IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Brierley of Halifax in the County of York
Patent Agent for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS" communicated
to him from abroad by A FI. L. Scholz of Mezo Szakal Transylvania
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Brierley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th June 1883.
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York Patent Agent IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PENS communicated to me from abroad by A. F. I. L. Scholz of Mezo-
Szakát, Transylvania
This invention consists in the construction of pens the points of which are flat
and solid (without the usual slit for distributing the ink) and in some cases the
point of the pen consists of a separate and detachable part. The hair-strokes or
ground-strokes are formed by pressing the flat slitless point more or less against
the paper the point must therefore be made sufficiently slender and elastic.
In order to accumulate the ink in proximity of the point I employ small tongues
formed by transversal slits made in the pen close by the writing point or tongues
secured by a special holder to the point or also the usual apertures or holes for
storing up the ink in proximity of the point.
Pens so made may be used with the concave or the convex side of the pen
against the paper.
The ink flows over the flat slitless point in the same manner
as over the circular point of the so-called stylographic pens.
The concave side of the pen is turned against the paper and near the point are
two tongues or the concave or the convex side of the pen may be turned against
the paper and over the point is a tongue produced by longitudinal splitting of
portion of the point of pen
Another construction comprises a tongue composed of an independent piece and
inserted and held by means of slits formed in the lower part of the pen.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Walter Brierley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd November 1883.
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York. Patent Agent "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PENS" communicated to me from abroad by A. F. I. L. Scholz of Mezò-
Szakát, Transylvania.
This invention consists in the construction of pens the points of which are flat
and solid (without the usual slit for distributing the ink) and in some cases the
The hair-strokes or
point of the pen consists of a separate and detachable part.
ground-strokes are formed by pressing the flat slitless point more or less against
the paper the point must therefore be made sufficiently slender and elastic.
In order to accumulate the ink in proximity of the point I employ small tongues
formed by transversal slits made in the pen close by the writing point or tongues
secured by a special holder to the point or also the usual apertures or holes for
storing up the ink in proximity of the point.
Pens so made may be used with the concave or the convex side of the pen against
the paper. The ink flows over the flat slitless point in the same manner as over
the circular point of the so-called stylo-graphic pens.
The concave side of the pen is turned against the paper. And near the point
are two tongues or the concave or the convex side of the pen may be turned
against the paper-And over the point is a tongue produced by longitudinal
splitting of portion of the point of pen.
Another construction comprises a tongue composed of an independent piece-and
inserted and held by means of slits formed in the lower part of the pen.
Such being the nature of the said invention the following is a full and complete
description and specification thereof illustrated by drawings annexed.
My invention relates to the construction of pens the points of which are flat
and solid (without the usual slit for distributing the ink).-The hair-strokes and
ground-strokes are produced, by pressing the flat slitless point more or less against
the paper. Therefore must the point be sufficiently slender and elastic.
In order to accumulate or store up the ink in proximity of the point, I employ
either small tongues, formed by transversal slits behind the writing point or
tongues secured by a special holder to the pen or also the hitherto used apertures
or holes.
The unslitted point may be held, as will be readily understood, with the same
effect, with one or the other of its surfaces against the paper, that is to say, so
that the concave or the convex side of the pen is turned downwardly.
As there is no distributing slit in the point, the ink flows over the same in the
same manner as over the circular point of the so called stylo-graphic pens, but a
new feature of my pens in comparison of those stylo-graphic pens is the elasticity
and flat form of their points, whereby my pens are enabled to touch the paper in
less or higher degree and to produce as well hair-lines as ground-strokes
The most important forms of my pen are shewn by the Figs. 1-10 of the
here-annexed drawing.
The pen represented by Fig. 1 has two tongues b. b in close proximity of the
unslitted point a.
These tongues b. b serve for storing up the ink, which flows
over the point a, and are made, by slitting the peu transversally. As shewn by
the drawing the convex side of the pen is turned against the paper
Fig. 2 shews a pen provided with only one tongue & produced by a transversal
cut across the pen behind the point a. Also in this pen the convex side must be
held against the paper.

page_text: Fig. 3 represents a pen the concave side of which is held against the paper.
The tongue b is slitted from the convex part of the point a.
By Figs. 4 and 5 are shewn pens having the usual holes b instead of the
tongues.
The pen illustrated by Fig. 6 is composed of an holder c provided with two
transversal slits d d. the point a. and the tongue b: the two latter being quite
independent pieces are inserted in the slits d d and bereby secured to the holder c.
In the peus Figs. 7 and 8 is the hole employed for storing up the ink. The
points a are curved upwardly in the manner shewn by the drawing The pens
represented by Figs. 9 and 10 have independent points a inserted by means of the
slits d. d in the holder c. The points a are curved upwardly for being more
extensively in contact with the paper-The pen of Fig. 10 has the point a provided
with the hole b¹.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of the said invention I would
have it understood that I claim
The improved manufacture of pers having whole or unslit points or nibs and as
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
In Witness whereof I the said Walter Brierley have hereunto set my hand and
seal this nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
WALTER BRIERLEY
WALTER BRIERLEV (rc)