AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO PENS AND TO PEN HOLDERS PENCILS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS SIMILARLY HELD AND USED as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I ARTHUR BENJAMIN CRUICKSHANK Gentleman at present residing at the Grand
Hotel Trafalgar Square in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO PENS AND TO PEN
HOLDERS PENCILS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS SIMILARLY HELD AND USED
as follows:-
"
to be
This invention has for its object an improvement applicable to pens and to pen
holders, pencils and other instruments similarly held and used.
In consequence of the small diameter of the barrel of a quill pen or ordinary
pen holder it is difficult to hold and manipulate the pen especially when the fingers
are cold.
To remove this difficulty I provide a tubular grip piece by preference of india
rubber, it is moulded externally to a barrel like form and in the middle of a
sufficiently large diameter to afford a firm grasp. This grip piece tapers to either
end and at the ends is provided with a bead or thickened edge.-The grip piece is
slidden over the quill or holder to the point where the fingers bear in holding the
pen in writing it may be applied simply to embrace the quill or holder by its
natural elasticity or it may be more permanently fastened by means of cement.
These grip pieces are also applicable to pencils and other instruments to be
similarly held and used.
Dated this Camond dove
1004
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ARTHUR BENJAMIN CRUICKSHANK, Gentleman, at present residing at the
Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO PENS AND TO PEN
HOLDERS PENCILS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS SIMILARLY HELD AND USED
" and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement applicable to pens and to pen
holders pencils and other instruments similarly held and used.
In consequence of the small diameter of the barrel of a quill pen or ordinary
pen holder it is difficult to hold and manipulate the pen especially when the fingers
are cold. To remove this difficulty I provide a tubular grip piece by preference of
india rubber, it is moulded externally to a barrel like form and in the middle of a
sufficiently large diameter to afford a firm grasp. This grip piece tapers to either
end and at the ends may be provided with a bead or thickened edge. The grip
piece is slidden over the quill or holder to the point where the fingers bear in
holding the pen in writing-it may be applied simply to embrace the quill or
holder by its natural elasticity or it may be more permanently fastened by means
of cement.
These grip pieces are also applicable to pencils and other instruments to be
similarly held and used,
The annexed drawing shews of twice the actual size a grip piece made and
applied in accordance with my invention.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a longitudinal section. Figure 3
shows the grip piece applied to a quill pen and it may be applied in a precisely
similar manner to pencils and other instruments to be similarly held and used.
The grip piece is preferentially made in soft vulcanised india rubber but it may
also be made in other materials but the material must be of a comparatively soft
or yielding nature or it will not afford the advantages which my invention is
intended to obtain.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is the combination with a pen holder, pencil or other instrument similarly
held and used of a tubular grip piece of vulcanized india rubber or other soft or
yielding material which in the middle is of sufficiently large diameter to be
conveniently and securely held between the fingers and from thence tapers to the
ends substantially as described.