USRE1293E - Inkstand - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENTl Carien.,

AUGUSTUS I. GRIFFING, OF EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

iNKsTAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,299, dated February 4, 1862; Reissue No. l ,293, dated March 25, 1862.

To all ywhom tt may concern Beit known that I, AUGUSTUS 1 .Ga1rrme, t' East Cambridge, in the county ot' Middlex and State of Massachusetts, have in- Anted an Improved Inkst'and, of which the owing is a full, clear, and exact descrip- Lion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan ot' my inkstand 5 Fig. 2, a vertical section through the saine; Figs. 3 and 4, details to be referred to hereinafter.

The object of my present invention is to produce an inkstand which may be rendered liquid-tight when not in use or when to be carried about, as for a pocket-inkstand, and in which the orifice for the introduction of the pen may be readily opened without the necessity of removing the cap and my inveninkstand, to the neck a of which is attached by cement or otherwise a cap, b. (Shown detached and in section in Fig. 3.) This cap has a screw, c, cut on its periphery, and a hole, d, (of a proper size to admit a pen,) made in its top eccentric or between the center and the edge of the cap. A rim, t', surrounds this hole, being raised a little above the surrounding surface ot' the cap. Another'cap, f, (shown detached and in section in Fig. 4,) tits over the cap b, a screw, g, en the inside of its rim engaging with the screw c on the cap b. It has a hole, fn, in its top corresponding in size and position as to distance from the center of the cap with the hole din the cap b. A packing, m, of leather or other suitable elastic or yielding material, is secured to the inside or' the cap j', and a hole is cut in this packing to correspond with the hole u. The screws are tion consists in an inkstand the cap or cover so matched, or the holes cut in reference thereof which is constructed and operates substanto, that when the cap f is screwed down tight tially in the manner of the one which I will the hole n will not be over the hole d, but'at now proceed to describe in such terms that one side of it, as shown in Fig. 1. The packothers skilled in the art may understand and ing m pressing on the rim i around the hole d use my invention. makes a perfectly iight `joint, so that theI ink- I am aware that a pocket-inkstand has been stand may be carried in the pocket without made with a cover or cap screwing down onto danger ot leakage, while the small surface of the mouth of a bottle, but this required the metalviz ,the rim i-whichis in contact with cap to be removed to gain access to the eonthe packing, prevents the parts from being tents, a trouble which I wish to avoid. stuck together by the ink drying on them.

Iam also aware that an inkstand cap or When the inkstand is to be used, the cap f cover has been made of two plates, each one is unscrewed a part turn to bring the holes n having a hole init, so that when the movable and d to coincide. In some cases-as where plate was turned into one p'osition the holes the inkstand is not to be carried about-the corresponded and made an opening for the packing m may be omitted,the cap f screwing introduction of the pen, but when the plate down onto the rim t of the lower cap; but I was turned again the holes would not eoin- Aprefer to use the packing, as this insures a eide and the opening would be closed. This tight joint and does not strain and wear lthe answered to exclude dust from a desk-inkscrews so much.

stand, but was not sufiiciently tight for a What I claim as my invention, and desire to pocket-inkstand, as it did not prevent leakage. secure by Letters Patent, is

The'large surfaces of the two plate-s which The inkstand, the caps b f ot' which are came in contact were liable to be stuck together by ink which dried upon them.

I ain also aware of the United States patent, granted to W. H. Towers, October 2, 1860, No. 30,266, for an inkstand.

In the said drawings, A is the body of the speci lied.

AUGUSTUS 1?. GRIFFING. Witnesses:

Trios. R. Rollen, l?. E. Tascam/menne.

made to operate substantially in the manner

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