AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PUTTING UP MARKING INK IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLOCK AND STRETCHER
Year: 1884

page_text: I SAMUEL MUSGRAVE 8 Middleton Road Camden Road Islington Druggists
Sundriesman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PUTTING UP MARKING INK IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLOCK AND
STRETCHER to be as follows:-
According to my Invention I employ as a horizontal reservoir for the marking
ink, a bottle made about 3 inches long with a short shallow neck of about 3 of
an inch deep and turned up at a sharp angle from the body of the bottle so as to
form the dip for the pen. The body of the bottle is made to slope from the other
end towards the dip or neck, which causes the ink to the last drop to flow down to
the dip.
For the block I use wood composition or other suitable material and make it
about 5 inches long ¾ of an inch deep and 11/, inches broad, about an inch from
one end is cut on each side a round indent to allow the finger and thumb to fit in
while holding, the other end of the block is rounded off.
I then cut a deep groove down from the bottom of the block to within 1/8th of
an inch of the face and long enough to sink the entire bottle. A round hole is
then cut in the face of the block between the finger indents large enough to admit
the neck of the bottle, which is placed so that the top of the neck just shows
beyond the face of the block. It is then cemented in the groove flush with the
bottom of block, charged with ink corked and fitted with white metal cap.
For the stretcher I use a white metal wire about 1/8th of an inch thick and
form it to fit the shape of the block, in length it is about 3 inches and is fitted to
the end of block where the ink is not, by screwing on both sides so as to move
like a handle and extend half an inch beyond the end of the block.
The fabric is placed across the block the wire then pressed down, the article is
tightened and firmly held for marking.
Dated this 10th day of March 1884

page_text: I SAMUEL MUSGRAVE 8 Middleton Road Camden Road Islington N. Druggists
Sundriesman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PUTTING UP MARKING INK IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLOCK AND
STRETCHER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
According to my Invention I employ as a horizontal reservoir for the marking
ink, a bottle made about 3 inches long and half an inch diameter with a short
shallow neck of about 3/4 of an inch deep, and turned up at a sharp angle from
the body of bottle so as to form the dip for the pen. The body of the bottle is
made to slope from the other end towards the neck or dip, which causes the ink to
the last drop to flow down to the pen.
For the block I use wood composition, or other suitable material, and make it
about 5 inches long ³/ of an inch deep and 11/, inches broad, about an inch from one
end is cut on each side a round indent to allow the finger and thumb to fit in
while holding. The other end of the block is rounded off. I then cut a deep
groove down from the bottom of the block to within 1/8th of an inch of the face
and long enough to sink the entire bottle. A round hole is then cut in the face of
block between the finger indents, large enough to admit the neck of the bottle
which is placed so that the top of the neck just shows beyond the face of block.
The bottle is then cemented in the groove flush with the bottom of block, charged
with marking iuk, corked and fitted with metal cap.
For the stretcher I use a metal wire flat about 1th of an inch thick and form
it to fit and spring on the shape of block, in length it is about 3 inches and is
fitted to the end of block where the ink is not, by screwing on both sides just
beyond the finger indents so as to move like a handle and extend about an inch
beyond the end of block.
The fabric is placed across the block, the wire then pressed down the article is
tightened and firmly held for marking &c.
By this arrangement, employing a sloping tube bottle in conjunction with a
block and stretcher, I consider both novel and useful and therefore claim the
Invention as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1 The employment of a long sloping tube bottle, let into a block, in
conjunction with metal wire stretcher, and which forms the combination apparatus
substantially as herein before described.
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