An Improved Metallic Pen.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Metallic Pen.
I, EDWARD SMALLWOOD LANE of 19 Warstone Lane Birmingham Warwick-
shire Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvement is in the class of pens commonly called reservoir pens and is
made as follows:-
For the purpose of enabling the pens to take up and retain a greater quantity of
ink than ordinary pens, I form between the bowl and the heel of the pen on the
upper side of the two recesses or channels of about " in length and running length-
ways parallel to the pen. I form the channels as follows:-In the ordinary operation
of cutting the blank pen I make at both ends of the metal, intended to serve as
channel an indentation on each side. In the ordinary operation of raising the pen
I turn the two outer edges up towards the upper side of the pen and also leave a
ridge in the centre thus forming two channels.
I make two perforations in each channel and join them with a slip running
lengthways. I also make a perforation in the pen where the ridge between the
channels joins the bowl of the pen; these perforations and slits have the effect of
increasing the capillary attraction so that the pen retains more ink and gives it out
more uniformly.
Dated his Ninateenth day of November 1800
J. W. MILLIGAN,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Metallic Pen.
1, EDWARD SMALLWOOD LANE of 19 Warstone Lane Birmingham, Warwick-
shire Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My improvement is in the class of pens commonly called reservoir and is made as
follows:-
For the purpose of enabling the pens to take up and retain a greater quantity of
ink than ordinary pens, I form between the bowl A and the heel B of the pen on
the upper side of the two recesses or channels C of about " in length and running
lengthways parallel to the pen. I form the channels C as follows:-In the
ordinary operation of cutting the blank pen I make at both sides of the metal
intended to serve as channels an indentation on each side. In the ordinary
operation of raising the pen 1 turn the two outer edges up towards the upper side
of the pen and also leave a ridge D in the centre thus forming two channels C.
I make two perforations E in each channel and join them with a slit F running
lengthways. I also make a perforation G in the pen where the ridge D between
the channels C joins the bowl A. of the pen; these perforations and slits have the
effect of increasing the capillary attraction so that the pen retains more ink and
gives it out more uniformly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is:-
(1) Shaping or forming in the ordinary operation of cutting the blank pen at
both sides of the metal intended to serve as channels an indentation on either side.

page_text: (2) Shaping or forming in the ordinary operation of raising the pen the turning
up towards the upper side of the pen, the two outer edges of the metal intended to
serve as channels, and leaving the ridge in the centre thus forming the channels.
(3) Shaping or forming two perforations (as before described) in each channel
and joining them with a slit running lengthways.
(4) Shaping or forming a perforation in the pen where the ridge between the
channels joins the bowl of the pen.
Dated the 19th der of Avaust 1891
J. W. MILLIGAN,
Secretary, Perry & Co., Ltd.,
Agent.