Improvements relating to Writing Pads for Recording Telephonic Communications and for like Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements relating to Writing Pads for Recording Telephonic
Communications and for like Purposes.
I, ALBERT SIMMONS, of the Firm of Albert Simmons and Company, Printers, of
93, Great Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of improvements relating to writing pads for recording
telephonic communications and for like purposes, my object being to provide a
combined writing pad and desk arranged for convenient and ready attachment to the
battery casing or other part of the telephone or other instrument.
In one method of carrying my invention into effect I construct the desk from a
slab of wood or other material of a rectangular or other suitable shape, forming a
groove or slot on its under side for the reception of the projecting ledge or rib on the
face or upper end of the ordinary battery case of a telephone. Along opposite edges
on the upper side of the desk or slab I cement or otherwise secure canvas or other
suitable strips in such a manner as to form pockets for the reception of the flap-like
edges of the back cover of the writing pad.
On insertion of the flap-like edges of the cover within the pockets of the desk the
two parts are secured together, and on placing the grooved or slotted underside of the
desk over the projecting ledge or rib of the battery case, the combined pad and desk
is attached in a convenient position for recording the messages received and
transmitted through the instrument.
I provide detachable sheets on the writing pad, sometimes arranging them in
duplicate or triplicate, and suitably rule and print the same to meet any particular
requirement.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Writing Pads for Recording Telephonic
Communications and for like Purposes.
1, ALBERT SIMMONS, of the Firm of Albert Simmons & Company, Printers, of
93 Great Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
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Improvements relating to Writing Pads for Recording Telephonic
Communications and for like Purposes.
1, ALBERT SIMMONS, of the Firm of Albert Simmons & Company, Printers, of
93 Great Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
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page_text: 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 consists of improvements relating to writing pads for recording
telephonic communications and for. like purposes, my object being to provide a
combined writing pad and desk arranged for convenient and ready attachment to the
battery casing or other part of the telephone or other instrument.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred"
to:―
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation of my improved desk
alone or without the writing pad.
Figure 3 illustrates the writing pad as it is being placed into position upon the
desk.
Figure 4 illustrates the combined desk and pad, to a smaller scale, in position upon
the telephone casing.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In one method of carrying my invention into effect I construct the desk A from a
slab of wood or other material of a rectangular or other suitable shape, forming a
groove or slot such as a for the reception of the projecting ledge or rib B on the face
or upper end of the ordinary battery case of a telephone. Along opposite edges of
the desk or slab I secure metal or other suitable strips as C in such a manner as to
form pockets for the reception of the flap like edges D of the back cover of the
writing pad E.
On the insertion of such flap like edges D of the cover within the pockets C of the
desk; the pad-and-the desk are secured together, and on placing the grooved or slotted
under-side of the desk over the projecting ledge or rib-B-of-the-battery_case, the
combined pad and desk is attached in a convenient position for recording the
messages received and transmitted through the instrument."
I provide detachable sheets on the writing pad, sometimes arranging them in
duplicate or triplicate, and suitably rule and print the same to meet any particular
requirement. I also form or attach a pocket on the desk for the reception of a pencil
as F.
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. A combination writing pad and desk substantially as and for the purposes
described and as illustrated.
2. The combination of a writing desk for attachment to the battery casing of a
telephone substantially as described and as illustrated.
Dated this 1st day of June 1807
MARKS & CLERK,
18. Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.