Improvements in or pertaining to Instruments as employed for Writing and Drawing Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Instruments as employed for
Writing and Drawing Purposes.
I, JOHN TOUCH, of 210 King Edward's Road, Birmingham, Stationer's
Sundryman do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention for improvements in instruments used for writing and drawing
consists in imparting a firm hold or grip of the said instrument when in the hand of
the manipulator.
In the use of styles for effecting writing and copies, it is necessary to employ
pressure to carry out the purpose, and in drawing it is essential to good work that
the instrument, such as the drawing pen, should be held in a reliable manner.
I will describe my invention thus:-
Upon the handle, or holder of the style, or drawing pen, and adjacent to where
the instrument is fixed to the handle or holder, or at a position where the fingers
and thumb take a hold or grip for manipulating I arrange a tube of india rubber
or other elastic material so that the thumb and fingers shall receive a steady and
reliable hold.
Dated 20th Anril 1804
THOS. KENDRICK,
3, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent.
Improvements in or pertaining to Instruments as employed for
Writing and Drawing Purposes.
I, JOHN TOUGH, of 210 King Edward's Road, Birmingham, Stationer's
Sundryman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention for improvements in instruments used for writing and drawing
consists in imparting a firm hold or grip of the said instrument when in the hand of
the manipulator.
In the use of styles for effecting writing and copies, it is necessary to employ
pressure to carry out the purpose, and in drawing it is essential to good work that
the instrument, such as the drawing pen, should be held in a reliable manner.
I will describe my invention thus:-
Upon the hand or holder of the style, or drawing pen, and adjacent to where
the instrument is fixed to the handle or holder, or at a position where the fingers
and thumb take a hold or grip for manipulating I arrange a tube of india rubber
or other elastic material so that the thumb and fingers shall receive a steady and
reliable hold.
And in order that this my said invention may be more fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed the same
letters of reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the figures.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of an instrument complete as used for writing,
drawing and copying purposes, and commercially known as a "style" constructed
according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the same but one part in section.
Fig. 3 is a view in elevation, one part in section, differing from Fig. 2 in the
configuration of one part only.
Fig. 4 is a view in elevation of an instrument complete used for drawing
purposes, chiefly mechanical or architectural and known as a "drawing pen."
Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of part detached as Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 6 is a view in elevation of part detached as Fig. 3.
Fig. 7 is a view in elevation of part detached as Figs. 1, 2 and 4 but with the
surface reeded.
a is the handle in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, is the poiut usually made of agate being
the part which operates in the writing, drawing, or copying, this is secured to a at c,
d is a tube or cover of india rubber, "cork," felt, or elastic or yielding material
that will give or impart a reliable hold to the thumb and fingers when being
operated. This said d is arranged upon the upper end of a which is reduced at e as
shown at Fig. 2 for this purpose. Fig. 3 is a departure in the shape only from
Figs. 1 and 2 by making the end e of a bulbous to receive the cover d.
The above being my said invention I would observe in conclusion that I do not
limit myself to the precise details as shown on the drawings as I may vary or
modify the shape of the cover d and also ornament the same in various ways,
without departing from the principle of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. In instruments used for writing, copying and drawing purposes,
The combination of the tube or cover d, to the part e, of the handle a,
substantially for the purposes herein before described and illustrated on the
drawings.
2nd. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts together forming my invention, substantially as herein before
described in the foregoing Specification and illustrated by the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
Dated 18th January 1895.
THOS. KENDRICK,
3, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent.