An Improved Instrument or Appliance for Erasing Ink or similar Marks from Paper, Parchment, or similar Material, and for. Burnishing the Surface thereof, or for Erasing only.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument or Appliance for Erasing Ink or similar
Marks from Paper, Parchment, or similar Material, and for.
Burnishing the Surface thereof, or for Erasing only.
I, HENRY GEORGE GASTRILL WILKINS of No. 1, Windsor Road Ealing in
the County of Middlesex Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to facilitate the erasion of ink or similar marks
from paper parchment or similar materials that may be used for writing or
marking with ink or the like and for burnishing or smoothing the surface thereof
after an erasure.
My invention consists of an eraser which may be employed either separately or
in combination with a burnisher for smoothing the surface and which can be
attached to penholders of any description, either permanently or removeably or
may be attached to a holder or handle of its own, or may be made in one, the
roughened surface or eraser the smooth surface or burnisher and the handle being
made of one piece and of the same material, by means of which ink or other marks
of a similar nature may be removed from paper parchment or similar materials and
the surface burnished.
In order to carry out my invention I employ a piece of suitable hard material
(preferably steel) having a part with a surface, preferably spherical or rounded and
roughened like a file although other forms may be used.
Another portion, of such form that it may be provided with a socket of metal or
other suitable material, that may be passed over an extremity of a penholder or
other holder and which is independant of such holder and which may be removed
and employed as a protector to the nib of the pen, or in place of the socket the
eraser and burnisher or either of them may be provided with a spike, screw or the
like, for attaching to any form of holder or bandle. A further portion or part is
provided with a smooth surface for the purpose of burnishing or smoothing the
surface of the paper parchment or similar material after the erasure, or a ring or
other suitably shaped piece of ivory, bone or other material having a smooth
surface, may be combined with the eraser for the same purpose.
A further part of my invention consists of a ring of suitable hard material having
the outer surface rounded and roughened like a file, or part thereof roughened. and
part smooth for burnishing, and which is capable of being placed either permanently
or removeably on any part of a penholder or other holder or may be placed on the
finger, and this ring may be employed separately or it may be attached to an
expanding socket of such construction as to enable it to fit various sized holders or
bandles. In carrying out another part of my invention, I make the eraser, the
burnisher and the handle in one piece and of the same material and in various
forms and sizes suitable for the purpose but preferably with the ends of the handle
in a spherical or rounded form the eraser or roughened surface being at one end and
the burnisher or smooth surface at the other.
Although I preferably roughen the spherical or rounded surface of the eraser as
a fine file it may be roughened in a coarser manner.
In order to more fully describe my invention I now refer to the accompanying
drawings which are purposely made larger than the instrument need be in order to
better show the parts.
Fig. 1. represents section of eraser, burnisher and socket complete. A is in one
piece of suitable hard material forming eraser of which the spherical or rounded
portion is roughened as a file, the remaining part being plain so as to receive a

page_text: smooth ring B. which may be of the same or other suitable material such as ivory,
bone or the like for burnishing, or the portion B may be formed in one piece with A,
C represents the socket fitted or fixed to A and, which is split at one or more
places D to enable it to fit various sized holders, and the part A. is provided with
a hollow, E. of suitable size and shape, for receiving the extremity of the penholder
or other holder.
Fig. 2. represents eraser and burnisher formed in a similar manner to Fig. 1.
with the exception that in the place of the socket C. I employ a spike, screw for the
like F. fixed to A. and for the purpose of permanently fixing the eraser and
burnisher to the extremity or other part of any penholder or handle.
Fig. 3. shows another form of eraser, or eraser and burnisher in the shape of a
ring G of suitable hard material as before described rounded and roughened in one
or more parts of its outer surface H. for erasing and the remaining portion.or
portions being smooth as shown in K. for the purpose of burnishing the surface of
the
paper, parchment or similar material after the erasure or the outer surface may
be entirely roughened as H.
Fig. 4. shows section of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5. represents the eraser, the burnisher and the handle made in one piece. of
suitable hard material, of which L. is the rounded and roughened surface for
erasing, M. the handle and N. the smooth surface for burnishing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1). An eraser having a spherical or rounded surface roughened as a 'file; a
smooth surface for burnishing the paper parchment or similar material after the
erasure and a socket for attaching to a penholder or other holder or handle and
which is independant of such holder or handle substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown in Fig. 1. of the accompanying drawings.
(2). An eraser having a spherical or rounded surface roughened as a file, a
smooth surface for burnishing the paper, parchment or similar material after the
erasure and provided with a spike, screw or the like for fixing to a penholder or
handle substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in Fig. 2. of the
accompanying drawings.
(3). An eraser in the form of a ring having its onter surface rounded and
roughened as a file substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in Fig. 3 and
Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings.
(4). An eraser in the form of a ring having one or more parts of its 'outer
rounded surface roughened as a file the remaining portion or portions being smooth
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in Fig. 3. and Fig. 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
(5). An eraser and burnisher having a handle, the eraser being formed of a
spherical or rounded and roughened surface at one end and the burnisher being of
a smooth surface at the other end substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown in Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawings.
(6). An improved instrument or appliance for erasing ink or similar marks from
paper, parchment or like materials which consists of suitable 'hard material having
a 'surface spherical or rounded and roughened like a file which may be employed
alone or in combination with a burnisher consisting of suitable material having a
smooth surface for the purpose of burnishing or smoothing the paper parchment or
like materials after an erasure and which shall be constructed in the various
forms substantially as herein before described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 17th d
1001
H. G. G. WILKINS.