US339856A - Eraser - Google Patents

Description

UNITED. STATES ATENT OFFICE.

OCTAVIUS GATE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ERASE R.

.BI-ECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,856, dated April 13, 1886.

Application filed February 23, 1896. Serial No. 192.938. (No model.)

To all whom it nmy concern.-

Be it known that I, OCTAVIUS GATE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use ful Improvementsin Erasers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an implement for erasing ink and other marks made upon paper,and smoothing the paper surface so erased; and the implement of this invention is composed of a head of steel having on its opposite sides faces running at an angle and meeting at one end of the head, and each face being provided with parallel projecting knife edges or blades or flanges integral with the head,and their meeting end rounded or smoothed off, all substantially as hereinafter described.

ln the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are views at different sides of the implement of this invention.

In the drawings, A is a handle, of any suitable materialsuch asivory, wood, &c.and B is the eraser-head, made of cast-steel or other suitable metal or material, and secured in one end of the handle A in any suitable manner. This head B, as shown, has two faces, C 0, meet ing at an angle, D, and each face C-has a series of angularly-projecting and parallel blades, ribs, or flanges, a, integral therewith. Each blade a, at and along its outer edge, d, is sharp ened, to render it and all of them capable of erasing ink and other marks from the surface of paper, 8:0. The head B, at the angle D of meeting of its erasing-faces O C, is rounded or smoothed off, and thereby made suitable for use as a burnisher, to burnish or smooth off the surface of the paper previously scraped and abraded to remove ink-marks, &c., there from.

To use the implement described, place it by either side thereof, having the edge-sharpened projecting blades, ribs, or flanges on the paper, and move it forward and back ward, said edges undersuch movement scraping and erasing the paper as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim An ink-eraser consisting of a head having on its opposite sides faces running at an angle and meeting at one end, and each face provided with parallel projecting knife edges or blades integral with the head, and their meeting ends rounded or smoothed off, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OO'IAVIUS GATE.

\Vitnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, ALBERT W. BROWN.

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