IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic William Garrard, of Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS, PARTS
OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER ARTICLES."
ealed the 26th June 1877, and dated the 1st January 1877.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic William Garrard at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1877.
FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER
ARTICLES."
The object of my Invention is to obtain a portable inkstand or holder for any
liquid, or volatile or other substance, or any other article, which holder shall be
convenient when in use, securely hold its contents, and occupy very little space in
the pocket, or when not in use.
My improvements comprise a telescopic arrangement by which the ink bottle or
holder or box for any substance or article is made to come out of and to enter an
outer case or stand with great facility and remain securely therein; also an arrange-
ment for securing the top of the ink bottle or holder so as to prevent any possibility
of leakage or to make it air-tight.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Figure 1 is a sectional view of an ink-
stand embodying my Invention, showing top of ink bottle or' holder fastened and
enclosed in its case; Figure 2 is a section of same, showing top of ink bottle or
holder unfastened and the telescopic arrangement drawn out; and Figure 3 is an
élevation of same closed so that it may be carried in the pocket.
It will be seen that the telescopic arrangement is so devised as to remain
stationary at any part of its travel by having an clastic substance in recess, as at
the part marked A, but it may also be held in its required place by springs.
Fixed to the bottom of the bottle case is a spring D which gives a slight pressure
to the bottle, and the top or mouth-piece of the bottle is made secure from leaking
by a piece of rubber E on the lid of the inkstand, as shown in the Drawing.
Figures 1 and 2.
The catch or hook B is devised and so set on its hinge (see Figure 2) as to be

page_text: self-acting in its movement. By simply pressing on the lid this hook or catch falls
down to the proper place and immediately becomes locked, as shown Figure 1.
The ink holder or inner box and its outside casing C may be made of metal,
wood, vulcanite, ebonite, or any other substance and of any suitable form and size.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederic William Garrard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
June 1877.
FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER
ARTICLES."
The object of my Invention is to obtain a portable inkstand or holder for any
liquid, or volatile or other substance, or any other article, which holder shall be
convenient when in use, securely hold its contents, and occupy very little space in
the pocket, or when not in use.
My improvements comprise a telescopic arrangement by which an inner case
holding the ink bottle or holder or box for any substance or article is made to come
out of and enter into an outer case or stand with great facility, and remain securely
therein; also an arrangement for securing the top of the ink bottle or holder, so as
to prevent any possibility of leakage or to make it air-tight.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing shows an inkstand embodying my
Invention, Figure 1 being a sectional view of the ink stand showing the lid of
ink bottle fastened, the telescopic arrangement being closed; Figure 2, a section of
same, showing lid of ink bottle or holder unfastened and the telescopic arrangement
drawn out; and Figure 3, an elevation of same closed, so that it may be carried in
the pocket.
It will be seen that the telescopic arrangement is so devised as to remain
stationary at any part of its travel by having an elastic substance, such, for example,
as cork or india-rubber, in recess as at the part of the inner case or holder marked A,
but it may also be held in its required place by springs placed either in the inner
or the outer case.
Fixed to the bottom of the inner or bottle case is a spring D, which gives a slight
upward pressure to the bottle or holder, and the lid or mouth-piece of the bottle or
holder is made secure from leaking by the action of this upward pressure upon a
piece of rubber or other elastic material E placed on the lid, as shown, Figures 1
and 2.
The catch or hook B is devised and so set on its hinge (see Figure 2) as to be
self-acting in its movement. By simply pressing on the lid this hook or catch falls
down to the proper place, and as the inner case descends into the outer case C the
lower end of the catch B enters a recess in the side of the inner case and the lid
becomes locked, as shown, Figure 1; this locking might be effected without hinging
'the catch.
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To open this inkstand for use, as shown, Figure 2, the inner case is pushed
upward, and when the lower end of the catch B has risen out of the case C it leaves
the recess in the inuer case, in which it has until then been kept by the case C, and
the lid is unlocked.
The inner sliding case in which the ink bottle or other holder is placed and its
outside casing C may be made of metal, wood, vulcanite, ebonite, or any other
suitable material or combination of materials, and not only of a circular shape, as
shown on the Drawing hereunto annexed, but of an octagonal or any suitable form
and of any size.
It will be evident that my telescopic and locking arrangement may be applied
to scent bottles and bottles or cases holding various kinds of fluids or solids. By

page_text: recessing the bottom of the bottle to receive the spring DI may get a bottle of
larger capacity into the inner case, but it will receive a flat bottle or holder if
desired.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is or may be performed, I claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Latters Patent, the combination of the
telescopic arrangement with the locking arrangement, substantially as and for the
purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic William Garrard, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD. (L.S.)