Improvements in and relating to Writing Slates.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Writing Slates.
I, JOHN DICK STORER of Westfield Sandbank in the County of Argyle, N.B.
Painter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates chiefly to writing slates for use in connection with schools
and has for some of its objects:
1st To strengthen their frames;
2nd To afford receptacles for pens pencils and other articles;
3rd To combine with them one or more receptacles for holding water or non-
infectious fluid.
In carrying out this invention I make the frame of my improved writing slate
with pockets attached thereto resembling long narrow tubes or pencil cases,
furnished with stoppers. These tubes are attached to one or more sides of the slate
frame. Each tube extends preferably the full length of the side frame to which it
is united and the frame is thereby strengthened. Pencils and other requisites can
be carried in either of the tubes. Water or other fluid substances can also be carried
in any of these tubes which are securely stoppered and one or more of the stoppers
is or are fitted with a sponge or pad for cleaning the slate.
Sometimes I construct the said tubes upon the two longest side frames of the
slate and sometimes upon the shorter sides. I also make the tubes alternately
single or double ones. Thus; on one side of the slate frame I make a long tube,
suitable for holding knitting needles, and on another side I construct two shorter
ones, stoppered at opposite ends of the frame, so that, in external appearance each
of these two said side frames appears like the other, except that on the one side are
two stoppers and only one on the other.
The double tube referred to is in the form of one long tube open at each end but
with an intermediate solid part interposed to divide the bore of the tube into two
parts, thus making two short tubes out of the one side frame. The frame is made
of wood, tin or other suitable material.
Dated this Sixteenth day of December 1892.
JOSEPH
LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Inventor.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Writing Slates.
I, JOHN DICK STORER of Westfield Sandbank in the County of Argyle N.B.
Painter, 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 writing slates for use in connection with schools
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Writing Slates.
I, JOHN DICK STORER of Westfield Sandbank in the County of Argyle N.B.
Painter, 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 writing slates for use in connection with schools
and has for some of its objects ;
1st To strengthen their frames ;
2nd To afford receptacles for pens pencils and other articles;
3rd To combine with them one or more receptacles for holding water or non-
infectious fluid.
In carrying out this invention I make the frame of my improved writing slate
with pockets attached thereto resembling long narrow tubes or pencil cases,
furnished with stoppers.
These tubes are attached to one or more sides of the slate frame.

page_text: Each tube extends preferably the full length of the side frame to which it is
united and the frame is thereby strengthened. Pencils and other requisites can be
carried in either of the tubes. Water or other fluid substances can also be carried
in any of these tubes which are securely stoppered and one or more of the stoppers
is or are fitted with a sponge or pad for cleaning the slate.
Sometimes I construct the said tubes upon the two longest side frames of the
slate and sometimes upon the shorter sides. I also make the tubes alternately
single or double ones. Thus, on one side of the slate frame I make a long tube,
suitable for holding knitting needles, and on another side I construct two shorter
ones, stoppered at opposite ends of the frame, so that, in external appearance each
of these two said side frames appears like the other, except that on the one side are
two stoppers and only one on the other.
The double tube referred to is in the form of one long tube open at each end but
with an intermediate solid part interposed to divide the bore of the tube into two
parts, thus making two short tubes out of the one side frame.
The frame is made of wood, tin, or other suitable material.
My invention will be more perfectly understood and easily carried out if reference
is made to the accompanying drawings, in which;
Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of a framed writing slate with tubular
receptacles made according to my invention.
Figure 14 is a duplicate view to that marked Fig. 1, but with the tubular parts
shewn in section.
Figure 1B is a side view in elevation of the writing slate frame shewn in Fig. 1.
Figure 2 is a side view similar to Fig. 1B but with an indication of multiple
tubular parts on one margin of the slate.
Figure 3 is a side view similar to Fig. 1B but with tubular receptacles on
opposite margins of the slate.
Figure 4 is a front view of a framed slate made according to my invention with
a receptacle for holding damping fluid or other articles.
Figure 44 is a side view in elevation illustrative of the subject shewn in Fig. 4.
Figure 5 is a front view in elevation of an unframed slate furnished with a tubular
receptacle made according to my invention.
Figure 5 is a view in section of the tubular receptacle shewn in Figure 5.
Figure 6 is a front view in elevation of an unframed writing slate fitted with my
improvements.
Figures 6A, 6B 6C and 6" are perspective and sectional views of my improvements
as shewn in Fig. 6.
Figure 7 is a side view in elevation shewing a further method of applying my
invention to a framed writing slate.
Figure 7 represents my tubular receptacle for use as shewn in Fig. 7.
In these drawings I have represented my improvements in forms adapted chiefly
for being made of wood. They may be made of wood, metal, glass, earthenware,
vulcanite, indiarubber or other materials in any suitable combination.
Similar letters of reference are employed throughout the illustrations to indicate
corresponding parts.
The tubular receptacles A with stoppers B united to the writing slate frame C
and slate D represent my improvements in forms suitable for combination with
framed writing slates: and the tubular receptacles E, F and G represent my
improvements relating to and adapted for combination with framed or unframed
writing slates.
The two tubular receptacles a¹ and a shewn in section in Fig. 1ª represent one
simple form my invention.
The tube a is adapted for holding pencils or other articles and the tube a²,
rendered impervious to damp by an insoluble lining, a³ consisting of putty, cement,
varnish, metal, glass, earthenware, rubber or other material with stopper B is
adapted for holding a sponge and damping fluid.
The part marked a' is a sponge or absorbent material, that marked B is the

page_text: stopper, a damping pad on its inner end and b² a wiping pad on its outer end.
The plain stopper for pencil tube a' is marked b³.
The tubular receptacle marked a' in the drawings is designed and adapted for
containing water or antiseptic fluids together with sponge or other substance
suitable for preventing any possibility of its escape when the stopper is removed.
When the stopper B is inserted in the tube a' charged with fluid and sponge as
described the pad b' engages with the wet sponge and on its withdrawal is adapted
for wetting the slate, the pad being then used to rub over and clean the slate.
These pads and 6 consist of felt sponge leather indiarubber or other suitable
substance fixed upon or to the stopper B.
These appliances for cleaning writing slates are intended chiefly for the use of
children in public schools and to prevent the spread of contageous diseases such as
diphtheria or consumption by the habit which is common amongst children of
spitting upon their slates in order to clean them they are also intended for use in
cleaning ink or other dirt from their fingers.
In Figure 1B I have shown a simple method of attaching the tubular receptacle
to the slate frame C; this method is duplicated in Figure 3, and in Fig. 2, I have
shown one side frame of the slate sandwiched between two similar receptacles.
The union of these tubes with the frame tend to increase its strength.
If the tubes occupy the longest sides of the slate frame they are capable of
holding knitting needles.
In Figure 4 I have shown a further modification of my invention: the small
receptacle a only being united to the slate frame and furnished with stopper, pads,
and sponge: Figure 4 shows this device in section.
Figure 5 is another modification of my invention the pencil case and receptacle E
for fluid, sponge and padded stopper being adapted for union with an unframed slate
by strings or wires as shown in the drawing. This tubular receptacle is shown in
section at Figure 54; the stopper B being made hollow with sponge or wick 61
inserted for damping purposes.
In Figures 6 to 7 I have shown other methods of constructing my improved fluid
receptacle and uniting it to a framed or unframed slate, adapting it for easy
application to existing slates whether framed or not.
Referring to Figures 6A, 6B, 60 and 60 the cavity a' is lined with an insoluble
part, a, consisting of metal glass or other suitable material as before described, the
strip a Figure 6 of cork or other substance retaining it in its place and forming a
neck or throat for the stopper B, which in Figures 54, 60 and 6° contains a cavity
for holding a wetting pad of sponge or other soft material, and has a spreading
pad or wiper b³.
These receptacles are made of wood metal earthenware glass or other suitable
materials.
I am aware that, previous to my invention, cases for holding pens and pencils
have been used and that writing slate frames have been made with loops of leather
or metal for holding pens or pencils and that sponges and other wipers have been
tied to slates for cleaning purposes; also water bottles for artists with compartments
for pencils pens and brushes combined therewith, it will therefore be understood that
I do not claim these things as my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
First. In a writing slate frame the combination therewith of a tubular receptacle
or receptacles forming an integral part thereof adapted for containing pens pencils
needles and other articles all substantially as herein described and drawn or any
mere modification thereof for the purposes specified.
Second. In a writing slate frame the combination therewith of a tubular
receptacle a' or receptacles adapted for containing water or fluid substance sponge

page_text: and padded stopper all substantially as herein described and drawn or any mere
modification thereof for the purposes specified.
Third. In a writing slate the combination therewith of a tubular receptacle a
adapted for holding water or such like fluid, sponge stopper and pad or pads all
substantially as herein described and drawn or any mere modification thereof for
the purposes specified.
Fourth. A tubular receptacle adapted for use in relation to and combination with
a writing slate fitted with fluid well or receptacle and padded stopper all
substantially as herein described and drawn or any mere modification thereof for
the purposes specified.
Fifth. In a wooden case for holding pens pencils and other articles the
combination therewith of a receptacle a³, and insoluble lining a³, all substantially as
herein described and drawn or any mere modification thereof for the purposes
specified.
Sixth. In a tubular receptacle adapted for holding pens pencils and other articles
relating to writing slates the combination with any receptacle therein of the
stopper B and pad b', or pads 6 and 62, all substantially as herein described and
drawn or any mere modification thereof for the purposes specified.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1893.
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.