Improvements in and relating to Fountain Pens.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date claimed for Patent under Sect. 103 of Act,
being date of first Foreign Application (in 24th July, 1893
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 17th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Lert, 17th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Lert, 17th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 44 reD., 1994
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Fountain Pens.
1, WOODRUFF POST, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at
Olean, in the County of Cattaraugus and State of New York, one of the United
States of America, Clergyman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My present invention relates to an improvement in fountain-pens, the object
thereof being to provide an ink-lifting fountain-pen operating by means of a handle-
provided plunger, and the invention therefore consists in the construction,
arrangement, and combination of parts substantially as will be hereinafter described
and claimed.
In the annexed drawings illustrating my invention-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved fountain pen.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
Figure 3 is an enlarged detail elevation of the pen stock.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
A designates the main hollow or tubular barrel, which provides an elongated
ink-containing chamber, said barrel being made out of any suitable material such as
gutta percha or any other well adapted substance and being of any required size
and configuration.
The hollow barrel A receives at one end the pen stock B, having thereon the
annular enlargement 6 which provides a shoulder abutting against the end of the
barrel A when the pen stock has been fixed in place. Pen stock B may either be
screw-threaded to engage the barrel, or it may be made smooth and pressed in
tightly so as to be air-tight. This stock B can therefore be readily removed from
the barrel A and replaced therein whenever desired. It is hollow and internally
provided with oppositely-located grooves on its inner side which receive the pen C,
properly shaped and constructed to be thus securely fitted in place within the pen
stock. On the back of the pen C is the spring feeder D. The exact form and
The material
pattern of the pen and of the feeder may vary within wide limits.
feature is that there be provided a removable pen stock carrying the pen and
feeder, which stock can be readily detached from or attached to the barrel.
Located within the barrel A is a piston or plunger E, made of cork, rubber, or
any other suitable material. This plunger E is securely fastened to the inner end
of a rod or handle F, which projects through that end of the barrel A opposite to
where the stock B is located, and through said end of the handle A the rod F
works tightly so as to prevent any ink from passing out through the joint at this
point. Said joint is obviously an air-tight joint. Consequently the user of the
pen by drawing the handle F and the plunger E from the position shown in dotted
lines in Figure 2 outward into the position shown in full lines in the same figure,

page_text: can by suction cause the barrel A to be filled completely full of ink. Thus I
provide a ready and easy means for quickly and effectually filling the pen
with ink.
Any ordinary and suitable cap may be employed for covering the pen C when
it is not in use. The operation and adaptation of my improved pen to manifold
uses and the ease and efficiency with which it may be employed will be readily
apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains and it is
unnecessary to explain the same at this point at any length. The readiness
with which the pen can be filled with ink constitutes one of its chief
excellencies.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In a fountain pen, the combination of the main barrel, the pen stock inserted
in the end thereof and having an annular enlargement thereon which provides
shoulder abutting against the end of the barrel when the pen stock has been fixed
in place, said peu-stock being provided internally with oppositely-located grooves,
the pen which is securely fitted in place within the internal grooves and pen-
stock and the spring feeder acting upon the back of the pen, substantially as
described.
2. In a fountain pen, the combination of the main barrel, a plunger working
therein, a handle attached to the plunger and passing through an air-tight
joint in one end of the barrel, a pen stock inserted into the opposite end of the
barrel and provided with a shoulder which abuts against the end of the barrel
when the pen-stock is in place said pen-stock being provided internally with
oppositely located grooves, the pen inserted within said grooves and the spring
feeding devices likewise located within the pen stock and acting upon the back of
the pen, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of January 1804.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.