An Improved Exercise Copy Book for Shorthand.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Exercise Copy Book for Shorthand.
I, HERMANN BUNGENSTOCK, of Alte Bischofsholerstrasse, Hanover, Shorthand
Writer, 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 an exercise copy book for shorthand which is adapted
for use with all systems of shorthand, and which will allow the pupil to progress
without fatigue to a rapid transcription of printed phrases into shorthand char-
acters; this exercise book being capable of being used over again several times and
allowing of ascertaining the speed of transcription of the dictated matter and the
degree of progress of the pupil.
The accompanying drawing given by way of example, represents one arrange-
ment for carrying out this invention.
In this drawing:-
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Figure 1 shows in plan the copy book opened out.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
The copy book is composed of sheets of white paper upon which are printed
the texts which are to be transcribed into shorthand characters, and of sheets of
transparent paper arranged in such a manner that above each sheet of white paper
there are situated several sheets of transparent paper placed on top of one another;
the annexed drawing represents the first sheet a of white paper of the book: the
two sheets which are adjacent to said first sheet, being turned back on to the
cover c. The sheets of the book are stitched or fastened together by means of
threads. The sheets a bearing the printed matter are arranged as shown in
Figure 1. The printed matter is arranged along the lines d. Between two lines
of printed matter there is left a vacant space upon which is printed a dotted line h.
It is upon this dotted line that the pupil forms the shorthand characters which
represent the text situated above.
This arrangement allows the pupil to follow the text which he has to transcribe,
without being compelled to turn his head every moment as is the case when he
is required to transcribe a text written upon a separate sheet which the writer is
obliged to place by the side of the other. The pupil is thus enabled to work
without fatigue and with very much more profit. The book can serve repeatedly
over again. For this purpose at first the first sheet of transparent paper is turned
down upon the printed matter, and writing is practised on this first sheet, with
lead pencil for instance. When this sheet can no longer be used, it is removed.
and the second sheet is turned down and upon it the exercises are continued.
Then finally the printed sheet is employed for writing on in ink.
In order to ascertain the speed at which the pupil is able to transcribe dictated
matter into shorthand characters, the printed text is divided by special signs which
are also printed and which are placed between the words in series of five, ten,
fifteen, twenty, thirty, fifty syllables. Two conventional signs placed at a certain
distance and interpolated between the words, indicate a certain number of
hose syllables. Two other signs serve to indicate another number of

page_text: syllables; this will enable a person who is desirous of ascertaining the speed of
the transcription to follow, watch in hand, the rate of progress of the same with
less than one second's difference.
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:
An exercise copy book for shorthand writing, capable of use with all systems
of shorthand, characterized by sheets of white paper that receive the printed
matter, said printed matter being arranged in lines between which there is left a
free space for the reception of tlie shorthand characters that correspond to the
printed matter by sheets of transparent paper interleaved between each sheet of
printed paper by conventional signs interpolated between the words of the
printed matter in such a manner that between two special signs there are situated
a determined number of syllables, 'and that two other signs enclose another deter-
mined number of syllables, which arrangement allows of ascertaining at any
moment the speed at which the writer is transcribing the printed matter into
shorthand.
.
Dated this 19th day of
19th day of March 1893.