of APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MANIFOLD WRITING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Whitford Hosking, of Manchester, in
"" IMPROVED
the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MANIFOLD WRITING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Whitford
Hosking at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th November 1874.
I, ALBERT WHITFORD HOSKING, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MANIFOLD WRITING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an apparatus to be employed in manifold
writing for the purpose of giving intermittent motion to the carbonized
paper (or other similar transfer medium used for giving the impression)
in order to change the position of the same as often as may be required
so as to present a fresh portion theroof to the action of the style or
other instrument used in writing, the object of the Invention being
to economize the use of the carbonized paper or other material employed
and to prevent the soiling of the fingers by the handling thereof; it

page_text: also prevents the mislaying of the carbonized paper, as the same is at all
times attached to the tablet or desk where it is employed.
The Invention consists principally in the employment for this purpose
of a pair of rollers in connection with a tablet for writing upon. One
end of a length of the paper or other material employed being attached
to cach roller, and the bulk of the paper being wound on to one of the
rollers, it will be evident that if an intermittent motion be imparted to
the empty roller the paper will be gradually wound thereon and
unwound from the roller, which was at the first full. The carbonized
paper or other material on its passage from one roller to the other passes
over the tablet and is then utilized for the manifold writing in the usual
The roller, to which motion is given, may be actuated by hand
in any convenient manner, for instance, the milled edge of a disc or
wheel keyed thercon may project through a slot in the tablet, or at one
end or sido thereof, so as to be conveniently moved by hand, and the
other end of the roller may be provided with a ratchet wheel and click.
This will serve a twofold purpose, firstly, to prevent the roller from being
turned in the wrong direction; and secondly, to give notice by the sound
of the click that the paper has been moved, one tooth being quite
sufficient distance for each removal to present a fresh surface.
manner.
Instead of employing two rollers, as above described, the same effect
may be produced by attaching the carbonized paper or other material
to a frame or bar moving in slides and actuated by hand in a similar
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Albert Whitford Hosking in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBERT
WHITFORD HOSKING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and

page_text: successors, give and grant unto me, the said Albert Whitford Hosking,
Her special license, that I, the said Albert Whitford Hosking, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Albert
Whitford Hosking, my exccutors, 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MANIFOLD WRITING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Albert Whitford
Hosking, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, 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 I, the said Albert Whitford Hosking, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to
say):
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This Invention relates to an apparatus to be employed in manifold
writing for the purpose of giving intermittent motion to the carbonized
paper (or other similar transfer medium used for giving the impression)
5 in order to change the position of the same as often as may be required,
so as to present a fresh portion thereof to the action of the style or other
instrument used in writing, the object of the Invention being to
economize the use of carbonized paper or other material employed,
and to prevent the soiling of the fingers by the handling thereof; it
also prevents the mislaying of the carbonized paper, as the same is at
all times attached to the tablet or desk where it is employed.
The Invention consists principally in the employment and use for
this purpose of a pair of rollers in connection with a tablet for writing
upon. One end of a length of the paper or other material employed
being attached to each roller, and the bulk of the paper being wound on
to one of the rollers, it will be evident that if an intermittent motion be
imparted to the empty roller the paper will be gradually wound therein

page_text: The car-
and unwound from the roller, which was at first full.
bonized paper or other material on its passage from one roller to the
other passes over the tablet and is there utilized for the manifold writing
in the usual manner. The roller, to which motion is given; may be
actuated by hand in any convenient manner, for instance, the milled
edge of a disc or wheel keyed thereon may project through a slot in the
tablet, or at one end or side thereof, so as to be conveniently moved by
hand, and the other end of the roller may be provided with a ratchet
wheel and click. This will serve a twofold purpose, firstly, to prevent
the roller from being turned in the wrong direction, and secondly, to
give notice by the sound of the click that the paper has been moved,
one tooth being quite sufficient distance for each removal to present a

page_text: pawl or click i, i, to take up a fresh tooth upon the ratchet wheel h, h,
(as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2) it will cause the roller f¹, f¹,
to turn slightly, and by winding on a portion of the carbonized paper to
present a fresh surface to be acted upon in writing, at the same time
that the hinged plate c, c, can be raised as far as required for introducing
fresh paper to be written upon, without in any way acting upon the car-
bonized paper, as often as may be deemed desirable, and then when the
impression becomes faint by merely raising the plate c, c, to its full
height a fresh surface will be presented.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that
I claim as my Invention,―
Firstly. The employment of a pair of rollers in connection with car-
bonized paper or other similar material, and a tablet or desk for writing
upon, substantially in the manner herein-before described and illustrated
by the Drawings annexed.
And, Secondly. I claim the combination of a single roller and car-
bonized paper, or other similar material, with a frame or bar moving in
slides in connection with a tablet or desk for writing upon, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Whitford Hosking, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
ALBERT WHITFORD HOSKING. (L.S.)
Witnessed by
JOHN HUGHES,
Clerk to George Davies, C.E.,
Patent Office,
St. Ann's Square,
Manchester.