Improved Fountain Pen.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fountain Pen.
ROBINSON WATTLEWORTH 15 Upper Jackson Street Hulme Manchester
Watchmaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
In carrying my invention for an improved fountain pen into effect I make a tubo
of the length and diameter required to form the holder reservoir and fountain.
Secondly I make a separate cylindrical shaped piece which can be tubular or
solid one end to be pointed and used for writing as the nib and which said pointed
end or nib can be either plain resembling a lead pencil pointed ready for use or
fluted on the straight or the flutings may be in the form of a screw but so that they
terminate at the point used for writing which said point will be made fine or coarse
and may be split to adapt it for its intended kind of work or it may be split or
formed so as to take an ordinary pen such as now commonly used.
The other and upper portion of the nib piece I groove on its outer surface either
in the form of a screw or longitudinal (preferably the latter) and then fix tightly
this end into the fountain or reservoir tube. The longitudinal or screw formed
grooves permitting the ink to flow along them and continuously supply the nib for
writing being materially aided by capillary attraction during the action of
writing.
Ink or dyes of any color may be used.
The aperture or open part of the tube to enable the desired fluid to be inserted
may be of any shape and can be in the side end or other part of the tube and kept
closed and airtight by means of a cap or division screwed or simply pressed on or
by a stopper of cork or other material or the tube can be made in two parts and
fitted tightly together by means of screwing or otherwise.
A removable cap or point protector is placed over the point or nib to enable the
invention to be carried in the pocket without injury.
The tube and nib piece can be made in metal, glass, horn, porcelain xylonite
lactite, vulcanite papier mache or other suitable material or the tube may be of one
of the above material and the nib piece in any of the other.
Dated this 16th day of February 1901
ROBINSON WATTLEWORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fountain Pen.
I, ROBINSON WATTLEWORTH of 16, Warwick Street, Hulme, Manchester,
formerly of 15 Upper Jackson Street Hulme, Manchester, Watchmaker 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:
This invention is designed with the object of providing a reservoir or fountain
pen of simple and cheap construction in which the ink will flow down the outside of
the writing point instead of as has hitherto been the case through the interior of
a hollow or tubular point with a wire projecting therethrough from the interior
of the ink reservoir.
It consists essentially in constructing a pen with a writing point having a number
or series of channels or ducts on the outside in the form of grooves. extending from
one end to the point which serve both as ducts to convey the ink and as air passages

page_text: to allow air to flow back into the reservoir with a case or holder having holes or
slits formed therein through which the contents of the reservoir can be seen; and
with a point protector with an internal pad of rubber which will protect the writing
point from injury and prevent any flow of ink from the reservoir when the point is
covered.
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It will be fully described with reference to the annexed drawings.
Fig. 1. side view of pen with point protector removed ready for use.
Fig. 2. pen with point protector closed in position for carrying in pocket.
Fig. 3. glass fountain tube with writing point and stopper removed from case or
holder.
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Fig. 4. sectional elevation of case and holder.
Fig. 5. fountain tube with writing point and stopper removed.
Fig. 6. fluted writing point.
Fig. 7. sectional elevation of point protector.
Fig. 8. sectional elevation showing the several parts of the pen in position.
Fig. 9. enlarged elevation of the writing point.
Fig. 10. transverse section of Fig. 9.
In carrying out the invention I form a fountain or reservoir A in the ordinary
way from a piece of glass tube preferably open at both ends one end to receive a
writing point B and the other a stopper or cork C and I provide a case or holder D
of vulcanite, xylonite, celluloid, sheet metal, wood or other similar material into
which the fountain tube A fits with a detachable cap or cover at each end one to
form a cover and protector for the writing point and the other a cover for the other
end of the fountain tube through which it is filled with ink.
The writing point B is cylindrical for a portion of its length and tapered to a
point at one end and in it I form a number of channels or ducts giving it the
appearance of being fluted. The channels or ducts b run longitudinally from end
to end of the writing point and terminate at the point used for writing. The
writing point B is fitted into one end of the fountain tube A and the ducts b serve
both to convey a constant supply of ink to the point for writing and to permit air
to enter the fountain tube to replace the ink as it flows out.
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The ink flows by capillary attraction down the ducts 6 continuously supplying a
flow of ink during the action of writing along the ducts for the time being held
at the under side while at the same time a sufficient quantity of air enters the
fountain tube along the upper ducts to supply the place of the ink and cause it to
flow freely.
The outer holder D is formed with a number of perforations or slits such as d
through which the quantity of ink in the fountain tube A can always be seen.
The protector E which covers the writing point B has fitted inside it a piece of
rubber into which the point is embedded and which protects it from injury caused
by a fall or the like. It also closes up the ducts or channels and prevents any
flow of ink from the fountain tube whilst the protector is in its place.
The writing point may be made of any suitable material such as glass, metal,
vulcanite, or celluloid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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1. A fountain pen having a writing point consisting of a point or style of glass.
metal, vulcanite or other material formed with a number of channels or ducts on its
outer surface along which the ink flows and air enters the tube substantially as
described.
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2. A fountain pen having an outer case or holder provided with perforations or
slits through which the contents of the fountain tube can be seen substantially as
described.
3. A protector for the writing points of fountain pens having a rubber cushion in
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page_text: which the point is embedded which prevents injury to the point and the flow of ink
when the point is covered substantially as described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of November 1891.
ROBINSON WATTLEWORTH,
16, Warwick Street, Hulme, Manchester.