A NEW OR IMPROVED PEN HOLDER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, of Paris, in the Empire
of France, and of 82, Essex Street, Strand, London, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED PEN HOLDER."
Sealed the 13th November 1855, and dated the 25th May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th May 1855.
I, JOSEPH HIPPOLYTE POULLAIN, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and of
32, Essex Street, Strand, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PEN HOLDER" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to pen holders so constructed as to retain the pen in
a firmer position when inserted; and also to prevent it, by means of a flange or
projection, from staining the table or other surface when laid thereon immo-
diately after being used for writing. This new or improved pen holder is
represented on the accompanying Drawing at the various stages of progress.
Figure 1 shews the metal blank, cut or punched out of any suitable metal,
for forming the tube and supporting flange, projection, or collar.
Fig. 2 shews the same blank after it has been bent into a tube.
Fig. 8 shows the pen holder in the finished state. The two teeth 4 & 5
on each side of the tube are bent towards the inside in such manner as to
form a sheath for the hind part of the pen. The part 6 is flattened out so as
to form a polygonal flange or collar, which is for holding the pen above the
table, and prevent the latter being smeared with ink where the pen rests upon
it. This improved pen holder may also be made of a rolled or drawn tube,

page_text: which is afterwards cut (as may be required) by tools. The collar or flange
may also be made separately, and placed upon any other kind of pen holder
by any suitable means of fastening, such as rivetting, screwing, or hooping.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HIPPOLYTE POULLAIN, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and of 32, Essex
Street, Strand, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, 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, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of

page_text: Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PEN HOLDER," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, 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 :-
This Invention relates to pen holders so constructed as to retain the pen in
a firmer position when inserted; and also to prevent it, by means of a flange
or collar, from staining the table, desk, paper, or any other surface when laid
thereon immediately after being used for writing. This new or improved pen
holder is represented in the accompanying Drawings at the various stages or
progress.
Figure 1 shows the metal blank, cut or punched out of any suitable metal,
for forming the tube and supporting flange or collar.
The two teeth 4, 5, on
Figure 2 shows the same blank after it has been bent into a tube.
Figure 3 shows the pen holder in the finished state.
each side of the tube are bent towards the inside, in such manner as to form
a sheath for the hind part of the pen. The part 6 is flattened out so as to
form a polygonal flange or collar, which is for holding the pen above the table,
and prevent the latter being smeared with ink when the pen rests on it. This
improved pen holder may also be made of a rolled or drawn tube, which is
afterwards cut as may be required by tools. The collar or flange may also be
made separately and placed on any other kind of pen holder by any suitable
mode of fastening, such as rivetting, screwing, and hooping.
Having thus set forth the nature of my Invention, as I already did in a
former Provisional Specification, I shall now minutely describe the modifi-
cations and improvements I have since contrived, still preserving its primitive
character. Instead of the teeth 4 & 5, as shown at Figure 1, for holding the
pen in the inside of the pen holder, I adapt a split handle inserted in the tube
in such a manner, that when the pen is adjusted, the two parts of the split
handle come near and act as a spring, which secures the pen tightly.
An additional improvement to my pen holder is a piece of metal bent and
inserted in the pen holder, so as to slide in the split of the handle, said piece.
being turned down on each side, and arranged in such a manner as to drive

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the out of the pen holder without any interference of fingers with the
This piece of metal has a little projection on the external surface of the tube,
which projection, being operated by the thumb, causes the said piece to meet
the pen and drive it out. This last improvement is not positively indispensable,
but may only be adapted if required.
Figure 4 shows the split handle; a, b, is the groove. Figure 5 shows the
same handle, provided with its driving piece or thumb piece; Figure 6 is a
horizontal section, showing the driving piece; Figure 7 is a projection of a pen
holder ready put up. e, f, is the flange or collar; g, h, is the groove made on
the tube; c is the thumb piece; i is the pen.
This pen holder may be made of a rolled or drawn tube, hinged or cut by
tools. A steel or any other suitable material spring may also be properly
arranged in the tube, Fig. 9, in order to hold and secure the pen i, yet leaving
it a certain degree of clasticity. At the end of the pen holder B, B, (Figs. 8
& 9,) near the flange and on the upper surface, is a square hole, about two-
tenths of a line, to admit the sharp end of a spring d, and keep the latter in
the inside of the pen holder. The said spring must be rounded at its lower
part, in order to leave the pen a free passage between the pen holder and the
spring. To this improved model I may also adapt a thumb picce, as I have
already described, for driving the pen out of the pen holder.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the various modi-
fications and improvements I have been able to contrive, I wish it to be
distinctly understood that what I claim as novel, and being secured to me by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the flange or collar,
adapted to any pen holder, and for the above-mentioned purposes; and I
consider as such any additional ring or collar of any form and shape the pen
holder is provided with, whether the said ring, flange, or collar is rivetted,
forced, or screwed on, or made of a same piece with the set, if raising or
intended to raise the pen above the surface on which it is laid.
year
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hippolyte Poullain, have hereunto
set my hand & seal, this Twentieth day of November, in the of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred & fifty-five.
POULLAIN. (L.S.)