AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POCKET PENCILS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Frederic Cooke, of 105, Cannon St.,
London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF POCKET PENCILS."
71
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Frederic Cooke
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th September 1871.
I, JOHN FREDERIC COOKE, of 105, Cannon St., London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF POCKET PENCILS," to be as follows:-
I manufacture them wholly or in part of glass or pottery ware, that is
to say, I take an ordinary pocket pencil, and in lieu of the ordinary
case or cover I substitute a glass tube or pottery ware, which tube
be left open at one end or at both ends.as occasion requires.
:
may

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Frederic Cooke in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd March 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FREDERIC COOKE, of 105, Cannon Street, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Frederic Cooke, Her special
licence that I, the said John Frederic Cooke, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Frederic
Cooke, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POCKET PENCILS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Frederic Cooke, 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 Invention, 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 John Frederic Cooke; 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 :-
I manufacture them wholly or in part of glass or pottery ware, that is
to say, I take an ordinary pocket pencil, and in lieu of the ordinary
case or cover I substitute a tube of glass or pottery ware, and this
tube may be left open at one end or at both ends as occasion requires.
In order that my Invention may be readily understood reference is
made to the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents the

page_text: tube a open at both ends, and fitting over the inner or metal tube b, and
is kept in position by the screw head c, which takes on and off.
Fig. 2 shews the same arrangement, with the exception of the tube a
being open at one end only, and is fitted on by cement or any other
suitable means.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to be secured
to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for the improvement
in pocket pencils, substantially as herein described and shewn on
accompanying Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Frederic Cooke, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this 22nd day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN FREDERIC COOKE. (L.S.)