US1565456A - Call sheet - Google Patents

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Dec. 15, 1925- 1.5 5.456

D. E. HOLT CALL bHEET Filed Dec. 25, 1924 Patented 15, 1925.

' nnnznzcnn. HOLT, or SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, I

I CALL SHEET."

Application filed December 23, 1924. Ser al No. 757,741.

a: 202. 1, it may concern:

known that DENZELL E. 'HOLT, citi- 0 United States, residing at Seattle, he county of Ling and State of Washingn, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Call Sheets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is directed to an improvement in memorandum or signal boards, de signed particularly for use in hotels, whereby the clerk or other person in charge may accurately and conveniently indicate a call left by a guest occupying a particular room.

Ordinarily, memorandum sheets are em ployed in which the hour of the call is indicated by the clerk in ink or pencil, so that considerable labor is required in attending to this detail of the duties of the clerk.

The present invention is designed to provide a board structure divided into spaces with each numbered or lettered in accordance with the room designation, and cooperating with these spaces are card-likemembers bearing the hour of the proposedcall. The board is provided with means by which the card may be associated with any particular room space, and may be arranged relative thereto to indicate that the call is yet to be made or has been made, or for some other reason is not to be made. I

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the improved call board, several call card mem bers being shown in various positions thereon.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the means for supporting the call card members.

The improved call board 1,, which may be of any appropriate material or size, is divided into spaces 2, each bearing data indicating a particular room in the hotel, usually the numbers of such rooms. Secured to the board in'nnediately above each number spac is a supporting member 3, including a part to be secured to the board, an upwardly and outwardly inclined member projecting therefrom, and a lateral arm 4 at the upper end of the member, said arm by this arrangement being disposed immediately above the particular room number sgaco-and also spaced outwardly vfrom the surface of the board.

Card members 5, preferably though not necessarily metallic, are provided, usually of rectangular outline, with one edge formed for frictional cooperation with the lateral arm 4.

The members 5, hereinafter termed the call cards, bear any. desired data, usually the hour at which a call is to be made, and these cards are of course provided in sufficient number to take care of possible contingencies. When a call is left at the desk,

the clerk selecting the properly numbered call card will place the same on the arm t above the proper room number. Thus at any hour, the board may be consulted to determine what calls are to be'made, and the indications of the call cards carried out.

If desired, and as preferred, the call cards may be made in distinguishing colors, for example, one being red and the other black, the red call cards being used for permanent guests at the'hotel and the black call cards for transient guests. When the call cards are inoperative or indicating position, they are arranged above the number of the particular room, and if, for any reason the call is not to be made, or when the call is made,

the'call card may be turned down onto the board, swinging on the arm, thus in part concealing the number of the room, and indicating that" the call is no longer necessary or has been made.

The device thus described provides a simdistinct indicating spaces, a supporting arm carried by the board for cooperation with each space, said arm including a lateral bearing portion spaced from the board, and a call card adapted for slidable cooperation with said bearing portion and capable of being moved to a position to expose one side of the card immediately above the space or to expose the other side of the card as partly overlying the space, the respective sides of the cards being marl-zed to indicate different information.

2. A callboard divided into a number of distinct indicating spaces, a supporting am carried by the board for cooperation with each space, said arm including a lat oral hearing portion spaced from the board, and a call card adapted for slidable cooperation with said bearing portion and capable of being moved to a position to ex- 5 pose one side of the card immediately above the space or to expose the other side of the card as partly overlying the space, the respective sides of the cards being marked to indicate different information, the cards being readily separable from the bearing portions of the arms to permit any card of the series to cooperate With any arm.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DENZELL E. HOLT.

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