Improvements in Reservoir or Fountain Pens.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1889°
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reservoir or Fountain Pens.
I, WILLIAM GUTHRIE of 196 Saint Vincent Street Glasgow in the County of
Lanark, Tradesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to reservoir or fountain pens and it has for its object to
construct a cheap, simple and effective pen of this class.
My improved reservoir pen consists of a hollow ink holder or reservoir made of
ebony ebonito or other suitable material, and which is in two portions capable of
being screwed together at a distance midway or nearly so in the length of the holder,
both ends of this holder are made solid but at the end where the nib of the pen
attached a small hole is bored to allow the ink to flow on to the nib when writing.
This hole is preferably bored in the upper side of the end of the holder. To that end
in which the hole is bored a circular ring or piece of metal is fitted and to this metal
ring the nib holder which may be of any suitable shape is soldered or otherwise
attached, or if desired the nib holder may be made in one piece with the ring. At the
lower side of the metal ring a lip or bent projection is formed for conducting the ink
on to the nib.
Where the two portions of the ink holder are screwed together an india-rubber ring
or its equivalent is used as packing for the purpose of making the joint air tight and
to prevent ink exuding.
When writing with the improved pen the holder is first unscrewed and a supply
of ink poured thereinto after which it is tightly screwed together, now if the pen be
first held in a position vertical or nearly so, and with the nib end npward and is then
reversed so that the nib will be in the lower position (as in writing) a small globule
of ink will be found to have passed through the hole and to have been conducted on to
the nib. As soon as this globule of ink is used a fresh supply can be drawn from
the reservoir by merely reversing the position of the pen and so on until the reservoir
is exhausted.
DL: 57th do of Il 1888

page_text: 1, WILLIAM GUTHRIE of 196 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, Tradesman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to reservoir or fountain pens and it has for its object to
construct a cheap, simple and effective pen of this class.
My improved reservoir pen consists of a hollow ink holder or reservoir made of
ebony vulcanite ebonite or other suitable material, and which is in two portions
capable of being screwed together at a distance midway or nearly so in the length of
-the-holder, both ends of the holder are made solid but at the end where the nib of the
pen is attached a small hole is bored to allow the ink to flow-on-to-the-nib-when
writing. This hole is preferably bored in the upper side of the end of the holder.
To that end in which the hole is bored a circular ring or piece of metal is fitted and
to this metal ring the nib bolder which may be of any suitable shape is soldered or
otherwise attached, or if desired the nib holder may be made in one piece with the
ring. At the lower side of the metal ring a lip or bent projection is formed for
conducting the ink on to the nib.
Where the two portions of the ink holder are screwed together an india rubber ring
or its equivalent is or may be used as packing for the purpose of making the joint
air tight and to prevent ink exuding.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings whereon,
Fig. 1, represents in elevation a reservoir pen made in accordance with my
invention.
Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of same.
Fig. 3, is an elevation of a slightly modified arrangement of my improved pen.
Figs. 4 and 5, represent the positions in which the pen should be held when ink is
to be withdrawn from the reservoir.
Referring to the drawings:
a, is the ink holder or reservoir which is made in two parts, the parts being screwed
together at b. If desired a leather or india rubber ring or washer may be used as
packing to ensure the joint being always air tight and to prevent ink exuding. At
the end of the holder to which the nib is attached a small hole or channel c is bored.
This hole or channel is preferably bored through the end of the holder and also
through a bent projection d which is either inserted into the end of the holder or made
as a part thereof as shown. The bent projection d is of such length and is so made
that the ink passing up the channel c is delivered near to the point of the nib e. To
the end of the holder in which the ink outlet hole or channel c is bored, a circular ring
or piece of metal fis or may be fitted, this ring serves to hold the nib e in position on
the holder or instead of so fitting the nib, a nib holder such as g, fig. 3, may be

page_text: soldered or otherwise attached to, or be made as a part of, the metal ring. The bent
projection d, instead of being so made or fitted us to deliver the ink on to the
underside of the nib as shown at figs. 1 and 2 may be made to deliver it on the upper
side as at fig. 3.
When writing with my improved pen, the holder a is first unscrewed and a supply
of ink sufficient to fill the holder about half full is poured therein after which the
parts are tightly screwed together, now if the pen be held in or about a vertical
position, nib end upwards, as shown at fig. 4, so as to allow air to enter the holder
through the small outlet hole c, and is then reversed so that the nib end will be in
the lower position (as in writing) see fig. 5, the action of the air within the holder
will be found to have forced a small globule of ink out through the hole c and so to
the nib e. As soon as this globule of ink is used a fresh supply can be drawn from
the reservoir by merely reversing the position of the pen and so on until the reservoir
is exhausted.
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A small cover may be so fitted on the holder as to cover the nib when the pen is
being carried in the pocket.
My improved pen has the special advantages over other reservoir pens as presently
made in that it is extremely simple in construction and requires no screwing of parts
or squeezing to cause the ink to flow, the action being automatic.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
.
A reservoir or fountain pen constructed and operating substantially as horcinhefore
described and shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of January 1889.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow,
Agent.