US733834A - Tally-board. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JULY 14, 1903..

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UNITED STATES Patented July 14, 1903.

FREDERICK GLIDDEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TALLY- BOARD.

sPEcIFIcATIoN forming part or-Leaers Patent 10.733,834, dated July 14, 1903. Application iled January 17, 1903. Serial No. 139,456. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. GLID- DEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tally-Boards; and I do declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains `to make and use the same.

My invention relates to tally-boards for keeping a visible record of orders by traveling salesmen and for other purposes; and the invention consists in the construction of the board and in the combination and arrangement of parts, substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a front elevation of one form or combination of a complete tally-board embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional lelevation thereof on line was, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line z e, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the tally pegs or Stoppers, and Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a modification of the combination and arrangement of parts as compared with Fig. l and as hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 7 is an enlarged cross-section of the record-board proper, broken out in its middle portion, and of border or joining pieces separated therefrom in this view and also asection of a pocketboard, as hereinafter fully described.

The invention thus shown may be applied to various uses, as already indicated; but the particular use which I have in mind in this description and to which I find the invention admirably adapted is the keeping of a visible and comparative record of the number of ora month,and it is divided horizontally into lother subdivisions by lines 4, corresponding to the number of salesmen, of whom account is to be kept on the board, and with a side column fortheir names,and largerand smaller boards may be used, according to the number of salesmen, up to a convenient size. In the angles of said lines2 and 4 or between them I provide perforations or holes 5, adapted to receive plugs or Stoppers C, and these perforations or holes 5 preferably do not go endtirely through the board, but they may, if desired, and they may have any convenient shape in cross-section. In this instancethey are cylindrical, while the plugs have taperedv and preferably cork bodies 6 and metallic or other heads 7, furnished with numbers running 1, 2, 3, and upward and of such size as to plainly display the figures on each head. The said heads are-preferably enameled, and cork Vor other like yielding bodies are adapted to hold the plugs in place; but I have also foundthat a board of this kind is practicallyincomplete unless it beincorporated with certain accessories, enabling one to make various com binations as a busione side or at the'bottom or top of the original board, as may be found most convenient in any given place. Then, again, I make the structu re a composite one, in that each recordboard is equipped with a pocket-board E for the plugs. These latter boards have pockets 8 in series, numbered from 1, 2, 3, upward to as high a number as may be needed to note the accumulating orders of any salesman, and each pocket is marked on its face.

by a number corresponding to the number or figure on the plugs therein.

In Fig. l board E is shown as attached to the bottom of board B, and both boards are TOO ient, and in Fig. 6 it is also at the side ot' board B.

To connect the boards, I preferably employ dovetailed edges and joining members H, because of theirconvenience. and adaptation to my use; but any other equivalent joint which will serve the purpose maybe substituted. These joint members or pieces are constructed along both sides for dovetailed connections. Then as a border or edging for said boards apart from their jointure with another part and to finish the same I provide border-pieces II', dovetailed along one edge or side and adapted to be removably engaged on said boards and to cover edges not otherwise occupied. These latter borders harmonize the structure and may run across the joints between the boards or stop with each board.

One board may have another board directly attached thereto or by the intervening or joining strips H, as may be found preferable.

In means for keeping certain office records, a uniformly-perforated board subdivided vertically into spaces corresponding to the days of a month and horizontally into spaces corresponding to a series of nam espaces, in combination with a separate pocket-board removably joined to one edge of said perforated board and having a series of pockets numbered consecutively from l upward, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specification this 30th day of December, 1902.

FREDERICK A. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses:

R. B. MOSER, R. ZBORNIK.

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