AN IMPROVE- MENT IN INK BOTTLES OR INK VESSELS
Year: 1855

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said George Frederick Morrell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th June 1855.
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I, GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, Ink
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN INK BOTTLES OR INK VESSELS" to be as follows:
The object of this Invention is to construct ink bottles or ink vessels of such
a form as to render them less liable to injury' when' containing ink and packed,,
and also more convenient for use as inkstands than ordinary ink bottles in
which ink is sent from place to place and sold. Ink bottles as heretofore
made have had necks, which, protruding from the bodies, have not only been
liable to be broken off.when packed, but such projecting necks have interferred
with and have prevented the convenient use of such vessels as inkstands or ink
vessels into which pens are to be dipped. Now, the object of my improvement.
is so to construct ink bottles that whilst they offer a convenient means for
sending out ink therein, each bottle shall offer (when the cork or stopper is

page_text: removed) a convenient ink vessel into which pens may be dipped. For this
purpose each bottle, as heretofore, is made with only one opening into it, but in
place of that opening being a projecting neck, as heretofore, the upper portion
of the vessel where the neck is usually formed is made flush, or nearly flush,
or only slightly projecting, and a tubular opening or passage is formed, which
descends into the vessel and is open at its lower end. The bottle or vessel is
filled through the tubular opening or passage at top, which is made suitable
for receiving a cork or stopper, and such opening is used as the dipping place
for pens.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Frederick Morrell in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th December 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, Ink Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of. Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Frederick Morrell, Her special licence that I, the said George
Frederick Morrell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Frederick Morrell, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN INK; BOTTLES OR INK VESSELS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Frederick Morrell, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Frederick Morrell, 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 thereof (that is to say):

page_text: The object of this Invention is to construct ink bottles or ink vessels of such
a form as to render them less liable to injury when containing ink and packed,
and also more convenient for use as inkstands than ordinary ink bottles in
which ink is sent from place to place and sold. Ink bottles as heretofore
made have had necks, which, protruding from the bodies, have not only been
liable to be broken off when packed, but such projecting necks have interfered
with and have prevented the convenient use of such vessels as inkstands or ink
vessels into which pens are to be dipped. Now, the object of my improvement
is so to construct ink bottles, that whilst they offer a convenient means for
sending out ink therein each bottle shall offer (when the cork or stopper is
removed) a convenient ink vessel into which pens may be dipped. For this
purpose each bottle, as heretofore, is made with only one opening into it, but
in place, of that opening. being a projecting neck, as heretofore, the upper
portion of the vessel where the neck is usually formed is made flush, or nearly
flush, or only slightly projecting, and a tubular opening or passage is formed,
which descends into the vessel and is open at its lower end. The bottle or
vessel is filled through the tubular opening or passage at top, which is made
suitable for receiving a cork or stopper, and such opening is used as the dipping
place for pens.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section and plan of a cylindrical ink bottle of
earthenware or glass constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 shows
a plan and section of a square ink bottle according to my Invention; and
Figure 3 is a section and plan of an ink bottle according to my Invention
with six sides.
I would here state that the form of the bottle may be varied, but it is
desirable to have them of such external forms as will admit of the largest
number being packed in a given space; and the object of the Invention is to
dispense with, or for the most part to dispense with, a protruding neck (that is,
a neck which stands above the upper part of a bottle), and to cause the open-
ing into the bottle to descend into it to such an extent as to admit of receiving
a cork or stopper. The object of my Invention is to facilitate packing, and to
avoid breakage, which very commonly takes place at the neck, where it pro-
trudes above the upper surface of a bottle. Each bottle is made with only one
opening or internal and descending neck into it (a). The upper edge of this
descending neck a, it is preferred, should be level with or only slightly above

page_text: the upper parts of the bottle, and the upper parts of a bottle may be made
slightly concave, so that the outer edges or circumference may be somewhat
higher than the central parts where the descending neck is formed. In those
cases where, in addition to the neck of a bottle descending into the interior, it
is also made to protrude to some extent outwards, the bottom of the bottle may
with advantage be made somewhat concave outwards, so that, in packing and
piling one ink bottle on another, any portion of the neck of one which protrudes,
and also its cork or stopper, may (by reason of such form of the bottom) come
within the concave bottom of the next bottle above. In the descending neck a
is a small air hole, as is shown at b, which will facilitate the filling of the bottle
with ink to a greater extent (according to the position of the air hole) than
could readily be the case unless a bent tube or other contrivance be resorted to
for the passage away of the air (in-the upper part of a bottle) when filling the
bottle with ink.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Morrell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. PITT,
4, Old Square.
GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL. (L.S.)