Improvements in or connected with means for displaying Information in Hotels and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
Improvements in or connected with means for displaying
Information in Hotels and the like.
I ELIJAH JOHN SMEDLEY NORTON of 35 Oberstein Road, New Wandsworth in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for indicating to residents at hotels or
to members of clubs, such information as to calls, letters, and telegrame, and such
like as may be awaiting their attention; and at the same time the device being
constantly consulted by all passers-by, forms an exellent medium for the display
about it of advertisements.
My device consists of a board, mounted vertically agajust a wall or other support,
in a conspicuous position in the ball or entrance of a public building.
I divide the said board into a series of tablets, which may be of slate for the reception
of pencil or chalk writing, or of such material as will receive written information and
from which the said information can be afterwards easily erased.
The tablets are arranged in series to indicate in one horizontal line, the nature of the
incident to be reported, such as calls, arrival of letters and telegrams, the time of its
occurrence, and the person to whom the information is to be imparted.
In conjunction with this tablet device I may mount thereon, a clock and weather
barometer, and about the tablets, I provide suitable spaces for the insertion of display
advertisements on cards within suitable retaining frames.
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FELL & JAMES,
1 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with means for displaying
Information in Hotels and the like.
1, ELIJAH JOHN SMEDLEY NORTON, of 35 Oberstein Road, New Wandsworth in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare of this invention to be as follows
This Invention relates to an improved device for indicating to residents at hotels,
or to members of clubs or others such information as to calls, letters, telegrams, and
such like, as may be awaiting their attention; and at the same time, the device
being constantly consulted by all passers-by forms an excellent medium for the
display above or about it of advertiseinents.

page_text: And in order that iny invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same in reference to the drawings hereto annexed and to the letters
marked thereon.
In the drawing aunexed I show the convenient form of my notice board, which may
be fixed vertically against a wall or other support in a conspicuous position in the
hall or entrance of any public building.
I divide the said board into a series of tablets A A A which may be of slate for the
reception of pencil or chalk writing, or may be of any material such as will receive
written information, and from which the said information can be easily erased.
The tablets A are arranged in a vertical series, so as to give indication by permanent
headings B.B.B. in one horizontal line of the nature of the indication to be reported,
such as "calls," "arrival of letters " "telegrams" and similar matters, with the time
of its occurrence, and the name of the person to whom the information is to be
imparted.
In conjunction with these information tablets A, I may mount thereon a clock Cor
a weather barometer, or similar device, and I further provide suitable spaces D.D.D
for the display of advertisements which may be conveniently upon cards adapted to be
inserted into the frames of these advertisement compartments, and to be withdrawn
from them for removal or substitution.
Having now particulary described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I clain is
A device for indicating calls, letters, telegrams and the like, consisting of, in
combination, a series of tablets, adapted to receive and permit easy erasure of
writing, perinanent head tablets, indicating nature of information given, and a
surrounding frame adapted to receive removable advertisement cards or display
devices, substantially as described..
Dated thin 10th dom
1007
FELL & JAMES,
1 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.