moved up or down or inclined right or left to suit the operator, on the rod E, by the soreW D. The rod E can be curved or bent to the pleasure and to the Work to be performed, also, of the adjustable block F with its screw G. Base H with its cured rod E, Figure 2, may at times be used. The spring-bar A is lield in place by pins a a on either side of screw-B, attached to bed C.

The mode of operatin g the holder is as follows: The copy, printed or Written, is placed v DAVID T. HALL.

Witnesses;

J oNAs HINKLEY, GEO. Q.. ADAMS.

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