IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND RULING APPLIANCES
Year: 1884

page_text: I GEORGE RICHARD WILLIS of 2 Claybury Villas, Latchett Road, George Lane,
Woodford in the County of Essex, Mechanic do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND RULING APPLIANCES to be as
follows:-
As is well known in posting ledgers a frequent change of pens is necessary in
order to make certain entries and rule various sets of lines in inks of different
colours.
Such changes are inconvenient and entail considerable loss of time to the clerk.
and his employers.
Now the object of this invention is so to improve the construction of the
appliances used in writing and ruling that an economy of time and great con-
venience may be effected.
To this end the invention consists in the construction and use of a duplex or
multiple pen by which is meant a single holder provided with two or more nibs or
writing points, so contrived that when one is in use the other or others are thrown
out of use, and the invention further relates to an inkstand to be used with such
pen and having a number of ink receptacles corresponding in number and position
to the nibs of the multiple pen, whereby with a single dip of the pen all the nibs.
may be moistened with their respective coloured inks or fluids.
The pen holder may consist of a stem terminating in two or more parallel
branches each adapted to receive a metal nip holder or pon, or it may consist of a
stem attached to a multiple pen or nib holder by a metal ferrule. In either case
the relative position of the nibs or writing points can be adjusted to the require-
ments of the writer so that by a simple movement of the thumb and fingers the
nib filled with the kind of ink required, whether red, blue, copying or black, may
be brought into use.
The angle at which a pair of nibs for instance require to be set relatively to each
other to suit an ordinary writer will be about 120° but the angle can be readily
adjusted to suit any hand writing.
The inkstand to be used with this improved, construction of pen consists of two
or more ink .vessel so closely grouped together and arranged that all the nibs of
the multiple pen can be at the same moment immersed in their respective fluids.
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page_text: Thus I may form a two or three celled glass bottle with only a fine separating
partition between the cells, surrounding the group with a protecting case to which
a cover or covers may be fitted.
By means of these improved appliances entries may be made in different inks
and lines ruled in various colours without the necessity for changing the pen,
while for addressing circulars and envelopes the nibs may be brought successively
into use, and thus the necessity for frequently dipping the pen in the ink be
avoided.
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I, GEORGE RICHARD WILLIS of 2 Claybury Villas Latchett Road George Lane
Woodford in the County of Essex, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND RULING APPLIANCES and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
As is well known in posting ledgers a frequent change of pens is necessary in
order to make certain entries and rule various sets of lines in inks of different
colours-Such changes are inconvenient and entail considerable loss of time to the
clerk and his Employers.
Now the object of this invention is so to improve the construction of the
appliances used in writing and ruling that an economy of time and great con-
venience may be effected-To this end the invention consists in the construction
and use of a duplex or multiple pen, by which is meant a single holder provided
with two or more nibs or writing points, so contrived that when one is in use the
other or others are thrown out of use and the invention further relates to an
inkstand to be used with such pen and having a number of ink receptacles corre-
sponding in number and position to the nibs of the multiple pen whereby with a
single dip of the pen all the nibs may be moisted with their respective coloured
inks or fluids.
The penholder may consist of a stem terminating in two or more parallel
branches each adapted to receive a metal nib holder or pen, or it may consist of a
stem attached to a multiple pen or nib holder by a metal ferrule In either case
the relative position of the nibs or writing points can be adjusted to the requiro-
ments of the writer, so that by a simple movement of the thumb and fingers the
nib filled with the kind of ink required, whether red, blue, copying or black, may
be brought into use,
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page_text: The angle at which a pair of nibs for instance require to be set relatively to
each other to suit an ordinary writer will be about 120° but the angle can be
readily adjusted to suit any hand writing.
The Inkstand to be used with this improved construction of pen consist of two
or more ink vessels so closely grouped together and arranged that all the nibs of
the multiple pen can be at the same moment immersed in their respective fluids
Thus, I may form a two or three celled glass bottle with only a fine separating
partition between the cells, surrounding the group with a protecting case to which
a cover or covers may be fitted-By means of these improved appliances entries
may be made in different inks & lines ruled in various colours without tho
necessity for changing the pen, while for addressing circulars & envelopes the
nibs may be brought successively into use, and thus the necessity for frequently
dipping the pon in the ink be avoided.
This description will be more readily understood by reference to the annexed
drawings.
Figure 1-represents a double pen consisting of a forked shaped pen holder fitted
with a pair of Magnum Bonum pens which are placed at a convenient angle to each
other.
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Figure 2-Shews the end of penholder and the relative angle at which the
pens are placed on the penholder.
Figure 3-Showa a single stem having at the extreme end a steol holder of
ordinary construction and a double nib which can be removed at pleasure and is
adapted to the above holder.
Figure 4 Shews the end of pen holder, where the double nib is received.
Figure 5-Shews a pair of nibs soldered or fixed solidly to a small cylinder,
which is to be attached to the singlo stem.
Figure 6-Shews the position of the above at A. A & B.
Figure 7-Shows a single stem with forked end to which are attached a pair of
crow quills and which can be arranged at the required angle.
Figure 8-Shews a steel penholder which is fixed at a suitable angle and in
which can be inserted a pair of ordinary metalic nibs and which can be removed
at pleasure and the whole being adapted to the single stem.
Figure 9 Shews a stem and Penholder with a pair of pens with cylinder
shaped points.
The figures 10. 11. & 12 represent different shapes of Inkstands, suitable to hold
two or more kind of inks or fluids used for writing and in which are cells or com-
partments for the different kind of inks, separated by thin partitions so that by
dipping in the 2 pens the necessary inks can be obtained.
The letters A. A. are the points, each of which, can be set at an angle to the
cylinder B and fitted to the forked shaped penholder C., as represented by figures 1
and 7 which can be placed separately on the holder C.
The double pens as represented in figures 3 & 5 cannot be regulated to the
angle but to the position as they are in, therefore I propose to provide more
double ponholders as shewn in the figures 1. 7 and 8 as they offer more facilities to
the writer.
Upon referring to the figures 24 and 6, it will be seen that in using one of the
nibs or points, the other does not touch the paper and a slight movement of the
thumb is sufficient to reverse the position, so that if wanted the other nib comes in
contact with the paper and the 1 one is at the same time from it It will also be
observed that whilst writing or ruling the two points cannot be used at the same
time, as the angle is so arranged that the one shall be off the paper whilst the
other is in use. My invention does not therefore comprise a double pen of which
the two points are made parallel or where the one point is immediately behind the
other. The form No 9 however is very suitable for the double ruling as two lines
can be made at the same time but moreover it can be used for ruling single lines in
different coloured inks without changing pens. When using the double Pens, the
Inkstands consisting of different kinds of vessels separated by thin partitions as

page_text: shewn in figures 10, 11 & 12, are indespensable as different coloured inks can be
obtained with one dip.
The improvements which I have made in writing appliances consist thus in a
double pen, that is to say different points fixed on a penholder, each of them to be
used for different kinds of inks and also in an Inkstand with different com-
partments or cells different colored inks being obtained by a single dip of the
pens.
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
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1st The improvements in accessaries for writing and ruling consisting of a stem
or holder as shewn in example C. terminating in two or more pens or points
as A. A. and adjusted to the penholder at an angle to each other and at a distance
from each other which permits the partition of the Inkstands to pass between them
when dipping, so that each pen or point may obtain the desired ink or fluid at
the same time.
2nd The combination with a handle or single holder as shewn in letter C. of two
or more pens or points, cylinder shaped, as letters B. B.-terminating by pens or
-points A. A.-each of which can be used separately in a manner so that in using one
pen, the other should-not-touch_the_paper_and-which-enables the Writer to use
different kind of inks or fluids, without changing pens-which-is-a-great saving o
of
time in keeping Ledgers and other books.
3rd The combination with a penholder or stem as shewn in example C. of two
or more pens as A. A. each one of which receives the necessary quantities of ink
through a tube or reservoir-and-which_can-be filled, simultaneously with different
-kind of Inks or fluids, by a single dip.
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4th The Inkstand described above-and-shewn in Figures 10. 11. & 12 consisting
-of-2-or-more-compartments or cells so arranged as to hold different kinds of colored-
inks or fluids, these compartments being separated_by_thin_partitions, which
permits the double pens as described above to be dipped in so as to obtain at the
same time the different kind of coloured inks or fluids.
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