An Improved Book-marking Device, applicable also for other purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Book-marking Device, applicable also for other
purposes.
1, LOUIE Cox of of St. Brendan's Wimbledon in the County of Surrey, Married
Lady do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved bookmarking device applicable also for
other purposes such as temporarily registering figures, accounts, and the like when
shopping obviating the necessity of using a note book or other memoranda, and
consists essentially of a frame of cardboard, metal, or other suitable substance or
material formed with three or more grooves therein in which slide strips of metal
or other suitable material suitably marked or engraved with figures from 0. 1. 2 and
so on to 9. Partially covering these strips and securely attached to the frame
aforesaid I have a metal or other shield in which is formed a slot or opening of
the width of the three or more figured strips, and of a depth suitable to permit
of one line of figures upon the strips to be seen or observed. Each end of the
frame aforesaid may be provided with a slot or loop or other means of attachment.
for an elastic band or bands to be secured thereto by means of which the device
may be affixed to the cover of a book, either by passing the band around the cover
or by having clips to the bands which will grip the covers.
In operation as a bookmarker the necessity of turning down the page, writing
down the number of same, or otherwise marking or spoiling the book, is obviated,
as by sliding the figured or engraved slips so that the desired numbers or figures
thereon show through the slot in covering plate or shield above described the
registration of the number of the page desired is easily effected.
It will be obvious that the device substantially as above described is applicable
for temporarily registering numbers other than those of the pages of a book and
that said device may be applied to a variety of purposes now necessitating the
making notes or memoranda in pocket books, and the like.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Book-marking Device, applicable also for other
purposes.
I, LOUIE Cox, of St. Brendan's, Wimbledon, in the County of Surrey, Married
Lady, 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 improved book-marking device applicable also for

page_text: other purposes such as temporarily registering figures, accounts, and the like,
when shopping, obviating the necessity of using a note-book or other memoranda,
and consists essentially of a frame, which may be of cardboard, metal, or other
suitable substance or material, formed with three or
more grooves therein in
which slide strips of metal or other suitable material, suitably marked or
engraved with figures from 0. 1. 2 and so on to 9. Partially covering these strips
and securely attached to the frame aforesaid I have a metal or other shield in
which is formed a slot or opening of the width of the three or more. . figured
strips, and of a depth suitable to permit of one line of figures upon the strips
to be seen or observed.
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In operation as a book-marker, the necessity of turning down the page, writing
down the number of same, or otherwise marking or spoiling the book is obviated,
as by sliding the figured or engraved slips so that the desired numbers or figures
thereon shew through the slot in the covering plate or shield above described, the
registration of the number of the page desired is easily effected.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will now. more particularly describe same with reference to the
accompanying drawings upon which similar letters of reference indicate like parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the device.
Figure 2 a cross section through line A. B.
Figure 3 is a side elevational view of the book-marker..
Figures 4 and 5 respectively front and side elevational views of one of the
figured slides.
Figure 6 is a face view of the covering plate or shield.
Figure 7 a front elevational view of the slotted or grooved frame, and
Figure 8 a cross section through line C. D. Figure 7.
a is the frame.formed with grooves a¹ therein. b. b. b. are the sliding strips upon
which are marked or engraved any desired figures or numbers. These strips slide
in the grooves a of the frame a and may be furnished with knobs 6' for convenience
in operating. c is the covering plate or shield secured in any suitable manner to
the front of the frame a. This plate or shield c has an aperture or. slot c¹ formed
therein through which a line or row of the figures marked upon the sliding strips
may be seen.
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Each end of the frame a aforesaid may be provided a slot d or its equivalent for
an elastic band or bands e to be secured thereto by means of which the device
may be affixed to the cover of a book either by passing the band around the
cover or by having clips to the bands which will grip the cover. To register the
desired number, the strips b are caused to slide in the grooves à¹ of the frame a
until the figures giving such desired number are presented to view through the
slot c¹ of the cover or shield c.
It will be obvious that the device substantially as above desired is applicable
for temporarily registering numbers other than those of the pages of a book, and
that said device may be applied to a variety of purposes now necessitating the
making notes or memoranda in pocket-books and the like.
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:
1. The improved book-marking device, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated.
2. In book-marking devices the combination of frame a haying grooves al therein
with the sliding strips b, and slotted cover or shield c constructed and operating
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the, accompanying drawings.
3. The frame a having grooves a and slots d therein, the sliding strips b, the
cover or shield c with slot c¹ therein, and the attachment band or bands e, all

page_text: combined, constructed and operating, substantially as shewn and described whereby
is provided a device applicable as a book-marker and for the purpose of temporarily
registering any numbers, figures, or the like desired.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.