AN IMPROVED BLOTTER OR INK ABSORBER
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Eugene Mauger, of the City of New York,
in the State of New York, one of the United States of America, but
at present residing at Number 29, The Temple, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BLOTTER
OR INK ABSORBER."-A communication from abroad by Charles C.
Moore, of New York.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Victor Eugene Mauger at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 19th July 1869, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, VICTOR
EUGENE MAUGER, of the City of New York, in the State of New York,
one of the United States of America, but at present, residing at Number
29, The Temple, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
> BLOTTER OR INK ABSORBER," communicated to me by Charles C. Moore, of

page_text: New York, aforesaid, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for
the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Victor Eugene Mauger, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to
the Figures of the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is a novel, useful, and convenient
arrangement for holding and applying "blotting" or bibulous paper
for removing surplus ink from writing or other characters when in an
aquaous state, and consists in providing two plates of wood or other
suitable material of a convenient length and width placed one above
the other, and attached by means of a short screwed spindle springing
from the lower plate and passing through a hole in the upper plate, to
which it is attached by means of a handle or knob, which forms a nut,
taking on to the short screwed spindle binding the two together; or
the knob or handle may be formed with a screwed shank, which passing
through a hole in the upper plate takes into a female screw formed in
the centre of the lower plate. The outer face of the lower plate it is
preferred should be rounded, so as to form the arc of a circle; or the
same may be flat for a given distance and rounded off at the two
extreme ends, as will be readily seen on reference to the Drawings
hereunto annexed. The lower plate by preference is covered on its
external face with one or more pieces of felt or other elastic material
equivalent for the purpose, and which it is preferred should be attached
by glue or other convenient cement applied to the under surface of the
lower plate. This the lower plate is covered with any convenient
number of thicknesses of blotting or bibulous paper cut to coincide
with the width of the plates, and sufficiently long to be turned round
over the ends of the lower plate, so that they may be gripped and held
in position by the ends of the upper plate by means of the screwed
shank connected to the lower plate and handle and the female screwed
handle or knob which abutts or seats on the outer surface of the upper
plate, or by a handle having a screwed shank passing through the hole
in the upper plate and taking into a female or hollow screw formed in
the lower plate by which they are bound together.

page_text: That this my said Invention may be the more readily seen and
understood, I have hereunto annexed Drawings in illustration of two
arrangements of my improved "blotter;" like letters and figures marked
thereon being used to denote similar parts.
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or
Figure 1st is a side elevation of one of my improved "blotters'
ink absorbers in which a number of sheets of blotting or bibulous paper
are used in combination; and Figure 2 is a top view or plan of the same.
In this arrangement I do not use the felt or other elastic material,
but in lieu thereof according to this modification a number of sheets or
thicknesses of blotting or bibulous paper are required; but in the
arrangement illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, one or any greater number
of thicknesses of blotting or bibulous paper may be used, as the felt or
other elastic material forms the desirable cushion, and which arrange-
ment accomplishes all that can be desired, as the same forms an elastic
convenient useful blotter or ink absorber.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the arrangement of my improved
blotter which I most prefer; and Figure 4 is a reverse view or plan
of the under side of the same seen with a portion of the blotting or
bibulous paper torn away to expose the felt or other elastic pad which
intervenes between the under surface of the lower plate and the sheets of
blotting or bibulous
paper.
A, lower plate, which, at Figure 1, has its lower or under surface
constructed so as to form the arc of a circle from end to end of the plate,
but it may be formed with an eliptic arch. In Figure 3 the like plate
is shewn with a lower flat surface dying off at the ends in a curve, the
are being made up by B, one or more thicknesses of felt or other
suitable elastic material; C, the top or binding plate, having a hole in
its centre, through which passes D, the binding screw, which is fitted
with E, the handle, which forms the binding nut, taking on to the head
of the binding screw D; F, the blotting or bibulous paper or other
absorbing material.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my
said Invention, and how I believe the same may be best carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise detail, relative proportions or dimensions herein-before
described, set forth, and illustrated, as it will be readily seen that the
same may be considerably varied without departing from the Invention;
but what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

page_text: First. Two round, oval, or flat plates of any suitable material secured
together by the screwed spindle and knob or handle, or their mechanical
cquivalent, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described, set forth, and illustrated for the purposes specified.
Secondly. The use of one or more pieces of felt or other elastic
material for the purpose of forming an elastic or spring cushion
intervening between the blotting or bibulous paper and the lower
pressing plate, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and set forth.
And, lastly. The general arrangement and combination of the several
parts herein-before described and set forth, substantially in the manner
and for the purposes specified.
In witness whercof, I, the said Victor E. Mauger, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,.
WILLIAM WALKER,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool.
VICTOR E. (L.s.) MAUGER.