US556842A - Business-directory - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1.

' J. D. BRGWNING. BUSINESS DIREGTURY.

No. 556,842. Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

{No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 2.

J. D. BROW/NING. BUSINESS DIREGTORY.

No. 556,842. Patented Mm. 24, 1896.

A TTOHNEYS.

W/TNESSES:

PATENT FlllCE@` .IOIIN D. BROVNING, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BUSINESS-DIRECTORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,842, dated March 24, 1896.

Application filed July 12, 1895. Serial No. 555,794. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN D. BEOWNING, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Business-Directory, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in business-directories in general, but is more par ticularly an improved telephone-list and business-directory combined.

The invention consists in the arrangement, on the sheets or boards constituting the body of the directory and carrying the names of subscribers arranged in alphabetical order, of the names and addresses of other parties having various occupations, While on the margin of such sheets or cards are printed the titles which indicate such occupations and whose initials are the same as those of the subscribers names on the saine sheet or page thereof. Thus the directory affords a convenient and ready reference to parties carrying on different kinds of business-such as architects, builders, caterers, druggists, dsc-and all arranged in the saine alphabetical order as the naines of subscribers, so that no separate marginal index is required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face View of my improved directory represented open, and thus exhibiting the rst and second pages. Fig. 2 is a face view of a portion of one of the pages on which the names of subscribers are arranged in numerical instead of alphabetical order. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a cross-section of the directory.

The sheets or cards a composing the body of the directory are bound loosely to a bacle ing or boa-rd adapted to be suspended from a nail or screw set in a Wall, as shown in Fig. l..

The cards a are made of thin pasteboard and Will remain flat and lie in any position desired, and may also be turned one Way or the other with great facility.

The directory is composed of two parts or divisions, the main part, A, having the subscribers naines arranged alphabetically,wi1ile in the sm aller part, B, they are arranged numerically. I will iirst describe part A. On the margin of the cards a are printed alphabetical indices A, B, C, dsc., corresponding to the alphabetical order of the subscribers names printed on said cards in the usual Way.

Each page of the director f bears, in addi tion to such ordinary alphabetical naine-list of subscribers, the naines of several individu als, irins or corporations and a statement of their business, all properly spaced and visually quickly distinguishable. These are arranged by classes in alphabetical order, as illustrated in Fig. l. Thus on the pages bearing the subscribers surnames beginning with a particular letter I print in addition thereto other naines of business men, firms, or corporations the names of Whose business, occupation, or function also begin with the saine letter as the subscribers naines. For exam ple, on the first page, bearing naines of subscribers having the initial A, I print also in separate places or spaces the names a of three parties the initials of the names of Whose occupations also begin With said letter Af Thus the first of such parties is the firm of Alsup it Johnson, who are architects. The second is Doe Bros, who manufacture tents, awnings, ctc., and the third party is Richard Roe, an attorney-at-laW. The addresses of these several parties are given with the names. On the margin of the sheet or board, directly opposite the respective naines of the said parties, are printed the titles f Architects, Awningsj and Attorney-hat- Law.

Again, for further illustration, on the opposite page, bearing subscribers names having the initial 13, appear also the names of three parties the names of Whose occupations have the same initial 13. Thus the title Brick-yard appears in the margin opposite the naine of John Cube, a bric-l; manufacturer, and the title Builders opposite the naine of Pritchard Bros., carpenters and contractors,17 and the title Bottling forks opposite the naine of llutf City Bottling Oo. These several titles indicate the respective occupations of the said parties opposite which they are printed.

Thus throughout the directory on each page appear several-say threenames of parties Whose business occupations have the same initial letters as the subscribers naines on the samerpage, and on the margin are the titles of such businesses or occupations directly opposite the names of said parties. The naines and titles are preferably printed IOO subscribers naines.

in a color say red) different and distinguished from the color (say black) in which the subscribers7 vnames appear, so that they are readily distinguished and no confusion can arise. Besides this the subscribers names are printed in letters of a different size, and a horizontal division-line appears between them' and the names cf the parties Whose business is indicated by marginal titles.

The marginal titles have the same initials as the indices A, B, C of subscribers names, so that reference to the titles is easily and quickly made by the same means as to the Thus any one Wishing to find the address of an attorney-at-law refers first to the page bearing the alphabetical index A, and then tothe marginal business indication-to Wit, Attorneyatlaw-and opposite the latter he linds the desired reference, or supposing one desires to iind the address cf a dentist he opens the directory at the letter D and then refers to the title Dentist Ain the margin.

In connection With the list of telephonesubscribers names alphabetically arranged, as before described, l employ a numerical list B. In this (see Fig. 2) the numbers appropriated to the different subscribers are printed in columns, in regular order, on successive pages from 1 upward opposite the respective names, and on the margin of each page are printed the tWe numbers between Which the subscribers numbers on said page are included. Thus on page G, Fig. 2 shows names Whose numbers range numerically from 4215 to 626. Thus one may quickly find the naine of any subscriber Whose number is known; or if a subscriber be called on the telephone during his absence from home or place of business and told to call up a certain number on his return he may, if he desires, ascertain Who called him by reference to the number in the numerical directory B.

The improved telephone index or directory composed of a series of sheets, or cards, bound together and having printed thereon subscribers names arranged in alphabetical order, and also the names and addresses of parties having various occupations, and on J their margins a series of letters indicating the alphabetical order of the subscribers names as ordinarily printed in a directory. and also a series of business titles or naines of business occupations Whose initials are the same as the aforesaid letters, the said titles being arranged directly opposite the aforesaid names and addresses of the parties Whose occupations correspond to the titles, as shown and described.

JOHN D. BROVNING. Witnesses AMos W. HART, JAs. A. RYAN.

Images