Improvements in and Additions to Drawing Boards.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Drawing Boards.
I, ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD of Knightstone Villa Edgbaston Road Moseley in
the County of Worcester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
I
The primary object of my invention, is to combine with a drawing board, the
requisites employed therewith, or in mathematical or other drawing; that is to say,
mike the back of the board, do duty as a repository to carry or contain such drawing
or painting requisites as may be required by the user of the board. Thus, the said
back may be fitted with a T square, set squares, sweeps, pencil and brush cases,
instrument and color boxes, pin pad, and other requisites.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I sink within the back of the board,
recesses, of the shape of the objects to be stowed away, and which said recesses, are of
the depth, or of about the depth of the said objects, thus leaving the flush plane
surface of the said back of the board, intact, or free from outstanding instructions.
For the square, I sink a recess within the middle of the back of the board, and
with the head coming parallel with straight edge.
The set square and sweeps, have recesses of a like conformation to their shape,
whilst the lead or brush box is enclosed by a lid, which may cover both the box and
wells, which may contain color or indi-rubber.
The requisites are kept in position by spring, or turning finger clips.
The well wherein the drawing pins are stuck, has a cork bottom, for the said pins
to stick in.
I prefer to make up the board, of two separate boards, of which the back one is
first all-through pierced to the shape of recesses required, and then laid on the plain
back surface of the front board, and joined together by straight edges at the ends.
When a student or scholar has done with his instruments, or drawing requisites,
he stores them away at the back of his board, until they are again required to be used.
Instead of laying the requisites in recesses, they may be laid upon the plain back
surface of the board, and affixed there by clips or holders; and in order that the said
requisites shall not be interfered with, when the board is in use, corner feet or opposite
strips may be be applied, so as to make back of the board as it were, with a box back,
which may if necessary be enclosed by a sliding lid.
As a modification, I may make the board hollow, wherein the appliances such as
Tsquare and the like may be disposed, and retained there by a sliding lid or end ;
and further, independent horizontal recesses or holes may be made, wherein brushes,
leads or the like may be placed, and there held by chips or lids.
Dated this 1st day of May 1889
ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Drawing Boards.
I ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD of Knightstone Villa Edgbaston Road Moselev
in the County of Worcester Manufacturer 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 consists in making the back of a drawing board a repository for
carrying or stowing away such drawing or painting requisites, as may be required, by

page_text: the user of the board. Thus, the said back may be fitted with a T square, set squares
sweeps, pencil and brush cases, instrument and color boxes, pin pad and other
requisites.
In carrying out one form of my invention I sink within the back of the board,
recesses of the shapes of the objects to be stowed away, and which said recesses, are
of the depth or of about the depth of the said objects, thus leaving the flush plane
surface of the said back of the board, intact, or free from outstanding obstructions.
For the square, I sink a recess within the middle of the back of the board, and
with the head or crutch end coming parallel with the straight edge.
The set squares and sweeps lie within recesses of a like conformation to their shapes,
whilst the lead or brush box or boxes is or are enclosed by a lid
The requisites are kept in position by spring, or by turning-finger clips.
The well wherein the drawing pins are stored, has a cork bottom.
I prefer to make up the board of two separate boards uz a pierced one, and an
unpierced one, attached together by straight edges at the ends.
When a student or scholar has done with his instruments, or drawing requisites, he
stores them away at the back of his board, until they are again required.
Instead of laying the requisites in recesses, they may be laid upon the plain back
surface (with elevating ends or corners) of the board, and affixed there by clips o
holders, or the said requisites may be stowed away within the interior of the board
which may be made box like.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents an inverted plan, or back of a
drawing board provided or fitted with mathematical drawing requisites It is thus
seen that the said requisities are inserted or stowed away, within recesses, formed
within the back of the board
Figure 2 shows the said recessed back without the aforesaid requisites.
Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section on the dotted lines A B figure 1.
a is the front of the board, and 6 the back thereof; the back b is pierced with
all-through holes 62, of a like shape, as the objects to be used, so that on the said front
and back parts, being placed back to front, or hack to back and there secured, by end
straight-edges c. or other means, a drawing board with a recessed back, is thereby
produced.
dis a T square, lying flush within its recess and so also are the set squares e, brush
and pencil receptacle f; with enclosing lid 3, and which said recess f, has a rubber,
or other compartment f³, see figure 2. g is a pin well, with a cork faced bottom g²,
to admit of the points of the pins, sticking into it, and being there held.
The requisites as aforesaid are affixed in their recesses, by turning finger clips h,
which when not in use for holding lie within recesses ³.
It will be observed, that the recess of the brush, or pencil receptacle is formed both
from the front, and back boards or parts
Figure 41epresents a-transverse-section of a drawing board, with the recesses cut
within the back of a single board, instead of the said board, being made up of plain
and pierced front and back parts.
Figure five represents another form of my invention, in which the back of the
board, is made plain with the raised ends, so that the space enclosed within the said
euds, is alike unto a recess, and upon the plane surface of the said recess, or back side,
the drawing requisites are attached, by spring, or other clips.
Figure 6 represents a longitudinal vertical section, upon the dotted lines CD, thus
exhibiting the raised ends, which elevate the back of the board from the plane of the
surface upon which the board is used.
a is the front of the board, and a* is the back of the board, c are raised ends, flush
with the front of the board, but extending above the plane of the back of the board,
to an extent equal to, or above the depth of the objects stowed away,
The requisites consisting of T square d, set squares e, pencil, brush, and rubber
box f, and also pin pad 9, are secured in their assigned positions at the back of the
board, by spring or other clips h, which admit when affixed by pins or screws, of
turning outwardly and inwardly, for releasing and affixing the said objects.

page_text: Figure 5A represents a modified form of the board figure 5, so that instead of
employing straight edged ends, I employ corner blocks or feet, at the back of the
board.
a is the back of the board, c are elevated corners, so as to elevate the said back
above the plane of the surface on which the board rests.
As a further modification of figures 5 and 6, the said board may be made as it were,
with a box back, or a back of a board, whose boundary edging is raised above its
plane surface, thereby enclosing as it were, the said plane surface, by an edging, of
an inside depth a little greater than the articles to be stowed away
Figure 7 represents another form of my invention, in which the back of the board
is made box form, and enclosed by a sliding back board, so that the requisites are
stowed away between the back and front of the board.
a is the front of the board, with elevated edgings c, of an inside depth a little
greater, than the objects secured within or to the inside back of the board, by chips
or other means.
The space
at the back of the said board, is enclosed by a supplementary and sliding
board a, whose opposite edges a³ take into grooves in the opposite sides of the
board a.
C
The slide end of the back of the board, is cut away, to allow the supplementary
board a, to slide into position.
Figure 8 represents a transverse section of the said board figure 7, upon the dotted
lines E F.
Figure 9 represents a transverse section of another form of box drawing board
made according to my invention.
a are top and bottom sides, c are fixed ends or sides, and c³ is a hinged or pivoted
movable end.
Having now particularly described and 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 :-
First. A drawing board, forming within the back thereof, recesses or sunken
spaces, wherein drawing or like requisites are stowed, placed or inserted, substantially
as described and set forth in figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Secondly. The combination with the recesses of a recessed back drawing board, of
clips, whereby the objects placed within the said recesses, are held in position, as
set forth.
Thirdly. A recessed back drawing board, making the same from an all-through
pierced back-part, and a plain front part, secured and pat together, substantially as
set forth in figures 1, 2 and 3.
Fourthly. A drawing board, making or providing the same, with elevated or
raised ends or sides, or both ends, sides, or parts, at back, whereby the said back is
made box like, recessed or elevated, wherein drawing, or like requisites are stowed,
and secured in position by securing clips, or like means, substantially as described and
set forth in figures 5 and 6.
Fifthly. A drawing board, provided with a movable supplementary sliding board,
and elevated or raised sides and ends, at back, substantially as set forth in figures 7
and 8 and also the modified form of box drawing board figure 9.
Dated the 10th day of November 1900
ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
ALFRED AUGUSTUS WOODWARD.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.