US1371430A - Writing-tablet for the blind - Google Patents

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US1371430A
US1371430A US430701A US43070120A US1371430A US 1371430 A US1371430 A US 1371430A US 430701 A US430701 A US 430701A US 43070120 A US43070120 A US 43070120A US 1371430 A US1371430 A US 1371430A
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  • My invention relates to writing tablets for the use of the blind and has for its object to provide a tablet upon which a sheet of paper can be fastened and which will be formed with embossed parallel lines or ribs of such a character that they will be easily felt through the paper sheet by a blind writer and thus enable him to write between the ribs in parallel lines.
  • Guide tablets having raised or depressed ribs have been heretofore provided for blind writers and my invention consists in the improvement by which I form on such tablets embossed parallel ribs having rough or serrated edges which ribs I have found furnish a much more easily felt and reliable guide for the fingers of a writer than is provided by any known writing tablet.
  • My invention is illustrated in the drawin g in which- Specification of Letters Fatent.
  • Figure l is a perspective view of my improved tablet with a fragment of a paper sheet secured on its surface and Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
  • Kris the tablet formed of thin and fairly stiff material such as a thin sheet of metal or of fiber board.
  • On the face of the tablet are formed the parallel embossed ribs indicated at B, B, etc., and each of these ribs is so formed that its top edge is rough or serrated presenting to the fingers of the writer a series of elevated points as shown at C, C, etc. D, D, indicate spring clips for securing a sheet of paper E on the face of the tablet.

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S. S. NICKERSON.
WRTITING TABLET FOR THE BLIND. nrucmou men use. 14. 1920.
1 537-1 ,430. Patented Mar. 15, 1921.
M 5. mm.
LBY 2 a W 9 AT .T ORNEY UNITED STATES SAMUEL S. NICKERSON, OF LISBON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WRITING-TABLET FOR THE BLIND.
Application filed December 14, 1920.
T 0 all whom it may concern:
Be 1t known that I, SAMUEL S. NIGKERSQN,
a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Llsbon, in the county of the accompanying drawings, which form apart thereof.
My invention relates to writing tablets for the use of the blind and has for its object to provide a tablet upon which a sheet of paper can be fastened and which will be formed with embossed parallel lines or ribs of such a character that they will be easily felt through the paper sheet by a blind writer and thus enable him to write between the ribs in parallel lines. Guide tablets having raised or depressed ribs have been heretofore provided for blind writers and my invention consists in the improvement by which I form on such tablets embossed parallel ribs having rough or serrated edges which ribs I have found furnish a much more easily felt and reliable guide for the fingers of a writer than is provided by any known writing tablet.
My invention is illustrated in the drawin g in which- Specification of Letters Fatent.
Patented Mar. 15, 1921.
Serial No. 430,701.
Figure l is a perspective view of my improved tablet with a fragment of a paper sheet secured on its surface and Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
Kris the tablet formed of thin and fairly stiff material such as a thin sheet of metal or of fiber board. On the face of the tablet are formed the parallel embossed ribs indicated at B, B, etc., and each of these ribs is so formed that its top edge is rough or serrated presenting to the fingers of the writer a series of elevated points as shown at C, C, etc. D, D, indicate spring clips for securing a sheet of paper E on the face of the tablet.
The method of using my improved tablet 's, or course, obvious. I may say, however,
1 the the lines or ribs of embossed points owing to their resemblance to the Braille SAMUEL S. NIGKERSON.
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Cited By (10)

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US3486246A (en) * 1967-11-13 1969-12-30 Enamel Products Co The Chalk board with guide lines and method of making same
US3579867A (en) * 1969-09-05 1971-05-25 Henry S Kuhn Writing guide for training purposes and use by the blind
US3816943A (en) * 1973-03-01 1974-06-18 N Henry Writing guide for partially seeing, blind or muscularly disabled persons
US4035652A (en) * 1975-04-11 1977-07-12 Schroeder Becky J Luminescent backing sheet for writing in the dark
EP0081911A1 (en) * 1981-12-07 1983-06-22 Henry Morris Tactile writing aid
US20040155454A1 (en) * 2003-02-07 2004-08-12 Tims J. Michael Embossed paper
US20060088803A1 (en) * 2004-10-25 2006-04-27 Bianco Ronni S Apparatus and method for tactile writing therapy
US20060214417A1 (en) * 2003-02-07 2006-09-28 Wescott Catherine H Writing guide system
US20080241802A1 (en) * 2006-08-23 2008-10-02 Daniel Louis Hachey Device for drawing lines on a sized sheet of paper and maintaining registration of the paper when it has been removed and is being replaced on the device
US20110109077A1 (en) * 2009-11-09 2011-05-12 Charles Haberstroh Sketching Device for Copy Paper

Cited By (15)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3486246A (en) * 1967-11-13 1969-12-30 Enamel Products Co The Chalk board with guide lines and method of making same
US3579867A (en) * 1969-09-05 1971-05-25 Henry S Kuhn Writing guide for training purposes and use by the blind
US3816943A (en) * 1973-03-01 1974-06-18 N Henry Writing guide for partially seeing, blind or muscularly disabled persons
US4035652A (en) * 1975-04-11 1977-07-12 Schroeder Becky J Luminescent backing sheet for writing in the dark
EP0081911A1 (en) * 1981-12-07 1983-06-22 Henry Morris Tactile writing aid
US20060273575A1 (en) * 2003-02-07 2006-12-07 Tims J M Embossed paper
US20060214417A1 (en) * 2003-02-07 2006-09-28 Wescott Catherine H Writing guide system
US7118135B2 (en) * 2003-02-07 2006-10-10 Meadwestvaco Corporation Embossed paper
US20040155454A1 (en) * 2003-02-07 2004-08-12 Tims J. Michael Embossed paper
US7717469B2 (en) 2003-02-07 2010-05-18 Meadwestvaco Corporation Embossed paper
US7717713B2 (en) * 2003-02-07 2010-05-18 Meadwestvaco Corporation Writing guide system
US20060088803A1 (en) * 2004-10-25 2006-04-27 Bianco Ronni S Apparatus and method for tactile writing therapy
US20080241802A1 (en) * 2006-08-23 2008-10-02 Daniel Louis Hachey Device for drawing lines on a sized sheet of paper and maintaining registration of the paper when it has been removed and is being replaced on the device
US7972138B2 (en) * 2006-08-23 2011-07-05 Sketch-It LLC of Delaware Device for drawing lines on a sized sheet of paper and maintaining registration of the paper when it has been removed and is being replaced on the device
US20110109077A1 (en) * 2009-11-09 2011-05-12 Charles Haberstroh Sketching Device for Copy Paper

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