Improvements in or connected with Time Tables for Railways, Tramways and other Conveyances.
Year: 1898

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BORIVAL DEECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Time Tables for Railways,
Tramways and other Conveyances.
I, JAMES MOORE HICKSON, of 21, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C. (being a com-
mmunication from Francis Sidney Stephen, Solicitor, and James Whyte, Accoun-
iant, both of 237, Collins Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has been devised to provide certain improvements in respect
of time tables for railways, tramways, omnibuses, steamers or other convey-
ances, and is calculated to economise the time of an intending passenger in
ascertaining the tabulated time when such conveyance is to leave.
By the
employment of this invention the failure commonly occurring to catch a train or
other conveyance, whilst searching through an ordinary time-table, can be practi-
cally obviated.
The invention may be described as follows;-
I provide twelve leaves of paper-and on the front face of each of said leaves
I place a prominent figure to represent the sheets in their due numerical order
that is to say the first sheet is headed at its top with the Figure "1" and the
twelfth sheet with "12." This consecutive arrangement of the numbers "1"
to "12" forms an indicator not only of the page or sheet, over which each
number is placed, but also of the hour of that number; thus the sheet
headed "10" whilst being the tenth sheet in numerical arrangement also repre-
sents the hour of 10 and upon the face of such sheet all the trains which run to
and from the stations to which the time-table refers at ten or between 10 and 11
o'clock are marked.
Presume, for instance, the time table to be for trains running from South
Yarra to Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria, then sheet "1" of the time-
table representing as before explained the hour of 1 o'clock will be provided with
two columns of figures the one being headed "South Yarra to Melbourne," the
other "Melbourne to South Yarra." Each of said columns is subdivided by the
words week-days 'Saturdays' Sundays" and under each of such sub-
divisions will be seen at a glance the trains running at or after the hour of 1
o'clock and up to 59 minutes past 1 o'clock.
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In like manner page 2 is arranged for the hour 2 o'clock and will contain the
columns of the trains leaving at 2 o'clock and up to 2.59 o'clock and so on each
sheet will enumerate the trains leaving under the hour of its heading.
Should there be a railway station in the city in addition to the principal onc
from which run the trains set out on the cover of the time-table, an indicator
can be placed opposite any particular train in the column to shew that it starts
from such other station or special platform.
The back of each sheet may be employed for advertising or utilized to contain
information respecting such trains or other matters of public interest. The twelve
sheets herein before referred to are preferably arranged in the form of a small
booklet, and can be diminished in size to fit inside a folding card-case for the

page_text: waist-coat pocket, said card-case being provided at its central fold with a piece
of elastic or other clip to hold the time-table in its place.
Dated this 30th day of August 1898
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.
Improvements in or connected with Time Tables for Railways,
Tramways and other Conveyances.
I, JAMES MOORE HICKSON, of 21, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C. (a communication
from Francis Sidney Stephen, Solicitor, and James Whyte, Accountant, both of
237, Collins Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria), 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; -
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This invention has been devised to provide certain improvements in respect of
time tables for railways, tramways, omnibuses, steamers or other conveyances,
and is calculated to economise the time of an intending passenger in ascertain-
ing the tabulated time when such conveyance is to leave. By the employment
of our invention the failure commonly occurring to catch a train or other con-
veyance, whilst searching through an ordinary timetable can be practically
obviated.
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In order to make our invention clear we will describe the same with reference
to the accompanying drawing in which "A" represents the front of page 2 of
the time table and B" the back of page 1 "C,C" other pages 3 to 12 inclusive
and D" the fly leaf or cover. We provide twelve leaves of paper; and on the
front face of each of said leaves we place a prominent figure to represent the
sheets in their due numerical order that is to say the first sheet is headed at its
top with the figure "1" and the twelfth sheet with 12." This consecutive
arrangement of the numbers "1" to "12" forms an indicator not only of the
page or sheet, over which each number is placed, but also of the hour of that
number; thus the sheet headed "10" whilst being the tenth sheet in numerical
arrangement also represents the hour of 10 and upon the face of such sheet all
the trains which run to and from the stations to which the time table refers at
ten or between ten and eleven o'clock are marked.
Presume, for instance, the time table to be for trains running between Harrow
and London then sheet 2 of the time table (representing as before the hour of
2 o'clock) will be provided with two columns of figures the one being headed
London to Harrow the other Harrow to London (as shown on the drawing). Each
of said columns may be subdivided by the words " week days" Saturdays
Sundays" and under cach of such subdivisions will be seen at a glance the
trains running at or after the hour of two o'clock and up to fifty nine minutes
past two o'clock.
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In like manner page 3 is arranged for the hour of 3 o'clock and will contain
the columns of the trains leaving at 3 o'clock and up to 3-59 o'clock and so on
each sheet will enumerate the trains leaving under the hour of its heading.
Should there be a railway station in the city, in addition to the principal one
from which run the trains set out on the cover of the time-table, an indicator
letter can be placed opposite any particular train in the column to show that it
starts from such other station or special platform.
The back of each sheet may be employed for advertising as at "B" or utilised

page_text: to contain information respecting such trains or other matters of public interest.
The twelve sheets hereinbefore referred to are preferably arranged in the form
of a small booklet and can be diminished in size to fit inside a folding card-case
for the waist-coat pocket, said card-case being provided at its central fold with
a piece of elastic or other clip to hold the time-table in its place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is;-
1. A time-table for railways, tramways, and other conveyances consisting essen-
tially of a number of sheets and bearing upon the front of each page the times
of the running of trains or other conveyances from a station within the hour
corresponding with the page number, whilst the backs of such sheets are pro-
vided with advertisements or information substantially as and for the purposes
set forth.
2. A time-table for railways, tramways and other conveyances consisting essen-
tially of a number of sheets and bearing upon each page the times of the run-
ning of trains or other conveyances from a station within the hour corresponding
with the page number substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
3. A time-table substantially as hereinbefore described.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.