Improvements in Test Cards for Educational Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 15th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Test Cards for Educational Purposes.
ERNEST PROTHEROE St. James' Boys' School Wolverhampton in the County
of Stafford Schoolmaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in providing tests in various subjects
(principally arithmetic) for the use of schools.
Hitherto tests in various subjects (especially arithmetic) have been provided by
means of test cards, that is cards on which are propounded various questions in any
desired subject in which the scholar is being tested viz.: arithmetic geography,
grammar, drawing, spelling &c. These test cards wheu soiled or defaced are of
little or no use and are cast aside.
The improved tests consist of sheets of paper or linen or linen faced paper
gummed or adhesive on one side.
The greater part of the sheet is divided into any number (usually thirty) of
oblongs or squares.
In each oblong or square, on the non-adhesive side, questions (usually four or
five) in any required subject are printed or otherwise impressed.
The sheet is perforated in such a manner that the oblongs or squares before-
mentioned may be readily detached from each other.
In the case of arithmetic the lower portion of the sheet contains the answers to
the questions propounded in the oblongs or squares above, that the teacher may
readily correct the answers obtained by the scholars.
The oblongs or squares may be easily affixed (by means of the adhesive side) to
old test cards which owing to defacement or other cause have been discarded. In
this manner practically new test cards are provided at little cost.
Dated this 1st day of February 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Test Cards for Educational Purposes.
ERNEST PROTHEROE St. James' Boys' School Wolverhampton Schoolmaster,
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 relates to improvements in providing tests in various subjects
(principally arithmetic) for the use of schools.
Hitherto tests in various subjects (particularly arithmetic) have been provided
by means of test cards that is cards on which are propounded various questions in
any desired subject in which the scholar is being tested or examined viz. arithmetic
geography, grammar, history, drawing. These test cards when soiled, defaced, or
otherwise damaged are of little or no use & are cast aside.
The improved tests consist of sheets of paper, or linen, or linen faced paper
gummed o adhesive on the one side. The greater part of the sheet is divided
into any desired number (usually thirty) of oblongs or squares.

page_text: In each oblong or square on the non-adhesive side questions (usually four or
five) in any required subject (principally arithmetic) are printed or otherwise
impressed.
The sheet is perforated in such a manner that the oblongs or squares before-
mentioned inay be readily detached from each other.
In the case of arithmetic the lower portion of the sheet contains the answers to
the questions propounded in the oblongs or squares above that the teacher may
readily correct the answers obtained by the scholars.
The oblongs or squares when separated may be easily affixed by means of the
adhesive side to old test cards which owing to defacement or other cause have
been discarded. In this manner practically new test cards are provided at
little cost.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my inver-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim as my invention is
Improvements in providing tests for educational purposes by means of which
old test cards may be renewed by affixing adhesive paper or linen tests to the
old cards.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1894.
ERNEST PROTHEROE.