A NEW OR IMPROVED DRAWING BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRETCHING DRAWING PAPER (OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR DRAWING, TRACING, OR PAINTING UPON) ON ONE OR BOTH OF ITS SIDES
Year: 1872

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LETTERS PATENT to Montague Wigzell, of 24, George Street, Croydon,
in the County of Surrey, Artist, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DRAWING BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRETCHING DRAWING PAPER
(OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR DRAWING, TRACING, OR PAINTING UPON) ON ONE
OR BOTH OF ITS SIDES."
Sealed the 19th July 1872, and dated the 31st January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Montague Wigzell at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 31st January 1872.
I, MONTAGUE WIGZELL, of 24, George Street, Croydon, in the County
of Surrey, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED DRAWING BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRETCHING
DRAWING PAPER (OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR DRAWING, TRACING, OR PAINTING
UPON) ON ONE OR BOTH OF ITS SIDES," to be as follows:-
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This my Invention consists of what is termed or known as a drawing

page_text: way, either clamped at each end or not as such boards are made, with
one or more flat or even surfaces upon which the paper or other material
for drawing, tracing, or painting on is placed when wet or dry, and
within the edges of the said flat surfaces at any required distance from
them (according to the size of paper for which the board is made) I
make a groove or indentation, into which I press the edges of the paper
or other material when wet or dry, and hold them therein by means of
pieces of wire, string, wood, metal, iron, or other material of a soft or
elastic nature. The said pieces or strips may be separate for each
groove or joined together at or near their ends so as to form one or more
pieces, and I place or press them into the said grooves with or after-
wards upon the paper or other matèrial to be stretched on the surface of
the board, and I sometimes hold the said strips or pieces of wire, thin
iron, or metal in the said grooves or indentations into which I press the
paper, partly or entirely by hinges, springs, pins, buttons, bolts of metal
or other material, affixed by screws, nails, pins, bolts, or rivets, upon
which they may turn. The said fastenings may be at the ends or at a
distance from each other along the entire length of the said pieces or
strips of metal, so that the paper or other material can be evenly
stretched upon or over the centre surface of the board, enclosed by the
surrounding grooves or indentations, without the aid or use of any
adhesive substance, and without turning the paper over the outside edges
of the board, which leaves the said edges even and free for the T square
to be worked or moved against them. The said grooves may or may not
be extended to the outer edges of the board so as to cross each other at
or near the corners of the board.

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Montague Wigzell, Her special
licence that I, the said Montague Wigzell, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Montague Wigzell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED DRAWING BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRETCHING
DRAWING PAPER (OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR DRAWING, TRACING, OR PAINTING
UPON) ON ONE OR BOTH OF ITS SIDES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Montague Wigzell, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
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Tottons Datant

page_text: a level with the rest of the said board. Within the edges of the said board
on one or both of its broard or flat surfaces at any required distance from
the said edges (according to the size of paper for which the board is made)
.I make a groove, indentation, hollow, or recess of any required shape,
into which I press the edges of the paper or other material when wet or
dry, and hold them therein by means of pieces of string, cord, wire,
wood, metal, iron, or other material of a hard, soft, or elastic nature.
. The said pieces or strips may be separate for each groove or one con-
-tinous piece, or joined together at or near the ends so as to form one or
more pieces, and I place or press the said piece or pieces of hard or soft
material before mentioned into the said grooves or hollow spaces with or
afterwards upon the paper or other material when wet or dry, so that it
is held down in the said grooves or hollows, and thus kept in position
when dry or whilst the material is. drying over or upon that portion of
the said board which is enclosed or surrounded by the grooves, hollows,
or indentations, and I sometimės hold the said strips or pieces of wire,
iron, metal, wood, string, or other material down into the said grooves
or indentations, into which I press the paper partly or entirely by hinges,
pins, springs, buttons, pins, bolts, or rivet, upon which they may or
may not turn or revolve. The said fastenings may be at the ends of the
said strips or at any distance from each other along the entire length of
the said pieces or strips of metal or other material used, and by which
the paper or other material is held down or secured in the grooves or
hollows of the said board when wet or dry, and by means of which the
paper or other material can be evenly stretched upon or over the centre
surface of the said board, enclosed by the surrounding grooves, hollows,
or indentations, without the aid or use of any adhesive substance, and.
without turning the paper over the outside edges of the board, which
leaves the said edges of the board even & free for the T square to be
worked or moved against them. The said grooves, hollows, or indenta-
tions may or may not be extended to the outer edges of the said board,
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so as to cross each other at or near the corners of the board, which
corners I sometimes cut off square or oblique with the edges of the said

page_text: the board, which I effect by having the centre portion or pannel of the
board lower than the outer portion or edges.
In witness whereof, I, the said Montague Wigzell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
Witness,
JNO. JONES,
Clerk,
Croydon.
MONTAGUE WIGZELL. (L.s.)