Im- PROVEMENT IN METAL PENS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jackson, of Church Street, Spitalfields, in the
County of Middlesex, Pen Manufacturer, for the Invention of an "Im-
PROVEMENT IN METAL PENS."
Scaled the 20th January 1860, and dated the 28th July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jackson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th July 1859.
I, JOHN JACKSON, of Church Street, Spitalfields, in the County of Middle-
sex, Pen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENT IN METAL PENS," to be as follows:-
My improvement in steel and other metal pens consists in making the pen
with a barrel of considerable length and of a piece with the pen, so that no
other holder is required, the length of barrel or tube being such that every
facility is afforded thereby for the purpose of writing and marking.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Jackson, Her special licence that I, the said John Jackson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Jackson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agreo
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 "IMPROVEMENT IN
METAL PENS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Jackson, 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 John Jackson, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 bad to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
My improvement in steel and other metal pens consists in making the pen
with a barrel of considerable length, and of one and the same piece as the
pen, so that no other holder is required in writing with such pens. I form
the barrel or tube of such length that every facility is afforded thereby for the
purposes of writing and marking.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents the steel or other metal pen in the flat as punched out of
the sheet steel or other metal. The split or splits, the hole or holes, and the
punching are all formed and carried out in the ordinary manner.
The part
from a to b is of such length that when turned up in the manner of forming
the barrel part of those pens known as "magnum bonum pens," (and as
seen at Fig. 2, which represents a side view of the pen complete,) that part
forms a holder to the pen, which consequently requires no other holder when
used for writing. A firm smooth holder is thus produced of uniform size
throughout. The manufacture of metal pens being well understood, it will

page_text: be unnecessary to describe at greater length the manufacture of this improved
pen. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal under side of the pen complete.
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Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of
metal pens and their holders of one and the same piece, as herein-before
described and represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jackson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOHN JACKSON. (L.s.)