A New or Improved Ink Well.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb.. 1897-4ccepted, 17th Apr, 1397
CUMI DID OF BALEATION
A New or Improved Ink Well.
I, ALBERT PFLUEGER of 5 New Oxford Street, London W.C. Manufacturer, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in inkwells and has for object to provide
means, which, while admitting a free and full supply of ink to the pen dipped into
the well, tend to prevent waste of ink through overcharging the per and also.
through dust and the like settling on and mixing with the ink rendering it thick
and muddy and unfit for use. A further advantage of my new or improved device.
consists in the ink contained in the well being to a certain extent excluded from
the atmosphere, whereby the rapidity of the evaporation of the liquid is considerably
diminished, causing the ink to remain continually at its proper degree of fluidity as
required for its easy flow from the pen.
My new or improved device consists in a combination of four separate parts,
forming an attachment to the ordinary inkwell, and in order that my invention
may be more readily understood I have hereunto attached a sheet of drawings.
in which
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the new device attached to an inkwell of common
shape, the dipping funnel being shown in its normal i.e. raised position.
Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the dipping funnel pressed down by a pen
inserted into it.
Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate details hereinafter described.
The tube a having at its upper end a shoulder or flange a¹ is made to fit the
aperture of the inkwell w.
The length of tube a is preferably so determined that
its lower end, which may be provided with suitable angular or otherwise conveniently
shaped cuttings as shown in the drawings, does not reach the bottom of the well
when the flange or shoulder a' rests on the rim of the well aperture. The cap b
is adapted to be secured to flange a¹ by friction, screw-threading or in other suitable
manner and has in its cover a circular aperture of smaller diameter than that of
the cap, whereby a flange is formed. Upon the shoulder a' I place a helical
springs of suitable strength and diameter which is made to support the dipping.
funnel e, engaging under the upper rim or flange c¹ of the latter.
The level of ink in the well we must be so arranged that the lower end of the
dipping funnel is normally held free from the ink, and the connection between the
rim of the aperture of the inkwell proper and the tube a may be so contrived as
to admit of the tube a being vertically displaceable so as to be adjustable relative
to the level of the writing fluid. It will be seen that the dipping funnel c supported
by spring is moveable in an upward and downward direction between flanges
and a' on the spring s being depressed or released. The said funnel c (Fig. 3) is
provided at its lower end with a suitably determined preferably circular opening
(Figs. 1 and 2) intended to admit of the passage of the point of the pen p and of the
influx of ink into the funnel when the latter is depressed.
It is thus obvious that if the pen pis being dipped into the funnel, the latter is
easily depressed in a downward direction, entering the ink and allowing it to flow into
the lower portion of the funnel (Fig. 2) and so supplying the pen p, the point of
which passes through the opening in the bottom of the funnel, with any desired

page_text: quantity of ink according to the adjustment of the lowermost position of the dipping
funnel relative to the level of the ink in the well.
On withdrawing the pen p, the helical springs returns the dipping funnel to its
normal position (Fig. 1) allowing the ink that had entered the funnel, to flow
back into the well.
The various parts of the device may be made of glass, vulcanite, metal or any other
suitable material and be ornamented in any convenient manner.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
In inkwells the application of a dipping device consisting of tube a cap b, dipping
funnel c and springs, substantially as and for the purpose set forth and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
The both of hun1907
ALBERT PFLUEGER.