IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN- HOLDERS, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Otto Schulze, of Finsbury Circus, in the City of
London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN-
HOLDERS, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE
THEREOF. .”—A communication from abroad by Otto Streubel, of
Berlin.
Scaled the 25th March 1873, and dated the 30th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Otto Schulze at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th September 1872.
I, OTTO SCHULZE, of Finsbury Circus, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN PENHOLIERS, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS, AND IN THE
MANUFACTURE THEREOF," a communication to me from abroad by Otto
Streubel, of Berlin, to bo as follows:-

page_text: The Invention is to be performed by so manufacturing the cork into
the shape desired, which may be formed of one or more pieces, that it
shall be smooth and free from holes on the surface, and this may be
best performed by first roughly by hand shaping the cork, and then
fixing it in an ordinary lathe rest affixed to a common grindstone in t
such manner that the cork, when the rest is brought up to the grind-
stone, may revolve in one direction and the grindstone in another, and
the cork ground to its desired shape. Any desired shape may be given to
the cork by correspondingly grooving the surface of the grindstone. Any
holes found in the surface of the cork after grinding may be stopped 1
with a composition of cork dust and gum, or any convenient substance
may be used for this purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Otto Schulze in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, OTTO
SCHULZE, of Finsbury Circus, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Otto Schulze, Her special
licence that I, the said Otto Schulze, executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Otto Schulze, 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
PENHOLDERS, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE
THEREOF, a communication to me from abroad by Otto Streubel, of
Berlin, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Otto
Schulze, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly
"

page_text: 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 Otto Schulze, 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 improvements consist in the manufacture and use of cork for the
purposes of serving as penholders, cigar and cigarette holders.
The Invention is to be performed by so manufacturing the cork into
the shape desired, which may be formed of one or more pieces, that it
shall be smooth and free from holes on the surface, and this may be
best performed by first roughly by hand shaping the cork, and then
fixing it in an ordinary lathe rest affixed to a common grindstone in
such manner that the cork, when the rest is brought up to the grind-
stone, may revolve in one direction and the grindstone in another, and
the cork ground to its desired shape. Any desired shape may be given to
the cork by correspondingly grooveing the surface of the grindstone. Any
holes found in the surface of the cork after grinding may be stopped
with a composition of cork dust and gum, or any convenient substance
may be used for this purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Otto Schulze, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
OTTO SCHULZE. (L.S.)