Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th May, 1887
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
I GEORGE JOSEPH SERSHALL of No. 371 Lodge Road Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Artist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a new and useful method of combining drawing copies
specially designed as hereinafter described for the purpose of this invention each
consisting of a separate delineation representing some step or stage in the proper
developement or elaboration of a drawing or design and which when the arrangement
consists of a combination of two parts only are each placed back to back so as to present
only one illustration to view at a time-or (also according to this invention) which
when the combination consists of a complete series of more than two of the said special
delineations or illustrations are so attached or connected that they may be folded or
turned back upon each other so as to present to view only one illustration of any
step or stage at one time.
If the said arrangement consists of a combination of two drawing copies, the
drawing copy illustrative of the first step or stage exhibits not only the leading lines
of the design, but also exemplifies temporary constructional lines for what is
technically known as "blocking," or arranging lines to be afterwards erased-for the
purpose of fixing points, divisions, and the proper admeasurements to ensure
symmatry or proportion in the finished design. The drawing copy illustrative of
the second or finished stage in this combination is placed at the back of the first as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
If the said arrangement consists of a combination of more than two drawing copies
the leading lines only may be depicted upon the first of them -the said temporary
constructional lines for "blocking" may be exhibited upon the second in addition to
the leading lines exhibited on the first copy-and the complete finished design
illustrated upon the third, the three being attached to or connected with each other
as hereinbefore described; or, if preferred, a larger number of drawing copies may
be employed to form any other serial combination designed arranged and attached or
connected in accordance with and for the purpose of this invention.
Dated this 10th day of August 1886

page_text: Improvements in Drawing Oopies.
I GEORGE JOSEPH SERSHALL of No. 371 Lodge Road Hockley Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Artist 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 consists of a new and useful method of combining Drawing Copies,
specially designed as hereinafter described, for the purpose of this Invention, each
consisting of a separate delineation representing some step or stage in the proper
developement or elaboration of a Drawing or Design, and which when the arrangement.
consists of a combination of two parts only, are each placed back to back so as to
present only one illustration to view at a time-or (also according to this Invention)
which, when the combination consists of a complete series of more than two of the said
special delineations or illustrations-are so attached or connected that they may be folded
or turned back upon each other so as to present to view only one illustration of any
step or stage at one time.
If the said arrangement consists of a combination of two Drawing Copies, the
Drawing Copy illustrative of the first step or stage exhibits not only the leading lines
of the design, but also exemplifies temporary constructional lines for what is technically
known as blocking," or arranging lines-to be afterwards erased-for the purpose
of fixing points, divisions and the proper admeasurements to ensure symmetry or
proportion in the finished Design. The Drawing copy illustrative of the second or
finished stage in this combination is placed at the back of the first as and for the
purpose herein before described.
If the said arrangement consists of a combination of more than two Drawing
Copies the leading lines only may be depicted upon the first of them, the said
temporary constructional lines for "blocking" may be exhibited upon the second in
addition to the leading lines exhibited on the first copy, and the complete finished
Design illustrated upon the third, the three being attached to or connected with
each other as hereinbefore described; or, if preferred, a larger number of Drawing
Copies may be employed to form any other serial combination designed, arranged
and attached or connected in accordance with and for the purpose of this Invention.
Figures 1 and 2 represent views of two Drawing copies which are attached to each
other back to back or each mounted on an opposite side of a sheet of paste board or
other suitable medium. The view on the side A (Fig. 1) of this combination exhibits
the temporary constructional lines constituting the first grade or stage in the
developement of the finished drawing or design which is illustrated on the other
opposite side B (Fig. 2) of the said combination of Drawing Copies by the completed
figure forming the second or final step or stage in this arrangement.
Figures 3 and 4 represent opposite sides of two folding leaves C and D, the leaf C
having the opposite sides or surfaces a and d, and the leaf D the opposite sides or
surfaces band c. Each folding leaf C and D is connected at one of its edges to the

page_text: other by a web or other suitable means as at a so that the side a may be folded upon
the side 6 or otherwise the side c upon the side d.
If the drawing or figure on the side c represent the first stage or grade and be
presented to view the sides a and b may be folded upon each other and the second or
immediately succeeding stage represented on the side 6 of the leaf D cannot be in
view at the same time. When the stage shewn on the side 6 of the leaf D is in view
the sides c and d of D and C respectively may be folded upon each other and the third
In a similar manner when
or next succeeding stage cannot be seen at the same time.
the third stage represented on the side d of the leaf C is in view the sides a and 6
may be refolded upon each other and thus no two immediately successive steps or
stages may be in view at the same time.
the
Figures 5 and 6 also represent two folding leaves E and F, the leaf E having the
opposite sides e and h, and F the opposite sides ƒ and g and each leat E or F connected
to the other in a manner similar to that shown in Figs. 4 and 5 along one of its edges
as indicated by the line z so that the sides e and for otherwise the sides 9 and h may
be folded upon each other. When the first stage represented on the side e
leaf E is in view the sides g and h of F and E respectively may be folded upon each
other and the next or second stage cannot be seen at the same time. Similarly when
the second stage represented on the side g of the leaf F is in view the sides e and f of
the leaves E and F respectively may be folded upon each other and the third stage
shown the sidef of the leaf F cannot be seen at the same time. In like manner the
third and fourth stages successively represented on the sidef of the leaf F and on
the side h of the leaf E may be represented and displayed in their proper order and
all other stages folded out of view.
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,
The mode of combining and connecting a series of two or more Drawing Copies in
such a manner that in a combination of two Drawing Copies illustrating two steps
or stages in the developement of a complete Design, the said Drawing Copies are
attached to each other back to back so as to present directly to the eye a representation
of one said step or stage only at one time, and in a combination of more than two
Drawing Copies illustrating successive steps or stages in the developement of a
complete Design these said Drawing Copies are each so attached to another in the
same series that they may be folded but at the same time each said Drawing Copy is
so mounted that no two immediately successive steps or stages in the developement of
the said complete Design can be displayed directly to the eye at one time.
Dated this Tenth day of May 1887.