IMPROVE- MENTS IN PENHOLDERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Barbour, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Linen Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PENHOLDERS."-A communication from Ebenezer W. Hanson
and Emanuel G. Kromer, of Philadelphia, U. S. of America.
Sealed the 20th January 1857, and dated the 21st July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Barbour at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
July 1856.
I, FRANCIS BARBOUR, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Linen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS," as communicated to me from Ebenezer W.
Hanson and Emanuel G. Kromer, of Philadelphia, U.S. of America, to be as
follows:-
I fix to the penholder projections for the finger and thumb to rest against,
which gives the writer a firmer and steadier hold. The said projections may
be either fixed to the holder, or they may be fixed to a tube or tubes so as to
slide on any ordinary penholder. The nature and construction of these pro-
jections will be clearly understood by reference to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a view of the penholder complete, the finger
and thumb projections being connected to tubes of separate pieces sliding on
the part which holds the pen. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are views of the projections.

page_text: detached from the holder. Fig. 6 is a view shewing both projections com-
bined as they would appear if the tube to which they are connected was
flattened. Fig. 7 is a view of a penholder complete, in which the finger and
thumb projections are connected at once to the part which holds the pen.
Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are views shewing different lengths and shapes of the said
projections as they would appear if flattened out; Figs. 11. and..12 are end
views.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Barbour in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
BARBOUR, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Linen
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, 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
Francis Barbour, Her special license that I, the said Francis Barbour, my
or such others as I, the said Francis Barbour, my executors, administrators, and assigns.
executors, administrators, and assigns, A 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, éxercise; and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS,"
being a communication from Ebenezer W. Hanson and Emanuel G. Kromer,
of Philadelphia, U. S. of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that'
I, the said Francis Barbour, 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 Francis Barbour, 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,.
that is to say:-

page_text: The said Invention consists of fixing to the "penholder "projections for the
finger and thumb to rest against, which give the writer a firm and steady hold
of the pen. The said projections may be either fixed to the holder itself, or
they may be fixed to a tube or tubes to slide on any ordinary penholder.
The nature and construction of these projections will be clearly understood
by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a
view of the penholder complete, the finger and thumb projections being con-
nected to tubes of separate pieces sliding on the part which holds the pen.
Figs. 2, 3, 4, & 5 are views of the projections detached from the holder.
Fig. 6 is a view shewing both projections combined, as they would appear if
the tube to which they are connected was flattened. Fig. 7 is a view of a pen-
holder complete, in which the finger and thumb projections are connected to
the part which holds the pen. Figs. 8, 9, & 10 are views shewing different
lengths and shapes of the said projections as they would appear if flattened
out; Figs. 11 & 12 are end views of the same.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, as communicated to me from Ebenezer
W. Hanson and Emanuel G. Kromer, of Philadelphia, United States of
America, I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself
to the exact shape or construction of the said projections, but I claim the
application of projections to penholders for the finger and thumb to rest
against, as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Barbour, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
FRANCIS BARBOUR. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Francis Barbour, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.