EDUCATIONAL SLATES, TABLETS OR BOARDS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, EDWARD GEORGE PEYTON of 20 Maxilla Gardens Notting Hill, W. Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for EDUCATIONAL SLATES, TABLETS
OR BOARDS to be as follows:-
The invention is to facilitate teachers of elementary subjects, in setting by a
mechanical contrivance, lessons or tasks for their pupils; it consists of a case
containing in its upper portion a scroll set on rollers, which can be turned at
pleasure; and in its lower portion a moveable tablet, Slate or Board. On the scroll
aro set tasks for the pupils in such a manner as to be easily read by them, so that
they can place the answers on the slate, tablet or board, which can be examined by
the teacher, and by merely turning a handlo a fresh task would be at once set.
The scroll can be removed at pleasure & others adjusted in their place.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I EDWARD GEORGE PEYTON of 20 Maxilla Gardens, North Kensington, London
W. do hereby declare the nature of my invention for EDUCATIONAL SLATES,
TABLETS OR BOARDS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention, is to enable tasks to be set mechanically above
a Slate, Tablet, or Black-board, by means of a scroll stretched on two independent
rollers, and wound on two reservoir rollors, worked by two pulleys connected
together by a band or strap. Attached to the pulleys are small wire hoops, so
arranged as to allow of the reservoir rollers being locked together by an ordinary
padlock, thus preventing the scroll from being moved either ono way or the other,
when the task has been rolled up into position. The reservoir rollers are so
constructed, to admit of the scroll being raised or lowered at will. In order to
enable a fresh scroll to be inserted within the frame, which keeps the rollers, Slate,
Tablet, or Board in position. The entire scroll is wound on either the lower
or upper reservoir roller, which can be removed by taking out a pin from the frame
on the opposite side of the pulley, and removing the band gearing the two pulleys
together, and unbuttoning the scroll from the other reservoir roller; the roller &
pulley with scoll attached can then be passed through a slot, made in the frame for
that purpose. A fresh scroll can then be added, by either buttoning on a new scroll
to the same reservoir roller, or by the addition of a similar roller and pulley with
scroll attached to take its place. The scroll, which may be of any length, is made
of strips of paper, linen or any suitable substance, and the tasks are either written,
printed (in any form) or lithographed (in any form or by any process of lithography)
on the strips, which are then joined together so as to form one continuous piece.

page_text: 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
1. The novelty of being able to mechanically set tasks by means of a scroll, of
any length, printed, engraved or therwise prepared; moveable up or down at the
will of the opperator, above a slate, Tablet or Board, so arranged as to enable
the Student or Teacher, the former to give an answer to, the latter to give an
explanation of, the tasks exhibited by the scroll immediately above the slate,
Tablet or Board,
The mÁRSAS
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