AN IMPROVED PEN REST, APPLICABLE ALSO TO INKSTANDS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Whittingham Beckley, of Ludgate Street,
in the City of London, Warehouseman, for the Invention of "An
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TRANDO"
Sealed the 8th January 1869, and dated the 4th November 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Whittingham
Beckley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his.
Petition, on the 4th November 1868..
I, ROBERT WHITTINGHAM BECKLEY, of Ludgate Strect, in. the City
of London, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED PEN REST, APPLICABLE ALSO TO INKSTANDS," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in the application of an ordinary horse-shoe or
other shaped magnet, suitably mounted as a pen rest, whereby the pen
is rendered more durable and the inking of the fingers consequent on
resting the pen in the ink bottle is avoided. The magnet I mount on
a suitable block or other stand in any convenient position, by preference
horizontally and inclined towards one side away from the person writing,
at such an angle that when the pen is placed across the limbs. of the

page_text: magnet it will be attracted and held thereby in much the same position
as when held in the hand, and thus remain ready for use. After being
a short time in use the pen becomes magnetised by reason of its frequent
contact with the magnetic pen rest, by which the corrosion of the pen
is retarded, thus increasing the durability of the pen. This improved
pen rest may be used in combination with an inkstand if desired, in
which case the pen rest might be so arranged as to form a handle for
the inkstand, or otherwise, or the ink might be contained within the
stand or block of the pen rest.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Whittingham Beckley, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 1st May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WHITTINGHAM BECKLEY, of Ludgate Street, in the City of London,
Warehouseman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Robert Whittingham Beckley, Her
special licence that I, the said Robert Whittingham Beckley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Whittingham Beckley, 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 "AN IMPROVED PEN REST, APPLICABLE ALSO TO
INESTANDS," upon the condition (amongst others), that I, the said
Robert Whittingham Beckley, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under I, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Whittingham Beckley, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of
Drawings hereunto ánnéxed, and to the letters and figures marked
thercon (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in the application of an ordinary horseshoe
or other shaped magnet suitably mounted as a pen rest, whereby the pcu
is rendered more durable and the inking of the fingers consequent on
resting the pen in the ink bottle is avoided. The magnet I mount on a
suitable block or other stand in any convenient position, by preference
horizontally, and inclined towards one side away from the person writing;
at such an angle that when the pen is placed across the limbs of the
magnet it will be attracted and held thereby in much the same position
as when held in the hand, and thus remain ready for use.
After being
a short time in use the pen becomes magnetised by reason of its frequent
contact with the magnetic pen rest, by which the corrosion of the pen is
retarded, thus increasing the durability of the pen,
This improved pen rest may be used in combination with an inkstand
if desired, in which case the pen rest might be so arranged as to form a
handle for the inkstand or otherwise, or the ink might be contained
within the stand or block of the
pen rest.
DESCRIPTION. OF DRAWINGS.
My Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which
Figure 1 shows a front view of an improved pen rest; Figure. 2 is an
end view; and Figure 3 a plan of the same.
This pen rest, which may also be used as a paper weight by loading it
with lead, consists of an ordinary horseshoe or other magnet a mounted
horizontally on a suitable block b at a convenient angle as seen in
Figure 2. When in use the pen rest is placed as seen in Figure 2, the
magnet being inclined away from the person writing so that when the
pen is placed across the limbs of the magnet it will be attracted and held
as seen in the Drawing at much the same angle as when held in the hand:
Figures 4 and 5 show respectively an elevation and plan of a pen rest
in which the magnet is mounted vertically; a is the magnet as before,
and 6 the stand; cis a stop to prevent the pen slipping too far down the
limbs of the magnet where the attraction is weakest.

page_text: This pen rest may also be used in combination with an inkstand;
Figure 6 shows in front elevation the pen rest as applied to a double
table inkstand, and Figure 7 an end view of the same, the ink bottle
being removed. In this case the pen rest is arranged to form a handle
for the inkstand, and is double, being provided with two magnets a, a,
sloping in opposite directions as seen in Figure 7. Figure 8 shows in
front elevation a pen rest as applied to a single inkstand; a is the
magnet as before; it is mounted at an angle on two standards d, said
standards being connected at top by a cross bar e, which with the
magnet serves as a handle to the inkstand. Figure 9 shows in plan a
pen rest similarly applied to an ordinary porcelain inkstand; a is the
magnet mounted on standards d, similar to those in Figure 7, fixed in a
hcurved so as to fit into the inkstand as seen, from which it may
be removed at will.
In the improved pen rest of my Invention instead of a being a magnet
it might simply consist of an ordinary bar of iron or steel, the pen being
magnetised instead if desired, so as to cause it to adhere to the bar.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
application of a magnet as a pen rest either alone or combined with an
inkstand or paper weight, all as herein-before described and illustrated
in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Whittingham Beckley,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of
April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
Witness,
A. M. CLARK,
Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
ROBERT W. BECKLEY. (LS_)