US791016A - Combined sheet-metal ink-well, pen, and blotter holder and calendar. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

W. J. DIETRICH. COMBINED SHEET METAL INK WELL, PEN, AND BLOTTER HOLDER AND CALENDAR.

APPLIUATION FIL? MAB. 13,1905.

' NITED STATES Patented May 30, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. DIETRICH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW J ERS EY.

COMBINED SHEET-METAL INK-WELL, PEN, AND BLOTTER HOLDER AND CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION fOrmng part of Letters Patent NO. |791,016, dated May 550, 1905.

Application filed March 13, 1905. Serial No. 249,706.

I all whom, if; may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. DIETRICH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Sheet-Metal Ink-/Vell, Pen, and Blotter Holder and Calendar, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sheet-metal ink-well holders.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and durable combined inkwell, pen, and blotter holder and calendar of a neat and decorative appearance and capable of being very cheaply manufactured.

My invention consists in the means I employ to practically accomplish this object or result-that is to say, it consists in a sheetmetal ink-well holder formed of a single piece of sheet metal and comprising an inclined front furnished with integrall penholding grooves or corrugations, an integral horizontally-proj ecting ink-well-holding ring, and an integral back furnished with an integral blotter-holder lip or member adapted to receivebetween itself and said back a blotter, the inclined front of the combined holder having a calendar printed thereon.

My invention also consists in the novel construction of parts and devices and in the novel combinations of parts and devices herein shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, formingA a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a combined sheet-metal inkwell, pen, and blotter holder embodying my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical crosssections on lines 2 2 and 3 3, respectively, of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings,sA represents the sheetmetal holder, the same comprising an integral inclined sheet-metal front A' and an integral back or upright plate A2. The inclined front plate A is furnished with one or more, preferably two, longitudinal pen-holding grooves or corrugations a a and also with an integrally longitudinally projecting inkwell-holding ring a', furnished with a stiftening-bead a2 and an opening a3 to receive the ink-well. The' ink-well-holding ring a' is united at its lower segment (L13 to the front plate A', thus supporting the ink-well-holding ring from the front plate itself, with which it is integrally united. The opening A3 in the front A', out of which the ink-wellholding ring a' is cut or stamped, forms a passage for removal and insertion of the inkwell B from and into its ring c'.

The integral back or upright plate A2 of the holder is furnished with an integral lip or blotter-holder a4, preferably about siX inches long by one inch wide and integrally united at its lower edge with the back A2 of the horizontally-projecting flange a, the width of which should somewhat exceed the thickness of the blotter C, so that the blotter may be readily inserted between the back A2 'and the integral lip or blotter-holder (1.4.

side of the central ink-well opening A3 therein aords spaces A4 to receive the calendar D, which is printed upon the decorated surface of the sheet metal. The inclined front A has an upright flange a to give a smooth lower edge to the front plate to prevent its scratching or marring the desk and also to strengthen and stiften the sheet-metal holder as a whole. The lower edge of the upright back plate A2 is also furnished with a fold a8 for the same purpose, and the end edges of the holder A are also provided with folds a to give a smoothfinish to the end edges of the holder and to stiifen and strengthen the same.

The front and back of the holder may be lithographed or decorated in colors, and the whole thus given a neat and ornamental appearance.

The ink-well Bis preferably of glass and furnished with a sheet-metal cap B', having a knob I). The ink-well has at its top a rojecting rim or shoulder b' to engage and) fit against the ink-well-holding rinva. i

The spaces a4 on each side 0I* the central The surface of the inclined front at eachv ink-well may also receive other matter than the calendar, if desired, such as ornamental decoration or advertising matter printed thereon.

I claim- 1. A sheet-metal combined ink-well, pen and blotter holder and calendar, comprising an inclined front furnished with integral penholding grooves or corrugations, and an integral horizontally-projecting ink-well-holding ring, united at its front segment to said inclined front, and an integral upright back furnished with an integral blotter-holding lip or member ada ted to receive the blotter between itself an said back, said inclined front having on each side of said ink-wellholding ring a calendar-surface, substantially as specified.

2. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral hori- Zontally projecting ink-well holdlng ring, and said lnclined front having an opening therein for removal and insertion of the inkwell and the ink-well-holdingY ring being formed from the stock partially cut out of said inclined front in forming the opening therein substantially as specified.

3. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontally projecting ink-well holding ring,

said inclined front being also furnished with a longitudinal pen-holding groove or corrugation, substantially as specified. 4. A sheet-metal ink-well-holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontally-proj ecting ink-well-holding ring, and said back having an integral blotter-holding lip or member, substantially as specilied.

5. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back,

said inclined front having an integral horizontally-projecting ink-well-holding ring, and said inclined front having a calendarspace thereon, substantially as specified.

6. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontally -projecting ink well holding ring, and said integral ink-well-holding ring being provided with a stiffening-bead, substantially as specified.

'7. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontallyprojecting inkwell holding ring, and said sheet-metal holder having a marginal fold at the lower edges at its front and back plates and also at its end edges, substantially as specified.

8. A sheet-metal ink-well holder having an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontally projecting ink wellholding ring, said inclinedfront being also furnished with a longitudinal pen-holding groove or corrugation, said back having an integral blotteriolding lip or member, substantially as speci- 9. A sheet-metal ink-well holderhaving an inclined front, an integral upright back, said inclined front having an integral horizontally projecting ink well -holding ring, said inclined front being also furnished with a longitudinal pen-holding groove or corrugation, said back having an integral blotterholding lip or member, and said inclined front having a calendar-space thereon, substantially as specified.

10. A sheet-metal holder having an inlclinedront and integral upright back, the

inclined front being furnished with longitudinal pen-holding grooves or corrugations, and the upright back being furnished with an integral blotter-holding lip or member, sub'- stantially as specified.

1l. A sheet-metal hblder having an inclined front andfintegral upright backI the inclined front being furnished with longitudinal pen-holding grooves or corrugations, the upright back being. furnished with an integral 'bIotter-holding lip or member, and said front having a calendar-space thereon, substantially as specified.

12. A sheet-metal holder having an integral front and an integral back, said front being furnished with an opening therein for insertion and removal of an ink-well and provided with an integral ink-well-holding ring below the opening in said front and formed from the stock partially cut from said front in forming the opening therein, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM J. DIETRICH.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL A. WELLEs, W'. P. PALMER.

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