IMPROVEMENTS, IN EXCISE INK BOTTLES AND OTHER INK BOTTLES AND INKSTANDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Frederick Goodall, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Registrar of Births and Deaths, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS, IN EXCISE INK BOTTLES AND OTHER INK
BOTTLES AND INKSTANDS."
Sealed the 3rd May 1870, and dated the 25th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Frederick
Goodall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th November 1869.
I, EDWIN FREDERICK GOODALL, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Registrar of Births and Deaths, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN EXCISE INK BOTTLES AND OTHER
INK BOTTLES AND INKSTANDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing the said ink bottles and
inkstands in the manner herein-after described, whereby great security
in preventing the escape of the ink on the shaking or inverting of the

page_text: bottle or stand is obtained together with diminished evaporation from
the ink.
I will describe my Invention as applied to an ordinary excise ink
bottle. I make the body of the bottle by preference of a cylindrical
figure, the upper part of the said body being turned inwards and down-
wards so as to form a dipping cup having the figure of a funnel or
inverted cone. Upon this body is fitted a wide neck open at bottom, the
said open bottom being attached to the body in the process of making
so as to form one picco therewith. The said neck expands at its upper
part and its top is turned inwards and downwards so as to form a second
funnel or conical dipping cup, the narrow end of which enters the wide
end of the dipping cup in the body. When ink is poured into the bottle
it passes through the two dipping cups into the body of the bottle, from
which it is taken for use by passing the pin through the two dipping
cups to the bottom of the bottle. On the inversion or shaking of the
bottle any ink which may be projected from the body through the lower
dipping cup enters the space between the upper dipping cup and the
neck, and is retained there until the bottle is restored to its upright
position, when it runs back into the body.
Although my Invention is particularly applicable to ink bottles for
excise officers, collectors, and others who carry an ink bottle with them,
yet my said Invention is also applicable to ink bottles and inkstands for
general purposes.
In applying my said Invention to inkstands for general purposes I
either fit a bottle of the kind described into an ornamental stand for the
table, or I make the body of such a figure and size as is ordinarily
required for office and other table inkstands.
Although for all general purposes the arrangement of dipping' cups
described is sufficient, yet where unusual risk of the spilling of the ink
requires to be provided against three or more of the dipping cups
described may be combined in the same ink bottle or inkstand...In some
cases the neck and dipping cups may be made separate from the body
and afterwards fitted thereto.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of tho Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edwin Frederick Goodall in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
FREDERICK GOODALL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Registrar of Births and Deaths, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in
the thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-.
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edwin Frederick Goodall, Her
special licence, that I, the said Edwin Frederick Goodall, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin.
Frederick Goodall, 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 United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN EXCISE INK BOTTLES AND OTHER INK BOTTLES AND
INKSTANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edwin Frederick Goodall, my executors or administrators, by an in-
strument 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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Frederick Goodall, 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 thercof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing the said ink bottles and ink-
stands in the manner herein-after described, whereby great security in
preventing the escape of the ink on the shaking, or inverting of the bottle

page_text: or stand is obtained together with dimished evaporation from the
ink.
I will describe my Invention as applied to an ordinary excise ink
bottle. I make the body of the bottle by preference of a cylindrical or
conical figure, the upper part of the said body being turned inwards and
downwards so as to form a dipping cup having the figure of a funnel or
inverted cone.
Upon this body is fitted a wide neck open at bottom,
the said open bottom being attached to the body in the process of making
so as to form one piece therewith. The said neck expands at its upper
part and its top is turned inwards and downwards, so as to form a second
funnel or conical dipping cup, the narrow end of which enters the wide
end of the dipping cup in the body. When ink is poured into the
bottle it passes through the two dipping cups into the body of the bottle,
from which it is taken for use by passing the pen through the two
dipping cups to the bottom of the bottle.
On the inversion or shaking of the bottle any ink which may be
projected from the body through the lower dipping cup enters the space
between the upper dipping cup and the neck, and is retained there until
the bottle is restored to its upright position, when it runs back into the
body.
Although my Invention is particularly applicable to ink bottles for
excise officers, collectors, and others who carry an ink bottle with them,
yet my said Invention is also applicable to ink bottles and inkstands for
general purposes.
In applying my said Invention to inkstands for general purposes I
either fit a bottle of the kind described into an ornamental stand for the
table, or I make the body of such a figure and size as is ordinarily
required for office and other table inkstands.
Although for all general purposes the arrangement of dipping cups
described is sufficient, yet where unusual risk of the spilling of the ink
requires to be provided against three or more of the dipping cups
described may be combined in the same ink bottle or inkstand. In some
cases the neck and dipping cups may be made separate from the body and
afterwards fitted thereto.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe

page_text: with reference to the accompanying Drawings the manner in which the
same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation; and Figure 2 in vertical section an
excise ink bottle constructed according to my Invention; Figure 3 is a
plan of Figure 1, and Figure 4 is a horizontal section of Figure 2 taken
on the line a, a. b is the body of the ink bottle in which the ink is
held, and c is the dipping cup in the said body b; d is the wide neck
attached to the body b in the process of manufacture; e is the dipping
cup in the said neck, the narrow end of which dipping cup e enters the
wide end of the dipping cup c in the body. The ink is poured into the
body 6 through the two dipping cups e and c. In using the ink bottle
the pen is passed through the dipping cups e, c, to the well at the
bottom of the body b. On the inversion or shaking of the body b,
when the ink bottle is in use any ink which may be projected from
the body 6 through the lower dipping cup centers the space between
the upper dipping cup e and the neck d, and is retained there until the
bottle is returned to its upright position, when the said ink runs back
into the body b.
Instead of filling the bottle with ink through the two dipping cups
the bottom of the bottle' may be open and closed by a screw cap. This
arrangement of my Invention is represented in elevation in Figure 5; a
plan in Figure 6, vertical section in Figure 7, and horizontal section
in Figure 8, through the line f, Figuro 7. In this arrangement the body b
is open at bottom and is provided with an annular shoulder b² around
which a screwed metallic ring g is cemented. Upon this screwed ring g
a screw cap h is fitted as represented so as to close the open bottom of
the bottle. A washer of india-rubber or leather may be interposed
between the cap / and ring g.
The neck of the ink bottle and the two dipping cups may be made sepa-
rate from the body and afterwards fitted to the body. This arrangement
of my Invention is illustrated in Figures 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the Drawings,
Figure 9 representing an elevation, and Figure 10 a vertical section of
an excise ink bottle constructed in the way described, Figures 11 and 12
are parts of the same separately. In this arrangement the two dipping
cups c, e, and the neck d are made in one piece as shown in the section,
Figure 10, and the said parts c, c, d, are connected to the body b in the

page_text: following manner:-At the junction of the neck with the lower dipping
cup c a metallic ring i is cemented, the said ring being provided with an
internal screw. This ring is shown separately in clevation and plan in
Figure 12. To the summit of the body of the ink bottle a metallic
ring is also cemented, the said ring being provided with an external
screw. The ring k is shown separately in elevation and plan in Figure 11.
By screwing the ring i upon the ring k on the body b the dipping
cups e, c, and neck d are connected to the body b. A washer or ring of
india-rubber or leather is placed between the two rings i, k, to mako a
water-tight joint. When the bottle is to be filled with ink it is only 1
necessary to unscrew the ring i and lift the dipping cups from the body b
to again access to the said body.
Figure 13 represents in clevation, Figure 14 in plan, Figure 15 in
vertical section, and Figure 16 in horizontal section, an office or other
ink bottle constructed according to my Invention. This ink bottle is 1
made in one piece as described with respect to the excise ink bottle
represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the parts are marked with the
same letters of reference.
Figure 17 represents in elevation, and Figure 18 in vertical section,
and Figures 19 and 20 parts of the same, another office or other ink bottle 2
constructed in the manner described with referonce to the excise ink
bottle represented in Figure 9, 10, 11, and 12. In Figures 17, 18, 19,
and 20 the parts are marked with the same letters of reference as cor-
responding parts in Figures 9, 10, 11, and 12.
In constructing an ink stand according to my Invention I combine one 2
or more of the ink bottles described with an ordinary or other stand.
Where desirable more than two of the dipping cups herein-before
described may be combined in the same ink bottle.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do 3
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Inven-
tion; but I claim as my Invention the improvements in excise ink
bottles and other ink bottles and inkstands, herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, that is to say, making the 3
said ink bottles and inkstands with two or more dipping cups above

page_text: one another, substantially as and for the purposes described and illus.
trated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Frederick Goodall, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
EDWIN FREDERICK GOODALL. (L.S.)
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.