Improved Blacking or Plumbago Duster.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improved Blacking or Plumbago Duster.
JAMES HERBERT ROBINSON, 1, Grove Lane, Padiham, Lancashire, Foreman Iron
Moulder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A moulders' blacking bag made of cotton, linen, wool or any other material, has
a wooden handle fastened to it by means of screw nails put through a piece of
leather, or other pliable material which is stitched to the bag preferably at the
mouth. This handle enables the user to shake dust from the bag with shorter
vibrations, and this causes the dust to fall direct on to the mould with less
possibility of it rising, it also enables the bag to be easily tied to the handle to
prevent the contents from escaping at the mouth.
This handle may also be made from wire or other material, or the bag may have
two pieces of wire put through a hem at the mouth of the bag & joined by a hinge
so that when open it facilitates the refilling of the bag. The handle may also be
made to be more easily detatchable by means of a spring clip or other such
contrivance.
Dated this 27th day of September 1898.
Improved Blacking or Plumbago Duster.
I, JAMES HERBERT ROBINSON, 1, Grove Lane, Padiham, Lancashire, Foreman
Moulder, 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 blacking or plumbago duster or bag for
the use of moulders in dusting moulds, or for other similar uses..
My invention consists essentially in providing the bag with a suitable handle, so
that the operation of dusting may be better and more cleanly performed.
According to my invention, I make a moulder's blacking bag of cotton, linen,
wool, or other material in the usual way, and stitch to it preferably at the mouth, a
piece of leather or other pliable and durable material, to which a wooden or other
suitable handle may be fixed or detachably secured thereto. This handle enables
the user to shake dust from the bag with shorter vibrations, and this causes the
dust to fall direct on to the mould with less possibility of it rising; it also enables
the bag to be easily tied to the handle to prevent the contents escaping at the
mouth.

page_text: The handle may also be made from wire or other material, or it may be made to
be more easily detachable by means of a spring clip or such contrivance.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a moulders blacking bag or plumbago
duster, fitted with a handle in accordance with my invention.
A is the bag for holding the blacking or plumbago; B the hem, through which
is passed a piece of tape or the like C. Near the mouth of the bag as shewn is
stitched a piece of leather or other flexible and durable material D, to which is
secured by screws the wooden handle E, or it may be permanently fixed thereto, or
to the bag, or detachably secured by other means, or in place of a wooden handle,
one made of wire or other material may be employed.
The blacking or plumbago having been deposited in the bag, its mouth is closed
by drawing up the hem B by the piece of tape or the like C, which may be then
tied round the handle E.
Instead of being secured by screws to the piece of leather D, the handle E may
be held in position by some such spring clip as F, shewn in dotted lines in the
drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improved blacking or plumbago duster, consisting of bag A provided with
handle E, permanently fixed or detachably secured to the bag or to a piece of
leather or other flexible or durable material D, attached to the bag, substantially as
described and illustrated for the purpose set forth.
LOLL
f Ontaban 1908
RICHMOND & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 12, Standish Street, Burnley.