DIS- CLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION
Year: 1834

page_text: PERRY, MASSEY, AND GAUCI'S SPECIFICATION, AND DIS-
CLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION.
SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, STEPHEN
PERRY, of Wilmington Street, Wilmington Square, Gentleman, EDWARD
MASSEY, Senior, of King Street, Clerkenwell, Watch Manufacturer, and
PAUL JOSEPH GAUCI, of North Crescent, Bedford Square, Artist, all in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of September, in the fifth year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, His especial
licence, that we, the said Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph
Gauci, our exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, our exors,
adiiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS AND PENHOLDERS;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging us or one of us, the said Stephen Perry,
Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, by an instrument in writing under
our or one of our hands and seals, particularly to describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High

page_text: Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, as regards pens, to consist in the fol-
lowing improvements, that is to say:
First, in a new additional side cut or cuts, slit or slits, which give great
additional elasticity, or, as we technically call it, relief to the pen; for inasmuch
as all metal pens are subject to a certain degree of rigidity, the object of the
manufacturer should always be to relieve them as much as possible from that
quality.
Secondly, in an adjustable or sliding spring acting downward, but not
laterally, upon the nibs, and increasing or diminishing the resistance and
consequent hardness of the pen, according as the said spring is advanced
towards or caused to recede from the point of the pen.
Thirdly, in so forming the pen as to leave a spring, from the upper side of
which the shoulders and nibs of the pen are projected, as herein-after more
particularly described.
Fourthly, in making the shank or tail of the pen elastic, in which case the
pen is held at a given part or point or fulcrum somewhere between the two
extreme ends.
And further, as regards penholders, our said Invention consists in the
following improvements (that is to say):-
First, attaching the pen to a stick by means of an indian-rubber band or
indian rubber bands.
Secondly, in making the tube at the end of the stick which holds the pen
of spiral wire, one coil or turn being so closely wound upon the other as not
to allow any action of the pen in a direct line to or from the end of the fingers,
or in that direction which has been termed by some longitudinal elasticity,
but admitting of every requisite variety of lateral eccentric action.
Thirdly, in a flat, arched, or other spring at the end of the stick, having a
crimped cup or receptacle for the shank or tail of the pen, in which case the
shank or tail of the pen must be crimped to fit the holder, which said crimping
will be found greatly to steady the pen in the holder.
And, lastly, in a screw pin and fulcrum applicable to our aforesaid elastic
tailed pen.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, we, the said Stephen
Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, do hereby describe the
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page_text: manner in which our said Invention is to be performed by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the, Drawing annexed, and to
the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:—
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a pen classed under our first head of improvement, and
represents by the red line our said additional side cut or slit, which, it will be
observed; passes beyond the centre of the back of the pen, and thus destroys
the resistance offered at that part by its arched form. This cut may either
enter another cut or an aperture just beyond the centre of the back, and we
prefer it to be in the left side, but it may be in the right side, as shewn in
Figure 2.
Figure 3 is a pen classed under our second head of improvement, and is
furnished with one of our said adjustable or sliding springs, which in this
Figure is colored pink. It will be observed that there is a slit in the spring
corresponding with the slit in the pen, and the spring may be slided towards
or from the point of the nib by applying the nail to the notch or aperture C.
The length of the sliding action is determined by the four shoulders e, e, e, e,
formed by diminishing the size of the shank at that part, as shown in the
profile view at Figure 4. The spring just hooks or catches over the edge of
this diminished part, as shewn by the under side view shewn at Figure 5.
Figure 6 is a pen classed under our third head of improvement. a is
a flat under spring, from the upper side of which, it will be seen, the nibs
project. Figure 7 is a view of the under side of the pen, shewing that the
spring is divided down the middle, and that thus there is an under spring to
each side of the pen, as at a, a, in this Figure.
Figure 8 is a pen classed under our fourth head of improvement, g being a
flat elastic back or tail, shewn in plan at Figure 9. Figure 10 is another pen
of this class, where the flat elastic back or tail is placed below the nibs and
shoulders of the pen. Figure 11 is a plan of the same. Figure 12 is another
pen of the same class, having a very thin flat elastic tail j; Figure 13 is a
pen with a crimped shank or tail to fit a particular kind of holder, which will
be hereafter explained. Figure 14 is an end view of the crimp.
Figure 15 is another variety of our flat elastic back, the parts i, i, being
flat and elastic, though at the extreme end there is a small portion of an
arched form to set into the ordinary holder. Figure 16 is a side view of
Figure 15, and shews the turn-over of the central part to form an ink holder.
These sorts of turns-over of the central part of the metal admit of many
varieties, another of which is shewn in Figures 17 and 18.

page_text: And now of the penholders:-
Figure 19 is a pen holder, to which the pen is fastened by means of the
indian-rubber band m. Figure 20 is another holder of the same class, the
pen being fastened to the holder by two bands of indian-rubber thread
at n and o. This plan is well adapted for the thin flat spring-tailed pen,
particularly if the wood of the stick be cut away at p, as here shewn.
Figure 21 is a penholder with the spiral wire tube herein-before men-
tioned, shewn at r, to give every required kind of lateral elastic action to the
pen without allowing any of what has been termed longitudinal elasticity to it.
Figure 22 is an end view of the spiral tube, shewing that it is wound flat at
one side.
Figure 23 represents our crimped penholder with a crimped-ended pen in it.
The crimped end joins on to the tube, which fits on to the stick by being made
in one piece with a flat elastic spring, shown at S, which gives all the effect of
our flat under-spring pens, with the advantage of the pen being more firmly
held in the holder in consequence of the crimping of both.
end view of the crimped holder.
Figure 24 is an
Figure 25 is one of our fulcrum penholders for spring or elastic-tailed pens,
whether such spring or elasticity is obtained by making the tail of flat elastic
metal, or of arched elastic metal, or otherwise. At t there is a space cut in
the holder just to let the substance of the pen pass through. At V is a screw
which screws down on the pen Z, being the fulcrum or point of rest from which
both ends play. W is a guide pin or stud which passes up through a hole made
in the tail of the pen for the purpose. The effect of the arrangement will
be, that when the nib of the pen is pressed upon in the act of writing, the tail
will rise in proportion, thus giving a delightful elasticity to the pen.
Figure 26 is an end view of Figure 25. The fulcrum may be obtained
equally as well by drawing the pen up at a certain point, as by pressing
down upon it at a certain point, the former of which plans is shewn in section
at Figure 27. X is a spring; Y a screw passing through it and through
the holder (which is here shewn as a hollow tube), as also through the
pen, below which is a nut to prevent its return; the pen here used should
be a slit-tailed one, such as shewn at Figure 28. By this arrangement
the spring X will always be drawing up the pen to the holder at that point
where the nut is placed, and Z will thus become a fulcrum for both ends
to play from.
Now whereas we claim as our Invention those improvements in pens
comprized under the four heads mentioned in the early part of our Specifi-
cation, and those improvements in penholders comprized under the other

page_text: four heads there also mentioned. And such our Invention being, to the
best of our knowledge and belief, entirely new and never before used within
that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, we do hereby declare this to be our Specification of the
same, and that we do verily believe this our said Specification doth comply
in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in
the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
we do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to our said
Invention.
In witness whereof, we, the said Stephen Perry, Edward Massey,
and Paul Joseph Gauci, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twentieth day of March, in the fifth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord William the Fourth, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

page_text: En the Matter of a Patent granted to STEPHEN PERRY, of Wilmington
Street, Wilmington Square, Gentleman, EDWARD MASSEY, Senior,
of King Street, Clerkenwell, Watchmaker, and PAUL JOSEPH
GAUCI, of North Crescent, Bedford Square, Artist, all in the County
of Middlesex, for their Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
PENS AND PENHOLDERS," and bearing date at Westminster, the
Twentieth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-four.
DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION, entered
pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of His present most
Gracious Majesty's reign, entituled "An Act to amend the Laws touching
Letters Patent for Inventions," with the Clerk of the Patents of England,
by James Perry and John Heys, both of Red Lion Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Metal Pen Manufacturers, and Copartners, they having obtained
the said Letters Patent by virtue of three several Indentures of Assignment,
one of such Indentures bearing date the Nineteenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-five, and made between the said Stephen Perry of
the one part, and the said James Perry and John Heys of the other part;
another of such Indentures bearing date the Nineteenth day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and made between the said
Edward Massey of the one part, and the said James Perry and John Heys
of the other part; and the third of such Indentures bearing date the said
Nineteenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and made
between the said Paul Joseph Gauci of the one part, and the said James Perry
and John Heys of the other part; we, the said James Perry and John Heys,
do hereby declare that since we have become assignees of the said Patent;
we have been advised that it is doubtful whether so much of the improvements
in pens, forming the Invention for which the aforesaid Letters Patent were
granted, as relates to the spring sliding on the back of the pen, and as is
herein-after set forth, is a new invention; and for this reason we, the said
James Perry and John Heys, in that part of the Specification which states
generally in what the said Invention consists, do hereby disclaim the following
words, that is to say:
Secondly, in an adjustable or sliding spring acting downwards, but not

page_text: laterally, upon the nibs, and increasing or diminishing the resistance and
consequent hardness of the pen, according as the said spring is advanced
towards or caused to recede from the point of the pen."
And further on in the said Specification, where Figure 3 is described, we hereby
further disclaim the following words, figures, and letters, that is to say:-
Figure 3 is a pen classed under our second head of improvements,
"and is furnished with one of our said adjustable or sliding springs, which in
this Figure is colored pink. It will be observed that there is a slit in the
spring corresponding with the slit in the pen, and the spring may be slided
"towards or from the point of the nib by applying the nail to the notch or
aperture C. The length of the sliding action is determined by the four
"shoulders e, e, e, e, formed by diminishing the size of the shank at that part,
as shown in the profile view at Figure 4. The spring just hooks or catches
over the edge of this diminished part, as shown by the under side view shown
"at Figure 5."
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And further on, in the claiming clause, at the conclusion of the said
Specification, it is necessary to make the same consistent with the fore-
going part of the said Specification, for which reason we hereby make
the following alteration in the said claiming clause; that is to say, instead of
the words, "those improvements in pens comprised under the four heads,"
we hereby substitute the words, "those improvements in pens comprised
under the first, third, and fourth heads."
In witness whereof, we, the said James Perry and John Heys, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
JAMES PERRY. (L.S.)
JOHN HEYS. (L.S.)
This is to certify that James Perry and John Heys, both of Red Lion
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Metal Pen Manufacturers, and Co-
partners, assignees of the above-named Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and
Paul Joseph Gauci, have applied to me for leave to enter with you the above-
written Disclaimer and Memorandums of Alteration of part of the Title and
of the Specification of a certain Invention, for which Letters Patent were
duly granted to the said Stephen Perry, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph
Gauci, under the Great Seal, bearing date at Westminster, the 20th day of
September, 1834, and the Specification of which was enrolled on the 20th day

page_text: of March, 1835. And on considering of the said application, and the same
having been advertized in the London Gazette, 19th day of April, the
Times and Morning Chronicle on the 18th day of April, 1836, and no
objection having been made to the said application, I have accordingly
granted leave to the said James Perry and John Heys to file their said Dis-
claimer and Memorandum of Alterations of part of the Title and of the
Specification of the said Invention, pursuant to the Statute passed in the
sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled An Act to amend the
Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions.
Lincoln's Inn, 30th April, 1836.
R. M. ROLfe.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1836, the aforesaid James Perry and John Heys came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Disclaimer aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and spe-
cified, in form above written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.