A CALENDAR INKSTAND
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce, of London, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A CALENDAR INKSTAND."
Sealed the 26th June 1855, and dated the 3rd January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Keir Harvey and
Daniel Pearce at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd January 1855.
We, JOHN KEIR HARVEY and DANIEL PEARCE, of London, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
CALENDAR INKSTAND" to be as follows; and consists of a calendar or system of
calendars placed vertically or horizontally in combination with an inkstand
of any form or design.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
KEIR HARVEY and DANIEL PEARCE, of London, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors; give and grant unto us, the said
John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce, Her special licence that we, the
said John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Keir Harvey, and Daniel
Pearce, our 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 "A CALENDAR
INKSTAND," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John
Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, 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 we, the said John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce,
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:--
This Invention consists of a calendar or system of calendars, placed verti-
cally or horizontally in combination with an inkstand of any suitable form or
design.
Various modifications may be made in the arrangement of the
calendars and inkstands, therefore we do not confine ourselves to any specified
method of combination. To make the nature of our Invention easily
understood, we proceed to describe one of the arrangements by which we carry
it into effect, reference being had to the annexed Drawings; in which, Fig. 1
is a plan view of an inkstand, having the calendar in combination horizontally;
Fig. 2 is a section of the same through X, X, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a front
clevation of the same.
The column A, Fig. 2, is or may be attached to the bottom of the inkstand;
and is provided with as many flanged rings B as may be required by the
calendar. These rings rest on shoulders C, on the column A, and turn freely
thereon. In consequence of the column being placed excentrically to the case,
the flanges of the. rings in this instance project slightly beyond the outside
casing D of the inkstand, through the slits E, and having milled or. serated

page_text: edges, are easily turned on their axis. The vertical openings E, Fig. 3, exhibit
the calendar for the day. The inkholder is placed in the hollow part of the
column A. It is not necessary that the flanged rings should project beyond
the inkstand, as they may be made of less diameter than the inside of the
inkstand, and be operater by any suitable means. In ornamental inkstand
the calendar may be placed vertical to the inkstand, as shewn in Figs. 4 & 5,
or any modification thereof.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and shown the manner
in which it may be carried into effect, we wish it to be understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details herein set forth; but we claim,
the combination of a calendar with an inkstand of suitable form, said
calendar being incorporated with the body of the inkstand or attached thereto,
substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Keir Harvey and Daniel Pearce,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Third day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
JOHN KEIR HARVEY. (L.S.)
DANIEL PEARCE.
(L.S.)