A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant and Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER."
Sealed the 15th August 1856, and dated the 22nd March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustav Georg Anton
Ludwig Michael Schelhorn at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd March 1856.
I; GUSTAV GEORG ANTON LUDWIG MICHAEL SCHELHORN, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PENHOLDEк," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists of a penholder constructed in the following manner :-
I place a hollow cylinder or tube of metal upon a stick or holder of wood or
other material. In the interior of the said hollow cylinder or tube I place a
plug or cylinder of vulcanized caoutchouc. The pen to be held is inserted
between the said metallic tube and the cylinder of caoutchouc; the elasticity
of the said caoutchouc occasions an agreeable yielding of the pen during
writing. Instead of a plug of caoutchouc, I sometimes use a tube of caoutchouc
placed upon the stick or wooden part of the holder, which in that case is made
to project to the open end of the metallic tube, or nearly so. Although I
prefer to use vulcanized caoutchouc in carrying my Invention into effect,
yet I do not limit myself thereto, as unvulcanized 'caoutchouc may be employed,
or any other substance or mixture possessing the requisite elasticity. My In-
vention is applicable to penholders of various constructions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUSTAV
GEORG ANTON LUDWIG MICHAEL SCHELHORN, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Merchant and Manufacturer, send greeting...
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of March, 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 Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn, Her special licence
that I, the said Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Gustav Georg
Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn, 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 "A NEW
OR IMPROVED PENHOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael Schelhorn, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael
Schelhorn, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a penholder, in which the clasticity of india-rubber,
or of india-rubber combined with metal, is employed to fix the pen in the
holder.
Figure 1 represents two sections of a penholder constructed according to
my Invention.
a is a cylinder of india-rubber, attached to the cylindrical
stick 6 of the holder. The said cylinder a may be attached to the stick b by
a pinc passing through the india-rubber a and entering the stick 6; or the
said india-rubber a may be attached to the stick b in any other convenient

page_text: manner.
The pen d is inserted between the cylinder of india-rubber a and the
barrel e of the penholder.
The elasticity of the india-rubber a holds the pen d firmly between it and
the barrel c. The barrel e may be slit and a ring e¹ drawn over the slit
portion. By raising the ring e¹ the pen may be readily withdrawn.
My Invention may be modified in various ways, as illustrated in the several
Figures in the Drawing.
In Figure 2, which represents two sections of a modification of my Inven-
tion, the piece of india-rubber a is attached to the plate f, which said plate is
jointed at g to the barrel h. A less piece of india-rubber is required in the
penholder, Figure 2, than in that represented in Figure 1.
In Figure 3, which represents two sections of another modification of my
Invention, a piece of thin sheet india-rubber a is held in the forked plate i,
jointed to the barrel k. The said india-rubber. not being in the middle of the
barrel, is curved, as represented in the transverse section 1, and in endeavouring
to regain its flat figure presses the plate i against the barrel k at m, and holds
the pen n firmly, which said pen n engages between the plate i and the barrel
k at m.
Figure 4 represents two sections of another modification of my Invention,
in which the india-rubber a consists of a strip or sheet twisted round the lower
end of the plate o. The upper end of the plate o projects through a slot in
the barrel p, and the ring q, by being made to slide on the barrel p, may press
upon the projecting end of the plate o, forcing it into the barrel p, and thereby
deflecting the lower end, on which the india-rubber is coiled, from its axial
or central position. Where the pen 7 is held as represented in the Figure, the
said pen would be loosened from the .holder by putting the ring 9 in the position
represented; or the pen r may be held more more tightly when the ring q is
in the position represented if the said pen is inserted at the opposite side of
the barrel to that shewn.
Figure 5 represents two sections of another modification of my Invention,
in which the india-rubber a is grasped between the edges of the cylinder of
sheet metals, and presses the said cylinder s against the barrel t at u, and
holds the pen v firmly between s and t.
Figure 6 represents, in elevation, another modification of my Invention. The
pen w is held between the concave surface x and the convex surface Y, the
two surfaces x and y being pressed together by the tube of india-rubber z.
By fixing the pen in the holder through the agency of caoutchouc or india-
rubber an agreeable yielding of the pen during writing is obtained.

page_text: Although I prefer to use vulcanized caoutchouc in carrying' my Invention
into effect, yet I do not limit myself thereto, as unvulcanized caoutchouc may
be employed, or other substance or mixture possessing an elasticity equal or
nearly equal to that of caoutchouc.:
My Invention is applicable to penholders of various constructions in addi
tion to those herein described and represented, but I do not think it necessary
to describe and represent other modifications of my Invention, the essence of
my Invention consisting in holding pens" in their holders by the elasticity of
caoutchouc, whether applied in the manner represented or in any other
manner!
Having now described the nature of my said 'Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention;- but
I claim as my Invention the methods herein' described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, of constructing a new or improved penholder, that is
to say, a penholder in which the pen is held by being pressed against' the
concave surface of the metallic tube or barrel of the penholder, by means of
vulcanized caoutchouc or india-rubber, or other substance or mixture having
the same or nearly the same elasticity as vulcanized³ caoutchouc or india-
rubber.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustav Georg Anton Ludwig Michael
Schelhorn, have hereunto set' my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
Witness,
GUSTAV GEORG ANTON LUDWIG MICHAEL SCHELHORN. (L.S.)
GEORGE SHAW,