AN IMPROVED BLOTTING PAD BOOK DIARY
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Kearns, of Southwark Street, in the
County of Surrey, Manufacturing Stationer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED BLOTTING PAD BOOK DIARY."
ן.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Kearns at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd October 1871.
I, JOHN HENRY KEARNS, of Southwark Street, in the County of
5 Surrey, Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BLOTTING PAD BOOK DIARY," to be as
follows:-
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The object of this Invention is to comprise in one article a blotting
pad and book diary, and in order to carry out my Invention I affix to
one of the four sides of a blotting pad a book diary, as shown in the
accompanying Drawing. It is formed by placing a certain number

page_text: of sheets of blotting paper a on a portion of a piece of mill or straw
board so as to form a pad, the remaining portion of board having the
diary b affixed to it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Henry Kearns in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY KEARNS, of Southwark Street, in the County of Surrey, Manu-
facturing Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters. Patent, bearing date the Third day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Kearns, Her special
licence that I, the said John Henry Kearns, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Henry Kearns,
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
"AN IMPROVED BLOTTING PAD BOOK DIARY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Henry Kearns, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly 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 John Henry Kearns, 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:-
This Invention consists of an improvement on my Patent dated
24th June, 1867, No. 1832, and the object is to comprise in one article

page_text: a blotting pad, and book diary, and in order to carry out my Invention
I affix to one of the four sides of a blotting pad a book diary, as shewn
in the accompanying Drawing. It is formed by placing a certain
number of sheets of blotting paper a on a portion of a piece of mill
or straw board so as to form a pad, the remaining portion of board
having the diary 6 affixed to it.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to be secured
to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention an improved blotting
pad, substantially as herein described and shewn on the accompanying
Drawing, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Kearns, have hereunto.
set my hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN H. KEARNS. (L.S.)