AN IMPROVED SELF-SUPPLYING PEN."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jules Catillon, of 38, Hatton Garden, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SELF-SUPPLYING PEN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jules Catillon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
May 1865.
I, JULES CATILLON, of 38, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SELF-
SUPPLYING PEN," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to an improvement in the mode of supplying
ink to the ordinary descriptions of metallic pens or nibs through the medium
of the handle or holder in which they are fixed, whereby a more continuous
and uniform supply of ink is maintained without requiring to be constantly
filled or charged as at present, and consists in employing in connection with
the handle or holder (which is of a hollow or tubular form suitable for con-
taining the ink) a projecting tube attached longitudinally thereto so as to pass
within the hollow or cavity of the pen, forming therewith a capillary tongue,
from which the ink is discharged when required through the medium of a
small valve opening outwards from the end of the said tongue or tube, in
connection with which a thumb stud kept in its position by a re-acting spiral
spring contained within the handle is also employed for giving motion to the
valve on receiving pressure from the thumb or finger.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Jules Catillon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JULES
CATILLON, of 38, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jules Catillon, Her special licence that I, the said Jules Catillon,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Jules Catillon, 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 "AN IMPROVED
SELF-SUPPLYING PEN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Jules Catillon, my executors or administrators, 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 Jules Catillon, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to an improvement in the mode of supplying
ink to the ordinary description of steel pens or nibs through the medium of
the handle or holder in which they are fixed, whereby a more continuous
and uniform supply of ink is obtained without requiring to be constantly
supplied as at present, and consists in employing in connection with the handle
or holder (which is of a hollow or tubular form suitable for containing the
ink) a projecting tube attached longitudinally thereto, so as to pass within the
hollow or cavity of the pen, forming therewith a capillary tongue from which
the ink is discharged through the medium of a small valve opening outwards
from the end of the said tube or tongue, in connection with which a thumb
stud and reacting spiral spring contained within the handle or holder is also

page_text: employed for actuating the said valve, and discharging the ink on receiving
pressure from the thumb or finger.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe the same by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures
thereon marked (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents an external side view of my improved self-supplying
pen showing the nib applied thereto; Fig. 2 a top or plan view thereof;
Fig. 3 an underneath view; Fig. 4 a front view; Fig. 5 an end view;
Fig. 6 a transverse section taken through the dotted line in Fig. 1%;
Fig. 7 a longitudinal section through the dotted line in Fig. 4; Fig. 8 an
enlarged or detailed top view of the inner portion or working parts thereof
separately shown; Fig. 9 a corresponding side view; Fig. 10 a section taken
longitudinally through the dotted line in Fig. 8; Fig. 11 an end view of the
same; Fig. 12 a front view; Fig. 13 a section taken transversely through
the dotted line in Fig. 9; Fig. 14 a detached view of the reacting spring
piston; and Fig. 15 an inside view of the same. In each Figure the same
letters of reference denote similar corresponding parts.
A, A, tubular handle or holder in which the ink for supplying the pen is
contained; B, B, metallic plug, fitted and secured within the lower portion of
the said handle, forming therewith a cavity for the reception of the pen or
nib, as also a passage for the ink to the same through the medium of the pro-
jecting tube or tongue and pin head valve above referred to; C, C, valve stud
or piston working longitudinally within the said tubular handle, through the
intervention of a reacting spring and thumb stop movement for actuating the
same; D, D, valve rod or wire moving in connection with the stud or piston
and thumb stop movement; E, E, pin-head valve secured to the outer end of
the said rod or wire, which receives motion from the same; F, F, reacting
spring for returning the valve to its seat, and maintaining the same closed;
G, G, projecting tube or tongue forming the outlet from which the ink escapes
into the hollow or cavity of the pen or nib through the pipe or opening H, H;
formed in the metallic plug as represented; I, I, thumb stop moving longi-
tudinally with the handle or holder, by the action of which the valve is opened,
and the ink liberated as the flow or supply of the same is required; J, J, slot
opening, through which the said thumb stop projects; K, K, recess in the
plug, in which the thumb stop works; L, L, pen or nib; M, M, circular
opening between the plug and holder in which the pen is to be inserted;
N, N, screw cap or cover for charging the holder with ink.
In conclusion to the foregoing description I would here briefly note that in

page_text: lieu of the thumb stop a sliding ring or circular projecting piece may be
employed in like manner, and placed or connected in any other suitable
position upon the handle or holder so as to actuate the valve as above
described, and that the form and dimensions of the several parts may receive
such other modifications as may be found necessary.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried
into effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do not confine myself to
the precise details herein-before described, as the same may be varied without
departing from the general principle of this my said Invention, nor do I claim
as new and of my said Invention, the exclusive use of the several parts herein-
before set forth, except when the same are employed in and for the purposes
of my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in the general dis-
position and employment of the several parts in connection with the mode of
discharging the ink into the hollow or cavity of the pen or nib through the
medium of the projecting tube or tongue and pin valve movement opening
outwards, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jules Catillon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JULES CATILLON. (L.B.)
Witness,
R. H. P. COOKE,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.