An Improveu
Year: 1899

page_text: An Improveu
I, JOHN SHEERMAN, of Glenholm, Maberley Road, Upper Norwood, London,
S.E., Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improved combination index tablet consists of a face plate of any suit-
able substance, shape and dimensions, having apertures therein, arranged in any
convenient manner. Each aperture is fitted with a removable ticket, the two
sides whereof are each of a different colour; while inscribed at the top on each
side is the name of the article or place, or other particular, which the ticket
indicates.
The perforated face-plate is preferably, but not necessarily, fitted with a back
plate against which the various tickets take a bearing when placed in the aper-
tures in the face plate, thus keeping the tickets in position.
To ensure the tickets being kept in regular order, the apertures, and likewise
the tickets, may be numbered in corresponding numerical order, or lettered
alphabetically, so that when a ticket has been withdrawn from any aperture it
can be readily replaced in such aperture.
If requisite the face-plate may be strengthened by stays fixed to the back
thereof in any convenient manner, while the front of the face plate may be
utilised for advertising purposes.
The fronts and backs of the tickets may likewise be similarly utilised, or one
side may be used for advertisement, and the other for memoranda relating to
the item which such ticket indicates.
My improved combination index tablet may also be fitted with a pencil, and
with a clip or other device for holding cards, order forms, and other similar
items, and, if desired, it may be placed in a frame that can also be utilised for
advertisements.
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1000
I, JOHN SHEERMAN, of Glenholm, Maberley Road, Upper Norwood, London,
S.E., Inventor, 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:-
fron plate made of any

page_text: suitable substance or material, such as cardboard or sheet metal, and of any suit-
able shape and dimensions, having apertures therein arranged in any convenient
manner, each fitted with a removable ticket, the back and front whereof, pre-
ferably, but not necessarily, differ in colour; while at the top both of the back
and front, is the name of the article or place, or other particular or particulars,
which it is intended the ticket shall indicate.
Such face plate is preferably, but not necessarily, fitted with a back plate
against which the tickets take a bearing when placed in the apertures in the face
plate, thus keeping the tickets in position.
To ensure the tickets being kept in regular order, the apertures, and likewise
the tickets, may be numbered or lettered in corresponding numerical or alpha-
betical order, so that when a ticket has been withdrawn from any aperture it can
be readily replaced therein.
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If desired the face plate may be strengthened by stays fixed to the back thereof
in any convenient manner, while the front of the face plate, and also the fronts
and backs of some or all of the tickets, may be utilised for advertising, purposes,
or for memoranda either relating to the item which such ticket indicates, or
otherwise.
My improved combination index tablet may also be fitted with a pencil, and
with a clip or other device for holding cards, order forms, and the like; and, if
desired, may be placed in a frame of any suitable description, which may also
be utilized for advertisements if desired.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shews a section of the face plate A of
my improved combination index tablet hereinbefore described, with the aper-
tures therein empty and arranged in columnar order, but any other method of
arrangement may be adopted. Figure 2 is a similar view shewing the tickets
inserted in such apertures. Figure 3 shews a vertical section of my improved
combination index tablet shewing the face plate A fitted with a back plate B,
and the manner in which the tickets b take a bearing against such back plate
when they are inserted in the apertures a. Figures 4 and 5 shew front and
back views of one of the tickets b. Each of such tickets is formed with two
lateral shoulders b', which shoulders when the ticket is inserted in one of the
apertures a engage with the lower edge of such aperture and so prevent the ticket
falling through the same. The tickets may be made of metal, cardboard, or
any other suitable substance or material.
A loop or eye or other equivalent device may be fitted to my improved combina-
tion index tablet whereby to suspend it in any convenient position.
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:-
As a new and useful article of manufacture, a combination index tablet con-
sisting of a perforated face plate fitted with one or more series of removable
tickets, each of which is inscribed either on one or on both sides with the name
of some article or place or other particular or particulars, and which face plate
is either fitted or not with a back plate and a suitable frame, all substantially
as herein before described.
Dated this 19th day of December 1899.
ELT & Co.,
Registered Patent Agents,
43, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.