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Description

' "(No Model.)

F. R. PARSONS.

INKSTAN'D.

No. 393,026. Patented o 20, 1888.

FIB-l IN VENTUR.

WITNESSES- UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE;

INKSTAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,026, dated November 20, 1888,

Application filed April 28, 1838.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK R. PARSONS, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Inkstands; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof.

This invention relates to that variety of inkstands in which the hinged cover has connected therewith a weight for normally holding the cover raised and arms or members for receiving a pen-holder,which when placed thereon will close the cover and retain it in a closed position.

The invention consists in certain features of construction and arrangement, hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1. represents a side view of an inkstand embodying the invention. Fig. 2 shows a top view of the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views showing forms of pivotal bearings that may be used on the cover member and the standards, the standards being represented in vertical section.

A is the base of the inkstand, which base may be of any preferred form or design.

B B are standards secured thereto and projecting upwardly therefrom, upon which the cover member 0 is mounted to swingin avertical plane. The standards are furnished at their upper ends with bearings Z b, for receiving the pintles c c on the cover member. This member is composed, in the main, of a cover portion, (1, adapted to fit closely upon the top of the inkstand proper, D, two arms, e e, and a weight, f. The arms 0 e are shown as connected to the cover (I by a bar, 9, and they may be connected, also, by two braces, h h, and the weight is shown as connected to' said bar by a curved arm, t. The pintles c a projeet from the outer sides of the arms 0 e or from the end of the bar 9. The parts composing the cover member 0 are preferably cast integral with one another or made of one piece of metal, thereby avoiding the use of solder, screws, or rivets in securing them together. The arms 6 c are provided near their free ends with cavities 7c 70, for receiving a penholder, L, and just in the rear of said cavities Serial No. 272,193. (No model.)

the arms are preferably furnished with upwardly-projecting fingers m m, respectively, which serve as guides against which the penholder can be placed when it is to be put into the cavities 75, less care being required in locating the holder in the cavities than would be necessary were no fingers employed. The base A is also preferably provided with cars a a to hold an extra pen-holder or a pencil.

The weightf is intended to be suftlciently in excess of the weight of the front portion of the cover member or that portion forward of an axial line passing through, the pivots c c to cause the cover member to tilt or swing, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1,when the penholder is removed, so that ink may be obtained from the stand D. As defects in the cover member, as a casting, are liable to vary its proper balance, I preferably construct said member with a cavity, a, Fig. 1, in the cover (I, to receive a supplemental weight of lead or other material, and the weight f may also have a cavity, a, for the same purpose, so that the proper balance of the cover member on its pintles can be easily and accurately secured.

As the cover is intended to be closed by the weight of a pen-holder, it is desirable there shall be the least possible friction between the pintles c c and bearings 11 b. I prefer, therefore, to bevel the pintles to an ed ge,c,on the under side and to bevel the bearings 12 b to an edge, I), as shownin Figs.1 and 3. With this construction the pintles and bearings will engage at but a single point, thereby enabling the cover member to tilt very easily, and preventing dust from interfering with its movements, as well as dispensing with the use of alubricant. Instead of beveling the bearings b b as just described, however, the same result may be secured by inclining the edge 0 on the pintles, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the pintles will only bear on the edge I) of the bearings; or the edge 0 may be inclined and the bearing 1) be beveled, as shown in Fig. 5.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with the base provided with standards 13 B, having bearingsb b,and an inkstandlocated on said base,of atilting cover member, 0, having pivots c c and composed of a cover portion, (1, arms 6 0, having cavities k 76, for receiving a pen-holder, and a weight,f, the said cover member being fnrnished with a cavity or cavities, n, for receiving a supplemental Weight, substantially as set forth.

' 2. The combination,with the base provided with standards B B, having bearings b I), and an inkstand located on said base, of a tilting cover member, 0, having pivots a c and com posed of a cover portion, (1, arms 6 6, having cavities 7.: Ir, for receiving a pen-holder, and having upwardly-projecting fingers m m, and a Weight, f, the parts of said cover member all being integral or cast in one piece, substantially as set forth.

poses specified.

FRANK R. PARSONS.

\Vitnesses:

EDsoN SALISBURY J ONES, GEO. W. CADY;

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