Improvements in Pens.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1900-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1900
Improvements in Pens.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER, Engineer, of 31, Furnival Street, Holborn, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to improvements in pens and has for its object to
form a pen that may be more easily detached from the holder when fouled with
ink than the pen now in use.
The steel pens hitherto have been made to attach by telescoping into or on to
the holder, but a pen made in accordance with my invention is attached to the
holder by a movement at right angles to the length of the pen.
In accordance with one form of my improved invention, I stamp the blank
from which the pen is formed with a projecting portion at one or both sides at
that part of the pen which attaches on to the holder and this portion of the
pen is curved around preferably slightly beyond the semi-circle and this part
acts as a spring to grip the holder.
The other part of my pen is formed in the ordinary manner.
The object of the spring portion before described is to clip the pen on to
the end of an ordinary round pen holder which requires no extra part or other
formation whatever to receive the pen. The width of the lateral opening left
by the spring formation is arranged to be slightly less than the diameter of the
holder upon which the pen is to be attached and when this open part is pressed
laterally against the holder the spring will open to permit this part of the pen
to pass over the greatest width (or diameter) of the holder and when this is
passed the ends of the spring will close upon the holder and firmly grip it in
the required position and with sufficient strength to hold it for writing
purposes.
This pen can be very easily removed by lateral pressure even when fouled
with ink.
Instead of forming the end of my pen with projecting portions to complete
the spring formation I may form the whole of this end of my improved pen
to act as the spring in the manner before described.
In accordance with another form of my invention I make that portion of my
pen before referred to with a recess extending for some distance from the end
towards the writing point. When making the pen with this recess I can
stamp out the writing end of one pen from the tail piece of another and
thereby save waste metal, while at the same time a pen of this formation
is more readily detached from the ordinary holder when fouled with ink than
the pen now in use.
1000
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER, Engineer, of 31, Furnival Street, Holborn,
London, 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:-
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This invention provides a pen which can be easily detached from the pen
holder even when fouled with ink. With the pens and penholders commonly
in use it is very difficult to remove the pen or nib from the holder after it has been
used for some time, as the parts adhere together owing to a deposit of dry
ink, frequently causing great inconvenience and soiling the fingers of the person
using the pen. Such pens are usually slidden into the holder which is pro-
vided with means for retaining them in position.
My improved pen instead of being secured inside the holder is fitted on the
outer side and is clipped into position by a motion at right angles to the holder.
The pen or nib is formed at or near its upper end with an extension at each side
which continues the curve of the nib through the greater part of a circle.
These extensions or wings are resilient and spring on to the tubular holder
clipping it tightly so that the nib is securely held in position.
The edges of the wings are sufficiently distant from each other to allow them
to open when pressed over the surface of the holder so that they slide over it
and on passing the half circle close together to grip the holder. To detach
the pen all that is required is to push the writing end back, the other end of
the pen acting as a fulcrum so that the wings slide over the surface of the
holder and are opened by it until they have passed the widest portion when the
nib is released.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the pen in position on the holder and
Fig. 2 shows it separate, and
Fig. 3 illustrates the method of removing the pen.
The holder A consists simply of a tube fitted on to the end of a handle or
the usual form of holder may be employed. As the nib or pen B is fixed to the
outside of the holder the metal tube or tip may be made very much smaller than
the ordinary pen holder tip. The pen is formed with the wings C shown close
to the upper end and preferably continuing the curve of the stem, the gap
between the wings being of sufficient width to enable the pen to be sprung
over the holder.
Fig. 3 shows the pen partly removed and it may be seen that the upper end
bears upon the surface of the ferrule while the wings are forced over it. The
wings or clipping portions which are of course resilient may extend along the
whole straight length of the pen, but I prefer to make them short and at the
upper end only.
I have described and shown the wing pieces as formed at both sides of the
pen, but a single extension at one side might serve the same purpose, though
not so effectively.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) A pen having a portion of its stem extended at the side in such a manner
as to clip resiliently on to the outer surface of a holder and to be removable

page_text: (2) A pen having at the upper end of its stem two wing pieces continuing
the curve of the stem through the greater part of a circle and adapted to clip
resiliently on to the outside of a holder and to allow the pen to be removed by
forcing back, substantially as described and shown and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 30th day of May 1900.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.