US250234A - getjmel - Google Patents

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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

F. R. GRUMEL.

BLOTTING CASE.

Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANQOIS R. GRUMEL, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

BLOTTlNG-CAS E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,234, dated November 29, 1881. Application filed August 26, 1881. (N0 model.) Patented in France June 9, 1881.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANQOIS REMY GRU- MEL,a resident of Paris, Department of Seine, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Blotting-Gases, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 4, 7, and 10 are plan views, showing the arrangement of the blotter in its various forms. Figs. 2, 5, 8, and 11 are longitudinal sections, and Figs. 3, 6, 9, and 12 are end views of Figs. 1, 4, 7, and 10, respectively.

My invention relates to that class of blotters or portfolios in which are combined one or more sheets of blotting-paper, a pocket or receptacle for storing writing-paper and envelopes, and a cover for the same.

At present at most of the public resorts such as steamboat-saloons, hotels, railroadstations, public libraries, and other like public places-blotters composed simply of one or more sheets of blotting-papers are provided for the passengers or visitors for use as a yielding support for letter-paper and as a blotter, and with these are generally found pen and ink, which latter are apt to be carried from one place to another by the person using the same, and they are apt to be mislaid or lost, so that the next person desiring to use the said pen or the pen and ink is obliged to hunt for them or to ask an attendant to do so. Inasmuch as these blotters are to be found at nearly all, if not all, of the public resorts named, the invention has for its object to supply these blotters with stationery-such as letterpaper and envelopes-and to permanently connect therewith an inkstand and means where by a pen or pencil, or both, may be removably connected with such blotter.

When the blotter is made for private use-- as, for example, for use in an office of a commercial establishment, or that of a lawyer or physician, or for use by students, draftsmen, or in private familiessueh objects as scissors, paper-knives, penknives, drawing or physicians or surgeons instruments, or articles employed for sewing, may be connected withthe blotters, according to where such blotter's are to be employed.

When the blotters are made for public or private use, the sheets of blotting-paper, as

well as the cover or covers of the blotter, may serve as an advertising medium, and may have advertisin g-eards prin tedor otherwise attached thereto.

To these ends the invention consists in a blotter, as a new article of manufacture, composed of a series of sheets of blotting-paper united in book form, and provided with covers, one of which extends beyond the paper and is provided with receptacles for writing and other implements, as described, and substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In practice I propose to make the blotters for public use, as shown, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of two or more sheets of blotting-paper, a, united at one edge to aflexible back, b,0f leather, cloth, paper, or other suitable material, which back is united to a cover of stiff paper card-board, pasteboard, wood, or leather, or other suitable material or combination of such materials, and to the inside of one of the leaves of said cover, either the upper leaf, 0, or the under leaf, 0, I attach a pocket or receptacle, d, for the reception of letter-paper and envelopes. This pocket may be made with the usual bellows folds, or in any other desired manner, and I preferably attach it to the insideof the upperleaf. Along one of the inside edges of either the upper or the lower leaf of the cover I permanently attach an inkstand, e, by any of the well-known means usually employed for such purposes. I preferably use an inkstand with a self-seat in g spring-lid, though other forms of inkstand may be employed. I further attach along said edge one or more loops, 6, in which a pen or a pencil, or both, may be inserted and held.

The outer faces of the leavescc of the cover I divide into any desired number of spaces, 0 for insertion of advertisements, which may be printed in such spaces or removably connected therewith by framing the same. One conven ient method of effecting this is to surround the face of the leaves of the cover with a per manently-attached framing and make the intermediate division or spacing strips movable by hinging them atone end and securing them at the other by means of any suitable locking device.

The inside of the leaf 0 or c, the face of the pocket, and the sheets of blotting-paper are or may be also used for displaying advertise ments, so that whether the blotter is opened or closed a numberof such advertisements are always visible.

Whether the inkstand and the pen, or the pen and pencil, or other suitable articles, are attached to the inside edge of the upper or the lower leaf, either at the left or right hand edge, or the upper or the lower edge of either of said leaves, it is evident that when the blotter is opened they will always be in a position for use and within practical reach of the person desiring to make use of them.

Instead ofmaking both leaves c of the cover of the same size, the upper leaf may be made shorter or narrower, according to thelocation of the inkstand and other articles on the lower leaf, so that such articles will always be in view, in which case a self-sealing inkstand or a closed inkstand is not absolutely necessary, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5; or the said articles may be arranged within a casing or receptacle,f, that may or may not he provided with a cover, f.

As shown in Figs. 7 and S, the casing is attached to the left edge of the lower leaf, 0, of the cover, the upper shorter leaf, 0, thereof being adapted to bethrown from theperson using the same in the direction of the arrow.

Instead of connecting articles, such as hereinbefore referred to, along one edge of one of the leaves or cover, two or three of the edges may be used for this purpose, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11.

Instead of printing or otherwise connecting advertisements with the cover-leaves c c or the pocket, these may be made of any suitable material more or less costly, and ornamented in anyofthe various ways known to this branch of the arts, either by embossing, metallizing, coloring, painting-in fact they may be made to display any of the almost endless ornamentations applied to such articles.

If desired, the upper leaf, 0, of the cover and its pocket d may be dispensed with and the sheets of blotting-paper alone used for displaying advertisements, such sheets being united in book form (or otherwise, so as to adapt them to be turned over) to the lower leaf, 0, though I prefer to use both cover-leaves.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a' blotter composed of a series of sheets of blotting-paper united in book form, and provided with covers, one of which extends beyond the paper, and is provided with receptacles for writing and other implements, as described, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of August, 1881.

FRANQOIS REMY GRUMEL.

Witnesses:

E. PAGE, Roar. M. HOOPER.

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