Improvements in or connected with Pattern or Sample Books and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1900-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Pattern or Sample Books
and the like.
I, GEORGE OULTON, Member of the Firm of Dodd and Oulton, of 8, Stanley
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates chiefly to manufacturers' and merchants' pattern, sample or
design books and especially to such for displaying designs or colours that may
be artistically combined, and has for its object to facilitate the grouping together
of any two or more than two devices, patterns or colours represented in such a
book with a view to the artistic effect of such a combination.
In accordance with this invention this variable grouping or effect may be
obtained by first cutting the leaves of the book into sections preferably parallel
one to the other and to the edges of the book, leaving the sections of each leaf
secured together along one edge. This edge may form the back edge or binding
of the book or it may represent the side edge thereof. As an example, a book
having fifty leaves of different shades of colour represnting paint has all its
leaves cut through into parallel sections, the binding of the book keeping the
sections of each leaf in their proper place. Three cuts say, will make each leaf
into four sections. There will thus be four sections representing each shade of
colour. If three different sections of three different pages be lifted up there will
be four different shades of colour to view. The number of the shades being
fifty and that of the sections being four, it is obvious that a great many different
combinations can be obtained and their effect noted at a glance. By increasing
the number of sections the number of combinations largely increases.
It is obvious also that if each section represented a unit of some design and
each leaf represented units of different design, by exposing to view certain
sections of certain leaves, different combinations of units would form, if suitably
designed units were used, different designs.
Dated this 20th day of October 1899
R. J. URQUHART, C.E.,
Chartered Patent Agent, Liverpool & Manchester.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Pattern or Sample Books
and the like.
I, GEORGE OULTON, Member of the Firm of Dodd and Oulton, of 8, Stanley
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, 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 chiefly to manufacturers' and merchants' pattern, sample or

page_text: design books and especially to such for displaying designs or colours that may
be artistically combined, for mural decoration and the like, and has for its
object to facilitate the grouping together in any desired order of any two or
more than two devices, patterns or colours represented in such a book with a
view to the artistic effect of such a combination.
In accordance with this invention this variable grouping or effect may be
obtained by first cutting the leaves of the book into sections preferably parallel
one to the other and to the edges of the book, leaving the sections of each leaf
secured together along one edge. This edge forms the back edge or binding of
the book..
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have attached
hereunto a sheet of drawings to which reference will be made.
In the said drawings Figures 1 to 3 represent the several views of a pattern
book made in accordance with my invention. Figure 4 represents a view of the
book provided with a suitable cover, and further illustrating the divisions of
the leaves.
Figure 1 is a view of the back of the book, Figure 2 a view or plan of the
same without a cover and Figure 3 a front edge view. The leaves a of the book
are cut through into sections a¹, the divisions being represented by the lines b.
In the example illustrated it will be seen that there are four cuts dividing the
sheets into five sections each. The binding at the back of the book retains the
sections in their several positions.
Each leaf preferably represents one colour or shade thereof, but each section
of a leaf may represent a different colour, shade, design or part or unit of a
design to that section or those sections next to it, and the several leaves may
represent all useful colours or shades or designs or parts thereof, desired.
By this division of leaves into sections and arrangement of colours and shades
thereof and designs, units or parts thereof, a very large number of colour schemes
or of decorative designs can be quickly represented in effect by arranging in the
order desired the colours or devices represented on the different leaves or sections
thereof.
For example if a colour scheme comprising five colours or shades to represent
the moulding, frieze. background, dado and skirting of a wall be required in
order to shew the effect of the scheme, the sections are turned over until the
colours or shades, or devices come to view in the order desired.
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. The improvements in pattern books for representing mural decorations sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawing.
2. The herein before described manufacture of pattern books for arranging
and illustrating the effect of colour schemes and designs for mural decoration
and the like, in which books, the leaves are cut directly through forming the
leaves and the book into independent sections which are secured in position by
the binding of the book, and the several leaves have representations of different
colours, shades, designs or parts of designs substantially as and for the purpose
set forth and as illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings.
Dated this 30th day of June 1900
R. J. URQUHART, C.E.,
Chartered Patent Agent, Liverpool & Manchester.