Improved Means for Correcting Embossed Braille Type.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left 23rd Dec 1897 Accepted 26th Feb 18908
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Correcting Embossed Braille Type.
GEORGE ROBERT BOYLE, "Barnes Villa," 76, Lonsdale Road, Barnes, S.W.,
Private Secretary, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
Improved means for correcting embossed Braille type, consisting of two arms of
metal or other hard substance riveted, hinged or otherwise joined together.
To remove a dot, each arm of metal, er other hard substance has, at its ex-
tremity or elsewhere, a projecting pin flattened at the point. These pins are so
placed that when they are pressed together they meet exactly one upon the
other. The dot to be removed is placed between the said pins, they are then
pressed or knocked together and the dot thereby removed.
To insert a dot, one of the arms of metal or other hard substance has a male
punch, while the other arm possesses a female punch. These punches are so
placed that when pressed together they meet one in the other. When a dot is to
he inserted the paper, brass, or other substance is placed between these punches
which are then forced together and the dot is produced.
Dated this 24th day of March 1897.
GEORGE ROBERT BOYLE, "Barnes Villa," 76, Lonsdale Road, Barnes, S.W.,
Private Secretary, 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:
An improved means for correcting embossed Braille type consists of two arms
of metal or other hard substance riveted hinged or otherwise joined together.
To remove a dot each arm of metal or other hard substance has at its extremity
or elsewhere a projecting pin A flattened at the point. These pins are so placed
that when they are pressed together they meet one exactly upon the other. The
dot to be removed is placed between the said pins they are then pressed or
knocked together and the dot thereby removed. To insert a dot one of the arms
of metal or other hard substance has a male punch B while the other has a
female punch C. These punches are so placed that when pressed or knocked
together they meet one in the other. When a dot is to be inserted the paper
brass or other substance is placed between these punches which are then forced
together and thereby a dot is produced.

page_text: One instrument may be made to both insert and to erase a dot, Fig. I.; or
two instruments may be made one to insert a dot, Fig. II., and the other to erase
a dot Fig. III.
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:
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1. An instrument consisting of metal or other hard substance having at one
extremity or elsewhere pins flattened at the points and at the other extremity a
male & female punch as per Fig. I.
2. An instrument consisting of two arms of metal or other hard substance,
one having a male punch and the other a female punch as per Fig. II.
3. An instrument consisting of two arms of metal or other hard substance having
two pins flattened at the points as per Fig. III.
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