Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 11th Jan., 1888 .
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
We THOMAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE trading as Hinks Wells
and Company of No. 106 Buckingham Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to the metallic "tips" or barrels of penholders and
consists in constructing that part of the tip or barrel by which the slip pen is held in
the manner hereinafter described.
By our invention the slip pen is held very firmly in the tip or barrel of the pen-
holder the slip pen is easily removed and slip pens of different sizes can be placed
and held in the holder.
Instead of using side ears between which and the tubular part of the tip the slip
pen is gripped as usual we use a longitudinal middle spring or elastic tongue at the
upper side and near the fore end of the tubular tip. The said spring or elastic
tongue is made by piercing at the middle of the blank a piercing having the outline
of the tongue to be made. The piercing being depressed out of the plane of the
blank a spring tongue is formed the free end of the tongue setting in near the fore
end of the blank which fore end is not cut away. The free end or nose of the
tongue is curved and when the blank is fashioned into the tip or barrel of the pen-
holder the spring or elastic tongue is situated at the fore end of and at a slightly
lower level than the tubular tip or barrel of the penholder.
When a slip pen is introduced into the tip it first passes under the uncut away fore
end of the tip and is then gripped between the middle spring tongue and the tip or
barrel.
As the pen passes between the barrel and spring tongue it is guided to its place by
the said spring tongue and the spring tongue is so depressed by the pen that its
elasticity holds the pen very firmly in the holder.
Dated this Toutes noventh day of Anil 1887

page_text: An Improvement or Improvements in Penholders.
We THOMAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE trading as Hinks Wells
and Company of No. 106 Buckingham Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of
our Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly.
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention has reference to the metallic "tips" or barrels of penholders and
consists in constructing that part of the tip or barrel by which the slip pen is held in
-the manner hereinafter described.
By our invention the slip pen is held very firmly in the tip or barrel of the pen-
holder, the slip pen is easily removed and slip pens of different sizes can be placed
and held in the holder.
Instead of using side cars between which and the tubular part of the tip the
slip pen is gripped as usual we use a longitudinal middle spring or elastic tongue at
the upper side and near the fore end of the tubular tip. The said spring or clastic
tongue is made by piercing at the middle of the blank a piercing having the outline
of the tongue to be made. The piercing being depressed out of the plane of the
blank a spring tongue is formed the free end of the tongue setting in near the fore
end of the blank which fore end is not cut away. The free end or nose of the tongue
is curved and when the blank is fashioned into the tip or barrel of the penholder the
spring or elastic tongue is situated at the fore end of and at a slightly lower level
than the tubular tip or barrel of the penholder.
When a slip pen is introduced into the tip it first passes under the uncutaway fore
end of the tip and is then gripped between the middle spring tongue and the tip or
barrel.
As the pen passes between the barrel and spring tongue it is guided to its place by
the said spring tongue and the spring tongue is so depressed by the pen that its
elasticity holds the pen very firmly in the holder.
In making a penholder tip according to our invention we cut out at a press the
steel blank represented in Figure 1 and pierco in its middle a longitudinal piercing
from which the spring or elastic tongue of the penholder tip is to be made as
⚫ represented in Figure 2, where the said piercing is marked a. The said piercing at a
commences near that end of the blank which forms the fore end 6 in the finished
tubular tip. By a raising process effected by a press and press tools in the ordinary
way the pierced blank Figure 2 is fashioned into the partially made tubular tip
represented in plan in Figure 3- and by the operation of another pair of tools the
piercing in the tip is depressed out of the plane of the tip so as to form a spring or
elastic tongue at the middle of the upper side and near the fore end of the tubular
tip as represented in plan and longitudinal section in Figure 4, where the spring or
elastic tongue is marked a. By the operation last described the extreme foro end or

page_text: nose of the spring or elastic tongue a near the fore end of the tip is slightly bent
downwards.
Figure 5 represents in plan and Figure 6 in longitudinal section and cross section
a penholder tip constructed according to our invention in which a slip pen d has been
inserted. In inserting the slip pen d into the tubular tip of the penholder the heel of
the pen first passes under the uncut away fore end of the tip and then over the
spring or elastic tongue a. The said slip pen is thus gripped between the spring or
elastic tongue a and the tubular tip the said spring tongue a being depressed by the
pen so that its elasticity holds the pen very firmly in the holder. The said spring
tongue a also assists in guiding the slip pen to its place in the holder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of "An improvement or improvements in penholders."
The combination with the metallic tubular tip or barrel of the penholder of a
longitudinal middle spring or elastic tongue situated at the upper side and near the
fore end of the said tubular tip or barrel for holding the slip pen substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Tenth day of January 1888
THOMAS HOOPER.
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE.