AN IMPROVED POCKET BOOK PORTABLE INK
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Julius Albert Berly, of No. 9, Rolf Road, Peckham Rye,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED POCKET BOOK
PORTABLE INK." A communication from abroad by Monsieur Eugène Plateau,
22. Rue des Archives. Paris.
Sealed the 8th June 1877, and dated the 13th December 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Julius Albert Berly at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December 1876.
JULIUS ALBERT BERLY, of No. 9, Rolf_Road, Peckham Rye, in the County of
Surrey. AN IMPROVED POCKET BOOK PORTABLE INK."
"
I soak in strong solutions of various powerful colouring matters, principally
aniline dyes, paper, felt, cotton, wool, or any other absorbing substances, or of such
nature as gelatine, isinglass, etc., capable of giving very strong solutions though manu-
factured in thin sheets, in the shape of either tape, fuse-like thick threads, or light
fabrics, and I thus produce a portable kind of ink, which only requires a little water
to give in a few minutes a sufficiently strong ink.
I do not limit myself to any colour, and make the ink sometimes of a copying
nature by means of the usual additions; and I also sometimes use as solutions
what are generally known as sympathetic inks, thereby producing an agreable toy
or subject of amusement.
I also provide ready means of dividing the impregnated substances, especially
paper, which I use in a perforated state like postage stamp sheets, so as to render
it quite easy to divide the little sheets in small fragments of known colouring power
without scissors, penknife, or the action of tearing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Julius Albert Berly in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th
June 1877.
JULIUS ALBERT BERLY, Civil Engineer, of No. 9, Rolf Road, Peckham Rye,
London, S.E., in the County of Surrey. "AN IMPROVED POCKET BOOK PORTABLE
INK." A communication from abroad by Monsieur Eugène Plateau, 22, Rue des
Archives, Paris.

page_text: I-soak in strong solutions of various powerful colouring matters, principally
aniline dyes, paper, cotton, felt, wool, or any other absorbing substances, or of such
nature like gelatine, isinglass, etc., capable of giving very strong solutions though
manufactured in thin sheets in the shape cither of tape, fuse-like thick threads, or
light fabrics, and I thus produce a portable kind of ink which only requires a little
water to give in a few minutes a sufficiently strong ink.
I do not limit myself to any colour, and make the ink sometimes of a copying
nature by means of the usual additions, and I also sometimes use as solutions what
are generally known as sympathetic inks, thereby producing an agreable toy or
subject of amusement.
I also provide ready means of dividing the impregnated substances, especially
paper, which I use in a perforated state like postage stamps sheets, so as to render
it quite easy to divide the little sheets in small fragments of known colouring power
without scissors, peuknife, or the action of tearing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Julius Albert Berly, have heretofore set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven, A.D.