A NOVEL WRITING INSTRU- MENT
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Soennecken, of Bonn, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NOVEL WRITING INSTRU-
MENT"
Sealed the 21st December 1877, and dated the 3rd July 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Soennecken at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1877.
FREDERICK SOENNECKEN, of Bonn, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Manufacturer.
"A NOVEL WRITING INSTRUMENT."
My Invention relates to a writing instrument in which two, three, or even more
round-hand writing pens may be set in such a way that two, three, or more
strokes or lines may be produced by a single movement of the instrument.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,-
Figure 1 is a front view of a writing instrument embodying my Invention with
three pens set therein.
Figure 2 is a side view of same.
Figure 3 illustrates various combinations which may be produced by a single
movement of my instrument; and Figure 4 shows in front and side view pens
detached from the instrument.
It will be seen that the instrument is composed of two jaws c, d, (see Figure 2),
kept apart by the bow springs a, a, formed by the fork of the stem set in the holder
e of wood or other suitable material, and closed by means of the screw b; the jaw
c is provided with small pins f projecting on its inner side, the jaw d being fur-
nished with holes g to receive them. The small pins fare intended to pass through
the pens, which are provided with holes h (see Figure 4) of the exact size to receive
them, each pen being thus held immoveable in the instrument by two pins, pre-
ferably placed longitudinally as shown.
The arrangement is such that the pens are always in a proper position, that is to
say, that their points form the straight line which is required for writing as at k, l,
Figure 1.

page_text: The holes g of the jaw d which receive the pins f of the jaw c regulate the
position of both the jaws. The inner face of the jaw d.is filed or cut out at i to
the approximate size of the stem of the pen to be set in it, so that directly the
screw b is tightened the jaws come uniformly against each other, and the pens
inserted on the pins will be directly gripped by the whole of the plane surface
between the jaws.
It will be evident that a single pen only might be inserted in my instrument, that
by the addition of a second and of a third pen, and by shifting their relative
positions, any of the combinations shown, Figure 3, may be produced at a single
movement, and that by the addition of more pens an infinite number of combi-
nations may be obtained, and that not only their arrangement, but also the breadth
of the point or nib of each pen, as well as its shape, may vary (see Figure 4) to suit
different kinds of writing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick Soennecken in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st December 1877.
FREDERICK SOENNECKEN, of Bonn, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Manufacturer.
"A NOVEL WRITING INSTRUMENT."
My Invention relates to a writing instrument in which two, three, or even more
writing pens may be set in such a way that two, three, or more strokes or lines
may be produced by a single movement of the instrument.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,-
Figure I. is a front view of a writing instrument embodying my Invention with
three pens set therein.
Figure II. is a side view of same.
Figure III. illustrates various combinations which may be produced by a single
movement of my instrument; and Figure IV. shows in front and side view pens
detached from the instrument.
Figures V. and VII. show the inner face of each jaw separate; and Figure VI. is
a top plan view of same in combination.
It will be seen that the instrument is composed of two jaws c,.d, (see Figure II.),
kept apart by the bow springs a, a, formed by the fork of the stem set in the holder
e, of wood or other suitable material, and closed by means of the screw b; the inner
face of each jaw is grooved so as to form three or more projections and recesses
(see Figs. V. and VII.), the projections of the jaw c corresponding with the recesses
in the jaw d, and vice versa (as shown, Figure VI.). The pens formed as shown,
Figure IV., are inserted between the jaws c, d, the projections of the jaws entering
the groove or recess in the stem of each pen, and the pens are secured in this
position by the screw b.
The arrangement is such that the pens are always in a proper position, that is to
say, that their points form the straight line which is required for writing as at f, g,
Figure I.
It will be evident that a single pen only might be inserted in my instrument,
that by the addition of a second and of a third pen, and by shifting their relative
positions, any of the combinations shown, Figure III. may be produced at a single
movement, and that by the addition of more pens, an infinite number of combi-

page_text: nations may be obtained, and that not only their arrangement, but also the breadth
of the point or nib of each pen, as well as its shape, may vary (see Figure IV.) to
suit different kinds of writing, and also that the form of the grooves on the inner
face of each jaw and in the stem of each pen may be modified while holding the
pen substantially as herein described, and shown on the Drawing.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is or may be performed, I claim, as secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the jaws c, d, with their springs a, a,
and screw b, in combination with the holder e, the jaws being constructed and
arranged to receive and hold one or more pens in a proper position for writing, and
the stem of the pen, so that it may be securely fixed between the two jaws c, d,
substantially as herein-before described, and shown on the accompanying Sheet of
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Soennecken, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.