AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Mason, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS." -A communication from abroad by
Jean Benoit Mallat, of Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 8th April 1870, and dated the 11th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Mason at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th November 1869.
I, JOSIAH MASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "An
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC PENS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object principally to prevent the nibs or
point of the pen catching in the paper in the upstrokes, and thereby
avoiding the spirting of the ink, the pen being at the same time
perfectly flexible for the down strokes. This object is effected by so

page_text: forming the sides of the pen that they support the nibs and offer such a
resistance to the said nibs that the latter cannot yield during the
upstrokes.
In making a metallic pen according to the said Invention the sides of
the pen are turned over nearly at right angles to the back or nibs of the
pen, so as to form a channel or angular body to the pen. These sides
are of less length than the nibs, and cach of the said sides is separated
from its adjacent nib by a slit and longitudinal piercing in the said side.
The nibs are thus only connected with the body and sides near the rear
of the said nibs. The nibs bear against the sides of the slit parts
described near the point of the pen, the said sides thus forming
supporting walls or à double prop for the nibs in the upstrokes when
writing. The channel or trough formed by the bending at right angles
of the sides of the pen enables an ample supply of ink to be taken
up. This object may be further increased by combining with the
pen a curved tongue or hook, made from the back of the pen, the
said tongue or hook being situated about midway in the channel or
trough of the pen. The said curved tongue or hook may however be
dispensed with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Josiah Mason in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 30th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
MASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Josiah Mason, Her special licence that I,
the said Josiah Mason, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Josiah Mason, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the

page_text: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel. Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN
METALLIC PENS," a communication to me from abroad by Jean Benoit
Mallat, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Josiah Mason, 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 Josiah Mason, 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: :-
This Invention has for its object principally to prevent the nibs or
points of the pen catching in the paper in the upstrokes, and thereby
avoiding the spirting of the ink, the pen being at the same time
perfectly flexible for the down strokes. This object is effected by so
forming the sides of the pen that they support the nibs and offer such a
resistance to the said nibs that the latter cannot yield during the
upstrokes.
In making a metallic pen according to the said Invention the sides of
the pen are turned over nearly at right angles to the back or nibs of
the pen, so as to form a channel or angular body to the pen. These
sides are of less length than the nibs, and each of the said sides is.
separated from its adjacent nib by a slit and a longitudinal piercing in
the said side. The nibs are thus only connected with the body and
sides near the rear of the said nibs. The nibs bear against the sides at
the slit parts described near the point of the pen, the said sides thus.
forming supporting walls or a double prop for the nibs in the upstrokes.
when writing. The channel or trough formed by the bending at right
angles of the sides of the pen enables an ample supply of ink to be
taken up. This object may be further increased by combining with
the pen a curved tongue or hook made from the back of the pen, the
said tongue or hook being situated about midway in the channel or
trough of the pen. The said curved tongue or hook may however be
dispensed with.,

page_text: Having explained the nature of the said Invention I will proceed to
describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in
which the same is to be performed,
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, front elevation, and cross section
a metallic pen made according to this Invention,
a, a, are the sides of the pen turned down nearly at right angles to
the back or nibs b, b, of the pen. The said sides a, a, form with the
nibs b, b, a channel or angular body to the pen, as best seen in the cross
section. Each of the turned down sides a, a, is of less length than the
nibs b, as seen in the elevations, and each of the said sides a, a, is
separated from its adjacent nib by the slit c and longitudinal piercing d.
By an examination of the Drawing it will be seen that the sides a, a, are
only connected to the body of the pen at the parts marked f. The
pibs b, b, are also only connected at their base with the body of the pen.
The slits c, c, in the sides a, a, are made a little below the junction of
the said sides with the nibs b, b, so as to form stops to the said nibs, the
clasticity of the said nibs causing the said stops to bear upon the
sides a, a, at the slit parts c, c, as represented in the Drawing. By
the combination of the sides a, a, with the nibs b, b, in the manner
represented the said sides a, a, constitute supporting walls or a double
prop for the nibs while making the upstrokes in writing, that is to
say, on making the upstrokes the nibs b, b, bear upon the supporting
walls or props at c, c, and the said walls offer such a resistance to tho
said nibs that the latter cannot yield downwards. On making tho
downstrokes the nibs b, b, rise from the supporting walls or props at c, c,
and thereby give great flexibility to the said nibs. Instead of separating
tho turned down sides a, a, of the pen from the nibs by longitudinal slits
near the point of the pen, as the arrangement Figure 1, the same
object may be effected by means of cross slits made in the sides a, a, at
about the middle of the said sides, as represented in side elevation, front
elevation, and longitudinal section in Figure 2, where the parts aro
marked with the same letters of reference as corresponding parts in
Figure 1. It is prefered however to carry the Invention into practice in
the manner represented in Figure 1. The channel or trough formed by
the bending of the sides a, a, enables the pen to take up an ample
supply of ink. In order to promote this object either of the pens
Figures 1 and 2 may be furnished with a curved tongue or hook made
from the back of the pen. A curved tongue or hook of this kind is

page_text: represented combined with the pen, Figuro 2, the said tongue or hook
being marked e. The said tongue is situated about midmay in the
channel or trough of the pen.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner 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 illus-
trated, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of the said Invention; but I claim as the said Invention, the improve.
ment or improvements in metallic pens hercin-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making metallic
pens with supporting walls or a double prop for supporting the nibs of
the pen while making the upstrokes in writing, the said supporting walls
and double prop being constructed and combined with tho back or nibs
of the pen, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah Mason, have hereunto set
my hand and soal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
W. F. BATHо,
Lancaster Street,
Birmingham,
JOSIAH MASON, (L.S.)