A CERTAIN MACHINE, INSTRUMENT, OR PEI CALCULATED TO PROMOTE FACILITY IN WRITING, AND ALSO A CERTAIN BLACK WRITING INK OR COMPOSITION, THE DURABILITY WHEREOF IS NOT TO DE AFFECTED BY TIME OR CHANGE OF CLIMATE
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, FREDERICK
BARTHOLOMEW FÖLSCH, of Oxford Street, in the Parish of Saint James, West-
minster, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, and WILLIAM HOWARD, of
Bedford Street, Lockfields, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Newington, and
County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato at
Westminster, the Fourth day of March last past, for himself, His heirs and
Successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Frederick Bartholomew
Fölsch and William Howard, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by ourselves, or by our deputies, servants, or agents, or such
others as we, the said Frederick Bartholomew Fölsch and William Howard,
our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also
in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of "A
CERTAIN MACHINE, INSTRUMENT, OR PEI CALCULATED TO PROMOTE FACILITY IN
WRITING, AND ALSO A CERTAIN BLACK WRITING INK OR COMPOSITION, THE
DURABILITY WHEREOF IS NOT TO DE AFFECTED BY TIME OR CHANGE OF CLIMATE;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging us, the said
.

page_text: Frederick Bartholomew Fölsch and William Howard, or one of us, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Frederick Bartholomew Fölsh and William Howard, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, in manner following, that is to say:
The machine, instrument, or pen is made of glass, enamel, or any sort of
stone or metal through which a hole can be made or formed. The tube or
hole at the point of the instrument or pen is very small, but becomes larger a
trifling distance therefrom, and is calculated to contain a much greater quantity
of ink than common writing pens. The instrument or pen is polished at the
point in the usual way. The ink or composition is made of Frankfort black
and butter (without salt); the butter is to be melted, and in that state mixed
up with the Frankfort black, then ground very smooth on a stone. The
proportion of the ingredients may be of equal quantities in weight. When the
ink or composition is mixed, and whilst it continues warm, dip a sponge or
other soft substance in it, and smear it regularly over a thin wove writing
paper on one side only; a day or two after that has been done the superfluous
black which appears on the surface of the paper is to be wiped off with a dry
cloth; the paper thus smeared or covered over is to be screwed up very tight
in a press; many sheets may be put in the same press at one time, observing
to place a sheet of blotting paper between each sheet of the smeared paper.
The paper may be taken from the press in about forty-eight hours, and is
generally fit for use in about a month. The object to be attained by the use
of the above Inventions (when used together) is to produce two or more
impressions by one effort in writing, which is thus performed -Take a plate
made of tin (called a tablet) or other hard thin substance the full size of
and place it under the writing paper, then place a sheet of the inked paper or
composition between every sheet of paper to be written or impressed on,
observing to place that side downwards which has been smeared over, then
place a small plane or piece of flat wood upon the whole for the purpose of
resting the hand on, and which will confine the papers in their proper situation,
and prevent the under papers from receiving improper marks. A sufficient
quantity of common writing ink being put into the cavity or tube of the pen,

page_text: proceed to write, and the ink flowing from the point of the tube will give one
impression, and the other impression or impressions will be formed on the
under sheet or sheets from the inked paper or composition. The impression
on the under sheet or sheets are clearest, and best made on thin wove writing
paper, and by a hard pressure of the instrument or pen.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the
First day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and nine.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same First day of April, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Frederick Bartholomew Fölsch and
William Howard came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same First day of April, in the year above written.