IMPROVEMENTS IN ADDANAMIC FAD PAINTING PENCILS OD MADEING INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1857

page_text: 'LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Harrington, of 9, Gloster Place, Brixton
Road, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ADDANAMIC FAD PAINTING PENCILS OD MADEING INSTRUMENTS
Sealed the 4th May 1858, and dated the 10th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Harrington at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th November 1857.
I, JOSIAH HARRINGTON, of 9, Gloster Place, Brixton Road, in the County
of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POINTING PENCIIS OR MARKING INSTRUMENTS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for pointing
pencils or marking instruments. For these purposes the cutters or cutting
'edges used, in place of being formed as heretofore, are made upon a sheet of
metal, and each sheet has several slits or slots formed through it, and one or
-both sides of each slit or slot is made sharp. The sheet with the cutting
edges formed on it as above described is in some cases bent into the form of
a hollow cylinder to fit on to a cylinder of wood or other material, in the end
of which is formed an inclined hollow or recess to receive the end of a pencil
or marking instrument. When the recess or recesses to receive the end of. a
pencil or marking instrument are formed in the circumference of a circle or

page_text: cylinder of wood, or other material, the cutters are made on one or both sides
of slits or slots formed in a disc of steel, and when the recesses for receiving
the ends of pencils or marking instruments are made in a straight surface,
the cutters are made on one or both sides of slits' or slots in a straight
plate of steel. By arranging apparatus for pointing pencils or marking
instruments in this way, when one cutting edge is worn out another can be
brought into position to be used...
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Josiah Harrington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
HARRINGTON, of 9, Gloster Place, Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Josiah Harrington, Her special license that I, the said Josiah
Harrington, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Josiah Harrington, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POINTING PENCILS OR MARKING INSTRUMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Josiah Harrington, my
executors or administrators, 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 Josiah Harrington, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
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page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for pointing.
pencils or marking instruments., For, these purposes the cutters or cutting
edges used, in place of being formed as heretofore, are made upon, a sheet of
metal, and each sheet has several slits or slots formed through it, and one or
both sides of each slit or, slot is made, 'sharp. The sheet with the cutting
edges formed on it as above described is. in some cases bent into the form of
a hollow cylinder to fit on to a cylinder of wood or other material, in the end
of which is formed an inclined. hollow or recess to receive the end of a
.pencil or marking instrument. When the recess, or recesses, to receive the
end of a pencil or marking instrument are formed in the circumference of a
circle or cylinder of wood or other material, the cutters are made on one or
both sides of slits or slots formed in a disc of steel, and when the recesses
for receiving the ends of pencils or marking instruments are made in a
straight surface, the cutters are made on one or both sides of slits or slots in
a straight plate of steel. By arranging apparatus for pointing pencils or
marking instruments in this way, when one cutting edge is worn out another
can be brought into position to be used.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view of an apparatus arranged according to my Inven-
tion, and in which the recess for receiving the ends of pencils or marking
instruments is formed in a straight surface; Figure 2 is an end view; Figure
3, a plan; and Figure 4, a transverse section of the same. a is the straight
surface of wood or other material, which may form, for example, the end or
side of a slate frame; b is a conical recess for receiving the ends of pencils
or marking instruments, and which I prefer to line with brass to prevent its
wearing out of form by use; c is a plate having a series of slits or slots
sharpened on one or both of their sides; this plate, which I prefer to make of
steel, is shown separately at Figure 5, has at its upper and lower edges notches
formed in it, and it is when in use retained in position in the bevilled groove
of the piece a by a spring catch d, the end of which drops into the one or
other of the notches in the edges of the plate c. From the description above
given the form which the apparatus takes when for the flat plate ca cylinder
is substituted will readily be understood, the chief modification being that the
piece a also takes a cylindrical form.
Figure 6 is a plan, and Figure 7 a longitudinal section, of another appara-

page_text: 'tus arranged on the principle of my Invention, and in which the recess to
receive the end of the pencils or marking instruments are formed in the
circumference of a circle or cylinder. d is the cylinder; b, the recess; c, the
plate of steel or other metal, having a series of slits cut in it, and sharpened
on each side; d is an axis on which the plate c is mounted; e is a screw for
locking the plate c in position; it enters small holes c¹ drilled in the edge of
the plate c.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah Harrington; have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
JOSIAH HARRINGTON. (L.S.).