A New or Improved Metallic Pen.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Metallic Pen.
I JOHN BERNARD CLIVE, of No. 358 Summer Lane Birmingham in the, County
of Warwick, Cock Founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of a metallic pen constructed as hereinafter described which
said pen when dipped into ink takes up several times as much ink as an ordinary
pen and from the construction of the parts coming into contact with the paper or
surface written upon the said parts are little liable to injury or wear.
In making a pen according to my invention I make a blank the heel or barrel
part or that part which is connected to the holder having the ordinary shape. The
part of the blank from which in the ordinary manufacture the pen proper is made
tapers towards the end or point of the pen but at its end has sufficient breadth to
permit it to be bent into a nearly cylindrical shape so as to form a fine tube of
about one thirty second part of an inch in internal diameter. The blank is bent
into a trough shape the extreme end being made tubular as described. A piece of
fine wire of such a diameter that it will slide freely in the tubular end of the pen
is affixed by one end to the heel of the pen the other end occupying and slightly
protruding through the tubular end of the pen the principal part of the said wire
occupying the trough described. The said wire is not straight but is either slightly
bow shaped or has a coil near its middle so as to give a yielding property to its
end protruding through the tubular end of the pen. In using the pen it is dipped
deep into the ink so as to immerse the whole or nearly the whole of the trough
part whereby a large quantity of ink is taken up. On writing with the pen the
protruding end of the wire yields as in the case of the ordinary stylograph in
making down strokes but is again projected in making up strokes which are thereby
made finer than the down strokes.
Instead of the fine tube at the writing end of the pen the end of the blank may
be turned at right angles and a hole drilled therein through which hole the extreme
end of the wire passes.
Dated the 94th day of Santember 1891
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Metallic Pen.
I JOHN BERNARD CLIVE of No. 358 Summer Lane, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Cock Founder do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of a metallic pen constructed as hereinafter described, which
said pen when dipped into ink takes up several times as much ink as an ordinary pen
and from the construction of the parts coming in contact with the paper or surface
written upon, the said parts are little liable to injury or wear.
In making a pen according to my invention I make a blank, the heel or barrel
part, or that part which is connected to the holder having the ordinary shape.
The part of the blank from which in the ordinary manufacture the pen proper is
made tapers towards the end or point of the pen, but at its end has sufficient
breadth to permit it to be bent into a nearly cylindrical shape so as to form
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page_text: a fine tube of about one thirty second part of an inch in internal diameter.
The blank is bent into a trough shape, the extreme end being made tubular
as described. A piece of fine wire of such a diameter that it will slide freely
in the tubular end of the pen is affixed by one end to the heel of the pen, the other
end occupying and slightly protruding through the tubular end of the pen, the
principal part of the said wire occupying the trough described. The said wire is
not straight but is either slightly bow shaped or has a coil near its middle so as
to give a yielding property to its end protruding through the tubular end of
the pen.
In using the pen it is dipped deep into the ink so as to immerse the whole or
nearly the whole of the trough part, whereby a large quantity of ink is taken up.
On writing with the pen the protruding end of the wire yields as in the case of the
ordinary stylograph in making down strokes, but is again projected in making up
strokes which are thereby made finer than the down strokes.
For the purpose of the better exhibiting the construction of my new or improved
pen I have represented it in the accompanying drawing drawn to a large scale, the
pen being of the kind called a slip pen.
Figure 1 represents the blank from which my improved slip pen is to be made,
a being the part from which the heel of the slip pen is made and b being the
taper part from which the body or writing part is made. The heel part a of the
lank has a depression at c in which the spring wire hereinafter described is
soldered or riveted and the extreme or narrow end of the other part b of
the blank has a shape proper to form the tubular end of the writing part of
the pen.
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Figure 2 represents in side elevation, plan of upper side and end elevation, the
biank Figure 1 after it has been shaped by ordinary shaping tools into the heel
and body parts of the pen; that is to say, by the operation of the said tools, the
flat heel part a of the blank Figure 1 is bent downwards into a convex figure
marked a in Figure 2 and the taper part 6 of the blank is bent in the opposite
<direction into a taper trough marked 63, in Figure 2, the point or writing end of the
pen being bent into a cylindrical or nearly cylindrical shape thereby forming at
the point or extreme end of the pen a fine tube marked b³. The pen is completed
by soldering or riveting one end of the fine spring wire d to the heel of the pen
at d the other end of the wire occupying the trough part 2 of the pen and slightly
protruding through the tubular end 6 of the pen. The spring wire d is of such a
thickness that it will slide freely in the tubular end of the pen. At about
the middle of the wire d is a coil (³ for the purpose of giving a yielding
property to its end protruding through the tubular end of the pen. Or
forming a coil in the spring wire the wire may be slightly bowed for the same
purpose.
In using the pen, the whole or nearly the whole of the taper trough part b³ is
dipped into the ink so as to fill or nearly fill it, the said trough part constituting a
fountain or reservoir. On writing with the pen the ink is gradually delivered at
the tubular end of the pen, the protruding end of the spring wire d yielding or
slightly retiring into the tubular end in making downstrokes, and again
projecting slightly in the said tubular end in making upstrokes as herein before
described.
Instead of the fine tube at the end of the pen, the end of the blank may be turned
at right angles and a hole drilled therein, through which hole the extreme end of
the spring wire passes.
In making barrel pens, the part a of the blank is replaced by a piece of sufficient
length and breadth to form the barrel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that 1 claini
as my invention :-
A new or improved pen, the body or writing part of which consists of a tapering

page_text: trough for taking up and retaining a large quantity of ink, the said trough being
tubular at its extreme end and provided with a fine spring wire capable of yielding
longitudinally when pressure is put upon the pen in writing, one end of the said
wire being fixed to the heel or barrel of the pen and the other and free end sliding
in and slightly protruding from the tubular end of the pen for the purpose and sub-
stantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing;
also the modification described in which the extreme end of the tapering trough is
turned at right angles and the end of the spring wire passed through a hole in the
said turned up end.
Dated the 14th day of June 1892
JOHN BERNARD CLIVE.