Improvements in or relating to Inkstands for Regulating the Supply of Ink to the Pen.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1839
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Inkstands for Regulating the
Supply of Ink to the Pen.
I ROBERT ADAMS, of 67 Newington Causeway, in the County of Surrey, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
3.
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The object of my invention is to effect such improvements in or relating to inkstands
that the dip" of the pen into the ink may be regulated as desired; the cleansing
of the inkstand with facility being also provided for.
My invention is not only applicable to the manufacture of inkstands, made in
accordance therewith, but also to the conversion of ordinary inkstands, by fitting the
same with my improvements; such improvements in some cases also acting as a
safeguard against spilling the ink by the upsetting of the inkstand.
My improved inkstand may be made of any suitable materials, but principally of
glass, having an opening at the top, or, at one or more side or sides, such opening
or openings being fitted with a mount or mounts, or otherwise fitted, in such a
manner that one or more inverted, adjustable, conical tube or tubes may be inserted
and secured therein. The means of adjustment may be by a screw or other
suitable arrangement, so that the lower part of the inverted conical tube or
equivalent appliance may be readily raised above, or caused more or less to dip into the
ink to any required depth. The hole at the lower end of the tube is usually made
small, so as to prevent the pen passing through the same, when inserted for a dip
of ink; and the extent to which the tube is lowered into the ink, governs the length
of the dip of the pen into the ink.
In some cases I make the lower end of the tube of sufficient diameter to enclose a
small vertical brush or bundle of bristles or wires, whereby the "dip" is not only
regulated but the pen is at the same time cleared of thick fluid.
My improved inkstand may be constructed as a fountain inkstand or otherwise,
air vents being in some cases provided to admit air freely to the internal space above
the ink.
Fountain inkstands, as usually made, may be fitted with my improvements, so
as to govern the distance to which the pen is dipped, the adjustable conical tube,
being placed slightly higher than and concentric with the ordinary fountain tube.
When the inkstand requires cleansing, the tube is removed, and all parts are
thereby rendered accessible.
11 T 1
1000
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Inkstands for Regulating the
Supply of Ink to the Pen.
I, ROBERT ADAMS, of 67 Newington Causeway, in the County of Surrey Engineer,
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 object of my invention is to effect such improvements in or relating to ink-
stands, that the "dip" of the pen into the ink may be regulated as desired; the
cleansing of the inkstand with facility being also provided for."
My invention is not only applicable to the manufacture of inkstands primarily
constructed in accordance therewith, but also to the conversion of ordinary inkstands,
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page_text: by fitting the same with my improvements; such improvements in some cases also
acting as a safeguard against spilling the ink by the upsetting of the inkstand.
My improved inkstands may be made of any suitable materials, but preferably
of glass, having one or more opening or openings at the top, or at one or more
side or sides, such opening or openings being fitted with a mount or mounts, or
otherwise fitted, in such a manner that one or more inverted, adjustable, conical tube
or tubes may be inserted and secured therein. The means of adjustment may be by
a screw, screw threads or other suitable arrangement, so that the lower part of the
inverted conical tube or equivalent appliance may be readily raised above or caused
more or less to dip into the ink to any required depth. The hole at the lower end of
the tube is usually made small, so as to prevent the pen passing through the same.
when inserted for a dip of ink; and the extent to which the tube is lowered into the
ink, governs the length of the dip of the pen into the ink.
In some cases I make the lower end of the tube of sufficient diameter to enclose a
small vertical brush or bundle of bristles or wires, or a number of floating beads or
balls made of any suitable material. By these appliances not only is the "dip" of
the pen regulated, but the pen is at the same time cleared of thick fluid.
My improved inkstands may be constructed as a fountain inkstand or otherwise,
air vents being in some cases provided to admit air freely to the internal space
above the ink.
Fountain inkstands, as usually made, may be fitted with my improvements, so
as to govern the distance to which the pen is dipped, the adjustable conical or other
tube being placed slightly higher than and concentric with the ordinary inverted or
other fountain tube.
When the inkstand requires cleansing, the tube is removed, and all parts are
thereby rendered accessible.
In some cases I tilt the inkstand by means of a sot screw or other device to vary the
depth of ink and grooves may be formed in the body of the inkstand wherein pens
may rest when not in use.
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
1. In the construction of inkstands, the method of providing for the regulation of
the dip of the pen, by means of inverted conical or other tubes, capable of being
adjusted by screws, screw threads, or otherwise, substantially as herein before
described.
2. The method of converting ordinary fountain or other inkstands into my improved
inkstands, by fitting the same with inverted conical or other tubes, capable of being
adjusted, regulated and otherwise manipulated, by screws or screw threads formed
thereon and therein, or by mounts, or equivalent devices, substantially as herein before
described.
3. The method of cleansing and limiting the supply of ink to the pen by means of
wire, floating beads, or equivalent devices, substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. The general constructions arrangements and combinations of the several and
respective parts, together constituting my improvements in or relating to ink-
stands for regulating the supply of ink to the pen, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dal 1 121 AT 1000
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.