Year: 1895

page_text: 1, SIDNEY REID of Akenside Hill Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Printer and Stationer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in an arrangement of display board whereby the results of
elections may be conspicuously displayed with distinctness and great promptitude
immediately after the figures are ascertained.
It is frequently observed that owing to the excitement and noise of a crowd
waiting to hear the results of a poll a verbal announcement of the results is often
almost valueless for a time and leads to misunderstanding.
There is also a difficulty to produce by even the boldest writing such a placard
as to convey information to the outskirts of a considerable crowd, and printing the
results on a larger poster occupies a good deal of time.
Now I by my invention provide for the display of results with any desired
degree of boldness, and with extreme promptness.
I provide a board or boards of any desired size with division spaces in them into
which pieces of thin wood or cardboard inay be slipped in a beviled groove so as
to be securely held; each such piece of wood or cardboard being previously prepared
with printed name or number upon it-or I may use some alphabets of letters to
form the names and a supply of blanks for spaces. I prefer however to print the
names complete beforehand so as to save time, and to have them on slips of wood
or cardboard of uniform length, so as to bring the units of the numbers set against
them more easily into line. The numbers are printed in sets 0 to 9 of sufficient
extent to display any numbers desired.
As soon as the results are ascertained the name of the candidate at the head of
the poll is slipped into the top groove in my display board, and the number of
votes recorded for him immediately follows his name in the same groove in due
order. Then in the second groove the name of the second on the list with the
number of votes recorded for him, blanks being used if necessary to bring the units
into vertical line, and so on with other names and numbers thus :-

page_text: boards permanently stiffened by edge pieces or backing pieces screwed or otherwise
fastened ou.
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J. JAMESON,
Akenside Hill, Newcastle, Agent for Applicant.
I, SIDNEY REID, of Akenside Hill Newcastle-upon-Tyue, Printer and Stationer,
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 :-
My invention consists in an arrangement of display board, whereby the results
of elections and similar results may be conspicuously displayed with distinctness
and great promptitude immediately after the figures are ascertained.
It is frequently observed that owing to the excitement and noise of a crowd
waiting to hear the results of a poll a verbal announcement of the results is often
almost valueless for a time and leads to misunderstanding.
There is also a difficulty to produce by even the boldest writing such a placard
as to convey information to the outskirts of a considerable crowd, and printing the
results on a large poster occupies a good deal of time.
Now I by my invention provide for the display of results with any desired
degree of boldness, and with extreme promptness.
I provide a board or boards of any desired size with division spaces in them into
which pieces of thin wood or cardboard may be slipped in a bevilled groove so as
to be securely held; each such piece of wood or cardboard being previously
prepared with printed name or number upon it-or I may use some alphabets of
letters to form the names, and a supply of blanks for spaces. I prefer however to
print the names complete beforehand so as to save time, and to have them on slips
of wood or cardboard of uniform length, so as to bring the units of the numbers
set against them more easily into line. The numbers are printed in sets of 0 to 9
of sufficient extent to display any numbers desired.
As soon as the results are ascertained at an election for instance the name of the
candidate at the head of the poll is slipped into the top groove in my display board,
and the number of votes recorded for him immediately follows his name in the same
groove in due order. Then in the second groove the name of the second on the
list with the number of votes recorded for him, blanks being used if necessary to
bring the units into vertical line, and so on with other names and numbers thus

page_text: 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 :-
The construction of election and other result display boards, with interchangeable
and quickly adjustable figures and names substantially as described.
Dated this Tenth day of April 1896.
J. JAMESON,
Akenside Hill, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Agent for Applicant.