Improved Means applicable for Use in the Correction, by Erasure, of Manuscript or Type-written Documents.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1895-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means applicable for Use in the Correction, by Erasure, of
Manuscript or Type-written Documents.
I, MILTON BARTHOLOMEW, of Grassington, Hayne Road, Beckenham, in the
County of Kent, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to means adapted for facilitating the neat and expeditious
correction of manuscript or type-written documents where erasure of a letter, word
or even a sentence, is desired.
In carrying out my invention, I employ a thin sheet of celluloid or flexible and
preferably transparent material, the same being provided with perforations which
may be of various sizes and shapes.
When it is desired to correct a letter, figure, mark, word or words, which may
have been incorrectly written, the perforated sheet is placed over the writing, one
of the perforations coinciding with the letter or word, the erasure which is desired,
the size of the orifice closely corresponding with the space occupied by the incorrect
natter. By means of ink-eraser or equivalent material, the incorrect letter, word,
figure or mark, is then removed, the guard shielding the adjacent manuscript
or type-written matter and preventing the same being smudged or otherwise
defaced.
An erasure-shield of the kind above described, when formed of flexible material,
is adapted for application to a curved surface such as that of the cylinder upon
which the paper is mounted in a typewriter; and if the material be also trans-
parent, its adjustment to the particular part to be brought under operation is
facilitated.
My erasure-shield has by preference a polished upper surface and a dull or
slightly roughened under surface. Parts of the upper surface may, if desired, be
utilized for the display of advertisements, although I do not regard this as in any
way material to my invention.
Improved Means applicable for Use in the Correction, by Erasure, of
Manuscript or Type-written Documents.
I, MILTON BARTHOLOMEW, of Grassington, Hayne Road, Beckenham, in the
County of Kent, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to means adapted for facilitating the neat and expeditious
correction of manuscript or type-written documents, where erasure of a letter, word,
or even a sentence is desired.

page_text: In order that the invention may be clearly understood, I will proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, whereof Fig. 1 represents,
in plan, a device adapted for accomplishing the object set forth; Fig. 2 being a
diagrammatic view illustrating the mode of applying and using the same in a
typewriter.
In carrying out my invention, I employ a thin sheet A of celluloid or other
flexible and preferably transparent material, the same being provided with
perforations a of various sizes and shapes.
When it is desired to correct, by erasure, a letter, figure, mark, word or words,
which may have been incorrectly written, the sheet A is placed over the writing, so
that one of the perforations a coincides with the letter or word, the erasure of
which is to be effected, the size of the perforation closely corresponding with the
space occupied by the incorrect matter. By means of ink-eraser or equivalent
material, the incorrect letter, word, figure or mark, visible through the perforation,
is then removed; the unperforated portion of the sheet or guard A shielding the
adjacent manuscript or type-written matter and preventing the same being smudged
or otherwise defaced. The guard may, if desired, be provided with an eyelet b for
the reception of a retaining cord.
An erasure-shield of the kind hereinbefore described, when formed of flexible
material, is adapted for application to a curved surface, such as that of the cylinder
upon which the paper is mounted in a typewriter; and, if the material be also
transparent, its adjustment to the particular part to be brought under operation is
facilitated. Referring to Fig. 2, the perforated shield A, is shown as applied
over a cylinder B, such as used in a typewriter; C being the paper bearing the
type-written matter in which the error to be corrected has occurred.
My erasure-shield has, by preference, a polished upper surface and a dull or
slightly roughened under surface. Parts of the upper surface may, if desired, be
utilized for the display of advertisements, although I do not regard this as in any
way material to my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
For use in the correction of errors in manuscript or type-written documents, a
shield formed of thin, flexible and preferably transparent, material, and provided
with perforations of various sizes, adapted to expose a letter, word or sentence,
whilst the body of the shield protects the surrounding surface of the paper from
injury during the process of erasure.
Dated the 1st day of August 1895.