US632588A - Ink-well. - Google Patents

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No. 632,588. Patented Sept. 5, |899. C. F. RITCHEL.

INK WELL.

(Application led May 29, 1899.)

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CHARLES F. RITCHEL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, SSIGNOR TO THE YANKEE BIANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

INK-WELL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,588, dated September 5, 1899.

Application led May 29, 1899. Serial No. 718,698. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it' may concern.' other,to graduate the position of the controller Be it known that I, CHARLES F. RITCHEL, relatively to the level of the ink, it being inacitizen of the United States of America, and tended to maintain the controller so far be- 55 a resident of Bridgeport, county of Faireld, low the level as the depth to which it is de- 5 State of Connecticut, have invented certain sired to dip the pen for a proper charge of new and useful Improvements in Ink-Vells, the ink, and thus while permitting the pen of which the following is a specification. to be dipped to the extent required prevent- My invention consists of improvements in ing it from dipping too deep. For the pur- 6o ink wells or stands, whereby it is designed to pose of raising and lowering the controller it Io regulate the dip of the pens into the ink, so may be fitted on the screw by any suitable that the charge of ink will be graduated to form of screw-threaded nut; but as a means the required amount and overcharge will be of protection against jamming the nut against prevented and the charge will be clear and the bottom or the cover of the ink-well when 65 free of sediment. Itis more particularly dethe nut has reached its limit of movements a r 5 signed for rapid hasty writers and children nut of special contrivance adapted for autowho have careless habits of dipping quickly matic unclutching and reclutching with the and overloading the pen and especially to threads of the screw is provided. The said preventing clogging the pen with sediment nut consists in this example of the invention 7o from the bottom, all as hereinafter described, of two elastic lips Z of the controller-plate, zo reference being made to the accompanying which is made of thin springy metal, turned drawings, in whichup from the edges of said plate and bent over Figure l is a sectional elevation of my imso as to grip the screw between their edges, proved ink-well. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. which being thin and taper bite into the 75 3 is a horizontal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. threads of the screw with ample pressure to 25 l; and Fig. 4 is a detail in vertical section on cause the traverse of the controller along the an enlarged scale, the section being taken on screw until obstructed at the ends of the line 3 3, Figs. l and 3. range, and then the lips will be wedged apart The well or stand ais a simple form of cup, by the threads, which will then escape the 8o preferably of glass, but may be of any aplips,while the screw maycontinue to be turned 3o proved material. It has a vertical interior in the direction causing the controller to jam,

groove b, or it may be a rib, and it also has a but will continue their grip to shift the constep-bearing recess c at the center of the bottroller in the other direction when the screw tom for the lower end of avertical adjustingis turned the other way. The lips l have 85 screw d, and said well is provided with a cover lslight inclinations of their biting edges 3 5 e., detachably connected in any way, as by a corresponding with the angular pitch of the iiange f and a spiral thread or threads g. An threads of the screw for meshing with the orifice h in the cover admits the pens for takthreads accurately, the inclinations of the reing the ink. Over the cover is a rotating spective lips being in opposite directions be- 9o gate t to cover the orice 7L when the ink-well cause of the reverse inclinations of the threads 4o is not in use. This gate is attached to the on the opposite sides of the screw. The hole upper end of the adj usting-screw d and serves m through the controller-plate below the lips as a finger-piece by which to turn the screw, for the screw forms a guide whereby the lips' the screw being pivoted in the center of the are prevented from escaping from the screw. 95 cover e, so as to turn freely. On the screw What I claim as my invention is 45 is a vertically-adjustable pen-dipping conl. The combination with an ink well or troller j, consisting of a plate carried on the stand, of a controller for the dip of the pen screw under the dipping-orice h and havin the ink, a screw for adjusting the controling a guide-spur 7c running in the groove b ler relatively to the level of the ink, acover roo to prevent it from turning with the screw. for the ink well or stand having an orifice ad- 5o The controller engages the threads of the mitting the pen subject to the controller, and screw in a way to be shifted up or down, aca cover for said orifice, said cover being the cording as the screw is turned one way or the inger-piece for operating the screw.

2. The combination with an ink Well or stand, of a controller for the dip of the pen in the ink, an adjusting-screw Whereon the controller is mounted and on which it travels for adjustment relatively to the level of the ink, and a guideway and guide-stud for determining the traverse movements of the controller, said stud being on the controller and the guideway in the Wall of the Well.

3. The combination with an ink Well or stand, of a controller for the dip of the pen in the ink, an adjusting-screw Whereon the controller is mounted for adjustment relatively to the level of the ink, and an unclutching and clutching nut for releasing the controller at the ends of its traverse.

4. The Combination With au ink Well 'or stand, of a controller for the dip of the pen in the ink, an adjusting-screw Whereon the controller is mounted for adjustment relatively to the level of the ink, and an unclutching and clutching nut for releasing the con-A ing and clutching nut for releasing the con-` troller at the ends of its traverse, said nut consisting of the elastic lips of the controller gripping the opposite sides of the screw by Y their edges, the controller-plate having an ori= ce for the screw forming a guide.

Signed by me at New York, N. Y., this 25th day of March, 1899.

CHARLES F. RITCHEL.

Witnesses: A. P. TLLAYER,

C. SEDGWICK.

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