US534227A - Inkstand-cover - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

H. C. PHILLIPS 8v J. PALMER, Jr. INKSTAND COVER.

= No. 534,227. Patented Peb. 12, 1895.l

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HARRY O. PHILLIPS AND JAMES PALMER, JR., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

INKSTAND-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,227, dated February 12, 1895.

Application filed November 2, 1894. Serial No. 527.764. (No model.)

To all whom t may concer-n:

Be it known that we, HARRY O. PHILLIPS and JAMES PALMER, J r., of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improve ments in Inkstand-Covers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference numerals marked thereon.

Our present invention has for its object to provide a cover capable of application to an ordinary inkstand or ink-bottle and adapted to prevent the entrance of dust, and as well the evaporation of the ink, and which shall not interfere with the dipping of the pen into the bottle, when desired; our device also serving, if desired, to prevent too great a quantity of ink being carried on the pen, and to these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements in construction and combinations of parts, alll as will be hereinafter fully described and the novel features pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification. i

In the drawingsz-Figures 1 and 2 are sectional views of our device, showing it applied to an ordinary ink-bottle. Fig. 3, is abottom plan view with the bottom plate partly broken away; Fig. 4, a top plan view of the same; Fig. 5, a perspective view of a blank from which one of the lids or covers is constructed.

Similar reference numerals in the several figures indicate similar parts.

In carrying ont our invention we provide a top plate 1, preferablyin the form of a disk having a downwardly extending iiange 2 and also the central aperture formed by punching out and turning down the ears 3, which also serve as guides for the sides of the iiexible lids or covers 4. The lids or covers are constructed from a blank, such as shown in Fig. 5, cut from some iiexible and preferably elastic material, as rubber, provided with the laterally extending portions 5 at the ends, which, when the blank is bent to the form shown in Fig. 2, and in dotted lines in Fig. A5, are located inside the cover, while thedouble portion of each lid extends half-way across beneath the aperture inthe plate 1, the two lids meeting at or near the center of the aperture, as

tially as described.

shown. Two of these elastic lids are provided and they are held in position within the plate 1, preferably, bya bottom plate 6 formed with the downwardly projecting lugs or ears 7; the ears 3 upon the upper plate passing through the central aperture formed by turning down the ears 6. If desired, the outer depending flange of the upper plate may be turned over the lower plate 6 to hold the parts in position, but this is not necessary as the friction between the said depending flange and the edge of the plate 6 will be sufficient for the purpose.

When in use the device is placed over the mouth of an ordinary ink-bottle and the legs 7 hold it in position, the two elastic lids 4 abutting, as shown in Fig. 2, and entirely closing the aperture and excluding dust and preventing the evaporation of the ink. When the operator desires to inserthis pen in the ink, he simply pushes it down between the elastic iiexible covers, which will readily yield, and upon the withdrawal of the pen said iiexible covers will resume the position shown in Fig. 2, by their own elasticity. By turning vthe pen, the edges of the iiexible lids may serve to remove from the nibs any surplus ink, as will be understood.

The lids or covers 4 may be made very cheaply of sheet rubber and will not interfere with the insertion of the pen between them, and they may be furnished in quantity so that when they become worn or lose their elasticity' they may be readily replaced by others, removing the bottom plate 6 for the purpose, the extensions 5 preventing the longitudinal displacement of the lids.

By making the covers themselves elastic and preferably rounded on their meeting edges, as shown, they will yield much more readily when the pen is inserted than would inliexible covers operated by a spring.

This device is very simple and may be manufactured and put upon the market cheaply, the parts all being capable of being stamped out of sheet material.

We claim as our invention-- l. The combination with the top plate having an aperture, and the downwardly extending ears at the sides thereof, of the two abutting lids of elastic flexible material secured to the plate and engaging the ears, substan- IOC 2. The combination with the cover having an aperture, of the two lids composed of the doubled pieces of elastic material extending across the aperture and abutting at or near the center, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the cover, having an aperture, and the depending arms for engaginga bottle, of the two independent lids of elastic flexible material connected to the cover and projecting from opposite sides of the aperture with their edges abutting, substantially as described.

4. The combination with the apertured top and bottom plates, of the elastic flexible lids arranged between said plates and extending from opposite sides and abutting within the aperture, substantially as described.

5. The combination with the top and bottom plates having the apertures and connected to each other, of the lids secured between them composed of the rubber strips having lateral extensions near their ends and doubled at their center and arranged with their doubled edges in contact, substantially as' described.

G. The combination with the top plate having the aperture, and the downwardly extending ears, and the bottom plate having the depending arms for engaging a bottle, of the two ieXible elastic lids secured between the plates and projecting from opposite sides of the a erture with their edges abutting, substantlally as described.

HARRY C. PHILLIPS. .T AMES PALMER, JR. Witnesses:

G. A. RoDo, F. F. CHURCH.

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