AN IMPROVE- MENT IN THE MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF METALLIC PENS
Year: 1831

page_text: GILLOTT'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
GILLOTT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the second year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Gillott, His especial licence that I, the said Joseph Gillott, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Gillott,
my executors, administrators, and 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, and also within all
His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF METALLIC PENS;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Joseph
Gillott, 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 performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled within two
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
Joseph Gillott, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
the following explanation thereof, assisted by the Drawings in the margin of
hese Presents; that is to say:

page_text: My Invention of an improvement in the making or manufacturing
of metallic pens consists in forming on the nibs of metallic pens
elongated points by straight parallel pieces, instead of sloping the
points of the nibs, as in metallic pens of the ordinary construction.
I make the two sides of the elongated points in parallel lines, or
the metal of an equal width from the extreme ends of the points a
to the shoulder 'b,' as shewn in Figure 1 of the Drawings in the
margin of these Presents, whereby an elongated point is obtained,
which will retain its original fineness of nib until it is worn down to
the shoulder b; or by making the same elongated points of two
parallel pieces without any shoulder at their termination next the
nib part of the pen, but merging at the upper ends into the nib of
the pen in the usual slope, as at c in Figure 2 of the Drawings in the
margin of these Presents.
And I hereby desire it to be understood that I claim as my In-
ition the mag of these elongated parallel points of any width
and of any length from the shoulder or slope of the nib to the end
of the points, as may be required; and also the application of this
vention of elongated points formed by parallel pieces, as aforesaid, to
tallic pens, of whatever shape, form, or construction now known or in
vithout regard to their various springs, slits, or openings in the upper
of the said metallic pens.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Gillott, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.