IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL PENS AND PENHOLDERS:
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of 34, Great Hampton.
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Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL PENS AND PENHOLDERS:"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th February 1857..
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham,
Pen and Pencil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for." IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL PENS AND PENHOLDERS," to
be as follows:
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This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of metal
pens' and penholders. For these. purposes, in making a metal pen the upper
part above the shoulders is made hollow, or in the form of a groove, having on
either side a web or flanch, in order to suit it for the descriptions of holders
hereafter described. The hollow portion of the upper.. part of the pen, is slit
longitudinally, and cut or slit at 'intervals transversely. In making the nibs
of a metal pen their inner surfaces are bevilled off from the point to a short

page_text: distance up, and in a direction from the split outwards. In making pen-
holders, they are formed of tubes having several sides, and such sides, may be
either plain or curved, by which means the holding of the pens will be at the
outer edges of a pen, which will be received in two angles of a holder which
are opposite to each other; or a tube may be made with two grooves on
opposite sides of its interior for the same purpose, the object being by
such means to cause pens to be held in tubular holders in a central position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, Pen and Pencil
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Wiley, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, 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 Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL PENS AND PENHOLDERS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Wiley;
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, 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 William Edward Wiley, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

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performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of metal
pens and penholders. For these purposes, in making a metal pen the upper
part above the shoulders is made hollow, or in the form of a groove, having on
either side a web or flanch, in order to suit it. for the descriptions of holders
hereafter described. The hollow portion of the upper part of the pen is slit
longitudinally, and cut or slit at intervals transversely. In making the nibs
of a metal pen their inner surfaces are bevilled off from the point to a short
distance up, and in a direction from the split outwards. In making pen-
holders, they are formed of tubes having several sides, and such sides may be
either plain or curved, by which means the holding of the pens will be at
holder
the outer edges of a pen, which will be received in two angles of a
which are opposite to each other; or a tube may be made with. two grooves
on opposite sides of its interior for the same purpose, the object being by
such means to cause pens to be held in tubular holders in a central
position.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 and 1 show views of a metal pen constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 2 shows a like construction of pen, having longitudinal
and transverse slits or cuts in the hollow upper part of the pen. These pens
are each made hollow above the shoulders, and such hollow has on either side
a web or flanch a, a, which suits it for the form of holder hereafter described.
In forming the nibs of a pen, I cause them to be bevilled off from the slit
outwards, so that the outer edge on each side (on the inner surface) is made
thinner than the central portions of the metal near the slit. By such means
the pen will produce finer up strokes.
Figure 3 shows a holder having several sides, and such sides may be flat or
curved. The object is, that the flanches or webs of a pen, such as is above
described, should be received into the holder in a central position across the
widest diameters, formed by the sides meeting and forming angles; or in place
of making each holder with several sides, a tube may be used, as shewn at
5 Figure 4, in constructing a holder, such tube having grooves at opposite sides
to receive the webs or flanches a, a, of the pens, made according to the first
part of my Invention.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, fi
first;
the construction of metal pens herein described; and, secondly, the con-
structing of, holders herein described.
In witness whereof, I; the said William, Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August,, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
...GEO.. HASELDEN.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (L.S.)