A NEW OR IMPROVED GLASS OR VITREOUS TABLET OR DISC FOR CORRECTING OR IMPROVING STEEL PENS WHEN THEY ARE PARTIALLY CORRODED BY INK.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bailey, of Cheltenham, in the County
of Gloucester, Law Stationer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED GLASS OR VITREOUS TABLET OR DISC FOR CORRECTING OR IMPROVING
STEEL PENS WHEN THEY ARE PARTIALLY CORRODED BY INK.
Scaled the 1st December 1874, and dated the 6th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bailey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th June 1874.
I, GEORGE BAILEY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester,
Law Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED GLASS OR VITREOUS TABLET OR DISC FOR CORRECTING OR
IMPROVING STEEL PENS WHEN THEY ARE PARTIALLY CORRODED BY INK," to be, as
follows:-
It is well known that at a certain stage and after a certain amount of
usc steel pens become sharp at the points, and have a tendency to
penetrate the paper upon which they are employed, and so become
"spluttering" and of but little use.

page_text: This Invention is designed to remedy this default from time to time
as it arises, and to make the half worn out pen of as much service as
when it is new.
My Invention consists, substantially, in providing a disc or tablet of
glass or other vitreous substance having an uneven or corrugated surface,
and when the half worn out pen is required to be renewed nothing more
is required than to draw the points of it over the surface of the tablet or
disc once, twice, or oftener if required. In this manner the points of
the pen, which by the action of the acid contained in the ink have
become corroded, are blunted and the pen at once writes as freely as
when new.
My Invention may appear simple in character, but is the result of
many years study and experiments; its great practical advantage is not
so much in the saving of the cost of pens as to be free from the trouble
of being obliged constantly to renew a steel pen whilst in the act of
writing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Bailey in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BAILEY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Law Stationer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Bailey, Her special licence
that I, the said George Bailey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Bailey, my exccutors,
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.

page_text: GLASS OR VITREOUS TABLET OR DISC FOR CORRECTING OR IMPROVING STEEL PENS
WHEN THEY ARE PARTIALLY CORRODED BY INK," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Bailey, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Bailey, 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 in writing, that is to say.
It will be known that at a certain stage after a certain amount of use.
steel pens become sharp at the points, and have a tendency to penetrate
the paper upon which they are employed, and so become "spluttering"
and of but little use.
This Invention is designed to remedy this defect from time to time as
it arises, and to make the half worn out pen of as much service as when
it was new.
My Invention consists substantially in providing or forming a disc or
tablet, or a suitably shaped piece of glass or other vitreous substance,
having upon the face or faces thereof an uneven or corrugated surface,
or a series of grooves or depressions, either circular, diagonal, or engine
turned; the obverse of the face may in some cases be plain, or if desired
may have grooves the same as or differing from those upon the other
face or reverse side. The size and form, whether enamelled or plain, of
the piece of glass or other substance may be arranged or adapted for the
lid or cover, or for the sides of an inkstand; a letter or writing paper
weight or other article used upon a writing desk or table, or it may be
made of such a convenient size as to be connected or worn with a watch
or trinket chain, or it might be made portable to be carried loose cither
in the pocket or to suit the convenience of the user.
When the half worn out pen is required to be renewed nothing more
will be necessary than to draw and slightly press the points or knibs of
it transversely over the corrugated, grooved, or depressed surface of the
tablet or disc once, twice, or oftener, if required. In this manner the

page_text: points of the pen which by the action of the acid contained in the ink
have become corroded are blunted, and the pen will at once be made to
write as freely as when it was new.
The Invention may appear simple in character, but it is the result of
long study and experiments; its great practical advantage is not so
much in the saving of the cost of pens but in the user being free from
the trouble of being obliged constantly to renew steel pens whilst in the
act of writing.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that
I claim as my Invention, the production, formation, and use of tablets
or discs, or other suitably shaped pieces of glass or other vitreous
substance grooved, corrugated, or indented on one or both faces or
surfaces thereof for the purpose of smoothing and improving the points
or knibs of steel pens when corroded or otherwise injured by ink, sub-
stantially in the manner or to the effect, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bailey, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
GEO. BAILEY. .(L.S.)