Improvements in Fountain Penholders.
Year: 1890

page_text: te of Application, 1st Apr., 1890-Accepted 3rd May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fountain Penholders.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (which has been communi-
cated to be from abroad by The Eagle Pencil Company of the City County and State
of New York in the United States of America) and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The fountain penholder in which the improvements constituting the present Inven-
tion are embodied is one of the known class having a tubular handle, a removable pen
holder which closes the front end of the handle and is provided with a duct for
inducting ink from the reservoir to the pen, and a reservoir or supply vial contained
in the bandle and attached to the penholder so as to be removeable therewith from the
handle.
The improvements according to this Invention consist in the particular construction
and arrangement of the pen-holder and the ink vial or reservoir connected to the
same; and can best be explained and understood by reference to the accompanying
drawing in which―
Figure 1 is a longitudinal axial section of the complete pen.
Figure 2 is a view of the three parts of the pen-holder viz. the barrel, the tip,
and the elastic tube upon which the open end of the ink vial or reservoir fits.
Figure 3 is a view of the holder and the ink vial or reservoir connected together
and removed from the handle.
B is the tubular handle, made of sheet metal, hard rubber or other suitable material,
closed at its rear end and open at its front, where it is closed by the removeable pen-
holder which has on it a swelled knurl a, which, when the holder is fitted into the
handle, makes a tight joint with the latter.
The pen-holder itself consists in the main of a barrel A, and a tip d.
The barrel is of general tubular form open from end to end, and is provided with
the swelled knurl a as hereinbefore indicated and within the said barrel is the tip d
between which and the barrel the pen P is inserted and held. This tip may be made
of any suitable material but is preferably, of hard rubber. It is tubular, and
cylindrical for a portion of its length and at the rear end of this cylindrical portion
it has an external annular flange c which is received in the swelled knurl a, and is
thereby held in the barrel A so as to prevent the tip from being withdrawn from the
forward end of the barrel. In advance of its incline bone side only tapers to a
point. This side is the under side relatively to the pen. The other or upper side of
the tip continues in line with the cylindrical portion so that the tip on this side is
straight from end to end, and in this portion of the tip is formed a longitudinal ink
feeding or supply slot e which terminates at the front-say about 1 of an inch from
the extreme point of the tip. The pen is inserted between the barrel and the tip so
that it shall be over the ink slot c in the latter.
Rearward of the tip there is the rubber, or other elastic, tube f, the rear end of
which projects from the rear of the holder far enough to permit the ink vial or
reservoir to fit closely thereon. This vial may be of any suitable material but is
preferably of glass and is a simple straight tube closed on one end. It is intended to
fit closely upon the tube or neck f; and when so fitted, there is a continuous channel
for the ink from the vial through the tube f and tip d and the slot e in the latter to
the pen.
The vial can be readily removed and replaced by another one whenever desired.
In practice it is proposed to furnish a supply of such vials, filled and corked, with each

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When the supply of ink in one vial has become exhausted, that vial can be
removed and another filled one can be substituted for it. As these vials are very
cheap the empty ones can be thrown away or they may be refilled for reuse.
The elastic tube projecting from the rear end of the pen holder furnishes a most
convenient and efficient means of connecting the vial to the holder.
pen
In order to draw or lead the ink back again to the vial or reservoir, when the
is put up after having been used, one or more wires g are inserted in the pen holder,
to serve as a leader to conduct the ink back from the point of the pen to the reservoir.
The wire g in this instance is a bent one, having its loop end inserted from the
rear of the barrel A, up into the lid d with its two free ends projecting from the rear
of the holder into the vial or reservoir connected with the latter.
The handle is provided as usual with a cap B¹ for covering the pen when not
in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. In fountain pen holders the combination of the barrel A, the tubular ink supply
tip through which ink from the reservoir is conducted to the pen, and the elastic tube
contained in the barrel rearward of the tip with its rear end projecting from the
barrel, in position to fit into the mouth of the ink vial or reservoir to be connected to
the said holder, in combination with the vial and the handle, as and for the purposes
herein before set forth.
2. The fountain pen-holder having a duct through which ink is supplied from the
reservoir to the pen, and provided with an elastic tube f projecting from its rear end,
in combination with the ink vial or reservoir fitting on the said tube, and the leader
inserted in the duct in the pen holder, and extending back therein into the ink
reservoir, as and for the purposes herein before set forth.
3. A fountain pen holder having an ink reservoir, a pen holder provided with a
duct through which ink from the reservoir is supplied to the pen, and a leader g
inserted in the duct in the pen holder to conduct the ink back from the holder into
the reservoir when the pen is not in use, substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before set forth.