A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hinks, of Birmingham, and George
Wells, of Birmingham, Manufacturers and Copartners, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER."
Sealed the 30th March 1853, and dated the 24th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hinks and
George Wells at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 24th December 1852.
We, JOHN HINKS and GEORGE WELLS, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER " to
-be as follows:-
In order to discharge the pen from the holder, we slide a
short tube upon the holder, as above described, a pin, or stud, or
projection, on the interior of which tube passes through a slot in
that part of the holder in which the pen is placed. By sliding the

page_text: said tube down the said holder (that is to say, towards the pen), the
said pin or projection pushes the pen before it, and projects it froin
the holder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said John Hinks and George Wells in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JOHN HINKS and GEORGE WELLS, of Birmingham, Manufacturers
and Copartners, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of Decem.
ber, in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said John Hinks and George
Wells, Her special licence that we, the said John Hinks and George
Wells, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Hinks and George Wells, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED PENHOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said John Hinks and George Wells, or one of us, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Hinks and George

page_text: Wells, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):
Our Invention consists in applying to any suitably constructed
penholder a discharger for removing the pen from the holder, which
said discharger we construct as follows (that is to say): We slide
a short tube upon the holder; a pin, or stud, or projection on the
interior of the said tube passes through a slot in that part of the
holder in which the pen is placed; by sliding the said tube down
the said holder (that is to say; towards the point of the pen), the
said pin, stud, or projection pushes the pen before it, and projects it
from the holder.
Figure 1, represents in elevation the metallic part of a pen-
holder constructed according to our Invention; Figure 2, repre-
sents a vertical section of the same; and Figure 3, represents
the blank, or sheet of metal from which the discharger is made.
The part a, is a common holder, in which the pen is held by the ears
b, c, cut from the sheet of metal of which the said holder is made.
The blank, Figure 3, is bent into a tube-like form, and placed on the
holder a, as shown in Figure 1. d, e, are two openings cut in the
blank, Figure 3; the metal is cut wholly away from the opening e,
but the picce cut from the opening d, is left attached to the
blank at d, and is bent into a plane perpendicular to that of
the said blank, and constitutes the tongue or projection f
Figure 2, which passes through one of the slots g, h, in Figure 1.
By sliding the discharge i, towards the point of the pen, the pro-
jection f, coming in contact with the top of the pen, projects
the said pen from the holder. The two openings d, e, in the
discharger i, and the two slots in the holder a, are made for the
purpose.of preserving the symmetrical appearance of the discharger
and holder; but, if thought desirable, the two pieces partially cut
from the discharger at d, e, may enter the two slots g,h; but we

page_text: find in practice that one projection answers perfectly well. Figures
4, and 5, represent in front view, and Figure 6, in section, another
method of carrying our Invention into effect. k, l, are two concen-
tric tubes, constituting the holder, and between which said tubes the
pen m, is held. The inner tube 7, slides within the outer tube k, and
the sliding motion of the said inner tube 7, is effected by the ring n,
on the outside of the holder, exactly as the sliding motion in the
ordinary pencil case is effected.
0,, are two projections on the
convex side of the inner tube Z. These projections may be made by
pressure on the interior of the inner tube, so as to raise the metal,
as shown at o, P, in the separate view of the said tube, Figure 7.
When the inner tube l, is in the position represented in Figures 4,
and 6, the pen m, may be inserted between the said tubes, but the
top of the pen cannot be made to pass the projections o, p (see
Figure 4). On sliding the inner tube 1, by means of the ring n,
into the position represented in Figure 5, the projections o, p, carry
the pen forward; and the ends 11, expanding, as shown in Figure
5, detach the pen from the said holder; the ends ¹¹¹ are bent into
the form shown in Figure 5, in order that when released from the
tube k, they may expand, so as to detach the pen, in case it should
have become attached thereto by ink or otherwise. Although the
projections o, p, by which the pen is projected, are not, in this modi-
fication of our Invention, connected directly with the outer sliding
ring or tube n, yet the motion of the said projections o, p, and the
discharge of the pen, is dependent on the motion of the said ring or
tube n.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be
understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise methods of
carrying our Invention into effect herein described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing, as the same may be varied without
departing from the nature of our said Invention; but we claim, as
our Invention, the construction of a penholder from which the pen
may be discharged by means of one or more sliding pins, studs, or

page_text: projections, made to act against the top of the pen by means of a
ring or slide on the exterior of the holder.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hinks, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOHN HINKS. (L.S.)