IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of 34, Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS."
Sealed the 9th January 1857, and dated the 5th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1856.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham,
Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in penholders. For this
purpose, I cut a circular groove at the end of a piece of wood, ivory, or other
material suitable for making a penholder. The most convenient mode of
cutting such circular groove is to employ a rotatory cutter for the purpose.
The end of the piece of wood or other suitable material is to be held or pressed
up to the cutter; or a penholder may be made at the end of a piece of wood,
ivory, or other suitable material by means of two tubes of metal and a central
core; the outer tube in this case is fixed to the end of the holder, such end
being formed with a fixed core, suitable to lie within the upper end of the
stem of a metal or other pen, around which core or centre a split metal tube
is placed, its outer end being turned outwards so as to form a flanch. The
stem of a steel or other pen will be placed between the split tube and the
core, and by reason of such tube being split and elastic, the holder will allow
of different sized pens being held by it. The split tube is held secure by the
turning in of the end of the outer tube.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Wiley, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, tho said William Edward Wiley, 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 PENHOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
1, the said William Edward Wiley, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
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 William Edward Wiley, 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 tho
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in penholders. For this
purpose, I cut a circular groove at the end of a piece of wood, ivory, or other
material suitable for making a penholder. The most convenient mode of
cutting such circular groove is to employ a rotatory cutter for the purpose.
The end of the piece of wood or other suitable material is to be held or pressed
up to the cutter, or a penholder may be made at the end of a piece of wood,
ivory, or other suitable material by means of two tubes of metal and a central
core; the outer tube in this case is fixed to the end of the holder, such end
being formed with a fixed core suitable to lie within the upper end of the
stem of a metal or other pen, around which core or centre a split metal tube

page_text: is placed, its outer end being turned outwards so as to form a flanch. The
stem of a steel or other pen will be placed between the split tube and the core,
and by reason of such tube being split and elastic, the holder will allow of
different sized pens being held by it. The split tube is held secure by the
turning out of the outer end of the outer tube.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same,
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews several views of a penholder formed according to my Inven-
tion at the end of a piece of wood, ivory, or other suitable material by means
of two tubes of metal a and b, and a central core c. The outer tube a in this
case is fixed to the end of the holder, such end being formed with a fixed
core c suitable to lie within the upper end of the stem of a metal or other pen,
around which core or centre a split metal tube b is placed, its outer end being
bent or turned outwards so as to form a flanch. The stem of the steel or
other pen is to be placed between the split tubo b and the core c, and by reason
of the tube b being spit, it is rendered elastic and capable of holding different
sized pens. The split tube b is held secure by the turning inwards of the
outer tube a.
Figure 2 shows several views of another penholder constructed in accordance
with my Invention. It consists of a piece of wood, ivory, or other suitable
material a for making a penholder with a circular groove cut in the end
thereof, as represented, into which the metal or other pen is placed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
FRED* HARRIS.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (LS.)