IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bloomfield Brower, of the City of New York, in
the County and State of New York, in the United States of America,
fan the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS "
Sealed the 9th October 1874, and dated the 24th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bloomfield Brower at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th June 1874.
I, BLOOMFIELD BROWER, of the City of New York, in the County
and State of New York, in the United States of America, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN INK-
STANDS," to be as follows:-
The said Invention consists in the combination of a funnel-shaped
mouth-piece projecting some distance into the vessel, with a reservoir
inkstand, for the purpose of allowing only the clear fluid ink to be taken
up by the pen.
I construct a reservoir inkstand and arrange to the top of the neck a.
funnel extending into the vessel to within a short distance of the bottom..

page_text: In the bottom of the funnel a small hole is made. This funnel may be
made to form one piece with the top part of the neck, or the same may
be made separate and fitted tight into a suitable hole made in the top
part of the neck.
When the reservoir is filled either through the funnel or through a
suitable opening made in any desired part, and afterwards closed up air-
tight, the ink will stand in the neck on a line level with a small internal
projection always made in reservoir inkstands, and which said level will
be retained in the funnel, as the ink can pass freely into said funnel
through the opening in its bottom. This bottom hole in the funnel is
made very small so that the pen cannot pass through the opening, and
the pen can consequently only take up the clear fluid ink contained in
the bottom of the funnel, while the thick part or sediment of the ink
will remain in the bottom of the inkstand and cannot get to the pen..
On the top of the funnel an internal flansh or projection may be made
to prevent the ink flowing out when the inkstand is tipped forward to
increase the level of the ink in the funnel. When the funnel is in
position in the neck of the reservoir inkstand the level of the ink in the
neck and in the funnel are at all times equal, and no mechanical means
are necessary or employed to accomplish this result, such as the tilting
of the inkstand by means of screws or the opening of vents or valves to
allow the ink to flow into the funnel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Bloomfield Brower in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BLOOMFIELD
BROWER, of the City of New York, in the County and State of New
York, in the United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Bloomfield Brower, Her special licence

page_text: that I, the said Bloomfield Brower, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Bloomfield Brower, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN INKSTANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Bloomfield Brower, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Bloomfield Brower, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The nature of my Invention consists in the combination of a funnel-
shaped mouth-piece projecting some distance into the vessel, with a
reservoir inkstand, for the purpose of allowing only the clear fluid ink
to be taken up by the pen.
In order to explain this Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet
of Drawings hereunto annexed and to the numeral figures and letters of
reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:―
In the accompanying Drawing Figure I. represents a longitudinal
section of an inkstand embodying my Invention; Figure II. is a cross
section at line x, x, Fig. I.
A represents the reservoir with the usual neck B; D is a funnel
attached to the top of the neck B and extending into the vessel below a
line level with the internal projection .W. In this funnel D suitable
openings a are made either in its bottom or in or around its sides, or in
both places, so that ink or air, or both, may pass freely through them.

page_text: Openings may also be made in the neck B if desired. The funnel D
may be made to form one piece with the neck B, or the same may be
made separate and fitted into a suitable hole in the neck B.
The reservoir A. being filled either through the funnel D, neck B, or any
other suitable opening, the ink will stand in the neck B on a line level
with the internal projection W, and which said level will be in the
funnel D, as the ink can pass freely into the same through the opening a.
The opening a being small the pen cannot pass through the same, and
can only take up the clear fluid ink contained in the bottom of the
funnel D, while the thick part or sediment of the ink will remain in the
bottom of the inkstand and cannot get to the pen.
In
my Invention the funnel is provided with a suitable vent or vents
in or around its sides. When the funnel is in position, as shewn in
Fig. I., the level of the ink in the neck and in the funnel are of course
at all times equal, and no meclianical means are employed to accomplish
this result, such as the tilting of the inkstand or opening of vents or
valves.
Having now fully described and set forth my Invention, I hereby
declare that I claim as my Invention and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, the barometer inkstand A, B, provided with a funnel D having a
an opening or openings a placed or fitted so that the ink in the neck
and the ink in the funnel will be on the same level without the employ-
ment of mechanical agencies, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, Bloomfield Brower, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
BLOOMFIELD BROWER. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed in presence of
HENRY E. ROEDER,
Solicitor of Patents,.
302, Broadway,
New York.