Pen Wiper.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1890--Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Pen Wiper.
GEORGE CLARK SPENCE Accountant 21 Westfield Place Dundee do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
Small cylinder shaped box (except small projection down one side) made of tin or
similar material. The ends being two moveable discs fixed together with a spring
and having a small piece of sponge attached to each on the inside so that they can
be compressed between the forefinger and thumb, to meet opposite three small holes
in the side of the box where the pen is inserted. When the pressure is removed the
go back being kept from coming out by a small flange.
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Dated this 10th day of June 1889.
Pen Wiper.
GEORGE CLARK SPENCE 21 Westfield Place Dundee Scotland Accountant 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:-
A small cylinder shaped tin box that may be held between the thumb and forefinger,
measuring one and a half inches long by one and three eighths inches diameter or
thereby, having several small elongated holes about five sixteenths of an inch in
diameter by seven sixteenths of an inch in length, and which form a circle round the
box, and at equal distances the one from the other. The distance from the one end,
or bottom, of the box to the centre of each hole is about seven sixteenths of an inch,
and the end, or bottom, of the box to which the holes are nearest, is a fixture. The
other or opposite end of the box is a moveable disc exactly filling the circumference
of the box and kept from coming out of the box by a small flange. In each end of the
box on the inside is a small piece of sponge sufficient to cover the circumference of
each end, and about half an inch thick. Running up the centre of the box inside,
and reaching from end to end, that is between the sponge in the one end and the
sponge in the other end, is a small spiral spring, by means of which the sponges are
kept in position, and which when the box is taken between the forefinger and thumb
may be compressed so that the sponge in the moveable end of the box may be made
to meet the sponge (in the other end) which reaches from the fixed end, or bottom,
of the box to about the centre of each of the holes round the box, the sponges thus
meeting opposite the holes. On removing the pressure of the fingers and allowing
the spring inside the box to expand, the moveable end goes back to its position at
the end of the box, or is pressed up against the flange above mentioned, and which
keeps it from coming out altogether. The mode of using the pen wiper is, to take
it between the finger and thumb of one hand, insert the pen with the other hand into
one of the holes, in the side of the box, press the forefinger and thumb together till
the sponges meet on the pen, withdraw the pen from between the sponges without
removing the pressure, when the ink will be wiped clean off the pen onto the
sponges. Or the pen wiper could be fixed on an inkstand or desk, and used without
taking it into the hand.

page_text: 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
That it is new.
(2) That it is cleanly.
(3) That it is effective.
(4) That it is handy.
(5) That it is cheap.
Dated this Eighth day of March 1890.
GEO. C. SPENCE.