Improvements in and relating to Ink Wells.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
COMT EIN DE MULT TOATION
[Communicated from abroad by STEPHEN OLIN JOHNSON, of 810, Second
Avenue, in the City of Detroit, Wayne County and State of Michigan,
United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in and relating to Ink Wells.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bu
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
The invention consists in the peculiar construction of a safety or fountain
ink stand, comprising a well, with a perforated top in which is a dipping tube, and
besides which is a bulb adapted to be touched by the finger of the writer for raising
the ink within the tube in the act of dipping the pen therein.
The invention further consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement and
combination of the various parts
In the drawings,
Fig. is a vertical central section through au nk well embodying my invention
and showing it as being used.
Fig. 2 is a similar section showing the bulb depressed and the ink held in the
dipping tube.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through a series of ink wells embodying my
invention iu slightly modified construction.
A is the body, preferably of glass, having a well B formed therein. This may
be done by forming the well from the top, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or by forming
the well from the bottom, as shown in Fig. 3, and then inserting a bottom plate C,
engaging against shoulders D and held in place by suitable cement. The latter
construction I deem preferable as the cheapest to manufacture.
In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I place on the top a cover D', which
is preferably cemented or otherwise permanently secured in position.
In Fig. 3 the top is cast or formed integial with the well. In either event I provide
two apertures a b, side by side through the top. In one is inserted the dipping tube E,
baving a flauing cup shaped top F, the lower end of which projects to near the bottom
of the well, as plainly shown in the drawing.
In the aperture a, is inserted the nipple c, formed at the inner edge of the
ring shaped based of the pressure bulb e of rubber or other suitable elastic
material.
The base d rests upon the top around the aperture a and the bulb e covers the
base and nipple, as plainly shown in the drawing.
The parts being thus constructed their operation is as follows. The operator
holds the pen in the usual manner, with the thumb and first finger and in dipping
the pen into the stand can easily strike the bulb with the third finger, depressing
it as shown in Fig. 1, which will force the air from the bulb into the well and
thereby force the ink up into the dipping tube and into the cup F upon the point of
the pen.
If the writer desires to have the ink penanently in the dipping tube it can be
done by depressing the bulb, as shown in Fig. 2, to cover the mouth of the nipple,
when the difference in pressure due to the difference in area on the upper and lower
face of the bulb will hold the bulb in its lower position and thus hold the ink in
the dipping tube, until the side of the bulb is touched to break the contact of the

page_text: bulb with one side of the top of the nipple, when the ink will run back into the
well from the tube.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
1. In an ink well, the combination of the body, having an apertured top, a
dipping tube extending from near the bottom through the top, a pressure bulb
and a contracted nipple on the bulb secured in an aperture in the top, substantially
as described.
2. The combination with an ink well having an apertured top, a dipping tube
extending from near the bottom and having a flaring mouth above the top, a
pressure bulb having a flat base resting on the top of the well around one of the
apertures, and an integral nipple extending centrally therefrom through the top,
substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of October 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.