US334537A - School and business tablet - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT O I E.

CYRUS MASON MOODY, on GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SCHOOL AND BUSINESS TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,537, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed July 30, 1884. Serial No. 139,221.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat I, CYRUS MASON MOODY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in School and Business Tablets, of which the following is a true and full specification.

My invention relates to that class of tablets or other means for hasty or offhand writing where generally the tablet or paper is held in the hand, or perhaps laid on a table, or, for business purposes, may be hung up.

In many branches of business it will be found very convenient for taking orders and keeping memoranda, so that theycan be easily preserved and referred to as desired.

My invention consists of a school or business tablet provided with two longitudinal sides with grooves and two transverse partitions, forming an intermediate apartment, and a recess on either Side of the same, in which are placed rollers for taking up and letting off paper, and a sliding bottom to work in grooves aforesaid, all of which will be fully set forth hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention and form part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective View; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section. I

A A are the two sides of the tablet, wide enough to be the sides of the drawer E, and receiving at each of their ends the journals of the rollers B B. Over thelower one is wound a slip of paper, F, about the width of the tablet, (which should be ofany convenient width,) and the paper may be of any desired length, dependent on its thickness, controlled only by the size of the roll. The paper passes upon the face of the tablet over the roller B at the upper end, where it is wound up. On the (No model.)

under side of the tablet is made a small drawer, E, the sides of which are the sides of the tablet, each slotted so as to receive a sliding lid. This drawer is intended to hold pencils, pens, crayons, rubber erasers, or any other article which is needed by pupils at school, or tickets, memoranda, and other things convenient for business use, for which purpose a wire staple or other contrivanoe may be used to hang it up.

The operation of the tablet is easily understood. The paper, lightly stuck to the lower roller, is wound upon it to its fullest capacity. v

The loose end is brought over the face of the tablet and stuck upon the upper roller, the ends of the board forming the tablet, which are slightly rounded, to allow the paper to pass smoothly over without creasing, which, as fast as it is used,is wound up on the upper roller. In one end of each roller is secured a projecting knob or plug, 0, so shaped as to be easily grasped by the thumb and finger, enabling one to turn the rollers easily to loosen or wind up the paper. In the opposite end of each roller is a screw or plug, D, inserted, by which the roller may be held securely as wanted. A looped wire staple is convenient. If it works loose in the wood, it is easily replaced by a larger size at a trifling expense.

I claim- In a school or business tablet, the box composed of two longitudinal sides provided with grooves,two partitions meeting said sides at right angles, to form, with the top, an apartment, E, and two open recesses at the ends, in combination with rollers B B and asliding bottom, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CYRUS MASON MOODY.

Witnesses:

JAMES S. GRINNELL, Enw. W. DONN.

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