Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 1st Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 2nd Dec, 1887
1, WALTER CHARLES CHURCH, of 6 Trinity Square Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a construction of ink bottles in such manner that the pen
when inserted to take up ink shall not be damaged by striking its point against the
hard material of the bottle. For this purpose, according to one construction, I make
the bottle with either its sides sloping towards each other or with a central core sloping
towards the sides, so that, at some distance from the bottom, there is a narrow slit
or annular passage wide enough to admit the point of the pen, but not sufficiently
wide to admit the tube or sheath of the pen or of its holder. Thus the point of the
pen, even if it should meet the sloping sides of the vessel or of its core will glance off
without damage, and cannot reach or strike the actual bottom.
Instead of making the bottle as above described with a narrow slit, it may be made
with a conical central core, and with a mouth so narrow and deep that the pen holder
cannot, when introduced, take an attitude inclined beyond a certain degree, such
that the point of the pen cannot reach the bottom or sides, of the bottle but must
stop short of them against the slope of the core, by meeting which obliquely it is
not damaged.

page_text: Improvements in Ink Bottles.
1, WALTER CHARLES CHURCH of 6 Trinity Square, Brixton in the County of Surrey,
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 :-
My invention relates to a construction of ink bottles in such a manner that the pen
when inserted to take up ink shall not be damaged by striking its point against the
hard material of the bottle. For this purpose I make ink bottles of forms such as
are shewn in sections in the accompanying drawings. According to the construction
shewn in Fig. 1 the sides slope towards each other, or as shewn in Fig. 2 there is
a central core sloping towards the sides so that, at some distance from the bottom,
there is a narrow slit or well as in Fig. 1, or an annular passage as in Fig. 2 wide
enough to admit the point of the pen, but not sufficiently wide to admit the tube or
sheath of the pen or of its holder. Thus the point of the pen, even if it should meet
the sloping sides of the vessel or of its core will glance off without damage, and cannot
reach or strike the actual bottom. Instead of making the bottle as above described
with a narrow slit or well it may be made as shown in Fig. 3 with a conical central
core and a mouth so narrow and deep that the pen holder cannot, when introduced,
take an attitude inclined beyond a certain degree, such that the point of the pen cannot
reach the bottom or sides of the bottle but must stop short of them against the slope
of the core, by meeting which obliquely it is not damaged.
The construction shewn in Fig. 1 may be modified as shewn in Fig. 4 where there
is space to accommodate a quantity of ink around the conical core and an ink well
below its mouth. And the construction shewn in Fig. 3 may be modified as shewn
in Fig. 5 where the ink bottle is made with a comparatively narrow and deep
mouth and a sloping bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The construction of an ink bottle with a passage near the bottom so narrow that
the pen cannot be damaged by its point striking the bottom, substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 4.
2. The construction of an ink bottle with a sloping bottom and with a mouth so
deep and narrow that the pen cannot be damaged by its point meeting any part of
the bottle except the slope along which it glides, substantially as described with
reference to Figs. 3 and 5.
1.
1007
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.