IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS FOR WRITING AND MARKING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Bructon, of the Firm of Brueton and Fowlor, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen Manufacturers, for the
Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS FOR WRITING AND MARKING"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Brueton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd June 1876.
HENRY BRUETON, of the Firm of Brueton and Fowler, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Steel Pen Manufacturers, "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS FOR
WRITING AND MARKING."
My Invention of improvements in pens for writing and marking refers to the
writing and marking instrument known as the "audascript" pen, for which Letters
Patent were granted Nov. 6, 1872, No. 3297, and consists of a writing pen con-
structed of two plates of metal, one being similar to a pen of the common form,
but without the usual slit at the point, and the other a superposed plate or nib
attached to the under one by means of bent tangs or any similar method permitting
the plates to be attached to or separated from each other at will. It is necessary
that the upper plate of the pen should project slightly beyond the lower plate, so
that when the pen is held at the usual angle for use the extreme ends of both plates
shall be in contact with the paper to be written on. The plates are so formed as to
make a suitable space between them for the retention of the ink, but they must be
in contact at the point or writing end. One of the plates, by preference the upper
one, should be shorter than the other, in order to enable the pen to be used as a
holder of ordinary construction.
> SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Brueton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd December
1876.
HENRY BRUETON, of the Firm of Bructon and Fowler, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Steel Pen Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS FOR
WRITING AND MARKING."

page_text: My Invention of improvements in pens for writing and marking refers to the
writing and marking instrument known as the "audascript" pen, for which Letters
Patent were granted November 6th 1872, No. 3297, and consists of a writing pen
constructed of two plates of metal, one being similar to a pen of the common form,
but without the usual slit at the point, and the other a superposed plate or nib,
attached to the under one by means of bent tangs or any similar method permitting
the plates to be attached to or separated from each other at will. It is necessary
that the upper plate of the pen should project slightly beyond the lower plate, so
that when the pen is held at the usual angle necessary for use the extremo ends of
The plates are
both the plates shall be in contact with the paper to be written on.
so formed as to make a suitable space between them for the retention of the ink, but
they must be in contact at the point or writing end. One of the plates, by prefer-
ence the upper one, should be shorter than the other, in order to enable the pen to
be used in a holder of the ordinary construction.
The object of the "nudascript" pen was to facilitate writing or marking parcels,
the drawing of diagrams, and writing on rough surfaces, and it consisted of two
strips of elastic metal, forming the nibs of the pen, and three strips of similar
metal overlying forming an ink reservoir. These strips are graduated in length, the
uppermost strip being the shortest, whereas my Invention consists of constructing a
pen with two strips or plates, both being pointed in the same manner as ordinary pens
are pointed, and one of the plates being made shorter than the other, and neither
plate or strip being slit as in the ordinary pen. This peculiar construction of pen
gives more elasticity and freedom than are to be found in steel pens of the ordinary
make, and renders them more like quill pens.
Having now described my Invention, and how the same is to be performed, I
wish it to be understood that what I claim and desire to secure by the herein-before
recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of a pen constructed of two plates of
metal, the one similar to a pen of common form, without a slit at the point, and the
other plate being a pointed superposed plate or nib attached to the under one by
tangs or similar means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Brueton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
HENRY BRUETON. (L.S.)