Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 13th Apr., 1889
I, ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL Wire manufacturer of 4, Cateaton Street,
Manchester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object an improved form of writing or Blotting Pad in
which the sheets of blotting paper are held in position on a base-board by means of a
metallic clip at each corner so formed that the sheets can readily be renewed. The
clips are made of spring wire or strips of spring metal & take hold of the sheets of
paper across their corners in a similar manner to the leather corner pieces at present
in use. They are so placed at the top corners of the board that they can also hold
in position memorandum forms, note-paper or other sheets to be written upon or when
desirable this is done by extra clips of suitable form fixed at the head of the base-
board. This provides a very convenient writing arrangement by which letters or
inemoranda can be written & blotted in an expeditious manner.
Dated this 8th day of May 1888

page_text: I, ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL of 4, Cateaton Street, Manchester, Wire Manu-
facturer, 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 :-
My invention has for its object an improved form of Blotting or Writing Pad in,
which the sheets of blotting paper are held in position on a base-board by means of a
metallic clip at the corners so formed that the sheets can readily be renewed. The
clips may be arranged one at each of the four corners so as to hold the sheets as in the
common form of blotting-pad or they may be preferably arranged with two of the
said clips one at each of the bottom corners & in the upper side another form of clip
suited to hold in position memo.-forms, note-paper-or other sheets to be written upon.
I also fix to the board in any convenient position a spring holder in which the pen or
pencil may be placed when not in use so as to be always at hand when wanted.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 gives a plan of the general arrangement of
pad when complete. A is a clip to hold the note-paper in position to be written upon,
B is the holder for pen or pencil shown also in Figs. 5 & 6. The clips C at the
bottom corners of the board in Fig. 1 hold these corners of the blotting-paper in
place. Fig. 2 shows the corner clip separately & it will be seen therefrom that the
wire of which it is made is carried round the screw which fixes it & its end bent at
right angles & driven into the wood thus supplying a fulcrum for the spring clip to
pull against. These clips may also be formed of flat spring metal of suitable shape
to give the same effect.
Fig. 4 shows another 'shape of end which gives a little more elasticity or the wire
may be coiled in two or more turns to give still greater elasticity when required.
Fig. 5 shows the pen support with pen in place & Fig. 6 a plan of the same.
Having now described & set forth the nature of my invention & the mode of its
application what I claim is:
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1. The use of spring wire or spring metal clips fixed to a board of any suitable
material for holding in position on said board sheets of blotting-paper to serve as a
writing pad, or sheets of drawing paper to serve as a sketching-block substantially as
herein described & set forth.
2. The use in combination with said clips of other holder or clip for retaining
the note-paper mnemo. forms or other sheets to be written upon in position to be
used as herein set forth.
3. The use on blotting or writing pads of a spring pen support in combination
with the aforesaid clips substantially as herein described & for the purposes set
forth.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this 11th day of February 1880
ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL.