IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR CONTAINING STATIONERY AND OTHER APPLIANCES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Griffith Brewer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th August 1881. A. communication
from abroad by Francois Rémy Grumel, of Paris, France.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR CONTAINING STATIONERY AND
OTHER APPLIANCES." A communication from abroad by Francois Rémy Grumel,
of Paris, France.
This Invention refers to improvements as hereafter described in articles for
holding writing and other papers, such as writing cases, pads, and the like.
The articles constructed according to this Invention are preferably composed of
two parts made of card or other suitable material, united by a back piece which
may be of flexible material so as to form a hinge, then the whole is covered with
skin, moleskin, paper, cloth, or other convenient material. A convenient way of
making the cases is of pieces of material united by a back forming a hinge, and
the space between reserved for containing paper, envelopes, blotting-paper and
other articles. Independently of their use by merchants and other people, these
articles may be otherwise extensively used; they are, for example, useful for
correspondence in public establishments, cafés, hotels, buffets of railways, and other
places, reading, waiting, and assembly rooms, passenger boats, and other places;
and this being the case, these articles are particularly applicable as means for
publishing or making known commercial commodities and other articles or things,
and this way the notices in these cases or pads are as it were forced upon the users
thereof.
In principle this application consists in utilizing external or internal plates or
tablets containing writing and other materials, as well as the announcements of the
articles or things to be published or made known to the individuals or persons
using the articles forming the subject of this Invention; the top only of the upper-
plate may be utilizied for the placing or insertion of announcements and other
information generally, but it should be understood that the bottom of the plates
and the top of the pocket may also be equally thus utilized, although the person
who uses the case or blotting pad constructed as aforesaid will be compelled
to open it to take out the paper, envelopes, or other articles that may be
required.

page_text: The second part of this Invention refers to the application of such articles as
those before referred to, of an inkholder and pen and pencil holder; travellers and
others when their correspondence is finished as a rule leave the pen on the table; it
is lost or mislaid; so that when another person comes it is necessary to look for
another pen, or if the servant or clerk has removed the ink and pen, often he or
she does not remember where he has placed them, and he or she is obliged to
search for another; to avoid this inconvenience they are secured to the writing
cases or pads themselves; on one of the sides, either to the right or left, or at top
or bottom, I provide a small box which may be made of wood, cardboard, or other
suitable material; it contains inside an inkholder, one or several penholders, one or
several pencils, and if desired any other office accessories; however as these cases
or pads have to be placed in the hands of the public to be used by them at
discretion, it is considered that for general uses an inkholder, a penholder, and pencil
will be sufficient. The box should be placed in the bottom to the detriment of
the top, but nothing prevents making the two parts of the same size; in this case
an opening is only kept for the inkstand. A more simple arrangement is where
the tablet carries one or more holders in which the penholder and pencil or holder is
or are placed, and at its end is the inkholder. The tablet which receives the
notices is naturally smaller than the tablet in order to open it and take the paper
in the case; the interior pocket of the latter may be plain or bellows shaped. These
pads or cases may of course be made with or without the addition thereto of the
notices and announcements before referred to.
These articles may be made of any form or shape, ornamented or decorated as
fancy or taste may dictate, and made, with or without places for notices, designs,
and other announcements, of any suitable material with or without the fittings for
writing materials.