A New or Improved Blotting Device or Pad, for the Use of Clerks and others.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1898-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1898
TRUVIDIONAL DI MUITIVATION.
A New or Improved Blotting Device or Pad, for the Use of Clerks
and others.
I, MILES HENRY НEMBER, of Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved blotting device for the use of clerks
and others, the object being to provide a simple and handy device designed
to be worn or carried by the finger of the hand, so as to always be ready for use
when required.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I provide a shallow frame, which
may be either round, square, oblong, or of other suitable shape and which is
fitted with a pad of blotting paper or other suitable absorbent material, said frame
or pad being of any desired size.
To the back of the frame carrying the blotting pad I secure in any convenient
manner a ring of sufficient size through which the finger is passed so as to
retain the device in a convenient and handy position so as to always be ready
for use.
A New or Improved Blotting Device or Pad, for the Use of Clerks
and others.
MILES HENRY HEMBER, Laundry Manager, Brentleigh, Westbury-on-Trym, County
of Gloucestershire, 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 :-
My blotting device consists of two parts-a blotting pad and a holder for use
with same.
The holder may be made of any metal or other substance and may be made
in various sizes and either circular or of any other suitable shape (the drawings
shew the circular design). The holder is worn on the finger by means
of a ring or circular band D which is attached by means of rivets and/or
solder to the centre of the flat metal disc A at point E. On either edge of the
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page_text: disc A and exactly opposite are two clips B B, which are about of an inch wide
and project above the disc about of an inch and are also turned inwards
about of an inch, at point C midway between B B is a metal projection turned
upwards of an inch and about of an inch in width, the clips B B and the
projection C are made of one and the same substance and piece with the disc A.
The blotting pad may be made either circular or of any other suitable shape (the
drawing shewing the circular design) and consists of a piece of cardboard For
other suitable material not less than of an inch in thickness and made to the same
shape and size as the holder to be used with it, above this are attached by means
of gum or some suitable mucilage a number of pieces or sheets of blotting
material G of identical shape and size as the foundation of cardboard.
The blotting sheets may be used as an advertising medium.
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 :-
A blotting device which may be worn on either finger of the writing hand by
means of a ring or band and gripping by means of a simple arrangement of clips
a blotting pad consisting of a foundation of cardboard or other material to which
is attached by means of mucilage a number of layers of blotting material which
may be detached one by one as soiled.
The whole device in no way impedes the hand in writing.