Improvements in Saucers for Indian Ink, Lithographic Ink, or Colours, and in Stands or Supports for such Saucers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saucers for Indian Ink, Lithographic Ink, or
Colours, and in Stands or Supports for such Saucers.
JAMES PORTER MAGINNIS, No. 9 Carteret Street, Queen Anne's Gate,
Westminster, S.W. London, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
The improvement consists in making the upper surface of Indian ink, lithographic
ink, or colour saucers inclined to the base so that when such a saucer is placed
on a horizontal plane or table, the upper surface is tilted, or when two such saucers
are placed one on the other, the upper one may be made to assume a level position
or a sloping position according to its relative position with the lower saucer. The
improved saucers are in fact wedge shaped, and any number of such saucers may
be "nested " or placed one above another in a column. I apply this same
principle to stands or supports of suitable form to receive the ordinary Indian ink
lithographic ink or colour saucers, and by virtue of the wedge shape of a stand thus
formed, the saucer placed on it may be made to assume a level or an inclined
position as desired. Or the upper portion of the stand may be so formed as to be a
receptacle for Indian ink, lithographic ink, or colours and thus dispense with the
necessity for a separate saucer, so that when used in combination the above results
may be obtained.
Dated this 16th dow of December 1800
JAMES P. MAGINNIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saucers for Indian Ink, Lithographic Ink, or
Colours, and in Stands or Supports for such Saucers.
I, JAMES PORTER MAGINNIS of 9 Carteret Street, Queen Anne's Gate
Westminster, S.W. London, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The improvement consists in making saucers for indian ink, lithographic ink,
colours or other pigments of such a form that the general section be in the form of
a wedge, so that if one of such saucers A be placed on a level table, the upper surface
of it will be inclined at an angle, and if a second saucer B be placed on this one the
upper saucer may be made to assume either a horizontal or an inclined upper
surface according to its relative position with the lower saucer. I apply this same
principle to stands or supports of suitable form to receive the ordinary Indian ink
or colour saucers, such stands being made in two parts which may or may not be
joined together, the upper portion C being free to turn on the lower portion D,
and by virtue of the wedge shaped section of each portion the upper surface of the
stand may be made to assume either a level or an inclined position, and thus impart
a similar position to any saucer E or other receptacle F placed upon the said stand.
Or the upper surface of such stand may be so formed as to be in itself a receptacle
for Indian ink or other liquid pigment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of saucers for Indian ink or other liquid pigments or colours,
the general section of such saucers A B being wedge shaped

page_text: 2. The construction of stands of suitable form to receive the ordinary Indian ink
or colour saucers, such stands being composed of two principal parts C, D, each of
which is wedge shaped in section.
3. The construction of stands of suitable form to receive Indian ink or other
liquid pigments, such stands being composed of two principal parts, each of which
is wedge shaped in section.
Dated this Fifteenth day of September 1893.
JAMES P. MAGINNIS.