Improvements in Appliances for Teaching Typewriting
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 13th Nov. 1897-Accepted 18th Dec. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in Appliances for Teaching Typewriting."
I. GEORGE AGER, of 1 Foulden Road, Stoke Newington, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines or appliances designed
for teaching typewriting and acquiring speed and proficiency thereat, and consists
of a lettered or numbered key or finger board similar to those at present in use,
and each key is connected with a disc or tablet on which is a corresponding
letter or number, so that when one of the keys is struck it is indicated by the
disc or tablet. A person can, without liability of damaging the machine, practice
typewriting thereon, and thus in spare time acquire speed and efficiency equally
as well as by practising on a typewriting machine, which is comparatively a
delicate machine and soon put out of working order.
According to this invention I employ a key or finger board similar in pattern
to any of the various keyboards at present in use, and with all the letters of
the alphabet, capitals, numbers, signs, spacing, and shifting keys. The
spindle of each key is connected by link or links to a disc or tablet on which
is a corresponding number or sign, and when the key is struck or depressed,
the corresponding disc or tablet is deflected and remains so until the pressure
on the key is removed, when it resumes its normal position. The keys and
discs or tablets are moved to their normal positions by spiral springs wound
around the spindles of the keys, there being above each spring a collar which
when the key is struck compresses the spring.
In practise the machine is used in a manner exactly similar to an ordinary
typewriting machine.
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BRIERLEY & HOWARD
Penny Bank Chambers. Halifax.
Agents for the Applicant.
"Improvements in Appliances for Teaching Typewriting."
I, GEORGE AGER, of 1 Foulden Road, Stoke Newington, in the County of
Middlesex, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in machines or appliances designed

page_text: for teaching typewriting and acquiring speed and proficiency thereat, and consists
of a lettered or numbered key or finger board similar to those at present in use,
and each key is connected with a disc or tablet on which is a corresponding
letter or number, so that when one of the keys is struck it is indicated by the
disc or tablet. A person can, without liability of damaging the machine, practice
typewriting thereon, and thus in spare time acquire speed and efficiency equally
as well as by practising on a typewriting machine, which is comparatively a
delicate machine and soon put out of working order.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in
which:-
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the improved appliance for purpose aforesaid.
Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of Fig. 1.
According to this invention I employ a key or finger board similar in pattern
to any of the various keyboards at present in use, and with all the letters of
the alphabet, capitals, numbers, sigas, spacing, and shifting keys. The spindle 1
of each key 2 is connected by or forms part of a link or rod 3 to the
opposite end of which is fixed a disc or tablet 4 on which is a corresponding
number or sign, and when a key 2 is struck or depressed, the corresponding
disc or tablet 4 is raised and remains so until the pressure on the key 2 is
removed, when it resumes its normal position.
The spindles 1 and links or rods 3 together form cranked levers mounted on
cross shafts 5.5 fixed in the end frames 6 of the machine, and these cross
shafts 5.5 form fulcrums on which the levers 3 are free to rock, and after one
of the keys has been struck and the pressure removed the weight of the longer
end of the lever and the disc causes the key and disc to at once resume the
normal position, and spiral springs may be employed to assist this action if
necessary.
Stop pieces 7.7 are placed below the keys 2-2 to prevent their being
depressed beyond a certain point.
The space bar 8 is mounted on spiral springs 9, preferably one at each end.
The appliance is partly enclosed and protected by the frame or casing 6,
preferably made of metal, and the levers 3 protrude through holes 10 in such
frame 6.
In practise the machine is used in a manner exactly similar to an ordinary
typewriting machine.
my Baid
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting
the appliance as and for the purpose herein described and substantially as
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
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