A New or Improved System of Acquiring Accurately the Art of Penmanship, and Copying of Designs, Drawings, and such like matter.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved System of Acquiring Accurately the Art of
Penmanship, and Copying of Designs, Drawings, and such
like matter.
I, WILLIAM WALDRON, of 8 Ormond Road, Rathmines, County Dublin, Ireland,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved system of acquiring in a self-
taught and accurate manner, the art of penmanship, and copying of designs,
drawings, and such like matter; and the invention is especially designed for the
purpose of teaching pupils how to copy matter accurately, and to demonstrate in a
simple and convenient way faults, or other irregularities in the copy.
In carrying out my invention, I propose to print, write, impress, or otherwise
inscribe on glass or ordinary tracing paper, cloth, or other transparent substance,
the matter to be copied. These prepared transparencies may be interleaved between
leaves or pages of ordinary solid paper, as in the formation of school copying
books; or may be used as loose pages or sheets according to pleasure, and the class
or style of work to be copied.
Having thus prepared the matter to be copied, the learner or copyist, as the case
may be, essays to copy or reproduce same on ordinary solid paper, and when the
copy is finished, the glass, paper, cloth, or other transparent material bearing the
original is placed over the copy, whereupon the faults or other irregularities in
the latter, will be at once apparent through the transparencies.
By this means the copyist is enabled to discover readily and quickly his faults,
and is afforded a true and simple remedy of satisfying himself, wherein lie the
faults and irregularities, in his efforts to reproduce an exact copy.
Deted the 26th day of February 1894.
J. K. FAHIE & SON,
9, Westland Row, Dublin, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved System of Acquiring Accurately the Art of
Penmanship, and Copying of Designs, Drawings, and such
like matter.
I, WILLIAM WALDRON, of 8 Ormond Road, Rathmines, County Dublin, Ireland,
Gentleman, 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 has reference to a new or improved system of acquiring in a self-
taught and accurate manner the art of penmanship, mapping, drawing, and copying
of designs, and such like matter; and the invention is especially designed for the
purpose of teaching pupils how to copy matter accurately, and to demonstrate in
a simple and convenient way, faults of shape, or other irregularities in the copy.
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page_text: In carrying out my invention I propose to print, write, impress, or otherwise
inscribe on glass, or ordinary tracing paper, cloth, or other transparent substance,
or any combination of two or more of these, the matter to be copied.
Or if desirable I may first print, write, or inscribe the matter to be copied on
any ordinary or special opaque substance, afterwards rendering same transparent
by the application of varnish, or other specially prepared liquid.
These prepared transparencies may be interleaved between leaves or pages of
ordinary solid paper, as in the formation of school copying books; or may be used
as loose pages or sheets according to pleasure, and the class or style of work to be
copied.
Having thus prepared the matter to be copied, the learner or copyist, as the case
may be, essays to copy or reproduce same on ordinary solid paper, slate, wood, or
other material, and as he proceeds, or when the copy is finished the transparent
material bearing the original is placed over the copy, whereupon the faults or
irregularities in the latter will be at once apparent through the transparent
original.
By this system of learning or copying the copyist is enabled to discover readily
and quickly his faults, and is provided with a true and simple means of satisfying
himself wherein lie the faults and irregularities in his efforts to reproduce an exact
copy and will feel more confident in his next attempt to make a more exact
delineation of the original.
For the purpose of facilitating the handling of the transparent material which
bears the matter to be copied, I may frame the same with wood, card-board, or
other suitable material; or I may place the prepared material between layers of
glass which may be framed if found convenient for handling.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood
that what I claim is :-
:-
First. The system of acquiring or imparting an accurate knowledge of penmanship,
mapping, drawing, and copying of designs, and such like matter by means of
transparent material bearing the matter to be copied in the manner substantially as
herein described.
Second. In the acquiring or imparting an accurate knowledge of penmanship,
mapping, drawing, and copying of designs, and such like matter, the use and
application of transparent originals, prepared substantially in the manner herein
specified and set forth.
Dated the 24th day of November 1894.
J. K. FAHIE & SON,
9, Westland Row, Dublin, Agents for Applicant.