CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MEASURING TAPES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WRITING PENCILS, WALKING- STICKS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Whitaker and Arthur Holden, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
MEASURING TAPES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WRITING PENCILS, WALKING-
STICKS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Scaled the 29th January 1875, and dated the 31st July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Whitaker
and Arthur Holden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 31st July 1874.
We, RICHARD W¤iтaken and ARTHUR HOLDEN, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVIMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
MEASURING TAFIS, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WRITING PENCILS, WALKINC-STICKS,
ALD OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-

page_text: by stencil or roller, but we employ lithography or stone printing, that
is, after we havo coated or prepared the said tapes with a mixture of
alum and size they are printed upon, and the great pressure required for
the printing by this process expands the said tape, fills up the pores, and
prevents further expansion or contraction when in uso.
The second part of our Invention consists in the application of the
said measures to the tips or any other suitable part of pencils, walking-
sticks, and other similar articles.
When applied to sticks or pencils a tube is employed having a
spindle placed centrally therein, and the tape fastened at one end to said ]
spindle is wound thereon when not in use by means of a button on the
outer end of the spindle. The tube carrying the tape is applied to
the end of an ordinary lead pencil or other article by sliding it (the
tube) on the top thereof, or it may form part of the artiole.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Whitaker and Arthur Holden in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 30th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
WHITAKER and ARTHUR HOLDEN, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Richard Whitaker and Arthur Holden,
Her special licence that we, the said Richard Whitaker and Arthur
Holden, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Richard Whitaker and Arthur Holden, our exccutors,
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 "CERTAIN
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page_text: applied to the ordinary wood pencil by sliding it upon the top or
end.
. And in Fig. 4 is shewn the application to sliding or propelling
pencils.
a, Fig. 1, is a trough containing the alum, size, or paint for coating
and preparing the tapes; is a frame carrying a spindle C, to which is
attached a piece of wood having the tape wound thereon. The end of
the tape is passed through a cut in the end of the jointed arm d, and
by pressing this down, the tape enters the paint through which it
passes to and between the opening e to the arrangement of apparatus 1
shewn in Fig. 2; f is a drum having a series of guides g; h is a
box with a series of cross bars i fixed therein, and at the other end
is a drum identical with the one shewn. Upon one of these drums
the tape is wound, the guides preventing it (the tape) from crossing,
it is then passed under and over the bars and the end attached to the 1
other drum, when by putting this in motion the tape is drawn and
cleansed.
1-
sticks, pencils, car-
A spindle to which
tubo to be applied to
The means used in applying the measures to
penters' and other tools, is shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
the tape is attached is placed centrally within a
the article or recess in the handle of the article itself, and a knob or
button / is secured to the outer end of the spindle, and the tape measure
is drawn into the tube or recess by turning the stud 7.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said In-
vention, I claim, the improvements in the manufacture of measuring a
tapes, and their application to writing pencils, walking-sticks, and other
similar articles.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Whitaker and Arthur
Holden, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord Ono thousand &
eight hundred and seventy-five.