IM- PROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Paul Raoul de Faucheux d'Humy, of Paris, in
the Republic of France, but at present of 35, Southampton
Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Paul Raoul de Faucheux
d'Humy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th July 1873.
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I, PAUL RAOUL DE FAUCHEUX D'HUMY, of Paris, in the Republic
of France, but at present of 35, Southampton Buildings, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in inkstands whereby
the ink may when required for use be readily introduced into the vessel,
and when not required may be withdrawn from the ink vessel into
a separate chamber or vessel having only a small opening commu-
nicating with the air in the ink vessel. For this purpose I connect with

page_text: the ink vessel by means of a suitable tube a separate chamber in which
the ink is generally contained. This chamber may be in the form of an
india-rubber ball or of a cylinder and piston, or of any other convenient
shape or arrangement, and the tube connecting it with the ink vessel
communicates with the lowermost part of the ink vessel either by
passing to the under side thereof or by passing over the lip or from any
other part thereof.
The separate chamber is provided with a lever, screw, or other means,
whereby, when desired, it may be compressed and the ink caused to pass
from such chamber to the ink vessel, and where required a catch may be
employed to retain the chamber in a compressed state so as to maintain
the supply of ink in the ink vessel.
Two or more ink vessels with parts arranged according to my In-
vention may be combined on a single stand, and they may be operated
either separately or collectively, as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Paul Raoul de Faucheux d'Humy in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Paul
RAOUL DE FAUCHEUX D'HUMY, of Paris, in the Republic of France,
but at present of 35, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Paul Raul de Faucheux d'Humy, Her
special licence that I, the said Paul Raoul de Faucheux d'Humy, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Paul Raoul de Faucheux d'Humy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
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page_text: In the various Figures of which similar parts are marked with similar
letters of reference a are the ink vessels, and 6 are separate chambers
connected to the ink vessels by tubes c of india-rubber or other suitable
material. These separate chambers may be formed, as shown in the
Drawings, of india-rubber balls or they may be in the form of pistons
and cylinders, or of any other suitable form.
In Figures 1, 2, and 3, screws d are shown as the means of com-
pressing the separate chambers 6 and thereby supplying the ink vessels a
with ink when desired, whilst the elasticity of the separate chambers b
causes the ink to be withdrawn from the ink vessels a when not required
for use, and when permitted by the raising of the screw d. At Figure 1
my Invention is shown applied to an inkstand having two ink vessels a
mounted thereon, and the separate chambers 6 of which are simulta-
neously operated by the screw d, but if desired two screws may be
applied to such inkstand so as to enable each separate chamber 6 to
be operated independently of the other. At Figure 2 is shown an
inkstand having a single ink vessel mounted thereon, and at Figure 3
the ink vessel a and the separate chamber band tube c are shown
enclosed within an outer case or inkstand e.
At Figure 4 I have shown the separate chamber 6 to be operated by
a leverf which can be held in any desired position by one or other of
the catches g. At Figure 5 I have shown a plunger or rod h as the
means of operating the separate chamber b, and a toothed rack i acting
upon the projection h¹ as the means of retaining the separate chamber 6
in the position desired, whilst at Figure 6 I have shown my Invention
applied to a pocket inkstand. In this latter case the ink vessel a is con-
nected to the separate chamber 6 by a very short tube c, and the
inkstand e is formed of two parts, one of which (e¹) is capable of
screwing within the other e, and thereby compressing the separate
chamber 6 and so causing the ink to rise into the ink vessel or dipping
cup a.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the employment in inkstands of a separate chamber or
vessel 6 to contain the ink when the ink is not required for use, such
separate chamber 6 being connected to the ink vessel a by a tube c and
operated by a screw, lever, or plunger, in manner substantially as herein
shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Roul de Faucheux d'Humy
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
DE FAUCHEUX D'HUMY. (L.S.)