Improved Boards for use in Schools and Colleges in Teaching.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Boards for use in Schools and Colleges in Teaching.
I, GEORGE HUGGINS HEATHCOTE of 5 Tremadoc Road in the Parish of Clapham of
the City of London in the County of Surrey, Schoolmaster do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
1. The white board is a board or writing tablet coated with a white substance
known to painters & colour dealers as flatting.
2. I have applied this flatting to boards, walls, paper boards cement and slate and
have produced a surface suitable for writing or drawing on.
3. This surface being somewhat dull and having little shine, when dry, makes it
admirably suited for school or other work, as the slightest mark of any colour is
easily seen without any straining of the eyes or injury to the sight.
4. It is particularly suitable for evening class work where gas is used.
5. I write on the "White Board" with coloured chalks.
6. The writings & drawings can be rubbed off with a duster or damp sponge.
Dated this 21st day of November 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Boards for use in Schools and Colleges in Teaching.
GEORGE HUGGINS HEATHCOTE 5 Tremadoc Road Clapham London S.W. Surrey
Schoolmaster 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 :-
Tablets of wood, slate, marble & cardboard are coated with a white or tinted
preparation so as to form a writing surface. This surface is used for writing on &c.
with coloured chalks. Ground glass is also coated with this preparation on the
reverse or smooth surface after it has been marked out in squares, so that the
squaring or chequering" having the preparation for a back ground shows through
the glass and ground surface.
The preparation I make is as follows:-
(a) For smooth surfaces. White lead (dry) is ground with the best varnish and
thinned with turps to working consistency-Colour is added to give tone.
(b) For rough surfaces.-Dry white lead is ground in methylated spirit with
shellac dissolved in it (2 ozs. shellac to 1 pint of spirit)-Fine emery powder is added
to give roughness-(oz. to 1 pint of spirit)-A little colour is added to give tone.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. That writing and drawings may be better seen and read on my boards than on
any existing boards.
2. That writing &c. may be seen and read at far greater distances on my boards
than on any existing boards.
3. That there is little or no shine on my boards, consequently there is less straining
of the eyes when using my boards than on any other board in use.
4. That my boards can be used by gaslight without inconvenience, as the gas does

page_text: not in any way interfere with the surface of the board by causing it to shine as it
does with many boards in use.
5. That coloured chalks even of the most delicate tints can be used on my boards.
Dated this 21st day of Avomst 1890
GEORGE HUGGINS HEATHCOTE.