Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th June, 1888
We, JAMES AYLWARD GAME, Tea Merchant,. and MOSES AFLALO, Manager, both
of 3 and 4, Eastcheap, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to blotting-pads or equivalent devices intended for use in
absorbing surplus ink from writing and for similar purposes to which blotting-paper
is ordinarily applied.
In commercial and other documents, it frequently happens that only a few marks
have to be made upon each of a great number of sheets of paper or leaves of a book ;
each such writing requiring the application of blotting-paper before the operation
incidental to each sheet can be regarded as completed or the page of the book
turned over.
The object of our invention is to provide means, specially adapted for use under
circumstances such as above referred to, for enabling marks and writings of a limited
character to be quickly blotted and sufficiently dried to permit of the sheet being
turned or the page closed. For this purpose, we employ a pad formed of or furnished
with blotting-paper or equivalent absorbent material, and adapted for attachment to
the finger, hand, wrist or fore-arm of the user.
For blotting simple marks, such as dots, dashes, ticks and the like, a device in the
form of thimble or finger-stall composed of suitable absorbent material or furnished
at its outer extremity therewith will be found appropriate. For writings of limited
extent, as for example signatures, the blotting-pad may be adapted for attachment to
two or more of the fingers or to the palm or side of the hand.
A blotting-pad of the kind described may be carried upon the hand which is
employed by the user in writing, or upon his other hand; or it may be operated
by a person other than the writer. When employed by the writer himself, the

page_text: practice of grasping a piece of blotting-paper between each act of writing is
dispensed with, time being thereby economised and muscular fatigue lessened.
Instead of adapting a blotting-pad for attachment to the finger or other part of the
person, as herein before described, we sometimes apply the absorbent material to a
pen-holder or other writing instrument. Under such circumstances, the absorbent
material may be in the form of a sheath surrounding the upper extremity of the
pen-holder or writing instrument; or it may consist of a body mounted in and
projecting from a socket provided upon the holder for its reception.
Instead of applying the sheath of absorbent material to a penholder as above
described, we sometimes furnish an ordinary round ruler with such an envelope, and
apply the body so clothed to the freshly written document with a rolling movement
for the purpose of absorbing and removing the surplus ink.
Dated this 27th day of July 1987
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improved Devices Applicable for Use as Blotting-pads.
We, JAMES AYLWARD GAME, Tea Merchant, and MOSES AFLALO, Manager, both
of 3 and 4, Eastcheap, in the City of London, 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 :-
This invention relates to blotting-pads or equivalent devices intended for use in
absorbing surplus ink from writing and for similar purposes to which blotting-paper
is ordinarily applied.
In commercial and other documents, it frequently happens that only a few marks
have to be made upon each of a great number of sheets of paper or leaves of a book;
each such writing requiring the application of blotting-paper before the operation
incidental to each sheet can be regarded as completed, or the page of the book
turned over.
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The object of our invention is to provide means, specially adapted for use under
circumstances such as above referred to, for enabling marks and writings of a
limited character to be quickly blotted and sufficiently dried to permit of the sheet
being turned or the page closed. For this purpose; we employ a pad formed of or
furnished with blotting-paper or equivalent absorbent material, and adapted for
attachment to the finger, hand, wrist or fore-arm of the user.
And in order that our invention and the mode of carrying the same into effect may
be fully understood, we will proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent, in face and side view respectively, a blotting pad suitable
for attachment to one finger of the user, and adapted for blotting simple marks,
such as dots, dashes, ticks and the like. The body a of the pad is formed of
numerous thicknesses of blotting-paper mounted upon a back of stiff material, such
as buckram or cardboard, and furnished with a loop by formed by preference of
elastic material. The several thicknesses of blotting-paper are held together
by means of paper pasted over their edges or portions thereof; so that the outer
face of the pad may, when soiled, he readily removed, and a new face presented.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent, in face and side view respectively, a blotting-pad constructed
in a similar manner, but provided with a loop b adapted for embracing two or more
fingers of the user.
Fig. 5 is a back view of a similar pad, provided with tabs b¹¹, formed of canvas,
leather or other suitable material, and provided with a stud 62 for engaging in one or
other of the holes 3, whereby the size of the loop formed by the tabs may be adjusted
to that of the user's hand.
Figs. 6 and 7 represent, in back and side view respectively, a blotting-pad adapted
for attachment to the palm of the hand, and particularly the fleshy portion thereof
which is towards the wrist. In this instance, the pad a is of a flexible character and
consists of one or more sheets of blotting-paper upon a backing or lining a¹ of

page_text: canvas, leather, parchment or similar strong material. The lining is cut with a
projecting tab c, which, when folded over and secured by the stud c', forms a loop for
encircling the thumb of the user. The opposite extremity of the lining material is
provided with an elastic loop d, which, after being passed over the back of the hand,
is engaged with the stud c¹.
Instead of the elastic loop d, the lining material a¹
may be extended to form a tab having one or more holes (as previously described with
reference to Fig. 5) for engaging with the stud c¹.
In Fig. 8 is illustrated a blotting-pad of a similar description, but formed with a
lateral extension a² to cover the inside of the wrist, and provided with an additional
pair of tabs c2 c² for partially or wholly encircling the wrist. Where elastic loops,
such as d, are employed, we sometimes extend the lining material as indicated by the
dotted lines, with a view to distributing the pressure exerted upon the flesh by the
said loops.
A blotting-pad of any of the kinds hereinbefore referred to (except that described
with reference to Fig. 5) may be carried upon the hand which is employed by the
user in writing, or any of the types may be attached to his other hand; or the
blotting-pad may be operated by a person other than the writer. When employed by
the writer himself, the practice of grasping a piece of blotting-paper between each
act of writing is dispensed with, time being thereby economised and muscular fatigue
lessened.
. Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. The manufacture of blotting-pads adapted for attachment to the finger, fingers
hand or wrist of the user, substantially as herein described.
2. The improved blotting-pads constructed substantially as described with reference
to Figs. 1 to 5 of the accompanying drawings and adapted for attachment to the
finger, fingers or hand of the user.
3. The improved blotting-pad constructed substantially as described with reference
te Figs. 6 and 7, or Fig. 8, of the accompanying drawings and adapted for attachment
to the hand, or hand and wrist of the user.
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