Improvements in and relating to Ink-stands.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ink-stands.
1, JOHN SOMERVILLE of 2 Dalkeith Street, Joppa, in the County of Midlothian,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to and comprises the application of certain useful
attachments or fittings to, and in combination with portable "ink stands
"ink-
bottle and pen receptacles or racks, or cases, also applicable to the like stands and
cases though not portable when fitted up in front of writing desks, which improve-
ments and their combinations therewith will make such stands, cases, or desks more
valuable than heretofore for giving appropriate imformation to the users, as well as
making them a new and valuable means or medium of advertisement generally.
The nature and novelty of the invention or improvements consist in forming or
fitting on and over the horizontal sole or case carrying the ink bottles and pens,
and at the back of these, a new narrow vertical or backwardly angled case or frame
to show the front, preferably closed in with a portable removable or hinged lid or
side, for inserting a small printed yearly calendar or a set of these suitable for a
number of years for being removed as their terms expired. This upright case
would preferably have a glass in front to protect and show the calendar or other
printed matter inside through it, or it might be an ornamental fixed sheet with
perforations in it to show the movable calendar through; and it may be made the
whole or only a part of the length of the horizontal stand or case, as found desirable
for the shape of calendar, and the other printed information to be shown. The
calendar might be made of any of the usual square or longitudinal forms according
to the arrangement and ruling of their date and monthly columns; and the usual
information as to the terms, bank holidays, stamps, postal and telegraph arrange-
ments and other information generally given and required in business, would be
printed on the permanent front card at the sides or under the yearly calendars,
when these are made on separate removable sheets or cards which would be fitted
in retaining pockets inside of and show through a rectangular opening formed in
the front card.
In addition to the said yearly calendar and other information given in this
upright case, it would have fitted in it, preferably at the top or sides an arrangement
of large printed and shifting tapes on rollers or discs, one with the days of the
week, and the other with the dates, both to be set each morning, and a third with
the names of the month to be turned and set on the first of each month, each
actuated by turning finger knobs outside the edges of the case, the days of the week
and dates, and months showing through slits formed for the purpose through the
front permanent card; or otherwise this arrangement of large shifting or turning
and setting printed tapes or discs with the dates and names of the days of the
week, and months might all be fitted in a small separate or portable case mounted
vertically or horizontally to show in front on the top of the new upright calendar
case.
This new or improved calendar case would by a further improvement be used as
a new means or medium of advertising, by utilizing a portion of its front card, face,
or glass, for the trade cards, labels, or names of articles and addresses of the firms

page_text: making or selling the articles, such as all kinds of stationery articles required by
offices and places of business where such ink stands are used, or other special or
general goods or articles for the benefit of the manufacturers or merchants making
or dealing in these, who might make and distribute these ink stands in great
numbers for the benefit to be gained by this special mode of advertising.
These ink-stands or cases might be made all substantially as heretofore of a
simple sole, or case with drawers, and either out of fancy woods, or in cast or sheet
metal painted, japanned, and ornamented, and the new upright calendar case or
stand added, generally would be made of the same character and materials as the
ink-stand, and might have a small mirror fitted in front in addition to the glass
front and calendar or the whole protecting glass front plate might be dispensed
with when this front is made of sheet or other metal which could be ornamented
and have the recesses formed in it for the movable calendars with glass fitted only
in these recesses and a special recess made for the mirror when that is used and all
the available space not occupied by these recesses could be used all as described
for printing or writing the information and business advertisements all substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Dated the 2nd do of Tul 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ink-stands.
I, JOHN SOMERVILLE, of 2 Dalkeith Street, Joppa, in the County of Midlothian,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, that is to say:-
This invention relates to and comprises the application of certain useful
attachments or fittings to, and in combination with portable "ink stands" ink-
bottle and pen receptacles or racks, or cases, also applicable to the like stands and
cases though not portable when fitted up in front of writing desks, which improve-
ments and their combinations therewith will make such stands, cases, or desks more
valuable than heretofore for giving appropriate information to the users, as well as
making them a new and valuable means or medium of advertisement generally.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, in which the same reference letters
and numerals are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where
shown.
Figure 1 is a front perspective elevation of a portable combined ink-stand and
perpetual calendar as formed in accordance with my improvements.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the upper part of the case, shown in Figure 1
detached with the front cover removed to show the internal arrangements of the
rollers and fittings for moving the days, dates, months and years.
And Figure 3 shows sectional views of a slightly different arrangement from that
shown in Figures 1 and 2, for indicating and shifting the days and dates either
combined or separately.
Referring to these drawings:-
The improvements consist in forming or fitting on and over the horizontal sole or
case A carrying the ink bottles and pens, and at the back of these, a new narrow
vertical or backwardly angled case or frame A¹ to show the front, preferably closed
in, with a portable removable or hinged lid A" on top, for inserting a small printed
yearly calendar or a set of these suitable for a number of years for being removed as
their term expired, or which may act as a perpetual calendar as shown in the drawing.
This upright case A' would preferably have a glass in front to protect and show

page_text: the calendar or other printed matter inside through it, or it might be an ornamental
fixed sheet with peforations in it at the parts to show the movable daily and
monthly parts of the calendar through; and it may be made the whole length as
shown or only a part of the length of the whole or only a part of the length of the
horizontal stand or case, as found desirable for the shape of calendar, and the other
printed information to be shown. The calendar might be made of any of the usual
square or longitudinal forms, on stiff varnished paper according to the arrangement
and ruling of their date and monthly columns, either arranged vertically as shown,
or horizontally at right angles to that; and the usual information as to the terms,
stamp, postal, and telegraph arrangements and other information generally given
and required in business, would be printed at say A2 on the front card at the sides or
under the yearly calendars. In addition to the said yearly calendar and other
information given in this upright case A', it would have fitted in it, preferably at.
the top or sides, arrangements of large printed and shifting tapes on rollers or
discs, one B with the days of the week, and the other with the dates both to be
set each morning, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, or which can both be moved simul-
taneously as hereinafter described in reference to Figure 3; and a third C with the
names of the month to be turned and set on the first of each month, each actuated
by turning finger knobs B', ', C', outside the edges of the case A', the days of the
week and dates, and months showing through slits formed for the purpose through
the front permanent card. In the arrangement shown in Figure 3 the days and dates
are shown as printed on endless bands, and the day band being traversed over two
rollers B, B2, by turning round the hand knob B' on the upper roller B, which has
pins on it to grip the slots B" on the band. While the date band is traversed over
rollers b, 2, by turning round the handle on the lower roller 2. Or, and as is
preferred both day and date bands can be moved simultaneously by pushing in the
knob B of the roller B which is made hollow to slip over the spindle 6 of the
roller b, and has a pin or pins in it to couple or engage at 11 against pins in an
annular groove in the roller , and thus turn both at the same time. While these
can be separately moved by pulling out the hand knob B' aud disengaging the
clutch, to adjust the dates as desired. In both of these arrangements Figures 1, 2
and 3, a separate roller a is mounted by end journals at a¹ in the side of the
frame A¹, and has mounted on it a band divided into columns with the initial letters
of the seven days of the week, both longitudinally and circularly or annularly to fit
in with and be placed above the columns with the dates of the several months.
This enables the calendar to be made serviceable for any year or number of years
or as a perpetual calendar without in any way altering its appearance as an ordinary
calendar. A very slight turn to the roller a, a, on which the week day letters are
printed, by the screw a² to turn the distance of a letter forward at the end of the
year, (also at the end of February in leap years) changes the calendar to suit for
the succeeding year. Or otherwise this arrangement of large shifting or turning
and setting printed tapes or discs with the dates and names of the days of the week,
and months might- all be fitted in a small separate or portable case mounted
vertically or horizontally to show in front on the top of the new upright calendar
case A¹
This new or improved calendar case would by a further improvement be used as
a new means or medium for advertising for private firms by utilizing a portion of
its front card, face, or glass as at A², for the trade cards, labels, or names of articles
and addresses of the firms making or selling the articles, such as all kinds of
stationery articles required by offices and places of business where such ink-stands
are used, or other special or general goods or articles for the benefit of the
manufacturers or merchants making or dealing in these, who might make and
distribute these ink-stands, in great numbers, for the benefit to be gained by this
special mode of advertising.
These ink-stands or cases might be made all substantially as heretofore of a
simple sole, or case A and either out of walnut or fancy woods, or in cast or sheet
metal painted, japanned, and ornamented, and the new upright calendar case or

page_text: stand A added, generally would be made of the same character and materials as
the ink-stand A, and might have a small mirror fitted in front in addition to the
glass front and calendar or the whole protecting glass front plate might be dispensed
with when this front is made of sheet or other metal which could be ornamented
and have the recesses formed in it for the movable calendars with glass fitted only
in these recesses, and a special recess made for the mirror when that is used, and
all the available space not occupied by these recesses could be used all as described
for printing or writing the information and business advertisements all substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare I wish it
to be understood that I make no claim to the use of a roller or a roller and band
such as a for rendering a calendar perpetual that what I claim is :-
First. The construction, or arrangement and combination of the parts of an
ink stand, case, or desk, and a calendar with separate day, date, and monthly
bands, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Second. The combination of a portable inkstand with a vertical or backwardly
angled case or frame having a calendar in front, substantially as herein described
in reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dh. 0.1 A1 1001
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.