A CERTAIN PROCESS FOR RESTORING METALLIC SPOILED PENS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Prosper Pimont, of Rouen, in France, Manufacturer,.
for the Invention of "A CERTAIN PROCESS FOR RESTORING METALLIC SPOILED
PENS."
Sealed the 26th August 1856, and dated the 14th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Prosper Pimont at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
March 1856..
I, PROSPER PIMONT, of Rouen, in France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention of A CERTAIN PROCESS FOR RESTORING METALLIC
SPOILED PENS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in heating the metallic pen to a red heat in any flame;
when cooled down it is wiped and is then as serviceable as in its original state.
I do not limit myself to any particular degree of heat provided the pen attains
the red. The operation may be repeated many times.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Prosper Pimont in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th
September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PROSPER
PIMONT, of Rouen, in France, Manufacturer, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Prosper Pimont, Her special license that I, the said Prosper Pimont, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Prosper
Pimont, my 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 CERTAIN PROCESS FOR RESTORING
METALLIC SPOILED PENS, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Prosper Pimont, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the shine was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Prosper Pimont, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to restore to their original state of flexibility,
bardness; and efficiency steel or other metallic pens which have been thrown
aside and spoiled by the use of bad ink, long use, or neglect. To accomplish
this purpose, the spoiled metallic pens are exposed in 'a suitable vessel 'to the
heat of a furnace 'or to flame from any source,'and raised to a red heat, or to
any temperature discovered by experience to be sufficient. The 'pens are
then allowed to cool and afterwards cleaned from dirt or smoke which may
adhere to them. This restoring operation if not sufficient is repeated until the
desired object is obtained. By this simple, but efficaceous process, the pens,
hitherto deemed spoiled and therefore useless, are restored to their original
state as far as regards utility, and may be again used for the purpose for
which they are designed.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be carried into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the method or process of restoring metallic spoiled pens, by
exposing them to a suitable temperature in a furnace or other source of heat,
thereby removing dirt and the injurious effects of corrosion, so as to enable
them again to be employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Prosper Pimont, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
PROSPER PIMONT. (L.B.)