US49788A - Improvement in registers for libraries - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGISTERS FOR LIBRARIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,788, dated September 5, 1865.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. RAY, of Ihiladelphia,in the county ot' Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode ot' Registering Sunday- School and other Libraries; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and checks.

The nature of my invention consists in a new and improved library-register, manufactured in book or its equivalentt'orm, of Wood, paper, gum, metal, or other substances, with a table of record, B,and blank space A above, for the name of each person obtaining a book, in coilnection with a slot or opening, C, opposite each name, to insert a check-number of the book taken from the library, as shown and described on the drawing.

To enable others to use my invention, I will proceed to describe its operation: First, register the name of the scholar or person in the blank space A, over the table of record, B;

" second,nnmber thelibrary-books to correspond with the number-checks; third, place the number-checks in the books bearing their corre- I spending numbers, allowing the number ends of the checks to project; fourth, when a book is loaned remove the number-check and place it beneath the table B, through the slot or opening C, allowing` the end of the numbercheck bearing the number to project; fifth, if a book is not returned within a given time after being loaned, make a stroke from right to left in the table of record, B, to indicate the date of loan; sixth, when a book is returned cancel the record by a similar stroke from left to right in the table ofrecord, B, to indicate the date of return.

one librarian to perform the work of two or three persons, and keep a correct account ot' all books loaned and returned.

Having described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A library-register constructed, arranged, and operated in the manner herein described.

W. T. RAY.

Witnesses:

J AMEs McCAHoN, WM. S. IRWIN.

This mode ot' registering libraries will enable

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