IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DAMPENING POSTAGE STAMPS AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND FOR other Pur- POSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Julius Nicolaus Kuhn, of Wimpole Street, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DAMPENING POSTAGE STAMPS AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND FOR other Pur-
POSES A communication from abroad by Wilhain Zsolnay, of Fuut kuchen,
m the Austro-Hungarian Empue
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Julius Nicolaus Kuhn at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th February 1877
JULIUS NICOLAUS KUIN, of Wimpole Street, in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DAMPENING POSTAGE STAMPS AND OTHER
ARTICLES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" A communication from abroad by
William Zsolnay, of Funfkirchen, in the Austro-Hungarian Empue
The improvements consist in the application and use of a cylinder, globe, or
other convenient shaped body of glass, earthenware, metal, or other non-absoi bent
material made to revolve by the action of the fingers of the user in a tray or open
chamber holding water or other liquid, and so that said body may become covered
or charged with liquid for the purpose of dampening stamps and such like, or the
fingers.
The revolving body may be roughened and mounted on axles working in or on
the liquid holling chamber, and to prevent the too speedy evaporation of its
contents the said chamber may have its aperture almost wholly covered by the
revolving body.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Julius Nicolaus Kuhn in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 7th
August 1877
JULIUS NICOLAUS KUHN, of Wimpole Street, in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DAMPENING POSTAGE STAMPS AND
P
OTHER

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ARTICLES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES' A communication from abroad by
William Zsolnay, of Funfkuchen, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
The improvements consist in the application and use of a cylinder, globe, or other
convenient shaped body of glass, earthenware, metal, or other non-absorbent
material made to evolve by the action of the fingers of the user in a tray or open
chamber holding water or other liquid, and so that said body may become covered
or charged with liquid for the purpose of dampening stamps and such like, or the
fingers
The revolving body may be roughened and mounted on axles working in or on
the liquid holding chamber, and to prevent the too speedy evaporation of its
contents the said chamber may have its aperture almost wholly covered by the
revolving body
The Diawing hereunto annexed will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of
performing the Invention, but the same may be performed in various ways without
departing from the nature of the improvements
A is the revolving cylinder, B, the tray or open chamber fitted with journalled
recesses for holding the axles C of the revolving cylinder, between the sides of A
and the 11m of B there need be no more space left than will allow of the free move-
ment of A and a film of water thereon, when in use.
The improvements are to be used by pouring water oi mucilage into the tray B,
over A, or removing A for the purpose
In witness whereof, I, the said Julius Nicolaus Kulin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thud day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
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