Improvements in School and other Slates.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1891-Accepted. 21st Nov.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in School and other Slates.
We, GEORGE TAYLOR, and STEPHEN TEBAY PHILLIPS both of 10 Baker
Street, Portman Square, London, W. Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to improvements in school and other slates and has for its
object to further increase the utility of these appliances by printing, embossing, or
otherwise marking on their frames letters, figures, and information of any suitable
description such as multiplication tables also ready reckoners for slates used in
kitchens and the like places. For school slates we may print an alphabet of capital
letters on one of the longitudinal sides thereof and an alphabet of small letters on
the other, while we may arrange the consecutive number of units up to 10 on the
top and form a scale of inches on the bottom of the said frame. We may obviously
furnish both sides of the frame with indications such as a calendar, geographical
data, and the like or I may print or otherwise display advertisements upon such
frames.
F. G. CASSELL,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, W., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in School and other Slates.
We GEORGE TAYLOR and STEPHEN TEBAY PHILLIPS both of 10 Baker
Street Portman Square London W. Gentlemen, 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 :-
Our invention relates to school and other slates and has for its object to further
increase the utility of these appliances by printing, embossing, sinking or otherwise
marking on their frames letters, figures, and information of any suitable description
such as multiplication tables or other scholastic information or such as ready
reckoners for slates used in kitchens and other places.
For school slates we may print an alphabet of capital letters on one of the longi-
tudinal sides thereof and an alphabet of small letters on the other, while we may
arrange the consecutive number of units up to 10 on the top and form a scale of
inches on the bottom of the said frame. We may obviously furnish both sides of
the frame with indications such as a calendar, geographical data, and the like, or we
may print or otherwise display advertisements upon such frames.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shows a slate such as used for infants schools.
Figure 2. shows a slate which may be more generally used in board schools,
while-
Figure 3. shows a slate furnished with various information suitable for cooks,
stewards, or other servants.
In the slate shown in Fig. 1, we have marked the consecutive units from one to
ten on the top of the frame and a scale of inches on the bottom, while the left hand
side is furnished with an alphabet of large, and the right hand side with an alphabet
of small letters.
Upon the frame of the slate shown in Fig. 2. there are marked various geographical
data which will prove useful to board school pupils. Other indications may

page_text: obviously be placed thereon such as multiplication tables, ready reckoners, chrono-
logical dates, historical abstracts or a list of rules of grammar, in short any fact
which it is desired to impress on the mind of scholars. The slate shewn in Fig. 3
is furnished on its frame with a list of weights and measures and will prove a great
service in private or other houses, kitchens, workshops and the like places. Other
indications may be further supplied such as cooking receipts, ready reckoners,
approximate cost price of articles of food and other general information.
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 :-
Exhibiting in any suitable manner on one or both sides of school or other slates,
scholastic or other information suitable to the requirements of the user of such
appliances substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated this 19th day of October 1891.
F. G. CASSELL,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, Agent for the Applicants.