IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING CARES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Frederick De la Rue, of Bunhill
Row, in the County of Middlesex, and George Waterston, of
Edinburgh, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING
CARES."
Sealed the 17th January 1853, and dated the 6th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the shid William Frederick
De la Rue and George Waterston at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 6th November
1852.
We, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, of Bunhill Row, in the
County of Middlesex, and GEORGE WATERSTON, of Edinburgh, dó
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WRITING CASES" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is, to arrange the necessary parts of a
writing case so as to occupy less space, and consequently to make it
more conveniently portable, and yet so as to carry comparatively large
note paper and a large blotting book; and the improvements consist
in making the back double, or to have folding flaps, to net as a case
10 receive the blotting book and paper.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Frederick De la Rne and George
Waterston in the Great Seal Patent Offico on the 5th May
1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc,
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, of Bunhill Row, in the County of
Middlesex, and GEORGE WATERSTON, of Edinburgh, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said William Frederick De la Rue and
George Waterston, Her special licence that we, the said William
Frederick De la Rue and George Waterston, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Frederick
De la Ruc and George Waterston, our 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
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Islands, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING CASES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William
Frederick De la Rue and George Waterston, or one of us, by an in-
strument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Frederick De la Ruc
and George Waterston, do hereby declare the nature of our said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say):

page_text: The object of this Invention is, to arrange the necessary parts of a
writing case so as to occupy less space, and consequently to make it
more conveniently portable, and yet so as to carry comparatively large
note paper and a large blotting book; and the improvements consist in
making the back double, or to have folding flaps, to act as a case th
receive the blotting book and paper.
.
And in order that the Invention may be more fully understood, we
will proceed to describe the means pursued by us. The description of
writing case to which our improvements apply are those, which are
made to fold in. the manner of a pocket book or portfolio, and wherein
there are formed several pockets or compartments for receiving writing
papers, writing implements, scaling wax, and other articles suitable for
furnishing a writing case. Heretofore in such classes of writing cases
the largest writing paper and blotting book which such a folding writing
case would receive has been about half the size of the writing case when
opened out; and our improvements are directed to the so constructing
of such like folding writing cases that writing paper and a blotting
book may be introduced of nearly the full size of the writing case when
opened out. And we believe the most convenient mode of carrying out
our Invention is, to make the folding covers and back of a writing case
double, using the space between as a pocket or receptacle for a blotting
book, or for the largest classes of writing paper that the writing case is
intended to carry, and which blotting book and larger size of writing
paper will be folded in the act of folding the writing case; but such
folding of the paper or the blotting book will not be a sharp bend so as
to injure the paper or the blotting book. In other respects the interior
of a writing case is to be fitted up as heretofore, and according to the
judgment of the manufacturer. Or, in place of the whole of the back.
of a writing case being double, part of the back may be so made double,
and suitable for receiving a blotting book and also writing paper of a
larger size than the half size of a writing case when opened out, and
this without folding the blotting book or the writing paper injuriously
when the writing case is folded and shut up. In this arrangement the
interior of the writing case is otherwise to be fitted up and finished

page_text: as heretofore, and according to the taste and judgment of the manu-
facturer.
From the above description it will be understood that the object
of the Invention is, so to construct folling writing cases that they may
be made to receive larger blotting books and larger writing paper.
than what is equal to half the size of the case when opened out, such
blotting book or writing paper being received into enclosed or partly
inclosed compartments behind or underneath the other fittings of the
interior of a writing case.
In witness whereof, 1, the said William Frederick De la Ruc,
have hereunto set my haud and seal, this Fifth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
Witness.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE. (L.s.)
S. CARPMAEL.