An Improved Blotting Pad.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 15th Jan., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Blotting Pad.
I, EUGEN DIENZ, Merchant, of 45, Kaiser Allee, Burtscheid-Aachen, in the
Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved blotting pad and is shown by the annexed
drawing in which Figs. 1 and 2 are side views of two different forms of construction
and Fig. 3 shows a spring handle for operating the pad.
In this blotting pad the blotting cover b consisting of one piece is secured either
at the one open end of the frame (Fig. 1) or at the two open ends of the frame
Fig. 2 and kept there in an easily exchangeable manner.
In the first case the curved frame a bent out of a piece of plate or the like is open
on one side and, in order to give more stability to the frame and to prevent the form.
from altering the longitudinal edges of the plate a¹ are bent or turned over except
at the inward drawn part a' of the plate a: A conveniently arranged spiral spring,
rubber band or the like c draws the edges of the open end of the frame towards one
another a blotting cover b is slid over the frame a which cover is of larger size than
the frame & so as to allow a projecting end to be pressed into and fixed between the
edges of the open end of the frame. The blotting cover is kept in this position on
the frame (Fig. 1).
The free end 6 of the outer band of the covering b which consists of a band of
blotting paper of convenient width is, after having been used on the lower side,
shifted by drawing the edges of the open frame end apart and then turning the
released paper in the direction of the arrow d round the covering and again fixing it
between the edges of the open frame in such a manner that the upper surface paper
When this second side or
is brought to the lower or operative side of the pad.
surface has also been used the exterior band of blotting paper is simply torn off.
In the blotting pad shown in Fig. 2 the frame consists of two halves a a bent
correspondingly of plate or the like, the longitudinal edges a² a² of which halves are
The two halves a a are
for the greater part of their length bent or turned over.
connected with one another by means of a flat plate h in such a manner that the
opposed edges of the narrow sides of the plates a a are lying always over one another
and can be drawn slightly apart. Over this bipartite frame a a kept together by
the plate & there is slid a covering 6 consisting of a conveniently long band of
blotting paper and pressed in at the places b' so as to lie between the opposed ends
of the plates and kept in this position by a spring or rubber band c arranged in the
frames a. When the under side of the exterior band has been used, the ends of the
frames are drawn apart and the released band of blotting paper is turned over from
the under half of the device over the upper half or invertedly and the same is again
fixed by sliding it into the open ends.
In this manner it is possible to use the blotting paper on both sides; consequently
one or the other half can be used alternately.
Instead of making the pad in an oval form, it could be of circular form and in this
case on the connecting wall there could be provided a handle, or an axle could be

page_text: provided in the blotting roller, which axle connected with a handle allows the pad
being used in a rolling fashion.
The handle g to be provided on these blotting pads can be arranged as shown in
Fig. 3. Here a bow f is connected with the knob g which bow has at its under ends
the inwardly projecting noses f¹ with which it reaches over the edges a² of the
frame a and engages same.
This arrangement together with the spring e fixed across the interior of the bow f,
the ends of which spring lie on the covering of the pad and pass against the same,
effects an elastic fixing of the bow to the pad which gives to the latter a greater
elasticity, when used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
1. An improved blotting pad, in which a blotting covering consisting of one piece
is so placed that its ends can be pressed in between the edges of the frame open at
one end and kept here in a removable manner by means of a spring, rubber band, or
the like arranged in the frame.
2. An improved blotting pad, in which an oval or circular frame consists of two
halves kept together by a plate, over which halves there is placed a blotting covering
consisting of one piece held removably between the opposite lying edges of the
halves by means of a spring or rubber band.
3. In an improved blotting pad as in claim 1 or 2. a handle the bow of which is
provided with a head and fixed by means of the noses f' on the frame a and is kept
in a spring like manner on the pad by means of a spring arranged across the bow and
reposing with its ends on the blotting cover.
Dated this 26th day of October 1897
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.