IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Etienne Osmont, of 22, Rue Neuve
Coquenard, Paris, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS."
Sealed tho 9th October 1857, and dated the 22nd April 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Etienne Osmont
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
22nd April 1857.
I, CHARLES ETIENNE OSMONT, of 22, Ruo Neuve Coquenard, Paris, do
hereby declaro the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN-
HOLDERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a method of supplying ink to pens from the stem
of the holder. For this purpose the stem of the holder is made hollow, and
a piston works up and down in its interior. Through the centre of the piston
a double-threaded screw works, and the end of this screw passes through the
top of the stem of the holder, and is made fast beyond to the head or top
thereof. This head is fixed to the holder by forming a ring on the upper end
of the hollow stem, of such a size as to be unable to pass through the open-
ing in the centre of the head, which is then slipped on from the other end
and soldered to a plate fixed on the endless screw; or, the head may be fixed
by simply soldering it to the screw which then has a ring fixed on it, and this,
by resting on the top of the stem within the chamber, prevents the screw
from sliding longitudinally through the hole in the top in which it works.
From the bottom of the chamber formed inside the stem a small tube pro-

page_text: ceeds, and this tube is curved so as to come in contact with the pen at a point
near the top of the nibs or split. When it is desired to charge the penholder
with ink, the piston is, by turning the head,, screwed down to the bottom of the
chamber in the stem; then the end of the tube is dipped in ink, and the
head is turned back so as to bring the piston back to the other end of the
chamber. To supply the pen with ink the head is turned until a sufficient
quantity of ink is forced out of the tube into the pen., In order to prevent
the chamber being corroded by the ink, the inside of the chamber is tinned,
and afterwards lacquered.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Etienne Osmont in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ETIENNE OSMONT, of 22, Rue Neuve Coquenard, Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred, and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Iler.
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Etienne Osmont, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Etienne Osmont, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Charles Etienne Osmont, 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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Charles Etienne Osmont, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Etienne Osmont, 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 :-

page_text: on the scrow d, within the hollow stem a, are to prevent the piston setting
fast against the stops at the end of the screw and turning with it, in place of
travelling longitudinally within the stem a.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the exact details of the arrangement herein shewn; but what I claim as my
Invention is the peculiar method which I have described of constructing and
combining the parts of a penholder, and particularly the method of arranging
the piston b, and screw d, and of arranging and fixing the head; also I claim
the tinning and lacquering the interior of the hollow stem.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Charles Etienne Osmont, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
CHARLES ETIENNE OSMONT. (L.S.)
CHARLES ETIENNE OSMONT. (L.S.)