A NEW OR IMPROVED RESERVOIR FOR METALLIC AND OTHER PENS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maurice Myers of Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer and James Lowe of Birmingham aforesaid Manager
of Works for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED RESERVOIR FOR
METALLIC AND OTHER PENS
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maurice Myers and James
Lowe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th August 1883.
MAURICE MYERS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer and
JAMES LOWE of Birmingham aforesaid Manager of Works "A NEW OR IMPROVED
RESERVOIR FOR METALLIC AND OTHER PENS
"
Our invention consists of a new or improved reservoir to be applied to pens both
metallic and non metallic so as to convert them into reservoir pens and enable
them to take up a large quantity of ink.
Our invention is particularly applicable to metallic pens and we will describe
it in connection with a metallic pen but our invention is also applicable to
non-metallic pens.
We cut out (preferably from sheet metal) a blank having a nearly oblong
figure.
A spring tongue is formed near near one end of the blank by means of a
piercing. Near the middle of the blank is an opening formed at the same time
as the spring tongue. The extreme ends of the blank are turned nearly at right
angles and the blank is folded at its middle so as to bring its turned ends nearly
together.
After the blank has been folded the opening described is at one end of the folded
piece the turned ends being at the other end. The said folded blank or reservoir
is passed onto a pen (preferably a pen having a contraction at the junction of the
slip to the body of the pen) the turned ends being first passed onto the pen. The
nibs of the pen pass through the opening described. The curved ends grip the pen
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page_text: and the reservoir is thereby fixed in its place on the pen the nibs working in the
said opening
When the pen provided with the reservoir described is dipped into ink there is
taken up and retained by the said reservoir a large quantity of ink which is
gradually supplied to the writing part of the pen as required. The quantity of 5
ink taken up depends on the size of the reservoir which may be made of various
sizes.
Reservoirs of the kind described may be applied to quill pens and pens made of
vulcanite or other non metallic material as well as to metallic pens. Although we
prefer to make the reservoir of sheet steel yet it may be made of other hard and 1
elastic metal or alloy or of hard and elastic non metallic material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Maurice Myers and James Lowe in the Patent Office on the
24th January 1884.
MAURICE MYERS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer and
JAMES LOWE of Birmingham aforesaid Manager of Works "A NEW OR IMPROVED
RESERVOIR FOR METALLIC AND OTHER PENS
Our invention consists of a new or improved reservoir to be applied to pens both
metallic and non metallic, so as to convert them into reservoir pens and enable
them to take up a large quantity of ink.
Our invention is particularly applicable to metallic pens and we will describe
it in connection with a metallic pen but our invention is also applicable to
non-metallic pens.
We cut out (preferably from sheet steel) a blank having a nearly oblong figure.
A spring tongue is formed near one end of the blank by means of a piercing.
Near the middle of the blank is an opening formed at the same time as the spring
tongue. The extreme ends of the blank are turned nearly at right angles and tho
blank is folded at its middle so as to bring its turned ends nearly together.
After the blank has been folded, the opening described is at one end of the
folded pieco, tho turned ends being at the other end. The said folded blank or
reservoir is passed onto a pen (preferably a pen having a contraction at the
junction of the slip with the body of tho pen) the turned ends being first passed
onto the pen. The nibs of the pen pass through the opening described. The
curved ends grip the pen and the reservoir is thereby fixed in its place on the pen,
the nibs working in the said opening.
When the pen provided with the reservoir described is dipped into ink there is
taken up and retained by the said reservoir a large quantity of ink which is
gradually supplied to the writing part of the pen as required. The quantity of
ink taken up depends on the size of the resorvoir which may be made of various
sizes.
Reservoirs of the kind described may be applied to quill pens and pens made of
vulcanite or other non metallic material as well as to metallic pens. Although we
prefer to make the reservoir of sheet metal yet it may be made of other hard and
elastic metal or alloy or of hard and elastic non-metallic material.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation; Figure 2 in
vertical section; Figure 3 in back elevation, Figure 4 in front elevation and
Figure 5 in cross section, a metallic pen provided with a reservoir constructed
according to our invention; Figures 6 and 7 represent the blanks from which the
reservoir is made. The reservoir and pen are represented drawn to a large scale.
The reservoir consists of two nearly parallel parts or blades marked respectively
a and b situated on opposite sides of the nibs and body of the pen c. The said
parallel parts a. b are elastic and their inner ends are curved or turned inwards
at d, e so as to grip opposite sides of the shoulder or contraction h at the junction
of the slip part with the body of the pen. The front end of the reservoir is
provided with an opening g (best seen in Figure 5) through which opening the nibs
of.the pon are passed and in which they work when the pen is in use.
In making our improved reservoir we cut out from sheet steel or other hard
metal or material, a blank of the kind represented in Figure 6 and pierce it with a
cross piercing or opening g at about its middle and we also pierce the half b of the
blank with ornamental piercings at ff Figure 7. The extreme ends of the blank
having been curved or bent inwards the blank is folded at the cross opening o̟ in

page_text: its middle so as to produce the reservoir, the opening g being at one end of the
reservoir and the curved ends d, e turned in opposite directions being at the
opposite end of the said reservoir.
In applying the reservoir to a pen the pen is introduced between the curved
ends d, e and the nibs of the pen are passed through the opening g at the front end
of the reservoir, the curved or turned back ends de at the opposite end of the
reservoir clipping the shoulder or contraction h of the pen as represented. The
reservoir is tliereby fixed in its place and the pen converted into a reservoir pen
by which it is enabled to take up and retain a large quantity of ink and supply it
gradually to the nibs as required.
Reservoirs constructed according to our invention can be readily removed from
the pen for cleaning or otherwise and again placed on the pen.
Having now described the nature of our invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed we wish it to be understood the We claim as our
invention ;-
The new or improved reservoir for metallic and other pens herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; that is to say, a reservoir consisting
essentially of two nearly parallel elastic parts or blades having at one end an
opening through which the nibs of the pen pass and in which they work, and at
the opposite end clipping parts for securing it to the pen substantially as described
and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said Maurice Myers have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Twenty-third-day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand
_eight hundred and eighty four