and Dressing Case Manufacturer,
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I DAVID
EDWARDS, of King Street, in the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Writing Desk and Dressing Case Manufacturer, send
groeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the twenty-sixth day of February last past, in the sixth year of His reign, gave
and granted unto me, the said David Edwards, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the 'said
David Edwards, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN INKSTAND WHICH IS SO CONSTRUCTED THAT BY MEANS OF PRESSURE THE INE
IS CAUSED TO FLOW FOR USE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained!
a proviso that if I, the said David Edwards, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void;
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
David Edwards, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the

page_text: mauner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed (that is to say):-
My new-invented inkstand is so constructed that by turning the top in one
direction the ink is made to flow from the interior into a small cup on the side
at the lower part of the inkstand, and by turning the top the reverse way
the ink flows back again from the cup to the interior of the inkstand.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 represents the external appearance
of the inkstand complete, and Figure 2 is a section of the same taken perpen-
dicularly through the middle, the similar letters referring to the same parts
respectively in both Figures. a is the external cylinder or case, made of metal
or any other suitable material, which incloses a glass or porcelain cylinder b, b,
exactly fitted to the case, and made fast thereto by plaster of Paris, or any
other thin adhesive composition. In this glass or porcelain cylinder a quantity
of loose horsehair and and wool is placed, and ink poured upon it, which
becomes absorbed by the loose horsehair and wool, and is thereby retained in
the interior of the inkstand. At the lower part of the glass or porcelain
cylinder an aperture c is made, through which the ink is to be forced by
pressing the horsehair and wool. d is a hollow tube attached both to the
outer and inner case on the side of the inkstand opposite to the aperture c.
Into this tube the cup is screwed, its lower extremity being open to the
interior of the hollow tube d. The joints of the tube are made perfectly tight.
On the upper surface of the wool and horsehair a disc of glass f is placed, its
periphery exactly fitting the interior of the glass or porcelain cylinder. The
outer case of the inkstand is covered by a cap g, which screws on to the upper
part, and on the top of this cap the box h, h, is attached. Within the box h is
the sliding tube i, i. k is a central shaft attached to the top piece 7 by its
square head entering a square aperture in the top piece, and which is made
fast thereto by a nut. This central shaft has a screw thread cut round it,
which works in a hollow screw at the upper part of the sliding tube i, and by
the top piece being turned the shaft drives the sliding tube, which, by pressing
upon the top of the glass disc f, forces it down, and thereby compresses the
horsehair and wool, and causes the ink to be driven through the aperture c, up
the tube d, into the cup e.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Edwards, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
DAVID (L.s.) EDWARDS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-sixth day of April, in
year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid David Edwards came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-sixth day of April, in
year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid David Edwards came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,.
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.