Patent GB-431615-A (GB)
Title: Writing and drawing pad or block
IPC: B42D5/00
Filed: 1934-10-11
Abstract: 431,615. Writing &c. pads. GABLER, J., 155, Holeestrasse, Basle, Switzerland. Oct. 11, 1934, No. 29178. [Class 16] In a writing or drawing pad consisting of a pile of loose paper sheets carried in a holder, wherein the holder is provided with a slide movable relatively to the holder, the slide engages with the back or the lower edge of the bottom sheet of the pile and displaces the entire sheet by moving it along the pile. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the holder 28 comprises a back, sides and ends, and a front boundary frame 9. Between the frame 9 and the top sheet of the pile of sheets 3 a sheetretainer 14 is located provided with a handpiece 14<1>. The hand-piece fits into a recess 14<11> in the holder when the retainer is moved to the right. The pile of sheets rests on a support 35 (not shown) consisting of a resilient sheet-metal strip bent into substantially rectangular form and positioned so that its sides press outwardly. The side of the support 35 adjacent the back of the holder is inclined, and a slide is located between this inclined side and the back of the holder. The slide consists of a rear wall 32, Fig. 4, situated behind the sheet pile, with lateral lugs 15 which extend through slots 30 in the sides of the holder, a front wall 34 which is slightly tapered at 34<1>, and an intermediate bar 33 arranged below the edge of the front wall so that it forms a shelf or ledge for the bottom edge of the back sheet of the pile 3. When the slide is raised by means of the lugs 15 the back sheet is lifted so that its upper edge engages and is guided out of the holder by a curved guide 31. Each paper sheet may be provided at its lower edge with a narrow bent strip so that the sheet can be supported more effectively by the support 35, and only a single sheet falls into the slide. The ejected or displaced sheet can be grasped and placed on the front of the pile in the holder for writing purposes. In the construction shown in Fig. 8, the holder 38 is of double form and has an opening at the front and back, these openings being closed by slidable flexible covers 40, 40', preferably of transparent material, which move in guides. Two sheet piles 3 are situated inside the holder on each side of a partition wall 41, and two supports 35 and slides are arranged as described in the previous construction. Long slots are arranged in the sides of the holder so that the sheets to be ejected can be moved by the slides clear of the backs of the piles. Curved guides 43 bend the sheets round so that they pass to the fronts of the piles 3. The covers 40 may be fitted with springs which, when the covers are released, uncover the sheet piles 3 automatically. The end of the holder may be provided with slots so that the sheets may pass therethrough on manipulation of the slides. Instead of a slide which engages the lower edges of the sheets, plain flat plates having lugs 15 as before may be provided with one or more strips of adhesive, or with slightly projecting pins, to engage the backs of the sheets to be ejected ; in this case the end of the plate of the slide, together with the attached sheet, pass through a slot in the upper end of the holder. The holders may consist of metal, celluloid, or cardboard or the like.