IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS.
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Devitt, of Bradford, in the County of York,
Commercial Traveller, and John Parkinson, of Bradford aforesaid, Stuff
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENHOLDERS.".
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Devitt and John
Parkinson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th April
1878.
WILLIAM DEVITT, of Bradford, in the County of York, Commercial Traveller, and
JOHN PARKINSON, of Bradford aforesaid, Stuff Merchant.. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PENHOLDERS."
This Invention relates to the construction of penholders in such manner as to
hold securely various sizes of pens in one holder, to produce a holder from smallest
quantity of metal; to prevent or greatly reduce the paralyzing or cramp of fingers
mainly caused by metallic contact between the fingers and penholder.
According to this our Invention we employ a barrel form of holder; between the
ends and the upper portion of the barrel the metal is in part cut away, leaving at
one end a short cylindrical portion, at the other end a cylindrical or partially
cylindrical clip, the cylindrical ends being connected by a strip of the main barrel of
the holder, which now acts in such way as to give elasticity or spring to the pen
when in use, and as the sides of the cylinder are cut away the fingers are in contact
with the wood or other stem of the holder, avoiding metallic contact.
The holder above is also well adapted for reception of pens pointed at both ends,
as there is complete protection for the point not in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Devitt and John Parkinson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th October 1878.
WILLIAM DEVITT, of Bradford, in the County of York, Commercial Traveller, and
JOHN PARKINSON, of Bradford aforesaid, Stuff Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PENHOLDERS."
This Invention relates to the construction of penholders in such manner as to
hold securely various sizes of pens in one holder, to produce a holder from smallest
quantity of metal, to prevent or greatly reduce the paralysing or cramp of fingers
mainly caused by metallic contact between the fingers and penholder.
According to this our Invention we employ a barrel form of holder; between the
ends and the upper portion of the barrel the metal is in part cut away, leaving at
one end a short cylindrical portion, at the other end a cylindrical or partially
cylindrical clip, the cylindrical ends being connected by a strip of the main barrel of
the holder, which now acts in such way as to give elasticity or spring to the pen
when in use, and as the sides of the cylinder are cut away the fingers are in contact
with the wood or other stem of the holder, avoiding metallic contact.
The holder above is also well adapted for reception of pens pointed at both ends,
as there is complete protection for the point not in use.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will now proceed
to describe the particulars thereof, and in order that the Invention may be clearly
understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the In-
vention, in which,―
Fig. 1 is a plan view of top of improved holder; Fig. 2 is a view of the under
side of same.
Fig. 3 is a side view, and Fig. 4 is a view of holder detached from wood part.
A is the barrel, between the ends of which and its upper portion B a portion of
the metal is cut away or omitted as at C, leaving at one end a short cylindrical
portion E, and at the other end a partially cylindrical clip F, the cylindrical parts
E and F being connected by a strip G of the main barrel, and which acts as a
spring, and gives elasticity to the pen, as already described.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practise, we would have it understood that what we claim as our Invention is,
the construction of improved penholder, as described and illustrated by Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Devitt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
WILLIAM DEVITT. (L.S.)
Witness,
J. E. WALSH,
Mechanical Draughtsman to Walter Brierley,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Blackburn.