A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-FEEDING COPYING BRUSH WITH RESERVOIR HANDLE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Tinsley, of Sedgley, in the County of
Stafford, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-FEEDING
COPYING BRUSH WITH RESERVOIR HANDLE."-A communication from
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Tinsley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th July 1873.
I, THOMAS TINSLEY, of Sedgley, in the County of Stafford, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
SELF-PEEDING COPYING BRUSH WITH RESERVOIR HANDLE," (a communication) to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a brush with hollow handle attached
containing water, which is forced down to the brush by means of air
pressure admitted through a case fixed in the top of the handle; the
object being to facilitate the operation of copying letters by the ordinary
copying books and dispensing with the usual separate water well or like
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page_text: receptacle; a water tube and brush being combined by this Invention
in one and the same article, and also allowing the water to be used in a
gradual or other manner at the will of the operator.
And in order that this. Invention may be readily understood reference
is made to accompanying Drawings and the letters shewn thereon.
Fig. 1 is a general view of the brush, A being a brass or copper hollow
handle containing water; B, a camel hair brush bound securely in a
brass or copper band; C, a case fixed in the top of the handle (A) for
the purpose of admitting air into the handle, and consisting of the
following parts (see Fig. 2) :-D is a round copper or brass pin with a
head at the top; E is a brass or copper barrel screwed so as to be
admitted into the handle A; F is a brass or copper plate with an india-
rubber layer on its top, the whole of which is fixed round the pin D;
G is a brass or copper plate fixed in the sides of the barrel E, with a
hole in the centre to allow the pin D to come through; the sides of this
plate are cut off, see Fig. 3, to allow the air admitted into the barrel to
pass on into the handle; H is a spiral spring resting against the plate G
and the plate F, so as to keep the plate F close and well up to the top
of the barrel E. The pin D being pressed the plate F attached thereto
goes down and the air rushes into the barrel E forming pressure on the
water in the handle A, thus causing the water to flow to the brush B,
and in any quantity the operator may desire.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Thomas Tinsley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
TINSLEY, of Sedgley, in the County of Stafford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty- 3
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Tinsley, Her special licence,
that I, the said Thomas Tinsley, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Tinsley, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-
FEEDING COPYING BRUSH WITH RESERVOIR HANDLE," a communication to me
from abroad by Walter Shriver, of New York, United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Tinsley,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their 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 imme-
3 diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Tinsley, 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 :-
Sp
This Invention consists of a brush with hollow handle attached
containing water, which is forced down to the brush by means of air
pressure admitted through a case fixed in the top of the handle; the
object being to facilitate the operation of copying letters by the ordinary
copying books, and dispensing with the usual separate water well or like
receptacle; a water tube and brush being combined by this Invention
in one and the same article, and also allowing the water to be used in a
gradual or other manner at the will of the operator.
And in order that this Invention may be readily understood reference
is made to accompanying Drawings and the letters shewn thereon.
Fig. 1 is a general view of the brush, A being a brass or copper hollow
handle containing water; B, a camel hair brush bound securely in a
brass or copper band; C is a case fixed in the top of the handle (A) for
the purpose of admitting air into the handle, and consisting of the
following parts, see Fig 2:-D is a round copper or brass pin with a
head at the top; E is a brass or copper barrel screwed so as to be
admitted into the handle A; F is a brass or copper plate with an india-
rubber layer on its top, the whole of which is fixed round the piu D;

page_text: G is a brass or copper plate fixed in the sides of the barrel E, with a hole
in the centre to allow the pin D to come through; the sides of this
plate are cut off, see Fig. 3, to allow the air admitted into the barrel to
pass on into the handle; H is a spiral spring resting against the plate G
and the plate F, so as to keep the plate F close and well up to the top of
the barrel E. The pin D being pressed the plate F attached thereto
goes down, and the air rushes into the barrel E forming pressure on the
water in the handle A, thus causing the water to flow to the brush B,
and in any quantity the operator may desire.
:
Having thus described the nature of this my said Invention and the
mode of carrying the same into effect, now what I claim and desire to be
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
said Invention for a new or improved self-feeding copying brush with
reservoir handle, substantially as herein-before described, and as shewn
on the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Tinsley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
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ΠΟΜΑΝ ΠΤΆΤΩΣ ΤΙ
(L.S.)