Improvements in Cover and Adjustable Ink Well.
Year: 1892

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cover and Adjustable Ink Well.
I, ROBERT LYMAN BOYD of 2 Morris Street New York City in the County
and State of New York United States of America Merchant do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to a combined cover and adjustable ink-well for use with
any open-top inkstand.
I provide my ink-well constructed of any approved
material, as glass, rubber, fiber &c., and consisting of a tube the lower portion of
which, forming the ink-well proper, is narrowed and made of conical or other suitable
form and provided at its extremity with an opening conducting into the interior
receptacle of my ink-well.
The exterior of the tubular portion of my ink-well is screw threaded and
adapted to engage an interiorly-threaded opening of an independent disk which
serves as a cover to afford means for protecting the top of an inkstand and also as
a support for my ink-well. By means of the said screw-thread the relation of the
said ink-well and cover may be adjusted so that the ink-well will depend any desired
distance into the ink-reservoir. In order to facilitate the adjustment of the parts,
the upper edge of the tube is preferably provided with an annular flange the
periphery of which may be milled.
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ROBERT LYMAN BOYD,
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cover and Adjustable Ink Well.
I ROBERT LYMAN BOYD Merchant of 2-6 Morris Street New York, State
of New York in the United States of America 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 invention relates to a combined eover and adjustable ink well for use with
any open top inkstand, and has for its object the provision of a device simple in
construction, inexpensive in manufacture and efficient in practical use.
To attain the desired end my invention consists in the construction and
arrangement of parts first fully described and then pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings which form a part of this Specification
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my invention partly broken away;
Figure 2 is a central vertical section and Figure 3 a plan view of the same.

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Referring again to the drawings A represents my ink well constructed of any
approved material as. of glass, but preferably of a non-brittle light material as
rubber, fibre, etc., and consisting of tube A, the lower portion of which A forming
the ink well proper is narrowed and made of conical or other suitable form, and
provided at its extremity with an opening a' conducting into the interior
receptacle of my ink well.
The interior of the tubular portion of my ink well is screw threaded, and adapted
to engage an interiorly threaded opening of a disk Bm which serves as a cover to
afford means for protecting the top of an inkstand, also as a support for my
inkwell A'. By means of the said screw thread the relation of the said ink well A¹
and cover may be adjusted so that the ink well A will depend any desired distance
into the ink reservoir C¹. In order to facilitate the adjustment of the parts, the
upper edge of the tube A is preferably provided with annular flange A², the
periphery of which may be milled.
In practical operation the cover B is placed lonely over the top of the ink
reservoir C and upon grasping the said disk B with one hand and manipulating the
flange A with the other the thereunder located ink well A¹
to descend into the ink which entering the same through the opening a will rise to
may be caused
the height of that in the ink reservoir. It will be observed that my cover and ink-
well may be removed at will from the inkstand.
It is obvious that many slight changes might be made in the construction and
relative arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit and
invention.
scope of my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
The combination of an inkstand with a cover loosely placed upon the top of the
same and removable at will, and provided with an orifice and with a therein
contained vertically adjustable ink well provided with an opening constructed and
arranged to communicate with the reservoir of the inkstand which by grasping the
said cover with one hand and manipulating the ink well with the other, the said
inkwell may be caused to descend into the inkstand reservoir.
Dated this 28th day of July 1893, New York, U.S.A.
ROBERT LYMAN BOYD.