Improvements in Children's Transparent Drawing-slates and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Transparent Drawing-slates and
the like.
I, ARTHUR RICHARD WORMALD of Sutton in the County of Surrey Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to bo as follows :-
In consists in the use of unbreakable or flexible transparent material such as
celluloid xylonite horn or similar substance with or without a ground surface to
write or draw upon in the way usual with the ground-glass of drawing slates.
The said transparent flexible material may be framed up in the way usual with
drawing-slates, or preferably in a special frame of metal celluloid xylonite, wood or
other material with attached or solid back and a grooved margin on three sides
thereof and fourth sido open to receive a slide of same or varied material to carry
the copies or pictures and the glass or transparent material: three sides of this
slide may have no groove or margin while the fourth may be grooved or margined
to correspond respectively with the three grooved and one ungrooved sides of the
frame.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Transparent Drawing-slates and
the like.
I, ARTHUR RICHARD WORMALD formerly of Sutton, Surrey, but now of
New Malden, Surrey, Gentleman 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 :-
It consists in the use of unbreakable or flexible transparent material such as
celluloid, xylonite or similar substance with or without a ground surface to write or
draw upon in the way usual with the ground glass of drawing slates. The said
transparent flexible material may be framed up in the way usual with drawing
Blates or preferably in a special frame of metal celluloid xylonite wood cardboard
or other material either with attached or solid back and a grooved or moulded
margin on three sides thereof and fourth side open to receive a slide of same or
varied material to carry the copies or pictures and the glass or transparent
material: three edges of this slide may have no moulding groove or margin while
the fourth may be moulded grooved or margined to correspond respectively with
the three grooved and one ungrooved sides of the frame, or preferably (and
especially when inade of cardboard) I construct the frame in pocket-form, similar
to a map case, but with cut-out opening on one side, in same way as an ordinary
cut-out photo-mount.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invon-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The use, in the manufacture of transparent drawing-slates, of celluloid,
zylonite or other similar transparent flexible material, with or without ground
Burface, in the place of the usual ground glass, substantially as above described.
Price 8d.1

page_text: 2. The use of metal, calluloid, xylonite or cardboard, instead of wood in the
manufacture of the frames of transparent drawing-slates, substantially as above
described.
3. The construction of frames for drawing alates with three margins grooved and
one open, or in pocket-form, to receive the slide with copies or pictures and the 5
glass or transparent material, substantially as above described.
Dated this 31st day of October 1893.
A. R. WORMALD.