Improved Ruling Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1391
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
SPECIFICATION.
PROVISIONAL
Improved Ruling Apparatus.
I, ROBERT MILLAR BELL, of Waverley Bridge Road Redhill Surrey,
Commercial Traveller, Inventor &c. do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
A machine, pen, or instrument for use by hand, constructed of a combination of
wood, metal, vulcanite, india-rubber, felt, or any other material now or hereafter
found to be suitable: the purpose of said machine being to form or rule on paper or
other material lines so regulated or arranged as to form money columns (single,
double, or more) with an additional or other line or space, or additional or other
lines or spaces, when necessary or expedient, either or any of the said lines singly
or in combination to be formed or ruled by one, or more, or several machines or
instruments, as may be found expedient. The machine or instrument will be so
constructed as to supply itself, as it is used, with sufficient ink or other marking
liquid or material, to produce the lines, & it may (if found expedient) be so
constructed as to contain in itself a reservoir for ink or other marking material,
which reservoir would contain a sufficient supply to last a considerable time. The
lines are produced or ruled by projecting flanges or rings on the outer circumference
of a roller or cylinder, or rollers or cylinders, & the said flanges or rings, or all or
any of them, may be either fixed or loose. These flanges or rings revolve on the
machine or instrument being pressed against & drawn across the paper or other
material to be ruled, & in revolving they press against a pad saturated with the
ink or other material, & take up sufficient in their passage to mark the line or lines.
The flanges or rings may be either fixed, or may be so constructed as to allow of
their being moved along to a greater or lesser distance from each other, so that the
lines produced may be either made closer together or further apart as desired.
16th November 1891.
R. MILLAR BELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Ruling Apparatus.
I, ROBERT MILLAR BELL, Waverley, Bridge Road, Redhill, Surrey, 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:
This invention relates to novel construction or arrangements of apparatus by
which money columns, music sheet, and other lines can be marked upon paper, or
other material by a rolling motion of ribs or fillets, or tubes, rings, or the like, the
ribs for marking the lines being supplied with ink or colour from a pad fixed, or
otherwise attached. The pressure of the pad against the ribs is determined
preferably by springs arranged at the hinge joint of a top flap to which the pad is
fixed after adjustment.
To carry my invention into practice, and as will be understood by the annexed
drawings, ends A, A, Figure 1, of a strip of metal B form side walls, and I round
the lower edge to facilitate its movement on a sheet of paper. I also in some cases,
prepare a back piece C, Figure 2, with a handle D, and with clips E, E, into which
the back B of the first mentioned strip can be placed and fixed, the two thicknesses
giving strength to that part most liable to fracture.
The back piece C has rolled or drilled eyes F, F, corresponding to other eyes on,

page_text: the lid G, Figure 3, to which the lid G is pivoted, as at Figure 4, by pin surrounded
partly by a coiled spring, the pressure of which is so arranged that the lid G has
a tendency to keep in a downward position.
The lid G has catch lips H, H, at each outer edge to turn over upon and fix a
small piece of felt I, or other absorbent of ink or colour for transfer to the ribs of
the rings J which form part of a roller K, Figure 5, freely rotatable on a pin which
holds and fixes the two side walls A, A, of the frame B apart.
The ribbed roller J, K, is of bone, hard wood, india rubber properly hardened,
or the like, and turned or moulded to the desired width according to the distance of
the intended lines.
Figures 4 and 5 show ribs for marking equal distance lines. Figure 6 shows an
arrangement for marking money column." When the handle is screwed direct into
piece B, as at Figure 6, the part C is dispensed with; and Figure 7 represents how
the apparatus is held for the purpose of marking or ruling.
The roller K may have the ribs any distance apart, or separate rollers with one
or more ribs on each can be loosely mounted upon the same pin, as at Figure 8, and
to enable separate ribbed rollers to be applied, a movable pin may be used or the
side walls A, A, if made of springy material can be easily sprung open to facilitate
the removal of the pin and the placing in of fresh rollers.
The pad may be part of a reservoir, as at Figure 9, within the handle D, and the
pad kept in contact with the ribs K by spring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:―
1. The construction of apparatus as shown in the annexed drawings for the
purpose described.
2. In a portable ruling apparatus in which ribbed rollers are employed for the
purpose of marking, a non-rotatable pad pressed by a spring for supplying ink or
colour, as described with reference to Figures 4 and 6, or by the modification
represented at Figure 9, and arranged substantially in the manner shown.
The 23rd day of May 1809
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Robert Millar Bell.