Improvements relating to Railway Time-tables.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Railway Time-tables.
I, EMIL BRESLAUER, of 29, Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, Merchant,
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:--
The idea of this invention is the supplying of blocks of printed matter re-
lating to railway travelling which are placed for the convenience of passengers and
travellers generally at railway stations, hotels, and in other conspicuous or public
places; and the invention itself consists of a number of paper or other similar
sheets or boards of time-tables placed one above another with or without maps
of the country, by means of which the travelling public can be duly informed
as to the times of starting and direction of the trains, this being effected by the
passenger or traveller tearing from one of the blocks the particular time table
Pap he may require.
or
block is composed of a number of time-tables containing the same infor-
mation, the sheets being pasted or similarly secured at one or more of their
edges, or fastened together by pins or metal fasteners, or secured together so as
to form a block in any other convenient manner so that separate sheets may be
torn off or otherwise detached. The various routes are made clear by printed
matter and finally the various time-tables relating to the traffic of a particular
station can be combined on a single tablet, block, or collection of superposed
leaflets. The traveller is thus able to dispense with railway guides (Bradshaw
and the like) since he can tear off from the block or blocks one or more time-
tables for use during the journey. For lines of railway having branch lines
running therefrom, it is desirable to add a map to the ordinary time table.
Such would really be necessary when the time table blocks combined in a single
tablet, are intended to explain certain routes. In such case, explanatory text
or descriptions must be given with the maps.
In order to recover the cost involved in producing and distributing the time-
tables, the free space on the front or back of the different sheets is used for
advertisements. These blocks of leaflets or information-circulars may be placed
in any convenient positions, and I may locate them, for instance, on the plat-
form or in the waiting-room, or adjacent to the booking-office.
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 :-
(1). Railway time-table distributing blocks composed of a number of time-
tables placed one above the other and furnished or not with special explanatory
text or maps, for the purpose of facilitating the passenger traffic, substantially
as described.
(2). Railway time-table distributing blocks, as claimed in Claim 1, in which

page_text: the free space on each sheet is furnished with advertisements for the purpose of
covering the cost of the time tables distributed, substantially as described.
(3). A tablet, on which a number of railway time-table distributing blocks, as
claimed in Claim 1, are arranged, for the purpose of combining the time-tables
of one or more lines of railway or branches, in one leaflet or detachable circular,
substantially as described.