US730006A - Fountain-inkstand. - Google Patents

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, P. N. DORLAND.

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PATENT OFFICE.

' FRANK NORTON DORLAND, OF'HUMBOLD'I, NEBRASKA. V

FOUNTAIN-lNKSTANDi SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,006, dated June 2, 19 03.

Application filed January 22, 1902 Serial No. 90,774. (No modehl I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK NORTON Don- LAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Humboldt, in the county of Richardson and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements" in Fountain- Inkstands, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in fountain ink-wells, and the object that I have in view is the provision of a simple cheap article affording a "shallow dip-chamber which supplies just'the rightdepth'of ink for properly wetting the nibs and slot of a pen, which allows the ink to flow readily into the reservoir and the air to escape therefrom during the operation of filling the stand, which may be easily and quickly washed out in all its parts, which supplies all the ink contained in the reservoir to the dip-chamber, and in which the ink is stored so that dust and dirt cannot have access to the reservoir.

With these ends in View my invention consists of an inkstand embodying certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is tobe had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fountaininkstand embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view showing the inkstand in a position proper for filling the same.

The inkstand Ais provided with areser voir-ehamber a, and said inkstand has a fiat bottom surface I) and. a straight rear wall 0,

that lies at right angles to the bottom s'ur On its front side the inkstand is provided with an extension B, the same being face.

made integral with the inkstand. This extension is provided with a shallow dip-chamber B, the depth of which is sufficient to contain a small volume of ink, in order to properly wet the nibs and slot of a pen. The top (I of the dip-chamber is formed with a dipopening 01. As shown by Fig. 2, the bottom a of the reservoir-chamber is arranged in a plane above the bottom e of the dip-chamber,

and the reservoir-ohambera is in communication with the dip-chamber B by an inoliiied passage f, whereby the ink may flow from the reservoir-chamber into the dipchamberwhen vthe levelof the shallow stratum of-ink inthe dip-chamber B falls below thefport'which' is formed by the lower end portion, of the passage f. One of the important features of my invention consists in the provision of a filling-port g in the vertical front wall G of the inkstand A, said port being closed by any suitable means such, for example, as the plug or stopper g. This port g opens into the reservoir-chamber a of the inkstand, and said port allows the ink to readily flow into the chamber a when the stand is placed on end in the position shown by Fig. 3.

The inkstand may be of any desired ornamentalpattern,and,as shown by the drawings, it is formed with a sloping front portion h, having a series of ledges h, adapted to form a pen-rack; but it is evident that this rack may be omitted.

I attach importance to an inkstand having a filling-port g the axis of which is in a plane at right angles to the axis of the dip-opening d in the dip-chamber.

The inkstand may rest firmly on the surface afforded by the back wall 0 when the article is turned up to the position shown by Fig. 3. Ink may easily and freely be poured v in tlie'chamber a through the opening g and the channel f. The dip-chamber B and the dip-opening d form a vent through which the 'air can easily and fully escape during the op eration of'filling thereservoir. After filling the reservoir the plug or stopper g is replaced in order to securely close the port g, and then the inkstand is-turned down to rest upon its fiat under surface I], thus making it assume the position shown by Fig. 2. flow from the reservoir-chamber through the passage f into the dip-chamber until the level The ink may from the reservoirchamber into the dipchamber.

The arrangement of the bottom a" of the reservoir-chamber in a plane above the bottom 6 of the dip chamber allows all of the ink to flow from the reservoir-chamber into said dip-chamber, because the ink can pass from the bottom a through the passage f without obstruction by intervening ledges or shoulders.

In cleaning the ink-well it is placed on end in the position shown by Fig. 3, the plug is removed, and water is poured through the port 1 into the chamber a. The stand may now be shaken in order to agitate the Water contained in the reservoir, thus washing out any sediment which may accumulate due to extensive or continued use of the article. In like manner the dip-chamber 3 may be washed or flushed out by admitting water thereto; but in this connection I desire to observe that the main supply of ink is kept in a condition where the air cannot have a ready access thereto, whereby dust and dirt are exeluded from the ink and the formation of sediment is minimized.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent An inkstand having an inclined and a vertical front portion, a reservoir-chamber,a narrow extension integral with the stand, a shallow dip-chamber of small cross-sectional area in said extension, an inclined passage leading from the bottom of the reservoir-chmnber to the bottom of the dip-chamber, a stoppered port in the vertical part of the front and having its imaginary axis in a plane at an angle to the like axis of the dip chamber, and ledges forming a pen-raek on the inclined part of the front.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ol. two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK NORTON 'UORLAND.

\V itnesses:

1 R. Bor'rnnjmnnn, A. N. SAMUELSON,

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