IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND DRAWING PENS FOR DISPENSING WITH THE NECESSITY OF USING LIQUID Ink, as at present. USING LIQUID INK, AS AT PRESENT.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Beral Bertram, of Regent Strect, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WRITING AND DRAWING PENS FOR DISPENSING WITH THE NECESSITY OF
USING LIQUID Ink, as at present.
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USING LIQUID INK, AS AT PRESENT.'
Sealed the 16th March 1875, and dated the 18th September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leopold Beral Bertram
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition;
on the 18th September 1874.
I, LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM, of Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND DRAWING PENS FOR DISPENSING WITH THE
NECESSITY OF USING LIQUID INK, AS AT PRESENT," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in adapting to writing and drawing pens a
writing composition, so that it will only be necessary to dip the pen in
water or other liquid in order to produce ink in the pen.

page_text: The following is an example of my said Invention as applied to
writing pens-The pens which I propose to use for accomplishing the
object above stated have a barrel or cylinder terminating with a nib.
I do not however cut abruptly the barrel, leaving only material enough
to form the nib, but after having formed the nib I bevel off the two
parts placed on each side thereof, making them rather shorter than tho
nib aforesaid. I then bring these two parts together towards the under
side of the nib, and I thus form a barrel which ends towards the nib in
a point, and is nearly closed at this point. Inside the barrel I place a
small cartridge or cylinder of solid or concentrated ink or other suitable
writing composition of any desired color. For using a pen thus con-
structed, it is simply necessary to dip the nib in water, which will
dissolve a portion of the solid ink, causing it to run down the nib ready
for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leopold Beral Bertram in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEOPOLD
BERAL BERTRAM, of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Leopold Beral Bertram,
Her special licence that I, the said Leopold Beral Bertram, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Leopold Beral Bertram, my executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: so as to contain solid or concentrated ink or writing composition, sub-
stantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leopold Beral Bertram, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM. (L.S.)