Improvements in Marking or Indicating Places in Pocket, Memorandum, and other Books.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1891-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Marking or Indicating Places in Pocket,
Memorandum, and other Books.
A communication from FREDERICK WICH, Manufacturer, of 11, Schottenfeld
Gasse, Vienna, in the Empire of Austria..
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates chiefly to means for readily ascertaining the last used
page in a pocket, order, memorandum, or other book. The invention may also be
employed in ordinary books, periodicals and so forth as a book marker.
The invention consists in a line of perforations near one corner of each page so
that by tearing off the corner a reference is provided to the page.
The invention will be particularly useful for commercial travellers' order books,
for pocket books, diaries and so forth as by its means the required position can be
promptly ascertained.
If desired the portion removed from the page may where required be used as a
check or reference and may be numbered to correspond with the page from which
it is removed, or otherwise permanently marked so as to identify it or may be left
blank and marked or written upon by the user as required. The use of perforations
is doubtless the easiest way of carrying this invention into effect but it will be
understood that a sufficient crease, heavy line or the like which would enable the
user to remove the portion easily and without danger of damaging either the portion
or the page, may be employed.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Marking or Indicating Places in Pocket,
Memorandum, and other Books.
A communication from FREDERICK WICH, Manufacturer, of 11, Schottenfeld
Gasse, Vienna, in the Empire of Austria.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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 chiefly to means for readily ascertaining the last used
page in a pocket, order, memorandum, or other book. The invention may also be
employed in ordinary books, periodicals and so forth as a book marker.
The accompanying drawings shows a leaf of a book perforated according to this
invention.
The invention consists in a line of perforations near one corner of each page so
that by tearing off the corner a reference is provided to the page.
The invention will be particularly useful for commercial travellers' order
books, for pocket books, diaries and so forth as by its means the required position
can be promptly ascertained.
If desired the portion removed from the page may where required be used as a
check or reference and may be numbered to correspond with the page from which
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page_text: it is removed, or otherwise permanently marked so as to identify it or may be left
blank and marked or written upon by the user as required. The use of perfora-
tions is doubtless the easiest way of carrying this invention into effect but it will
be understood that a sufficient crease, heavy line or the like which would enable
the user to remove the portion easily and without danger of damaging either the
portion or the page, may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to ine by my foreign correspondent and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The method of marking or indicating pages of books which consists in removing
from the page a portion previously selected, and adapted for easy removal
substantially as described.
2. As a means of marking or indicating the pages of books perforating creasing
or otherwise adapting for easy removal a portion of each page substantially as
described.
3. A book the pages of which are perforated in a selected part to facilitate the
removal of such part for marking purposes substantially as described.
Dated this 1st day of December 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.