IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR DRAWING OR MARKING
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLE, of the Patent Office, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Tenth day of December, in the ninth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Moses
Poole, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, adiñiors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE
USED FOR DRAWING OR MARKING," communicated to me from abroad; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Moses Poole,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in.
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention com-
municated to me, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,

page_text: are fully described in and by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):
:-
The Invention relates to a mode of constructing and arranging blades in
steel or other suitable material for sharpening lead, crayon, chalk, or other
materials to be used for drawing and marking; but in order that the Invention
may be better understood, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed, in which Figure 1 represents the holder into which the lead, chalk, or
other material to be employed for marking or drawing is introduced; Figure 2
shows the material to be sharpened. The letter A, in Figure 3, represents
the button by which the lead or chalk is raised or lowered as required.
Figure 4 shows the external view of the upper part of the holder, in which
is placed an apparatus of steel blades.. (or drills) for pointing and sharpening
the material employed. This part is screwed on the upper part of the holder.
Figure 5 shews the apparatus of steel blades, seen separately on a larger
scale, for pointing or sharpening the lead or other materials to be used for
marking or drawing. This is composed of a series of small sharp blades. The
degree of sharpness these blades are to have will depend upon the thickness
of the lead or other material employed; the number of these blades may bo
varied; and when the lead or chalk is required to be pointed all that is to. be
done is to introduce the lead or other material among the interior of the
blades (or drill), to which you a give a moving of rotation till the degree of
fineness wanted is given to it. And it is the arrangement of these blades (or
drill) for the purpose of pointing the materials to be employed for the marking
or drawing that constitute the Invention; and the blades may be arranged in
separate cases, made of wood, silver, or any other material, or combined with
the instruments for holding.
Having described the Invention, and the manner of performing the same, I
would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
herein given, so long as the character of the Invention be retained; but what
I claim as the Invention communicated to me, is, the mode of constructing
and arranging blades for sharpening materials to be used for drawing and
marking, whether combined with the holders or kept in separate cases, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
MOSES (L.s.). POOLE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.