IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of 34, Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS."
Sealed the 21st October 1856, and dated the 7th June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION .left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petiton, on the
7th June 1856.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham,
Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
metallic pens and penholders, and the same consists of peculiar constructions
of pens and penholders, with a view so to form them, that when a pen,
containing ink and in a holder, is laid on a table or other surface that the
nibs or points of the pen shall not come in contact with the table or other
surface, thus preventing the ink in the pen being communicated to the table
or other surface. I would, however, state that it is not generally new to make
metallic pens and penholders possessed of such properties; my Invention,

page_text: therefore, is for peculiar constructions of metal pens and penholders which
have such properties. For these purposes, in making metal pens, each is
formed with projecting portions of the sheet metal of which the pen is con-
structed, which, in making up or shaping the pen, become spurs or projections,
on which the point of the pen is supported at a distance from the table or
surface on which it may be laid. And in making metallic penholders, portions
of the metal near the ends where the pens are introduced are cut and bent
outwards, so as to form spurs, or projections, there being suitable holding
ends formed at the lowest or outermost ends, for receiving the pens beyond
the projecting spurs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, Pen, and Pencil
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent; bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Edward Wiley, Her special licence that I, the said William Edward
Wiley; my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such, others as I, the
said William Edward Wiley, 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 "IMPROVE-
..MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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 per-
formed, 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..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that. I, the said William Edward Wiley, do hereby
declare the nature of tho 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 the manufacture of
metallic pens and penholders, and the same consists of peculiar constructions
of pens and penholders, with a view so to form them, that when a pen,
containing ink and in a holder, is laid on a table or other surface that the
nibs or points of the pen shall not come in contact with the table or other
surface, thus preventing the ink in the pen being communicated to the table
or other surface. I would, however, state that it is not generally new to make
metallic pens and penholders possessed of such properties; my Invention,
therefore, is for peculiar constructions of metal pens and penholders which
have such properties. For these purposes, in making metal pens each is
formed with projecting portions of the sheet metal of which the pen is con-
structed, which, in making up or shaping the pen, become spurs or projections,
on which the points of the pen are supported at a distance from the table or
surface on which it may be laid. And in making metallic penholders, portions
of the metal near the ends where the pens are introduced are cut and bent
outwards, so as to form spurs or projections, there being suitable holding
ends formed at the lowest or outermost ends for receiving the pens beyond
the projecting spurs.
1
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a back view of a pen made according to my Invention.
The form of the nibs, slits, and other parts of the pèn may be varied; but
the peculiarity is in bending out parts of the metal, of which the pen is formed,
so as to form spurs or projections x, x, by which, when the pen with its holder
is placed on a table or other surface, the points of the pen will be upheld, and
at a distance from such surface. The form of such projections or spurs may
be varied, so long as they are formed out of the metal of which the pen or
the body of the holder is composed, and not being at the extreme end of the
holder. Figure 2 shows another form of spurs or projections a, a, which are
cut and bent out of the metal of which the pen itself is formed. Figure 3
shows two views of a holder having projections or spurs & formed out of the
middle of the holder. Figure 4 shows two views of another form of holder,
in which the spurs or projections are cut and bent out from the same metal

page_text: as the holder itself is composed. Figures 5 and 6 show another form of pen,
where pieces are cut out and the other parts are pressed inwards (or the
parts may
be'
pressed inwards without parts, being cut out), so as to produce
the pen from that portion to the points or nibs of less dimensions than the
barrel of the pen, by which the barrel itself forms the projection x, as compared
with the other parts of the pen.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
FRED HARRIS.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (L.B.)