IM- PROVEMENTS IN PENS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN PENS."-A communication from abroad by Madame Adrien
Maurin, Widow, and Gustave Toiray, Merchants, both of 29, Boulevart
St. Martin, Paris.
Sealed the 7th October 1864, and dated the 21st April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, "on the
21st April 1864.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS," to be as follows:-
The object of the present Invention is to enable pens to be more readily
fitted to their holders, and also to prevent the points becoming contracted.
For this purpose I make a slit or opening of T-form in that part of the
metal of the pen which is received in the holder. This slit or opening may
be made in any kind of pen by the ordinary methods of manufacture, and may
be of a straight, T, or other form or design. I make the slit or opening of
greater or less length according to the form of the pen, and two or more slits
may be made instead of one, if necessary. This improvement renders the pen

page_text: more flexible, and may be applied not only to steel pens, but those made of
silver, gold, platina, or other metals or alloys, as also to quill pen nibs, or
those made of shell, horn, bone, and other materials.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th October. 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
I, the said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN PENS," a communication to me from abroad by Madame Adrien
Maurin, Widow, and Gustave Toiray, Merchants, both of 29, Boulevart St.
Martin, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Clark, do bereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
The object of the present Invention is to enable pens to be more readily
fitted to their holders, and also to prevent the points becoming contracted.

page_text: For this purpose I make a slit or opening of T-form in that part of the metal
of the pen which is received in the holder. This slit or opening may be made
in any kind of pen by the ordinary methods of manufacture, and may be of
a straight, T, or other form or design. I make the slit or opening of greater
or less length according to the form of the pen, and two or more slits may
be made instead of one if necessary. This improvement renders the pen more
flexible, and may be applied not only to steel pens, but to those made of
silver, gold, platina, or other metals or alloys, as also to quill pen nibs, or
those made of shell, horn, bone, and other materials.
The annexed Drawing represents several forms of pens furnished with a
T-shaped slit or opening, above described.
Having described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvement in
metallic and other pens, which consists in making one or more slits or
openings therein of any suitable form or dimensions, whereby to adapt the
pen to all descriptions of holders, all as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
W. G. E. SWINNOCK,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
W. CLARK. (L.S.)