AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ON PENS
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, Bookseller and
Publisher, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of January, in tho second year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Perry, His especial licence that I, the said James Perry, my
exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Perry,
my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ON PENS;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Perry, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in. and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Perry, do hereby declare the nature of my. said Invention to consist
in a new arrangement of cuts and open spaces formed so near to the slit of
the pen, and in such directions as regards the said slit, as to cause a greater
flexibility in the nibs of metallic pens than has been heretofore obtained by
like means; and in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said James
Perry, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be

page_text: performed, by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing in the margin hereof, and to the figures and letters marked thereon.
But for the explanations to be better understood, it will be first desirable to
define the following terms, which I constantly use, and which I intend should
always have the same meaning throughout this Specification:-
First, the central part of the pen is that part of it which is represented in
Figure 1 by the line marked at its extremities with a and b.
Secondly, the straight slit is pointed out by the letter i.
Thirdly, the shoulders of the pen are pointed out by 7 and m.
Fourthly, a stop hole is any hole communicating with the upper end of the
straight slit, as shown at k, Figure 1.
Fifthly, an open space is any hole formed at one side of the central part of
the pen, having a slit, cut, or opening made into it from the side of the pen,
above, at, or below its shoulders, as shown at the parts marked s, Figures 4,
5, and 6. Figures 1, 2, 3, and 7: in these Figures my improved cuts are
represented by the lines d, e, and f, g, found in each of the four Figures.
In Figures 1 and 7 the cuts open out below the shoulders at the points d
and f, that is, at the lower extremity of each cut, and are formed in an
ascending direction towards the end of the pen marked b. In Figure 2 there
are additional cuts, opening out below the shoulders at h and i respectively,
and joining the cuts d, e, and f, g, so that each nib in Figure 2 may be
considered as having two cuts united, of which the smaller falls into the larger.
In Figure 3 the cuts open out above the shoulders at the points e and g, that
is, at the upper extremity of each cut, and descend towards the end of the
nibs marked a in a slanting direction towards the straight slit. In Figures
1, 2, 3, and 7, are stop holes, pointed out in each by the letter k. Figure 4:
in this Figure my improved open spaces are represented at d and f, com-
mencing in the pen above its shoulders, and continuing towards the nib a in
a slanting direction towards the straight slit. Figures 5 and 6 represent my
improved cuts and open spaces combined; they are represented at d and f.
In each of these two Figures, the part of which is a cut appears at d and f
respectively, and in each instance unites itself to the part which constitutes
the open space. The cuts in Figure 5 are formed below the shoulders, and
those of Figure 6 above the shoulders, and the open spaces in each Figure
extend both above and below the shoulders.
I shall conclude by observing that I give the preference to those varieties
of my Invention represented by Figures 1 and 2; that I consider the best
elastic steel, which is of convenient thickness, the most suitable material to be
employed; that if steel is used, the pen must be brought to a spring temper;

page_text: and that, whatever hard and elastic metal is employed, the pens should be of
about the same diameter as those from quills.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention :—
First, the particular arrangement and form of cuts shown in Figures 1
and 7.
Secondly, the particular combination and form of open spaces and cuts
shown in Figure 6; and,
Lastly, all such cuts and open spaces formed at the sides of the central
part of the pen, and opening out at the side of the said central part, above, at,
or below its shoulders, and either wholly or in part in a direction inclining
from the sides of the pen towards the said central part, as are exhibited in
Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5, and sufficiently near to the said central part to obtain
the flexibility which will be found in the pens represented in the Drawing
in the margin hereof.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge, and
belief, entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said
Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His
said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve
or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained, wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and
privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Perry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.