IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS."
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer, of Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Henry Emanuel
Brandauer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th February 1872.
I, CHARLES HENRY EMANUEL BRANDAUER, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing metallic pens with two (or
more) sets of nibs combined or arranged as herein-after described.
Pens made according to my Invention are principally useful in
ornamental writing where the down strokes or up-and-down strokes in
each character require to be doubled or trebled, that is, the said
down or up-and-down strokes consist of two or more parallel or nearly
parallel lines.

page_text: Instead of making the pen with a single set of nibs situated in the
axis or middle line of the pen, I provide the pen with a set of nibs on
each side of the axis or middle line of the pen, each set of nibs being
situated in the same plane and placed at a distance apart equal to the
parallel or double or other lines to be made by the pen. The body of
the pen is made of an elliptical or horse-shoe form, but other forms may
be used, the upper side of the said body being furnished with a horse
shoe or other shaped ink reservoir or recess which assists in supplying
ink to the two or more sets of nibs.
Pens constructed according to my Invention have a forked appearance
at the front or writing end, the several branches of the fork constituting
the several sets of nibs described.
Although I generally provide the pen with two sets of nibs, yet where
more than a double line is required to be made in the down or up-and-
down strokes more than two sets of nibs are combined in the pen side
by side.
In writing with my improved pens to form the double or other parallel
lines of the down and up strokes of the characters or letters, both or all
the sets of nibs are placed upon the paper, and the pen is used like an
ordinary pen, or like the pens used for writing music. When however
the parts of the characters or letters to be formed require a single line
only, as in some up strokes, the pen is turned aside so as to lift part of
the pen from the paper and leave one set of nibs only in contact
therewith.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 22nd August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HENRY EMANUEL BRANDAUER, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the

page_text: thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer, Her
special licence that I, the said Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Henry Emanuel Brandauer, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 Charlos Henry Emanuel Brandauor,
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 thereof, that is to say: —
My Invention consists in constructing metallic pens with two (or
more) sets of nibs combined or arranged as herein-after described.
Pens made according to my Invention are principally useful in
ornamental writing, where the down strokes or up-and-down strokes
in each character or letter require to be doubled or trebled, that is, the
said down or up-and-down strokes consist of two or more parallel or
nearly parallel lines.
of nibs being
equal to the
Instead of making the pen with a single set of nibs situated in the
axis or middle line of the pen I provide the pen with a set of nibs on
each side of the axis or middle line of the pen, each set
situated in the same plane and placed at a distance apart
parallel or double or other lines to be made by the pen. The body of
the pen is made of an elliptical or horse-shoe form, but other forms may
be used, the upper side of the said body being furnished with a horse-
shoe or other shaped ink reservoir or recess which assists in supplying
ink to the two or more sets of nibs.

page_text: Pens constructed according to my Invention have a forked appearance
at the front or writing end, the several branches of the fork constituting
the several sets of nibs described.
Although I generally provide the pen with two sets of nibs, yet where
more than a double line is required to be made in the down or up-and-
down strokes more than two sets of nibs are combined in the pen, side
by side.
In writing with my improved pens to form the double or other parallel
lines of the down and up strokes of the characters or letters, both or all
the sets of nibs are placed upon the paper, and the pen is used like an
ordinary pen, or like the pens used for writing music. When however
the parts of the characters or letters to be formed require a single line
only, as in some up strokes, the pen is turned aside so as to lift part of
the pen from the paper and leave one set of nibs only in contact there-
with.
I will now proceed to describe, with reference to the accompanying
Drawing, the manner in which my Invention is performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan, Figure 2 in side elevation, and Figure 3.
in section, a slip pen provided with two sets of nibs according to my
Invention.
In the said Figures 1, 2, and 3 a is the body of the pen having an
elliptical or horse-shoe form, and 6 is the heel of the pen; c, d, are the
two sets of nibs separated from each other by the space at e, the front
or writing end of the pen having the forked appearance represented. In
the top of the body a is a reservoir or recess f, into the ends of which
reservoir the piercings 9, 9, of the two sets of nibs respectively open.
When the pen is dipped into ink the ink besides being taken up by the
concave under side of the pen is also taken up by the reservoir or
recess, and the ink contained in the said reservoir f is in writing
gradually supplied to the two sets of nibs c, d.
Although I find that the horse-shoe shaped body of the pen represented
in the Drawing answers well in practice, yet I do not limit myself
thereto, as the body of the pen may have any convenient shape given
to it.
In making a pen, according to my Invention, with more than two sets

page_text: to the two sets of nibs c, d, represented in the accompanying Drawing,
the several sets of nibs being separated from each other by a space of
the same width or of different widths, according to the use to which the
pen is to be put.
The pens constructed according to my Invention are used in the
manner herein-before explained.
My improvements may be applied to barrel pens as well as to slip
pens.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention, but I claim as my Invention the improvements in metallic
pens herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing, that is to say, combining or arranging side by side in the same
pen two or more sets of nibs, the several sets of nibs being situated at
distances apart equal to the double or other lines to be made by the pen,
substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Henry Emanuel Brandauer,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of
August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.
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Witness,
R. SCHÖNHARDT,
Solicitor to the Crown,
Württemberg.
C. H. E. BRANDAUER. (L.S.)