AN IMPROVED FOUNTAIN PENHOLDER
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Palling, of Esher Street, Upper Kennington
Lane, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
FOUNTAIN PENHOLDER."
Sealed the 22nd May 1863, and dated the 26th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Palling at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
November 1862.
I, FRANCIS PALLING, of Esher Street, Upper Kennington Lane, in the.
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED FOUNTAIN PENHOLDER," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in so constructing a fountain penholder as that
when a writing nib or pen is adapted thereto, the said nib when pressed upon
the surface of the material to be written upon shall cause pressure upon an
elastic tube containing writing fluid, and cause said fluid to be discharged
therefrom intermittently.
The following is an example of the construction of the aforesaid improved
fountain penholder :-I take a tube of vulcanized india-rubber closed at one
end, and around the other and open end I affix a conical shaped piece of
metal, the smaller end whereof fits tightly around the elastic tube, the larger
end being flush or nearly so with the open end of the said elastic tube; this
conical piece of metal serves to hold the writing nib or pen. The aforesaid

page_text: elastic tube I place in a metal tube, the small end of the conical piece afore-
said fitting tightly therein. In this state, and supposing the tube aforesaid to
be charged with writing fluid, which may. be effected by compressing said
tube to discharge the air therefrom, and then inserting the tube in a vessel
containing writing fluid, the fountain penholder is ready for use. And when
the writing nib or pen is pressed on the surface of the material to be written
upon, the writing fluid will be discharged from the elastic tube containing
same, and conducted to the writing nib or pen intermittently, as before stated.
A fountain penholder thus constructed is susceptible of various modifica-
tions as regards the manner of adapting the writing nib or pen thereto, and
the elastic tube containing the writing fluid may be provided with a plug or
other contrivance for regulating the quantity of writing fluid required to be
discharged from the open end of the aforesaid elastic tube. In all cases it is
the pressure of the writing nib or pen against the aforesaid tube for dis-
charging the writing fluid therefrom which constitutes the feature of novelty
of this Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Palling in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
PALLING, of Esher Street, Upper Kennington. Lane, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Francis Palling, Her special licence that I, the said Francis
Palling, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Francis Palling, 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 Invention for
"AN IMPROVED FOUNTAIN PENHOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Francis Palling, my executors or administrators, by an, instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-

page_text: ticularly 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 Francis Palling, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in so constructing a fountain peaholder as that
when a writing nib or pen is adapted thereto, the said nib when pressed upon
the surface of the material to be written upon, shall cause pressure upon an
elastic tube containing writing fluid, and cause said fluid to be discharged
therefrom intermittently.
The following is an example of the construction of the aforesaid improved
fountain penholder:-I take a tube of vulcanized india-rubber closed at one
end, and around the other and open end I affix a conical shaped piece of
metal, the smaller end whereof fits tightly around the elastic tube, the longer
end being flush or nearly so with the open end of the said elastic tube; this
conical piece of metal serves to hold the writing nib or pen. The aforesaid
elastic tube I place in a metal tube, the small end of the conical piece afore-
said fitting tightly therein. In this state, and supposing the tube aforesaid to
be charged with writing fluid, which may be effected by compressing said
tube to discharge the air therefrom, and then inserting the tube in a vessel
And when
containing writing fluid, the fountain penholder is ready for use.
the writing nib or pen is pressed on the surface of the material to be written.
upon, the writing fluid will be discharged from the elastic tube containing
same, and conducted to the writing nib or pen intermittently, as before stated.
A fountain penholder thus constructed is susceptible of various modifica-
tions as regards the manner of adapting the writing nib or pen thereto, and
the elastic tube containing the writing fluid may be provided with a plug or
other contrivance for regulating the quantity of writing fluid required to be
discharged from the open end of the aforesaid elastic tube.
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In all cases it is
the pressure of the writing nib or pen against the aforesaid tube for dis-
charging the writing fluid therefrom which constitutes the feature of novelty
of this Invention.
In order to explain my said Invention more particularly, and the manner of
carrying the same into practical effect, I will now refer to the Sheet of
Drawing accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and
letters of reference' marked thereon respectively, as follows:-

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Sheet of Drawing represents a fountain
penholder constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is an end view of
the same, shewing the elastic tube and pen in their proper position; Figure 3
is a detached view of the elastic tube or reservoir in its conical case; Figure 4
shews a view in partial section of my improved penholder adapted for the
pocket Figures 5 and 6 are details herein-after referred to; Figures 7, 8,
and 9, exhibit a front, side view, (in partial section,) and plan of a modifica-
tion of my improved penholder; Figures 10, 11, and 12, shew similar views
of another modification of the same. At each of the foregoing Figures
similar letters of reference are employed to denote corresponding parts in
so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of the said Figures
respectively
A represents a hollow metallic holder, in which is fitted the conical shaped
piece of metal or-case B. In this case is fixed the vulcanized india-rubber
tube C, forming a reservoir for the ink. The nib or pen being placed in the
case B, as exhibited at Figure 1. When the reservoir penholder is required to
be used, the lower end of the elastic tube C is dipped in the ink, and at the
same time the upper part being pressed by the hand will form a partial
vacuum and cause the ink to ascend in the tube in sufficient quantity to
enable a person to write for several hours. The nib or pen pressing against
the lower part of the elastic tube C in the action of writing causes an inter-
mittent flow of the ink to the pen, as herein-before described, and constituting
the principal feature of my Invention. Various modifications of the said pen-
holder may be constructed as shewn in the Drawing.
Figure 4 represents the improved reservoir penholder adapted for the
pocket. In the metal tube A is fixed the vulcanized india-rubber tube C,
which is tapered at the end D, so as to bring the ink immediately over the
slit in the pen. The ink is made to ascend in the elastic tube by pressing
the part E with the thumb, and suddenly removing the same when the end D
is in the ink. The tube A is formed with a slot or opening G for this
purpose. The outer case H is formed with a shoulder at I, so as to close the
mouth of the tube C when the holder is to be put in the pocket.
Figures 7, 8, and 9, shew another modification, in which the holder is
formed of a metal tube A, containing the reservoir elastic tube C, tapered at
the end, resting on the back of the pen, which fits in the socket or holder J
attached to the long rod K. The elastic tube is filled with ink by pressing
the part L of the holder, which will force the rod K against the elastic tube.

page_text: Figures 10, 11, and 12, exhibit views of another modification, in which the
pen, when writing, acts as a lever, the longer arm depressing the elastic
tube C, so as to cause the ink to flow intermittently to the inside of the pen.
A hair M may be inserted through the whole length of the long elastic tube
to conduct the ink to the pen.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention "for "An Improved Fountain Penholder," together with the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion, that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in
and I claim the combination of parts above described and represented in the
construction of fountain penholders, whereby the writing nib when pressed
upon the surface of the paper in the act of writing callapses the tube con-
taining the writing fluid, and thus supplies same to the nib of the pen, as
above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Palling, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
FRANCIS PALLING. (L.S.)