A Wrist-pad or Attachment to the Wrist to Facilitate the Act of Writing.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
A Wrist-pad or Attachment to the Wrist to Facilitate the Act of
Writing.
[, George HenRY HOLLAND CLement of Rbyl in the County of Flint North
Wales, Surveyor of Taxes do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to so raise the wrist as to take the weight of the
forearm off the hand, and thus, by allowing a freer movement of all the fingers,
to facilitate the act of writing, drawing or painting.
This effect 1 secure by means of a small pad or other suitable support placed
under the wrist and attached thereto by means of a loop of elastic or other suitable
material.
Dated this Twenty-first day of December 1894.
GEORGE HENRY HOLLAND CLEMENT.
A Wrist-pad or Attachment to the Wrist to Facilitate the Aot of
Writing.
1, GEORGE HENRY HOLLAND CLEMENT of Brighton Road, Rhyl, in the County
of Flint, Surveyor of Taxes, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same 18 to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object, a means for facilitating the act of writing, and
consists in mechanically supporting the wrist in a raised position by a lift or fulcrum
pad during the said operation.
Figure 1 of the accompanying diawing represents my new or improved wrist lift
oi fulcrum support in use.
Figure 2 1epresents a topside plan of the said wrist attachment or fulcrum pad
separately.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 4 is an end elevation of the pad.
Figure 5 is a section of a modified form of pad, built up of two parts, with the
ends of the band inserted between them.
Figure 6 is a modified form of pad or wrist attachment, aud
Figure 7 is a further modified form of my improved attachment, with the
underside provided with light spheres or 1olling contacts to facilitate the movement
of the attachment over a surface to facilitate the travelling of the wrist.
In Figures 1 to 4, a is a lift or pad, and 6 is an elastic or other baud, attachedly
connected to the said pad and adapted to circumferentially embrace the wist of a
writer, as represented in Figure 1, so that the said pad shall be moved with the
wrist on the progressive movement of the hand during the operation of writing.
The pad may be made of any material, but preferably in the form of a stuffed
cushion, so as to present a soft surface to the wrist, whilst the face or contact part

page_text: of the pad is preferably covered with
material which will offor the least resistance
to the movement of the said pad over the paper The pad may have an outside
covering of leather, and be stuffed with horse-hair, feathers, cotton-wool, sponge-
rubber, spongio-piline or other light and resilient substance.
In Figue 5, 6 is the band and a the pad or lift, composed of top and bottom
parts a, a, with the ends 1, 2, inserted and heid between them.
In Figure 6, a is a circular pad or lift, with the underside a³, convexed or
cambered. is the wrist band or strap.
In Figure 7, a is the pad or lift, with its underside a', formed with accesses a³,
wherein balls or spheres c, work and are there retained, whereby the said pad,
which is held to the wrist of a person by a band b, is more easily moved over a
surface in following the movement of the hand during the operation of writing.
When the pad is not required to be used, it can be concealed by pushing the same
up the wrist and under the sleeve.
By raising and supporting the wrist, by means of the before-described wrist pad,
the weight of the hand (and sometimes of the forearm also) is transferied from
the lower (third and fourth) fingers to the wrist resulting in diminished friction
with the paper during the forward motion of the fiugeis; the hand is partially
suspended enabling it to take a longer hold of the pen, aud further, the pen is held
more casily in a nearly upright position. The main fulcium or resting place of the
band and forearm is removed from the lower (third and fourth) fingers to the wrist
thereby leaving a longer radius for the free motion of the hand. This increased
radius enables the peu to move a longer distance without stopping, thereby increasing
the speed of writing.
Winter's cramp is usually caused by the compression of the fingers and their
effort to write as much as possible without shifting the position of the hand
Bimultaneously with the necessary operation of controlling the motion of the pen.
It is greatly diminished or entirely removed by the use of the waist pad as hei ein
described
My invention as hetembefere described is also useful to support the wrist whilst
drawing or painting in which case I may prefer the pad to be made larger or thicker
or both.
If necessary, the pad may be attached to the wist by a spring chip instead of by
an elastic or other band or strap.
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
First A wrist pad to facilitate the act of writing, consisting of an attachable
lift or fulcium pad upon which, when in use, the wrist of the hand of a person
writing comes, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. A wist pad or an attachment for the wrist to facilitate the act of
writing, consisting of a wrist lift or fulcrum pad secured to the said wrist by a
band or clip, substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 17th day of September 1895.
GEORGE HENRY HOLLAND CLEMENT,
By Henry Sherrett,
24 Temple Row, Bumugham, Agent for Applicant.