Year: 1887

page_text: 1. WALTER CHARLES CHURCH, of 6 Trinity Square, Brixton in the County of
Surrey, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a construction of ink bottles in such a manner that the
pen when inserted shall not be damaged by sticking its point against the hard
material of the bottle. For this purpose, I provide in the bottom of the bottle a soft
pad of caoutchouc or equivalent material which is held in its place by the engagement
of its edge in a dovetail or otherwise shaped groove; or I make the bottom entirely
of such comparatively soft material. I prefer to make the mouth of the bottle so
narrow and deep that the penholder when introduced can only be inclined to a
certain extent, and thus the point of the pen cannot strike against the side of
the bottle but can only meet the comparatively soft material at the bottom by
which it is not injured.
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of Wahanan 1887
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Ink Bottles.
I, WALTER CHARLES CHURCH of 6 Trinity Square, Brixton in the County of
Surrey, Engineer 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 construction of ink bottles in such a manner that the
pen when inserted shall not be damaged by striking its point against the hard
material of the bottle. For this purpose, I provide at the bottom of the bottle a soft
pad of caoutchouc or equivalent material which. is held in its place by the engagement
of its edge in a dovetail or otherwise shaped groove; or I make the bottom entirely
of such comparatively soft material. I prefer to make the mouth of the bottle so
narrow and deep that the penholder when introduced can only be inclined to a certain
extent, and thus the point of the pen cannot strike against the side of the bottle but
can only meet the comparatively soft material at the bottom by which it is not
injured.
The accompanying drawings are vertical sections shewing several forms of ink
bottles as examples of how my invention may be practically carried out. In Fig. 1
the bottle A is of pot form having a pad B of caoutchouc or equivalent material
fixed in its bottom by engaging its lip in a recess formed in the bottom corner of
the pot. This pad being comparatively soft does not injure the point of the pen P.
In Fig. 2, where the pad B is similarly fixed, the neck of the bottle is made of such
diameter and depth that when the pen is introduced at the greatest inclination that
the neck will allow, the point of the pen cannot reach beyond the pad so as to meet
any of the hard material of the bottle. In Fig. 3 the bottom of the bottle is itself
a pad B held in a dovetail recess formed within the base of the bottle. In Fig. 4,
the pad bottom B is made with a projecting lip all round it engaging on the base of
the bottle as on a dovetail. In both Figs. 3 and 4 the neck C is shewn as in
Fig. 2 so narrow and deep as to prevent the point of the pen ever reaching beyond
the pad.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Providing at or as the bottom of an ink hottle a pad of caoutchouc or equivalent
comparatively soft material to receive the point of the pen, substantially as and for
the purpose herein set forth.
2. In an ink bottle which is padded at the bottom in the manner referred to in
the preceding claim, making the neck of the bottle so narrow and deep that the point
of the pen cannot reach beyond the pad.
Dated this 1st day of November 1887
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.