IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Barnabas Daft, of Lezange Lodge,
Isle of Man, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS."
Sealed the 19th August 1853, and dated the 3rd June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Barnabas
Daft at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 3rd June 1853.
I, THOMAS BARNABAS DAFT, of Lezange Lodge, Isle of Man, do
hereby declare that the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN INKSTANDS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of combining with an ink vessel or ink holder
a tube with a dipping cup at its upper end, there being a collar or
stopper formed on the tube which fits into an opening at the top of the
ink vessel. The tube descends from above into and nearly to the bottom
of the ink vessel through the opening, and by the compression of the
air therein the ink is forced into the dipping cup, and by raising the
dipping cup the ink descends into the ink vessel; the opening through
which the tube passes is lined or formed with vulcanized india-rubber.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Thomas Barnabas Daft in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 3rd December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS BARNABAS DAFT, of Lezange Lodge, Isle of Man, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Barnabas Daft, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Barnabas Daft, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Barnabas
Daft, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INKSTANDS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Thomas Barnabas Daft, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Barnabas Daft, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of combining with an ink vessel or ink
holder a tube with a dipping cup at its upper end, there being a
collar or stopper formed on the tube which fits into an opening at the
top of the ink vessel. The tube descends from above into and nearly
to the bottom of the ink vessel through the opening, and by the

page_text: compression of the air therein the ink is forced into the dipping cup.
and by raising the dipping cup the ink descends into the ink vessel
The opening through which the tube passes is lined or formed with
vulcanized india-rubber.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan of an inkstand; Figure 2, a section with the
dipping cup covered; Figure 3, shows a section with the dipping cup
uncovered; Figure 4, shows various views of the dipping cup and
cover separately; Figure 5, shows an elevation of the inkstand com-
plete; Figure 6, shows a vertical section of the inkstand, the dipping
cup being empty; Figure 7, shows a sectional view of the inkstand
without the dipping cup, but covered with the same cover as that
shown in the other Figures as being applied to the dipping cup; and
Figure 8, shows the ink vessel without cover or dipping cup. I would
state, that the form of the ink vessel may be varied, and such is the
case in regard to the other parts, so long as the mode of constructing
the tube and the entrance into the ink vessel be retained, whereby on the
dipping cup and its tube being introduced the parts are rendered air-tight,
and, consequently, by the simple raising and depressing the dipping cup
the ink will be caused to flow up to and sufficiently fill the dipping cup.
a, is the vessel for containing the ink, the form of which, as before stated,
may be varied; at the mouth or entrance is fixed a ring of vul-
canized india-rubber, but it might be gutta-percha or other elastic and
flexible fluid-tight matter, which forms, so to speak, a flexible and
elastic lining b, to the mouth of the ink vessel; this with the cover c,
are to be fixed air-tight on the top of the ink vessel; d, is the dipping
cup, and e, the descending tube, which are similar to what have before
been used, except that the collar or part where it fits into the ink vessel
a, is made to correspond with the dimensions of the mouth of the
vessel a, and proper to fit therein air-tight and yet admit of being moved
up and down through such mouth piece. f, is a moveable cover which
fits in the mouth of the vessel a, when the dipping cup is removed, and
it is also suitable for covering the dipping cup.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim is, the combination of parts herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Barnabas Daft, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.
THOMAS BARNABAS DAFT. (L.S.)
Witness, JOHN H. DAFT,
Lezagre, Isle of Man.