The Application of Railway Maps and Timetables to Window Blinds and Curtains of Railway and Tramway Carriage Windows.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Application of Railway Maps and Timetables to Window Blinds
and Curtains of Railway and Tramway Carriage Windows.
I EDMUND BACHELOR IVATTS, Railway Manager, 78 Alston Street, Ladywood
Birmingham I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, viz. :-
The application of railway maps and railway timetables, printed, drawn or
sketched, to the window blinds and window curtains of railway and tramway
carriage windows. This invention being a combination of a window blind and a
railway map or a railway timetable, or, a combination of a window curtain and a
railway map or timetable. The said maps & timetables being needful information
for the travelling public and not advertisements.
The said maps and timetables may be made visible on the insides or outsides of
the window blinds or curtains.
The said maps and timetables may be printed, drawn, or sketched on paper, linen,
calico, cloth or other fabric and then mounted upon the substance of the window
blinds and curtains, or, the said maps and timetables may be drawn, printed
sketched or otherwise produced upon the substance and actual fabric of the window
blinds or window curtains.
Dated this Third day of March Eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
The Application of Railway Maps and Timetables to Window Blinds
and Curtains of Railway and Tramway Carriage Windows.
I, EDMUND BACHELOR IVATTS Railway Manager, 78 Alston Street, Ladywood
Birmingham 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 :-
I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows viz. The
application of railway maps and railway timetables, printed drawn or sketched, to
the window blinds and window curtains of railway and tramway carriage windows.
This invention being a combination of a window blind and a railway map or a
railway timetable, or a combination of a window curtain and a railway map or
timetable. The said maps and timetables being needful information for the
travelling public and not advertisements: The said maps and timetables may be
made visible on the insides or outsides of the window blinds or curtains. The said
maps and timetables may be printed, drawn, or sketched on paper, linen calico,
cloth, muslin or other fabric, and then mounted upon the substance of the window
blinds and curtains or the said maps and timetables may be drawn, printed, sketched,
or otherwise produced upon the substance and actual fabric of the window blinds or
window curtains.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is.
1. The application of maps & timetables to and their combination with, window
blinds as aforesaid.
2. The printing or otherwise impressing of maps & timetables on the fabric of
the blinds & curtains as aforesaid.
Dated this 19th day of November 1892.
EDMUND BACHELOR IVATTS.