A Combined School Slate, Pencil, and Sponge.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1890
Cumplete Specification Left. 7th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 191
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined School Slate, Pencil, and Sponge.
I, CLAUDE JOHN VAUSE of 22 St. Thomas's Road, Spalding in the County of
Lincolnshire Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a combined school slate, pencil and sponge, and consists
in attaching to the frame of a school slate a pencil carrying a sponge at its
extremity.
In carrying my invention into practice, 1 provide a cylindrical casing, furnished
with a lid within which is fixed the top or blunt end of the slate pencil, which is
inserted by its sharpened extremity into the said casing; the lower part of the lid
sliding within the casing as far as a rib formed thereon. This casing is furnished
at both ends with a small strip of metal formed with a spike which
driven into
the slate frame, and thus serves to fix the casing and the pencil contained therein
to the slate. A ring secured to the lower end of the pencil serves as means of
attachment for a sponge. My improved pencil, case, and attachments may be
made of any desired size and of tin, copper, brass, nickel, wood or other suitable
material.
Dated thin 20th day of November 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined School Slate, Pencil, and Sponge.
I, CLAUDE JOHN VAUSE 22 St. Thomas's Road Spalding Lincolnshire Watch-
maker, 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 :—
My invention relates to a combined school slate, pencil and sponge and consists
in attaching to the frame of a school slate a pencil carrying a sponge at its
extremity.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a cylindrical casing, furnished
with a lid within which is fixed the top or blunt end of the slate pencil, which is
inserted by its sharpened extremity into the said casing, the lower part of the lid
sliding within the casing as far as a rib formed thereon. This casing is furnished
at both ends with a small strip of metal formed with a spike, which is driven into
the slate frame, and thus serves to fix the casing and the pencil contained therein
to the slate. A ring secured to the lower end of the pencil serves as means of
attachment for a sponge. My improved pencil case and attachment may be made
of any desired size and of tin, copper, brass, nickel, wood or other suitable
material.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a school slate provided with
a pencil case and a sponge.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of my improved pencil case and sponge holder with
the device for fixing the same to the side of the slate.
These two figures illustrate the
Figure 3 being an outside view of the same.
manner in which my improved attachment device and pencil case are formed, by
means of the stamped pieces of metal shown in Figures 4 and 5.
Figure 6 shows a modification of my invention.

page_text: According to my invention I provide by stamping with the aid of suitable dies
through a sheet of brass, tin, zinc or other metal, the pieces a and b which have
the shape shown in Figure 4 and 5 respectively, the piece being furnished with a
rib c.
This piece is curved round so as to form a cylinder d in which the edges
abut one against the other while the scallaped upper ends e are bent over to form
the closed top of the cylinder as shown in Figure 2. In this cylinder or cosing is
inserted the blunt end of the slate pencil f. The attaching device is formed by
curving the plate a into a cylinder in such a manner that the edge a' overlaps the
edge a the perforated tabs being applied against the tabs g. Two pins ppl are
then inserted through the perforations of the tabs their heads resting against the
tabs g', when the side projections of the tab gare bent over the sides of the
tab g while the upper end of the latter is bent over the top of the tab y' (Figure 3).
The lugs are now bent over the end of the casing C as well as the triangular
projection which is outermost and the point of which is bent back straight for a
ring to be fixed thereto through its perforations o, this ring serving as means of
attachment for the cord of the sponge m. The casing C is now complete and is
fastened by the two pins p. to the wooden side of the slate S as clearly shown
in Figure I, the pencil case d being inserted in the upper part thereof.
In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the casing C is merely a tube open at one
end and closed at the other, this tube being furnished at each end with a bracket a, b
perforated at their outer extremities to allow for the passage of screws whereby
this casing may be fixed to the side of a school slate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the game is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
The combined school slate, pencil case and sponge, and the device or casing for
attaching to the slate the pencil case and the sponge substantially as herein
described and shown.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.