Improved Combined Letter Weights and Writing Tablets.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Letter Weights and Writing Tablets.
JOHN BADELEY Wootton Mount Bournemouth Hants Private Secretary do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to an improved arrangement of combined letter
weight and writing tablet and has for its object the production of an economical
and convenient apparatus which can be used for retaining papers and correspon-
dence and at the same time affording a ready means for making notes upon the
tablet which is always in position at the top of the accumulated papers.
In carrying out my invention I employ a base plate of iron, wood porcelain or.
other suitable material into or upon which I attach columns or pillars which may
be solid or tubular. The said columns or pillars are provided with guides to which
are attached by hinged connexions a weighted tablet. The said tablet may be
formed entirely of porcelain or other suitable material or may be made of metal
with a surface of porcelain or other material suitable for writing purposes. The
columns or pillars are preferably made removable or with hinges for convenience
of packing and transport.
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In the operation of my invention papers can be placed beneath the weighted
tablet which latter will be raised above the base-plate and slide up the columns or
pillars as they accumulate. When it is necessary to remove a paper from beneath
the weight the latter can be raised or turned back by means of the hinged
connection and thus free access is obtained to the papers thereunder.
It will be obvious that more or less than two columns or pillars can be employed
and that modifications of the details of construction may be introduced without
departing from the nature and principle of my invention which consists essentially
of a guided and hinged letter weight acting as a tablet and beneath which and
above the base-plate papers can be conveniently. retained.
Dated this 6th day of December 1895.
JOHN BADELEY Albany House Branksome Park, Bournemouth Gentleman late
of Wootton Mount Bournemouth, 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:—
My invention has reference to an improved arrangement of combined letter
weight and writing tablet and has for its object the production of an economical
and combined apparatus which can be used for retaining papers and correspondence,
and at the same time affording a ready means for making notes upon the tablet
which is always in position at the top of the accumulated papers.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a side elevation.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation.
Fig. 3 a plan.
Fig. 4 a section of base plate shewing nuts for attaching columns.
Fig. 5 a side elevation of a single column apparatus.
Fig. 6 a plan of same.
In carrying out my invention I employ a base plate a of iron wood porcelain or
other suitable material into or upon which I attach two columns 6 which may be
solid or tubular and which are retained in position by nuts c.
The said columns b
are provided with guides or slides d which are attached to the weighted tablet e
by a hinge connexion which may be formed by pivot screws fas shewn. The said
tablet e may be formed entirely of porcelain or may be made of metal or other
suitable material with a surface of porcelain or other material suitable for writing
purposes.
The columns or pillars are preferably made removable either by means of the
nuts c or with hinges, for convenience of packing and transport.
In some cases I employ only 1 column or pillar 9 (see Figs. 5 & 6) and one
. guide so that the weighted tablet i can be turned upon the pillar as shewn by
dotted lines when required to remove any papers.
In the operation of my invention papers can be placed beneath the weighted
tablet which latter will be raised above the base plate and the weighted tablet
will slide up the column or columns as the papers accumulate.
When it is necessary to remove a paper or papers from beneath the tablet the
latter can be raised or turned back by means of the hinged connexion and thus free
access is obtained to the papers thereunder.
It will be obvious that more or less than two columns or pillars can be employed
and that modification of the details of construction may be introduced without
departing from the nature of my invention.
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
The combined letter weight and writing tablet substantially as described.
Dated this Fifth day of September One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-ci
JOHN BADELEY.