A BALANCE PEN
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney, of the firm
of Blackwood and Company, Ink Manufacturers, Long Acre, Middlesex,
for the Invention of "A BALANCE PEN."
Sealed the 10th June 1856, and dated 14th December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles John Todd and
Robert Pinkney, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their. Petition, on the 14th December 1855.
We,. CHARLES JOHN TODD and ROBERT PINKNEY, of the firm Blackwood
& Co., Ink Manufacturers, Long Acre, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A BALANCE PEN" to be as
follows; and consists in making metallic and other pens with a projecting
collar of metal or other suitable material, with flat edges, or round, or any
other suitable shape, and either movable, fixed on, or made of an entire piece
with the pen. This projecting collar is placed about the centre of the pen, or
at a suitable distance from the point, in order that the pen when placed in the
ordinary pen-holder and charged with ink may not touch or soil the article
upon which the pen is laid; and in ruling, that the charged part of the pen
may not touch or soil the ruler. For quill pens the projecting collar is made
movable, so as to slide up and allow of the pen being mended.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
JOHN TODD and ROBERT PINKNEY, of the firm Blackwood & Co., Ink Manu-
facturers, Long Acre, Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney, Her special licence that we,
the said Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles John Todd and Robert
Pinkney, our 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 "A BALANCE PEN," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles John Todd and Robert
Pinkney, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, 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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say:-
It consists in making metallic and other pens with a projecting collar of metal
or other suitable material, with flat edges, or round, or any other suitable shape,
and either moveable, or fixed on, or made of an entire piece with the pen.
This projecting collar is placed about the centre of the pen, or at a suitable
distance from the point, in order that the pen, when placed in the ordinary pen
holder and charged with ink, may not touch or soil the article upon which
the pen is laid; and in ruling, that the charged part of the pen may not
touch or soil the ruler. For quill pens the projecting collar is made moveable,
so as to slide up and allow of the pen being.mended.

page_text: Figure 1, a transverse section of the pen with collar attached.
Figure 2, a side elevation of the same, shewing the relative position of the
collar or shield.
Figure 3, a perspective view of the same.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, we wish it to be under-
stood that what we claim as novel, and secured to us by the herein in part
recited Letters Patent, is, the use of a projection or collar on pens, as and for
the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles John Todd and Robert Pinkney,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
CHADI EN TAUN
CHAI
JOHN
ROBERT PINKNEY. (L.S.)
5 Witness,
JOHN AVERY, Patent Agent,.
32, Essex Street, Strand,
London.