Improvements in Book, Reference, Lesson, and Text Markers.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in Book, Reference, Lesson, and Text Markers.
I, ELIZA ANNE PRIOR married woman, of 3 Cawley Road, Victoria Park, South
Hackney, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOK, REFERENCE, LESSON, AND TEXT MARKERS and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
In the construction of these Articles herein-after called Book Markers, I make them
of both simple and compound forms.
Where they are required to mark only one Text, Passage, or Place on any page of a
book or paper, I make them of a simple form by taking a strip of any suitable
material at one end of which strip a tongue, slit, loop, or bow is made, which will
clasp the edge of the leaf of a book or paper, by preference at the side, and the other
end of the strip is made with any conveniently formed pointer to mark the Text,
Passage, or Place to be referred to.
Where more than one Text, Passage, or Place on any page of a book or paper is
required to be marked, as in books having more than one column of matter on one
page, I make them of a compound form, the strip being made to clasp the edge of the
leaf of a book or paper as before stated at the top, and may have a tongue, slit, loop, or
bow at each end, so that the strip is reversible, or may clasp the leaf or paper at both
ends thereof or a sliding tongue may be placed on each strip to suit the various sizes
of books and papers; and two or more pointers are placed on the strip by any
convenient means so that they are moveable, and each can be placed to point to any
Text, Passage, or Place required on the page of a book or paper.
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Where there is more than one column of matter on the same page the pointers may
be placed on the strip to point to the right and to the left as required; or one pointer
may be set to the beginning of a Text, Passage, or Place, and another pointer set to
the end of the same. Where there only one column of matter on the same page
and it is required to mark more than one Text, Passage, or Place, the required
number of simple markers may be used to mark them, and where there are more than
two columns of matter on one page or paper, the simple and the compound markers
may be used together on the same page.

page_text: I do not confine myself to any kind of material, which may be wood, paper, textile,
rubber, metalic, or any other suitable material, or partly of one kind and partly of
another. Neither do I confine myself to any Design in making either the tongues,
slits, loops, bows, slides, or pointers, as they may be modified to suit the various sizes
of books and papers and the material of which the book markers are made, and for
paper-cutting, or ornament.
Where the book markers are made partly of textile or rubber material, instead
of using strips as for one page only, the textile or rubber may be made to embrace one
or more leaves of a book or paper and the pointers set to one or more texts, passages,
or places on the two pages that are embraced by the book markers. Where strips are
used they may be made to extend further than the edges of the leaves of the book or
paper and be numbered or otherwise marked to distinguish the texts, passages, places,
or pages they indicate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is-
1st. The novelty of making bookmarkers with tongues, slits, loops, bows, or slides to
clasp the top and bottom, or side of the page of a book or paper; and
2nd. The novelty of making moveable pointers on the same to point right, or left, or
both, as desired both novelties being herein-before set forth and described.