US360750A - Combined tablet - Google Patents

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' J.M. WILLIAMS.

COMBINED TABLET, PAPER WEIGHT, AND BLOTTER.

.No. 360,750. Patented Apr. 5, 1887 INVFNTOR 2 Jam;

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. WILLIAMS, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA.

.C OMBINEDTABLET, PAPER-WEIGHT, AND BLOTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,750, dated April 5, 1887.

Application filed December 10, 1886. Serial No. 221,194. (No model.)

T all whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN M. WILLIAMS, of Hazleton, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Tablet, Paper-Weight, and Blotter, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The object of my invention is to provide for the use of book-keepers and others a tablet carrying upon its under surface one or more sheets of blotting'paper, and having upon its upper side a writing-surface provided with cavities for receiving wet and dry sponges, pins, &c., and furnished upon one edge with hooks for holding a pencil.

The block A, forming the body of the tablet, is preferably made of a piece of slate having an inclined surface, a, which is smoothed and prepared for writing. In the thicker end of the tablet are formed three cavities, b c d. In the cavity b is placed a roll of. pins, 6, and in the cavities 0 cl are placed sponges f the spongef being dry and the sponge 9 being kept moist. Hooks 2' project from the side of the tablet A, for supporting a pencil, The

spongeg is designed for moistening the fin gers for handling bills and papers, and the for supporting a sponge and a quantity of pins in convenient position for use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a combined tablet, paper-weight, and blotter, the combination, with the tablet A, provided with an inclined surface, a, and cavities b c d, of the blotters j, substantially as shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a combined tablet, paper-weight, and blotter formed of a block of slate having an inclined surface, a, and provided with cavities b c d, the pin-roll e, sponges f g, placed in the said cavities, the hooks h, proj eeting from one edge of the tablet, and the pencil t, received in the WVitnesses:

JOHN A. BARTON, O. BAOHMAN. Y

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