GB219990A - Improvements in and connected with inkwells - Google Patents

Abstract

219,990. Hunt, N. July 31, 1923, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Inkstands.-The dipping aperture of an inkwell is normally closed by a stopper displaced by dipping a pen into the well and restored on removal of the pen, dust .and flies being thus excluded and evaporation of the ink prevented. The stopper may be controlled by gravity in a gradient at the top of the inkwell sloping towards the aperture and serving to return displaced ink into the well. A porcelain, china, or other inkwell a, Figs. 2, 5, and 7, with or without a flange e to retain the well on a desk &c., may be provided at the top with a dish-shaped recess f, Fig. 2, having curved sides sloping from a central aperture d, with an inverted conical recess having straight sides and the aperture at the vortex, with radial grooves n, Fig. 5, intersecting at and increasing in depth towards a central aperture, for example, two diametricallyopposite or three symmetrically-arranged grooves, or with holes o, Fig. 7, intersecting at and sloping up from a dipping aperture d<1> in a downward extension c of the top of the well, so that a pen inserted in one hole displaces the stopper g up the other hole. The stopper g may be spherical or may have any of the forms shown in Fig. 10. Removal of the stopper from the inkwell or throwing off of the stopper by rapid insertion of the pen may be prevented by a vertical peripheral flange l, Fig. 5, with or without openings m facilitating dipping, by a chamber h, Fig. 2, mounted on and fitting the top of the inkwell and having an aperture sufficiently large to admit the stopper but arranged with its upper edge i<1> spaced from the edge of the aperture d a distance less than the diameter of the stopper, by a dome-shaped cover engaging over the flange e with an aperture at one side of less height than the diameter of the stopper, by corks inserted in the outer ends of the holes o, Fig. 7, or by a perforated, conical, or dome-shaped cover integral with the well, a cork &c. being used to close the apertures if they are larger than the stopper. The top of the interior of the inkwell may be shaped as shown in Fig. 2 or may be sloped towards the aperture d to facilitate emptying the well.