Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1887
Complete Left, 8th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
We THOMAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE trading as Hinks Wells and
Company of No. 106 Buckingham Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Steel Pen Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention consists in constructing themetallic tips or barrels of penholders in the
manner hereinafter described whereby a spring like action is produced in the penholder
tip or barrel and the fatigue or writers cramp commonly experienced when slip pens
are held in holders of the ordinary kind is avoided.
We make the tubular metallic tip or barrel with an enlargement or part of greater
diameter near the fore end of the tip. The said enlargement or part of greater
diameter sets in about a quarter of an inch from the fore end and extends along the
tip for say half an inch but we do not limit ourselves to these proportions. Along
the front of the metallic tip two longitudinal parallel slits or incisions are made at a
distance apart about equal to the width of the heel of a slip pen. These slits or
incisions extend from the front of the tip of reduced diameter to the base or rear
part of the enlargement or part of greater diameter before referred to. There is thus
formed at the front of the penholder tip, an elastic or spring tongue the point or free
end of the said spring tongue being depressed inwards below the line of the other
part of the tip in order to give the spring tongue a very firm hold upon the pen.
The penholder tip is placed upon the fore part of the wooden or other non-motallic
stick the inwardly depressed tongue being raised by and supported upon the stick
and the slip pen is inserted between the spring tongue and the said stick the rear
part of the heel of the pen passing into the enlargement of the tip while the fore
part of the heel which joins the body is gripped very firmly between the spring
tongue and the wooden or non-metallic stick. The lip or extreme end of the spring
tongue is slightly raised to permit of the ready insertion of the heel of the slip pen
between it and the non-metallic stick.

page_text: The lower half of the penholder tip may be cut away. In this case the rear part
of the tip beyond the enlargement is tubular while the fore end is semi-tubular in
cross section and instead of making two parallel incisions in the tip and thereby
forming a spring tongue for gripping the heel of the pen the said tip may be pro-
vided with three or more parallel slits or incisions the parts between the incisions
constituting a series of spring tongues for gripping the pen.
The series of spring tongues may be applied to penholder tips having a tubular
figure or a semi-tubular figure.
Dated this Sixteenth day of June 1887

page_text: WO THOMAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE trading as Hinks Wells and
Company of No. 106 Buckingham Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Steel Pen Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our; invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
Our invention consists in constructing the metallic tips or barrels of penholders
in the manner hereinafter described, whereby a spring like action is produced in the
penholder tip or barrel and the fatigue or writer's cramp commonly experienced
when slip pens are held in holders of the ordinary kind is avoided.
We make the tubular metallic tip or barrel with an enlargement or part of greater
diameter near the fore end of the tip. The said enlargement or part of greater
diameter sets in about a quarter of an inch from the fore end and extends along the
tip for say half an inch but we do not limit ourselves to these proportions. Along
the front of the metallic tip two longitudinal parallel slits or incisions are made at a
distance apart about equal to the width of the heel of a slip pen. These slits or
incisions extend from the front of the tip of reduced diameter to the base or rear
part of the enlargement or part of greater diameter before referred to. There is thus
formed at the front of the penholder tip an elastic or spring tongue the point or free
end of the said spring tongue being depressed inwards below the line of the other
part of the tip in order to give the spring tongue a very firm hold upon the pen.
The penholder tip is placed upon the fore part of the wooden or other non metallic
stick the inwardly depressed tongue being raised by and supported upon the stick
and the slip pen is inserted between the spring tongue and the said stick, the rear
part of the heel of the pen passing into the enlargement of the tip while the fore part
of the heel which joins the body is gripped very firmly between the spring tongue
and the wooden or non-metallic stick. The lip or extreme end of the spring tongue
is slightly raised to permit of the ready insertion of the heel of the slip pen between
it and the non metallic stick.
The lower half of the penholder tip may be cut away. In this case the rear part
of the tip beyond the enlargement is tubular while the fore end is semi-tubular in
cross section.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents the blank from which the
metallic penholder tip or barrel is made and Figure 2 represents in longitudinal
section and end elevation; Figure 3 in side elevation and Figure 4 in plan the pen-
holder tip or barrel made from the blank Figure 1; Figure 5 represents in
longitudinal section the penholder tip in which a slip pen is held. In the section
Figure 2 the wooden stick or non metallic part of the holder is omitted.
In the blank Figure 1 two longitudinal parallel slits or incisions at a, a are made
the said slits or incisions extending from the fore end of the blank to about the

page_text: middle of the blank as represented. From the metal thus partly separated from the
blank the elastic or spring tongue 6 of the penholder tip is made as represented in
Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5, the said elastic or spring tongue 6 being situated at the fore
end and front of the penholder tip. The point or free end of the elastic or spring
tongue b is depressed inwards below the line of the other part of the tip in order to
give it a very firm hold upon the pen and for the purpose of facilitating the insertion
of the heel of the slip pen in the penholder tip the extreme end of the said tongue is
slightly raised to form a lip c d is the enlargement at a short distance from the
fore end of the tip the spring tongue extending from the front of the tip to the back
shoulder e of the enlargement d which back shoulder constitutes a stop for the heel
of the slip pen to bear against. When the penholder tip is placed upon the fore part
of the wooden or non metallic stick f the inwardly depressed tongue 6 (see Figure 2)
is raised by and supported upon the stick as represented in Figures 34 and 5 of the
drawing and the heel of the slip pen g is inserted and firmly gripped between the
spring tongue and the said stick the rear part of the heel of the slip pen passing
into the enlargement d and bearing against the stop or shoulder e of the said enlarge-
ment as seen in Figure 5. By the use of the spring tongue b a spring like action is
produced in the penholder tip or barrel for the purpose herein before pointed out.
Figure 7 represents a modified penholder tip of the construction before described.
In this modification the rear part of the tip beyond the enlargement d is tubular
while the fore end is semi circular in cross section; Figure 6 represents the blank
from which the penholder tip Figure 7 is made.
Instead of making two parallel slits or incisions in the blank of the tip and thereby
forming a spring tongue for gripping the heel of the pen as described and illustrated,
the tip blank may be provided with three or more parallel slits or incisions the parts
between the incisions constituting a series of spring tongues for gripping the pen.
The series of spring tongues may be applied to penholder tips having a tubular
figure or semi tubular figure.
The penholder tip or barrel is fashioned from the longitudinally slit blank in the
ordinary way of manufacturing the metallic tips of penholders and by the use of the
ordinary tools and appliances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as our invention of "Improvements in penholders."
Making at the fore end of the metallic penholder tip or barrel a spring tongue or
spring tongues of the kinds and for the purpose described and illustrated, the said
spring tongue or spring tongues being preferably used in combination with an
enlargement or part of larger diameter near the fore end of the tip substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Seventh day of March 1888
Dated this Seventh day of March 1888.
THOMAS HOOPER.
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE.