Improvements in and connected with Fountain or Reservoir Pens.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Fountain or Reservoir Pens.
We, LEOPOLD MYERS, of the Firm of M. Myers & Son, of Charlotte Street Steel
Pen Works, Charlotte Street, in the City of Birmingham, Pen Manufacturers,
and EDWARD HUNT, of 22, Mayfield Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers' Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvements in and connected
with fountain or reservoir pens by which a proper flow of ink when writing is
ensured and the ink is enabled to run back into the reservoir when the pen. is
inverted after use.
In carrying out this invention we make the pen nib with an indented central
gutter or groove in the top side extending from the upper end of the pen nib to
within a short distance of the pen point where the gutter terminates in the
usual slit in the nib. At this end of the gutter there is or may be a small hole
through which the ink flows to the slit. The pen nib fits in a combined holder
and feeder, the holder part of which is of a divided round tubular form to receive
the pen nib and fit in the tubular reservoir handle. The holder part is or may be
made with a slight shoulder or rim at the front to take against the end of the
handle part and prevent the holder part from being pushed in too far. The feeder
part projects from the front of the holder underneath the nib and is made
U-shape in cross section and shaped to touch or almost touch the underside of the
pen nib so as to feed the ink thereto. It is important that the pen nib should fit
securely in the combined holder and feeder without the feeder part pressing
unduly against the underside of the nib so as to open the slit. This we effect
by bending down side portions of the top end of the holder part to take against
the underside of the nib which will thus be securely held between these portions
and the interior of the tubular holder part. Fitting in the top end of the tubular
holder, that is underneath the turned down portions of the pen nib, we provide
a plug of zylonite, wood, vulcanite, or other suitable material, which extends
into the feeder and also projects for some little distance beyond the top end of
the nib. This plug has a flat side which fits against the underside of the nib so
that the ink can not only flow along the said gutter in the top of the pen nib but
also flow along the channels between the plug and the underside of the pen nib.
The plug prevents the ink from flowing too freely from the reservoir handle into
the feeder.
The mount at the lower end of the reservoir handle in which the holder part fits
is by preference slightly bell mouthed so as to prevent the ink from running
down the handle part when held with the pen nib uppermost.
By constructing and arranging the parts as above described an even flow of ink
to the pen nib is ensured and the ink is prevented from flooding and also
prevented from over-flowing down the outside of the handle part when the pen
is inverted after use, as the said gutter in the pen nib allows the air to escape

page_text: up from the reservoir part so that the ink in the feeder can flow back properly
into the reservoir instead of running down outside which is a defect in some of
the cheaper kinds of reservoir or fountain pens now in use.
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Improvements in and connected with Fountain or Reservoir Pens.
We, LEOPOLD MYERS, of the Firm of M. Myers & Sox, of Charlotte Street Steel
Pen Works, Charlotte Street, in the City of Birmingham, Pen Manufacturers,
and EDWARD HUNT, of 22, Mayfield Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers' Manager, 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 consists of the herein described improvements in and connected
with fountain or reservoir pens by which a proper flow of ink when writing
is ensured and the ink is enabled to run back into the reservoir when the pen is
inverted after used.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a fountain or reservoir pen
constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a part sectional plan of the
same; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the same; Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross
section of the same on line X X of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 shews the same parts of the
said fountain or reservoir pen separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
In carrying out this invention we make the pen nib A with an indented central
gutter or groove in the top side extending from the upper end a² of the pen
nib to within a short distance of the point where the gutter terminates in the
usual slit in the nib. At this end of the gutter a' there is a small hole at through
which the ink flows to the slit. The pen nib fits in a combined holder and feeder
the holder part B of which is of a divided round tubular form to receive the
pen nib A and to fit in the tubular nose of the tubular reservoir handle C.
The holder part B is made with a slight shoulder at the front to take against
the bell mouthed end of the handle part C and prevent the holder part being
pushed in too far. The feeder part 2 projects from the front of the holder B
underneath the nib A and is made of U-shape in cross section and shaped to
touch or almost touch the underside of the pen nih so as to feed the ink thereto.
It is important that the pen nib A should fit securely in the pen holder and
feeder B without the feeder part 2 pressing unduly against the underside of the
nb A. so as to open the slit of the same. This we effect by bending down the
side portions 6ª 4 of the top end of the holder part B to take against the
underside of the nib A as shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 so that the pen nib will thus
be securely held between these portions and the interior of the tubular holder
part B. Fitting in the top end of the tubular holder B, that is underneath the
turned down portions of the pen nib A. we provide a plug D of xylonite,
wood, vulcanite, or other suitable material which extends into the combined
feeder and holder B and also projects for some little distance beyond the top
end of the nib. This plug has a flat side which fits against the underside
of the nib A so that the ink can not only flow along the said gutter a¹ in the top
of the nib but also flow along the channels a7 a8 between the flat side d' of the

page_text: plug D and the underside of the nib A.
The plug D prevents the ink from
flowing too freely from the reservoir handle C into the feeder B. The mount c¹
at the lower end of the reservoir handle C in which the holder part B fits is by
preference slightly bell mouthed as shewn so as to prevent the ink from running
down the outside of the holder part when held with the pen nib uppermost.
By constructing and arranging the parts as above described an even flow of
ink to the pen nib is ensured and the ink is prevented from filcoding and also
prevented from overflowing down the outside of the holder part C when the pen
is inverted after use as the said gutter a¹ in the pen nib A allows the air to
escape up from the reservoir part so that the ink in the feeder can flow back
properly to the reservoir handle C instead of running down the outside which is
a defect in some of the cheaper kinds of reservoir or fountain pens now in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In fountain or reservoir pens the combination with the tubular reservoir
handle of the combined holder and feeder part B fitting in the said handle and
adapted to receive the pen nib and provided with side projecting parts 364 to take
underneath the pen nib and the trough section feeder part 2 at the front, the
plug fitting in the said holder underneath the parts and underneath the
pen nib, and the pen nib A made with channel a at the top and channels a a³
underneath for the ink to flow to the writing end of the pen when the latter is in
use and back into the tubular holder when the pen is inverted, substantially as
described.
2. The improved pen nib A. for reservoir or fountain pen holders made with the
channel on the top side and the channels a' as on the underside for the purposes
and substantially as set forth.
3. The combination in a reservoir or fountain pen of a tubular reservoir handle,
the combined holder and feeder B, the plug D fitting therein, and the pen nib A,
these parts being constructed arranged and combined together in the manner and
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Hotel this 10th lov of Tune 1900
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.