IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Morgan-Brown at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th April 1882. A communication
froin abroad by Benjamin Lawrence of the City of New York United States
of America.
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WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN Patent Agent of 38 Southampton Buildings London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC PENS [A communication
from abroad by Benjamin Lawrence of the City of New York United States of
America.]
This Invention relates to improvements in metallic pens and has for its object
the production of a double ended metallic pen with two nibs or points, one at each
end, in such a manner that when completed for use it can be broken apart in the
middle and thereby constitute two pens.
Metallic pens are struck out singly by means of a die from sheets or strips of
metal, and each pen has to be separately pointed, polished, tempered bronzed and
otherwise treated before being ready for commerce.
The various processes and manipulations which the small articles have to
undergo before they are in a finished condition entail great labour and expense and
necessarily occupy considerable time. The purpose of this invention is to decrease
the labour and time employed in the manufacture and preparation of metallic pens
and consequently materially reduce their cost. To the accomplishment of this end
the invention consisting in striking out a blank for metallic pens with a point or
nib at each end and at the same time and by the same operation striking out
portions of the blank in the middle, so that when the double pointed blank is
supplied at either end with the necessary slit a completed two nibbed pen is
produced capable of being easily divided centrally, thus providing two metallic
pens of the conventional character.
me,
I am aware that inaking pens with points at either end is not broadly new with
but so far no provision has been made for so shaping the blank that it can
easily be severed and thus produce two perfect pen nibs. In carrying out this
invention I make the blank pen of any suitable forma from a straight ribbon of
metal, pointed at either end and having two central angular pieces cut away at the
Die 11

page_text: centre forming openings between which is a narrow connecting piece of the metal,
sufliciently strong to hold the whole together during process of manufacture and
packing but which can be easily broken by hand, thus producing two perfect pens.
Instead of forming the opening of the angular divergence described it can be
made of various degrees of inclination and may be so formed as to leave a central
band of any desired width, this band can be perforated to facilitate the breaking
apart.
As a modified form of carrying out this invention I sometimes indent the
connecting strip or band, wherein a curved or angular depression is made when the
blank is struck out which forms a guide in order to facilitate breaking the blank
in two. I do not desire to confine myself to any special shape of the parts cut
away from the blank centrally, as it is obvious such can be indefinitely varied and
be within the scope of the invention.
It is manifest that it requires but a single operation of a suitable dio to punch
out all the parts of the blank for a double separable pen blank.