A NEW REGULATOR PEN- HOLDER
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Marie Herland, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A NEW REGULATOR PEN-
HOLDER."
Sealed the 25th November 1856, and dated the 2nd June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustin Marie Herland
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on th
2nd June 1856.
I, AUGUSTIN MARIE HERLAND, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentle-
man, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "A NEW REGU-
LATOR PENHOLDER," to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing a new kind of penholder, with or
without a regulator for the hand and fingers.
The penholder consists of a tube, and a ferrule which slides over it with
a light friction. The tube or the ferrule contains a double slit to give it
elasticity; the pen is held between them.
A regulator may be employed, at option, consisting of a small curved piece of
metal soldered to the ferrule, and which serves to fix the position of the hand
and fingers on the penholder.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by tho said Augustin Marie Ierland in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTIN
MARIE HERLAND, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Augustin Marie Ilerland, Iler special license, that I, the said Angustin
Marie Herland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Augustin Marie Herland, 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 Inven-
tion for "A NEW REGULATOR PENHOLDER," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Augustin Marie Herland, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to bo per-
formed, 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 Augustin Marie Ierland, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the construction of a new kind of penholder, with
or without a regulator for the fingers, in the manner herein-after described
and referred to in the accompanying Drawing.
The pen is held between two metallic tubes, rendered flexible by suitable
incisions in one of them; the outer tube slides lengthways on the inner tube, by
which the pen is securely held, and the means afforded of fixing it at any given
point, and of changing it when required without soiling the fingers.
To prevent the middle finger from descending too low down the penholder

page_text: in writing, I fix on the side of the outer tube, at a suitable height, a small
curved plate, which I call a regulator, in the concave part of which the
medium finger is to be placed for securing the proper position of the hand in
writing, and preventing the fingers from being soiled with ink. The regulator
may be moveable on the outer tube, which enables its position to be fixed at
will; the rings by which the regulator is hold prevent the pen from touching
the table or other surface on which it may be laid
the table or other surface on which it may be laid
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, A, metallic tube, into which the wooden stem or holder B enters
by slight pressure, and is stopped at b; a,.longitudinal slit or incision, giving
elasticity to the tube A; C, transverse slit, to limit the flexible part of the
tube A; d, small pin, to limit the play of the outer tube D.
Figure 2, D, metallic tube, covering the tube A, and sliding over it
frictionwise; the longitudinal slit e, in which the pin d, Figure 1, is fitted,
serves to limit its play on the tube A.
Figure 3, view of penholder and pen P, held between the two tubes A
and D. The pen when introduced forces the extremity of the tubo A to
decrease in diameter; it stops at C, tho part where the tube A is not flexible.
The
pen is then taken hold of by the two tubes.
Figure 4: To draw out the pen without touching it, the tube D is slipped
backwards till it reaches the point shewn in the Figure, when the pen falls off.
Figuro 5, D, metallic tube, shewn in Figure 2, with fixed regulator, or
small curved plate G, soldered or rivetted in the required position. In the
concave part G of the regulator is placed the extremity of the middle finger,
the fore finger being placed against the exterior of the plate g.
Figure 6, penholder with moveable regulator g; instead of being fixed to
the tube D, it is supported by two rings i, i, which slide with a light friction
over the tube D.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein laid down, so long as the peculiar
character of my Invention be retained; but what I claim is,―
First, the mode of fixing a pen between two tubes, of which one is rendered
flexible by incisions, so as to yield under the pressure of the pen, and by which
the pen may be fixed at the required height, and is rendered self-removeable,
as herein-before described, and referred to in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the
Drawing

page_text: Secondly, the employment of a fixed or moveable regulator for fixing the
position of the fingers in writing, and preventing the ink in the pen from
soiling the fingers of the writer or the place on which the pen may be placed
when laid down, as herein-before described, and referred to in Figures 5 and 6
of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustin Marie Herland, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
A. HERLAND.
(L.S.)