AN INK- STAND CONTAINING CARBONACEOUS AND EXTRACTIVE MATTER IN A DRY STATE, WHICH, WITH THE ADDITION OF WATER ONLY, WILL SUPPLY INK
Year: 1820

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MOODY, of Margate, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of January last, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Moody, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said
John Moody, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said John Moody, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein unexpired,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN INK-
STAND CONTAINING CARBONACEOUS AND EXTRACTIVE MATTER IN A DRY STATE, WHICH,
WITH THE ADDITION OF WATER ONLY, WILL SUPPLY INK;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Moody, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Moody, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the following
description of the process of making and producing the same, that is to say:-
The outside of the inkstand may be made of .brass, tin, or other metal, and
of any shape that may be thought-desirable. Within must be introduced a
small vessell, which may be made of lead, earthenware, or glass, with a hole to
admit a pen, in which the composition is placed; and the whole of the interior
is filled up with a cement, which may be made as follows:-Melt two pounds
of sulphur over a slow fire in a glazed pipkin; when melted take it off the fire,
and let it stand ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, until it is of the con-
sistency of oil; then add to it lamp black or any other colour that may be
thought proper, and stir it well together, and then pour it into the inkstand.
The composition or carbonaceous and extractive matter is made and produced
as follows: Take half a pound of fine honey, and the yolk of a new-laid egg,
mix them, and let them stand three days, frequently stirring them well
together; then add half a pint of strong extract of galls, and which extract is
made by infusing one pound and a quarter of best blue galls, powdered, into
three pints of soft or salt water; let them stand for 'six days, often stirring
them; then filter the whole through a fine hair sieve, and evaporate the liquor
to one half (that is to say, one pint and an half), over a gentle fire in an iron
pot. Then take another half pint of the extract of galls, as above prepared,
in which dissolve three ounces of gum arabic, one ounce of white sugar candy,
and one ounce of indigo, all in powder. Then take the remaining half pint of
extract of galls, a half pint of strong decoction of logwood (which decoction
must be made by boiling half a pound of logwood, in powder, in a pint and a
half of soft or salt water, 'until reduced to half a pint), into which put two
ounces of blue galls in powder, two ounces of lamp black, and two ounces of
willow wood charcoal, ground very fine; three ounces of sulphate of iron,
'calcined to whiteness in powder, and stir them well together. Then knead
the whole well together in a marble mortar into a stiff paste, which put into
the stands, and let it harden in the air, over which paste must be placed a
small quantity of cotton that has previously been soaked in vinegar that has
been well saturated with salt.
In witness, I, the said John Moody, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the Twenty-third day of February, One thousand eight hundred
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of
JOHN MOODY. (L.S.)
W YEATES ALBAN,
:
Lincoln's Inn.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-third day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Moody came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-third day of February, in the year above
written.