AN IMPROVEMENT ON, SUBSTITUTE FOR, OR ADDITION TO, PENS AS USUALLY EMPLOYED IN THE ART OF WRITING, WHICH I DENOMINATE CALIGRAFHIC FOUNTAIN PENS
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HENRY LEWIS, of No. 104, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Professor
of Stenography, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twentieth day of December, in the sixtieth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said James Henry Lewis, my exors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James
Henry Lewis, my exors, adññors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
ON, SUBSTITUTE FOR, OR ADDITION TO, PENS AS USUALLY EMPLOYED IN THE ART OF
WRITING, WHICH I DENOMINATE CALIGRAFHIC FOUNTAIN PENS;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said James Henry
Lewis, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
James Henry Lewis, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):
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A, Fig. 1, is the barrel of a quill, which I prefer to be a swan's quill; at
the smaller end of this barrel I make a small puncture, as at B, and which
occasionally I partially close by placing a small piece of sponge in that part of
the inside of the barrel to lessen the flow of ink. Into the upper end of this
barrel I fix and secure a short tube C, of silver, or other fit and proper metal,
in order to distend it and preserve its cylindrical form, and upon the outside of
it I fix another short metal tube, D, with a border or rim around it. To this
tube D is accurately fitted another tube or cap E, which, when on, shuts up or
closes that end of the barrel. Another short metal tube F is made of a proper
form and size to receive the short pen G within it, and both together are
slipped upon the end of the barrel A at B, which completes this caligraphic
fountain pen for use, and as shewn at Fig. 2, in which Figure, and indeed in
all the other Figures, the same letters refer to the same parts as in Fig. 1.
Another short pen H is however also shewn in Fig. 2, as been slipped over
and upon the pen G, and thus three or four pens may be so put upon each
other, and each in succession pulled off as it becomes worn in use, so as to save
time in writing by not stopping to mend them. In using this caligraphic
fountain pen the barrel A is to be filled or nearly so with ink, the cover or
cap E to be put on, and the ink may be caused to flow to the pen through the
small puncture at B when required by merely pressing or squeezing the
barrel A between the fingers and thumb. which holds the pen when in use.
In Fig. 3 is shewn a contrivance for applying smaller pens, as of crow quills,
to the caligraphic fountain pen. This consists of a metal conical tube I, which
is put upon the smaller end of the barrel A, and upon the smaller end of this
tube I is put the small pen J, and the whole is then ready for use, as before
described, and as shewn in Fig. 4.
once.
I have also invented another construction of this caligraphic fountain pen,
by which I can make it hold black and red, or any two other coloured inks at
This contrivance is shewn for common-sized pens in Figs. 5 and 6, and
as adapted for smaller ones in Figs. 7 and 8, and consists of the metal uniting
piece K, with two stems to it, and which stems fit into two short tubes affixed in
the insides of the two barrels A, A, and similar to that shewn in Fig. 1, at C;
and upon the outside of the barrels A, A, in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, are likewise
fitted other short metal tubes or ferrils L, L, &c., to strengthen them. Instead

page_text: of slipping the stems of the uniting piece K into the short tubes of the two
barrels A, A, in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, I can cause screws to be made in and
upon those parts, so as to screw them together.
In witness whereof. I. the said James Henry Lewis, have hereunto set
of slipping the stems of the uniting piece K into the short tubes of the two
barrels A, A, in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, I can cause screws to be made in and
upon those parts, so as to screw them together.
In witness whereof. I. the said James Henry Lewis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty.