Iм- PROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hezekiah Hewitt, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Metallic Pen Manufacturer, for the Invention of “Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS."
Sealed the 10th March 1871, and dated the 24th September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hezekiah Hewitt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th September 1870.
I, HEZEKIAH HEWITT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Metallic Pen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS AND PENHOLDERS," to be as
follows:-
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My Invention consists, firstly, in pivoting or hinging an inkholder or
hollow spring tongue to the inner or outer side of a metallic pen for the
purpose of converting the said pen into a fountain pen, that is, a pen
capable of taking up a large quantity of ink. By connecting the ink-

page_text: holder or spring tongue to the pen in this way, the said inkholder or
tongue can be readily lifted away from the pen for the purpose of
cleaning or wiping the said inkholder or tongue. Instead of pivoting
or hinging the inkholder or hollow spring tongue to the pen it may be
pivotted or hinged to the front of the penholder with the same effect.
My Invention consists, secondly, of the following improvements in
penholders. This part of my Invention consists in constructing pen-
holders with an inkholder or hollow elastic tongue at the holding end
of the penholder, for the purpose of converting the slip pen held in the
holder into a fountain pen. The said elastic tongue in addition to
converting the pen into a fountain pen, also acts as a support to the
pen in the up strokes. The elastic tongue may be situated on the pen-
holder in such a position as to lie on the inner or outer side of the pen,
and the said tongue may either be made in one piece with the holder
or separately therefrom. When made in one piece with the holder, the
elastic tongue projects from the holding end of the holder, and when a
slip pen is held in the holder, the said elastic tongue lies on the under
side or upper side of the pen. On dipping the pen into ink a làrge
quantity of ink is taken up between the said tongue and the pen, which
in writing passes gradually to the nibs. By removing the pen from the
holder the elastic tongue can be readily cleaned or wiped. When the
elastic tongue is made separately from the holder the said tongue is
made upon the end of a short elastic tubular piece, the slip pen being
held between the said elastic tubular piece and the holder. The said
tubular piece is fixed to the holder by ears. Or the said tubular piece
may be connected to the holder by a stud on the said piece working in
an inclined slot in the holder. By this means the tubular piece and
tongue can be freely rotated in the holder and partly withdrawn from
the holder when it is desired to remove the pen from the holder for
cleaning the tongue, or for other purpose.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in combining a sliding erasing blade
with a penholder in such a manner that the said erasing blade can be
used without removing the pen from the holder. When the erasing
blade is not in use it is wholly situated within the tubular part of the
holder, a stud on the blade working in a longitudinal slot at the under 3
side of the holder. When the said stud is moved towards the pen the
erasing blade is projected from the end of the holder by the back of the

page_text: said blade coming against an inclined elastic projection in the interior of
the holder, the said projection by its elasticity holding the blade firmly
in position for use. The said projection also forms a stop for the pen.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hezekiah Hewitt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HEZEKIAH
HEWITT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic Pen
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, Her special licence
that I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC
PENS AND PENHOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Hezekiah Hewitt, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Hezekiah Hewitt, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 :-
My Invention consists, firstly, in pivoting or hinging an inkholder

page_text: or hollow spring tongue to the inner or outer side of a metallic pen for
the purpose of converting the said pen into a fountain pen, that is a pen
capable of taking up a large quantity of ink. By connecting the ink-
holder or spring tongue to the pen in this way the said inkholder or
tongue can be readily lifted away from the pen for the purpose of
cleaning or wiping the said inkholder or tongue. Instead of pivoting or
hinging the inkholder or hollow spring tongue to the pen it may
be pivoted or hinged to the front of the penholder with the same effect.
This part of my Invention is illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 representing in vertical section at a, b,
back elevation at c, and detached at d, the pivoted or hinged inkholder
or hollow spring tongue applied to the inner side of a slip metallic pen;
and Figure 2 representing in side elevation at e, section at f, and back
elevation at g, the inkholder or hollow spring tongue applied to the inner
side of a barrel pen. In the said Figures 1 and 2, h is the inkholder or
hollow spring tongue pivoted to the slip pen or barrel pen k at i, and pro-
vided at its tail end with a spring h² which spring bears upon the inside
of the back of the pen, and presses the inkholder or tongue / into
contact with the under side of the nibs of the pen. By pressing upon
the bow part of the spring h², the inkholder or tongue h may be lifted
from the pen kas represented in the section b, Figure 1, for cleaning
or wiping the said inkholder or tongue. The pivoted inkholder or
tongue h, h³, i, Figures 1 and 2, may be applied to the outer side of a
metallic pen, and also to the inner or outer side of the holding end of the
metallic part or barrel of a penholder.
My Invention consists, secondly, of the following improvements in
penholders:―This part of my Invention consists in constructing pen-
holders with an inkholder or hollow elastic tongue at the holding
end of the penholder for the purpose of converting the slip pen held in
the holder into a fountain pen. The said elastic tongue in addition to 3
converting the pen into a fountain pen also acts as a support to the pen
in the upstrokes. The elastic tongue may be situated on the penholder
in such a position as to lie on the inner or outer side of the pen, and the
said tongue may either be made in one piece with the holder or
separately therefrom. When made in one piece with the holder, the 3
elastic tongue projects from the holding end of the holder, and when
a slip pen is held in the holder, the said elastic tongue lies on the under

page_text: side or upper side of the pen. On dipping the pen into ink, a large
quantity of ink is taken up between the said tongue and the pen which
in writing passes gradually to the nibs. By removing the pen from the
holder the elastic tongue can be readily cleaned or wiped. When the
elastic tongue is made separately from the holder, the said tongue is made
upon the end of a short elastic tubular piece, the slip pen being held
between the said elastic tubular piece and the holder. The said tubular
piece is fixed to the holder by cars. Or the said tubular piece may be
connected to the holder by a stud on the said tubular piece working in an
inclined slot in the holder. By this means the tubular piece and tongue
can be freely rotated in the holder, and partly withdrawn from the holder
when it is desired to remove the pen from the holder for cleaning the
tongue or for other purpose.
This part of my Invention is illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, of
the accompanying Drawing. Figures 3 and 4 represent side elevations
and front elevations of the metallic or barrel parts of penholders in which
the inkholders or hollow elastic tongues are made in one piece with the
said barrel parts, the elastic tongue in Figure 3 being arranged to lie on
the outer side of the slip pen, and the elastic tongue in Figure 4 being
arranged to lie on the inner side of the slip pen. The barrel part of the
penholder is marked 2, and the inkholder or elastic tongue made in one
piece therewith is marked m. The slip pen marked n is fixed in the
penholder by being engaged under the ear parts p of the holder in the
ordinary way. By removing the slip pen n from the penholder the ink-
holder or clastic tongue m can be readily cleaned or wiped. Figure 5
represents a combined penholder and elastic tongue constructed ac-
cording to my Invention, in which the slip pen n is held between the
interior of the barrel and the separate elastic tubular piece q fixed in
the barrel. Figure 6 represents in section at r, side elevation at s, and
separately at t, the arrangement of this part of my Invention in which
the inkholder or elastic tongue is made separately from the holder. In
this arrangement m is the inkholder or elastic tongue made upon the short
clastic tubular piece m², which tubular piece is fixed in the holding end
of the barrel by ears at u. The slip pen n is held in the barrel / by
being passed between the barrel and the outside of the tubular piece m*
of the elastic tongue m; v, is the stop for limiting the distance to which
the pen can be inserted in the holder. When the elastic tongue is made

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separately from the holder, as in the arrangement last described, the
tubular piece m³ of the elastic tongue m may be connected to the
barrel of the penholder by a stud on the said tubular piece engaging in
an inclined slot in the barrel. This arrangement of my Invention is
illustrated in back elevation at w, side elevation at x, and detached at
in Figure 7 where the stud on the tubular piece m² of the elastic
tongue m is marked m³, and the inclined slot in the barrel in which
the stud m³ works is marked 12. By lifting the said stud m³ in its slot l²
the tubular piece'm² is partly rotated in and withdrawn from the holder
or barrel l. By depressing the said stud in its slot, the tubular piece m²
is returned to its place in the holder. By this means the slip n can be
readily removed from the holder when it is required to clean or wipe the
tongue m, or for other purpose. Or the separate inkholder or elastic
tongue may be made capable of a longitudinal sliding motion in the barrel
so as to be brought at pleasure under the slip pen for use or removed from
the slip pen when the latter is to be removed or wiped. This arrange-
ment of my Invention is represented in section at Figure 7A, the ink-
holder or elastic tongue being shown in use under the slip pen at 10 and
withdrawn into the barrel at 11; m is the sliding inkholder or tongue
carried by the sliding piece m² connected to the barrel by the stud m*
working in a straight slot in the said barrel. By moving the stud m
towards the slip pen n, the clastic tongue m can be brought under the
said pen, as seen at 10, and by moving the stud in the opposite direction
the elastic tongue m may be withdrawn into the barrel 7, as seen
at 11.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in combining a sliding erasing blade
with a penholder in such a manner that the said erasing blade can be
used without removing the pen from the holder. When the erasing
blade is not in use it is wholly situated within the tubular part of the
holder, a stud on the blade working in a longitudinal slot at the
under side of the holder. When the said stud is moved towards the
pen the crasing blade is projected from the end of the holder by the back
of the said blade coming against an inclined clastic projection in the
interior of the holder, the said projection by its elasticity holding the
blade firmly in position for use. The said projection also forms a stop
for the pen.
This part of my Invention is illustrated in Figure 8 of the Drawing, the
erasing blade being withdrawn into the holder in the section marked 1,

page_text: and projected from the holder in the section marked 2. The crasing
blade is shown detached at 3; 4 is the barrel part of the penholder; and
5 is the blade of the ink eraser sliding in the barrel 4. The said blade 5
is made in one piece with the tubular part 6, the latter being provided
with a stud or projection 7 which works in a longitudinal slot in the
under side of the barrel. In the interior of the barrel 4 and made from
the front of the said barrel is an elastic inclined projection or tongue
piece 8 for pushing outwards the erasing blade 5. When the erasing
blade is not in use it is wholly situated within the barrel 4, as shown at
1, Figure 8. When it is wished to use the erasing blade 5, the stud 7
is moved in its slot towards the pen n.
As the back of the erasing
blade 5 is moved over the inclined tongue piece 8 of the barrel 4, the
said blade is projected from the end of the barrel as represented at 2,
Figure 8, the elasticity of the said tongue piece 8 holding the blade firmly
in position during use. The blade 5 can thus be used without removing
the pen n from the holder. By moving the stud 7 in the opposite
direction the blade 5 is withdrawn into the barrel. The projection or
tongue piece 8 serves as the stop for the slip pen n.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention of improvements in metallic
pens and penholders,―
Firstly. Pivoting or hinging an inkholder or hollow spring tongue to
the inner or outer side of a metallic pen or penholder, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accom-
panying Drawing, whereby the said inkholder or spring tongue can be
freely lifted away from the pen or penholder for cleaning or wiping the
said inkholder or tongue.
inkholder or hollow
Secondly. Constructing penholders with an
elastic tongue projecting from the holding end of the penholder for
converting the slip pen held in the holder into a fountain pen, and also
for supporting the pen in the upstrokes, whether the inkholder or
elastic tongue be made in one piece with the penholder or separately and
connected to the penholder, substantially as herein-before described and

page_text: illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7A, of the accompanying
Drawing.
Thirdly. Combining a sliding erasing blade with a penholder so that
the said blade can be used without removing the pen, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in Figure 8 of the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
HEZEKIAH HEWITT. (L.S.)