IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Jacob Hill, of Ferryside, Kidwelly, South
Wales, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL
HOLDERS."
Sealed the 25th July 1865, and dated the 11th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Jacob Hill, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th February 1865.
I, EDWARD JACOB HILL, of Ferryside, Kidwelly, South Wales, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND PENCIL
HOLDERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pen and pencil holders.
In constructing penholders, in place of the stick ordinarily employed, I
apply a loop of wire, or other suitable material, and this loop, when using the
pen, is placed over the forefinger, or other finger, as may be preferred. In
place of a loop, a hook, ring, or crutch passing over the finger may be
employed. I also prefer to make the holder of a triangular form, in place of
cylindrical, as is usual, but the loop, hook, ring, or crutch may be applied to
an ordinary penholder. Pencil holders also I form in a similar manner.

page_text: The following are some of the advantages to be derived from the use of pen
and pencil holders, constructed in this manner :-
They are especially convenient in office work, as from the easy position in
which the pen or pencil lies under the forefinger, when applied in writing, and
the total absence of pressure to keep the holder in its proper position, they
prevent anything like cramp, or pain arising, such as is frequently felt with the
ordinary penholder after continued and speedy writing.
Also in working at books, in the case of turning over the pages for reference
there is no need of putting down the pen, but, by merely grasping it with the
little finger, or twisting the holder between the first and second fingers, the
rest of the hand is at perfect liberty, and no inconvenience is felt from the
presence of the pens.
Also, great facilities will be found in teaching the young to write, amongst
which may be enumerated, ease in holding the pen, correctness of position,
and cleanliness from the absence of any possibility of the pupil dropping the
pen when filled with ink.
Great advantages will be derived to those who have either totally or partially
lost the use of their forefinger, as this novel holder will enable the writer to
hold his pen firmly on any finger.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Jacob Hill, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JACOB HILL, of Ferryside, Kidwelly, South Wales, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Edward Jacob Hill, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Jacob Hill, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Edward Jacob Hill, 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 PEN AND PENCIL HOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said Edward Jacob Hill, 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 Edward Jacob Hill, 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:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pen and pencil holders.
In constructing penholders, in place of the stick ordinarily employed, I
apply a loop of wire, or other suitable material, and this loop, when using the
pen, is placed over the forefinger or other finger as may be preferred. In
place of a loop, a hook, ring, or crutch passing over the finger may be
employed. I also prefer to make the holder of a triangular form, in place of
cylindrical, as is usual, but the loop, hook, ring, or crutch may be applied to an
ordinary penbolder. Pencil holders also I form in a similar manner.
And in order that my Invention may be fully described, I will proceed to

page_text: lead pencil, by making the part c hollow to admit of the pencil being passed
in at one end.
The following are some of the advantages to be derived from the use of pen
and pencil holders constructed in this manner :-
They are especially convenient in office work, as from the easy position in
which the pen or pencil lies under the forefinger, when applied in writing, and
the total absence of pressure to keep the holder in its proper position, they
prevent anything like cramp, or pain arising, such as is frequently felt with
the ordinary penholder after continued and speedy writing.
Also, in working at books in the case of turning over the pages for reference,
there is no need of putting down the pen, but by merely grasping it with the
little finger, or twisting the holder between the first and second finger, the rest
of the hand is at perfect liberty, and no inconvenience is felt from the presence
of the pens.
Also, great facilities will be found in teaching the young to write, amongst
which may be enumerated, ease in holding the pen, correctness of position,
and cleanliness from the absence of any possibility of the pupil dropping the pen
when filled with ink.
Great advantages will be derived to those who have either totally or partially
lost the use of their forefinger, as this novel holder will enable the writer to
hold his pen firmly on any finger.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Jacob Hill, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
EDWARD J. HILL. (L.S.)