IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PENHOLDERS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hezekiah Hewitt, of the Firm of Hewitt and
Company, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Métallic
Pen Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PENHOLDERS."
Sealed the 6th January 1874, and dated the 16th July 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hezekiah Hewitt at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th July 1873.
I, HEZEKIAH HEWITT, of the Firm of Hewitt and Company, of Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic Pen Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PENHOLDERS," to be as follows::
My Invention consists of the following improvements in manufac-
turing the metallic barrels and the internal tubes or tubular binders of
penholders, between which internal tube or tubular binder and the barrel.
the slip pen is held.

page_text: In ordinary penholders the said internal tube or tubular binder is
made separate from the barrel, and is afterwards connected to the
barrel.
My Invention consists in making the barrel of the penholder and the
internal tube or tubular binder in one piece in the following manner :-
I cut out from sheet metal by press tools a blank having the general
figure of the letter T, that is, the head of the blank is provided with
wings or lateral pieces from which the internal tube or binder of the
penholder is made. I take the said blank, and by pressing processes
first raise the said wings or lateral pieces of the blank at right angles to
the said blank, and afterwards, fold the said wings or lateral pieces flat
or nearly so upon the face of the blank. By this treatment a blank is
produced having the figure proper to form the barrel of the penholder,
and also the internal tube or binder of the barrel. To manufacture a
penholder from this blank the said blank is first raised by means of
press tools into a trough form, and afterwards into a cylindrical
figure. The metallic part or barrel of a penholder with the internal
tube or binder of the same are thus made from one piece of sheet
metal.
By my improvements penholders are made more economically than
when the barrel and internal tube or binder are made separately, and
the internal tube or binder of the barrel while holding the pen very
firmly between itself and the barrel is capable of yielding internally,
whereby a pleasant action in writing is produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent 2
filed by the said Hezekiah Hewitt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HEZEKIAII
HEWITT, of the Firm of Hewitt and Company, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Metallic Pen Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year.
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,.
3

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, Her special licenso
that I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PENHOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Hezekiah Hewitt, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, 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 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 Hezekiah Hewitt, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 :—
1
My Invention consists of the following improvements in manufac-
turing the metallic barrels and the internal tubes or tubular binders of
penholders, between which internal tube or tubular binder and the barrel
the slip pen is held.
In ordinary penholders the said internal tube or tubular binder
is made separate from the barrel, and is afterwards connected to tho
barrel.
My Invention consists in making the barrel of the penholder and the
internal tube or tubular binder in one piece in the following manner:-
I cut out from sheet metal by press tools a blank having the general
figure of the letter T, that is, the head of the blank is provided with
wings or lateral pieces, from which the internal tube or binder of the
penholder is made. I take the said blank, and by pressing processes
first raise the said wings or lateral pieces of the blank at right angles to
the said blank, and afterwards fold the said wings or lateral pieces flat,
or nearly so, upon the face of the blank. By this treatment a blank is
produced having the figure proper to form the barrel of the penholder,
and also the internal tube or binder of the barrel. To manufacture a

page_text: penholder from this blank the said blank is first raised by means of
press tools into a trough form, and afterwards into a cylindrical
figure. The metallic part or barrel of a penholder with the internal
tube or binder of the same are thus made from one piece of sheet
metal.
By my improvements penholders are made more economically than
when the barrel and internal tube or binder are made separately, and
the internal tube or binder of the barrel while holding the pen very
firmly between itself and the barrel is capable of yielding internally,
whereby a pleasant action in writing is produced.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan and edge view a blank from which I
manufacture, according to my Invention, the barrel and internal tubo
or tubular binder of a penholder to be held in a tubular metallic handle.
The said blank has the general figure of the letter T, the barrel being
made from the part a, and the internal tube or tubular binder from the
wings or lateral pieces b, b, at the head of the blank. To convert the
blank, Figure 1, into the barrel and binder of a penholder the wings or
lateral picces b, b, are first raised at right angles to the part a, as
illustrated in Figure 2, and the said raised wings or pieces b, b, are
afterwards folded or bent flat or nearly flat upon the part a, as illustrated
in Figure 3. From the compound blank, Figure 3, the barrel and
internal tube or binder are made by first raising the said compound
blank into the trough figure represented in Figure 4, and afterwards
into the cylindrical figure represented in Figure 5, which said Figure 5
represents a complete barrel and internal tube or tubular binder made
from one piece of sheet metal, the barrel being marked a, and the
internal tube or binder being marked b. The slip pen is held very firmly
between the internal tube or binder and the barrel a, and as the said
internal tube or binder is very elastic a pleasant action in writing is
produced.
Figure 6 represents the combined barrel and binder, Figure 5, fitted
in a metallic tubular holder or handle d, the barrel a being provided
with a stop c, which limits the distance to which the barrel can be
introduced into the said holder or handle d. The stop is c impressed in

page_text: the blank before it is raised into a cylindrical figure, as illustrated in the
Drawing.
When a pocket penholder is to be made the open end of the barrel '
part a is closed or rounded in the manner illustrated in Figure 7. By
inverting the barrel a, Figure 7, in the holder or handle d the slip pen
is protected, and the rounded end of the barrel exposed.
Figure 8 represents a barrel and its internal tube or binder made from
one piece of sheet metal, according to my Invention, to be used with
an ordinary wooden stick or handle. In this case the barrel part a of
the holder has stops e, e, in it for the heel of the slip pen to bear
against.
Although I prefer to make the combined barrel and internal tube or
tubular binder of the penholder from a blank having wings or lateral
picces at the head of the blank, yet the same result may be obtained by.
using a blank having either a lateral piece on one side only of the head
of the blank, or a piece situated at one end of the blank.
The modification of my Invention in which the internal tube or
binder is made from a single lateral piece at the head of the blank is
illustrated in Figures 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the Drawing.
Figure 9 represents the blank from the part a of which the barrel is
made, and from the part 6 of which the internal tubo or binder is made.
The wing or piece of the blank is first bent at right angles to the
part a in the manner represented in Figure 10, and afterwards folded flat
or nearly flat upon the said part a, as illustrated in Figure 11. The
compound blank, Figure 11, is then raised into the trough form
represented in Figure 12, and afterwards into the cylindrical figure
represented in Figure 13.
The modification of my Invention in which the internal tube or
binder of the barrel is made from a piece at one end of the blank is
represented in Figures 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the Drawing.
Figure 14 represents the blank, the barrel being made from the part a,
and the internal tube or binder from the part b. The part 6 is first
folded at the dotted line f, Figure 14, upon the part a, as illustrated in
Figure 15, and the doubled blank is then raised into the trough figure
shown in Figure 16, and afterwards into the cylindrical figure shown
in Figure 17.

page_text: The press tools which I use for effecting the cutting out of the blanks,
and for bending and shaping or raising them into a combined barrel and
internal tube or binder are of the kind ordinarily employed in the manu-
facture of the metallic parts of penholders, and constituto no part of my
Invention.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the improvements in the
manufacture of penholders herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say, manufacturing the barrel of the
penholder and the internal tube or tubular binder of the said barrel
from one piece of sheet metal, substantially in the several ways described
and illustrated.
set
In witness whereof, I, the said Hezekiah Hewitt, havo hereunto
my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
HEZEKIAH HEWITT. (L.S.)