IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF BRUSHES AND PENCILS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bowden and John Reed Dickinson, of
314, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF
BRUSHES AND PENCILS."
Sealed the 3rd November 1868, and dated the 8th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bowden and
John Reed Dickinson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 8th May 1868.
We, GEORGE BOWDEN and JOHN REED DICKINSON, of 314, Oxford
Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR PROTECTING
THE POINTS OF BRUSHES AND PENCILS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a fluted bar Fig. 1 A, of any given length,
round, oval, square, or flat, and made in either wood, gutta percha,
papier maché, vulcanite, or other materials. The grooves in the bar
are made of sufficient depth to admit brushes or pencils by an ordinary
grooving plane or cast in moulds according to the material used in the
construction of the bar. Each bar has one or more grooves, each groove
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page_text: is intended to hold a brush or pencil, which is kept in its place by
means of one or more elastic rings B being passed round the bar and
so securely holds it in the groove, each brush or pencil being separately
secured to its groove in the bar or protector by the pressure of the
elastic ring or rings any brush or pencil can be removed or replaced
without disturbing the remainder in the bar. The brushes and pencils
are further protected by a cover of leather C or other material being
passed round the outside of the brush and pencil point protector forming
an outer case or wrapper. These fluted bars can be made either solid
or hollow, (Fig. 2), the hollow ones are intended to hold surplus brushes
or pencils. To prevent the surplus brushes or pencils falling out of the
hollow bar a strong elastic cord is passed through, to each end of which
is attached a cap or button of sufficient size and at the same time
forming a covering to the end, as Fig. 3.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Bowden and John Reed Dickinson in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
BOWDEN and JOHN REED DICKINSON, of 314, Oxford Street, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS
Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said George Bowden and John Reed Dickinson,
Her special licence that we, the said George Bowden and John Reed
Dickinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said George Bowden and John Reed Dickinson, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR PROTECTING THE POINTS OF BRUSHES AND PENCILS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Bowden

page_text: and John Reed Dickinson, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, 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
instrument in writing under our, 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
Talent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Bowden and John Reed
Dickinson, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 accompanying Drawings wherein the same letters of reference
indicate similar parts in all the Figures, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of a fluted bar as shewn in Drawing, Fig. 1,
a, a, a, of any given length, and may be either round, oval (as in
Fig. 13), square, flat, triangular, or any other shape, and made either
in wood, papier maché, parksine, porcelain, vulcanite, or other material.
The groove or grooves, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 8, in the bar are made
of sufficient depth to admit brushes, pens, pencils, &c., by an ordinary
grooving plane or cast in moulds according to thematerial used in the con-
struction of the bar. Each bar has one or more grooves each groove is
intended to hold a brush, pen, or any other article of a tender or breakable
nature which is kept in its place by means of one or more elastic rings
or bands, Figs. (b, b,) 1, 4, 8, 12, 13, and 14, being passed round the bar
and so securely holding each article in its groove; no bar being complete
without one or more elastic springings or bands. When the bars consist
of only one groove they are attached to a band or cover by an elastic
cord and further secured to the band or cover by a stitch or rivet.
Each brush or other article being separately secured in its groove or
protector by the pressure of the elastic ring, rings, bands, or straps can
be removed or replaced without disturbing. the remaining articles on
the bar; in cases where the elastic ring, rings, bands, or straps are
required to be of more than ordinary strength or thickness an additional
ring, Figs. 1 and 4, is added to assist in raising it from the bar. The
fluted bars can be made either solid with or without lips or nipples,
Fig. 13, d, d; some of the hollow fluted bars are made of a series of sizes,
so that one can be made to slide into the hollow of the other, Fig. 12.
The hollow fluted bars are made so that they can hold liquids, see Fig. 8,

page_text: or surplus brushes, pencils, or other articles, or with a tray, as shewn
in Figs. 1 and 5; and Fig. 14, the tray shewn as when in use, which
slide into the hollow of the fluted bar, a screw cap or button of sufficient
size is attached to each end of the bar, forming a covering to each end
of the bar and at the same time prevents the liquids or other articles
placed in the hollow from falling out. These caps or buttons to cover
the ends may be attached to the hollow fluted bar either by a string, see
Fig. 3, passed through its centre, or with a hinge, screw, or spring, or is
permanently fixed at the end, see Figs. 9 and 11. Some of these fluted
bars are made or cast in moulds in two parts and are joined together
with hinges, as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6, and fasten when shut with a
spring catch, lock, or elastic band, each half bar can be cast with
grooves on the outside and division in the inside for colors or other
articles. The brushes or articles and the grooves of the bar are further
protected by a cover or wrapper of leather or other material being
passed round the outside of the bar, see Figs. 1 and 7. Some of these
covers or wrappers are made of enamelled leather, parksine, india-rubber,
or other material, and when made for the use of artists is intended to
form a flexible palette, which is kept flat by. means of one or more pieces
of whalebone or other substance being pushed through or between the
material of which the cover or palette is composed e, e, Figs. 1 and 7;
the palatte can be permanently secured by means of a slit in the bar,
Fig. 14, f, to which the palette or flexible cover is glued or cemented.
The palette or cover being flexible can be fixed or detached from the
bar and used separately by means of pin heads or hooks being fixed or
screwed on to the bar, as shewn in Fig. 5, g, g, to receive the eyelets
or loops in the flexible palette or cover, Fig. 7, h, h. The fluted
bars with the elastic rings, bands, or straps on is complete by itself
with or without the cover, and can be used for preserving and protecting
quill or metal pens and other articles which require the same care in
carriage or packing. Some of these fluted bars are made so as to be
secured on to the end of one another, so forming any length of the bar
that may be desired, each at the same time forming a separate bottle
or box, as represented in Fig. 8. Figs. 9 and 11 shew the receptacles
for holding liquids and which can be inserted at either end of Fig. 8;
Fig. 10 is a section through Fig. 8 at C, D, and Fig. 11 at E, F.
Having thus described the nature and object of our said Invention, we
declare that what we claim is,―

page_text: GEORGE BOWDEN.
(L.S.)
JOHN REED DICKINSON. (L.S.)