Improvements in Penholders.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1893—Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Penholders.
WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH Machinist, Nucleus Works, Crossbank Street
Oldham and 106 Park Street Oldham do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
A. penholder designed to admit of the easy & cleanly withdrawal of the nib
when useless.
At the bottom instead of the usual part is a simple tapering ferule; widest at the
top, narrowest towards the base, the wood (or other) shaft fits into this, and by
pushing the tapering shaft into the tapering ferule the nib having been inserted
the nib is secured in any desired degree of fixedness. As soon as the shaft is
withdrawn the nib of course falls out without need for any handling with the
fingers. The ferule & shaft may be straight or grooved if desired.
For centric pen nibs the ferule circular as before would have half its circle
filled up, & the wood or other shaft would be minus half its circle from the point
where its contact with the ferule begins, the withdrawal of the shaft would thus
leave the pen nib without support on one side & it would of course fall out.
If desired a penholder could be made as above for both the centric & the
ordinary pen.
DL 1
CA 1900
W. H. HALLSWORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Penholders.
I WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH of Nucleus Works, Crossbank Street Oldham
in the County of Lancashire, Engineer and Machinist &c. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in penholders, the object being to so
construct holders for pens that the pen shall be easily released when useless and
worn, without contact between the fingers and the inky pen.
To carry this idea into practice my proceedure is as follows:-
The shaft of the holder, formed of wood or any suitable material is preferably
made taper in form in its lower half, but may if desired be straight.
A ferule of any desired suitable material or metal is provided corresponding in
shape to the shape of the lower half of the shaft; into which the shaft fits.
With the taper form of holder and accompanying ferule, the point of the pen is
at will adjustable either to the centre of the holder (as in a lead pencil) or away
from the centre (as in a quill pen) without need for any special pen and holder
other than the holder as herein described and claimed for. The adjustment
taking place when the pen is pushed further in, or drawn further out of, the ferule.
For the existing "centric" pens (in which the apex of the pen is flat & is
inserted into a corresponding slit provided in the bottom of the holder which thus
divides the bottom of the holder into two semi-circles) the holder is constructed as
follows:-
The ferule is solid to the extent of half its diameter, and the shaft is minus half
its diameter as far as the ferule extends when the holder is in use.
The mode in which the holder is used is as follows
In the taper form, the pen having been inserted between the shaft and the

page_text: ferule & adjusted; the further pressure of the shaft into the holder binds the
pen into any desired degree of fixedness, and the withdrawal of the shaft allows
the pen to fall out when no longer required.
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In the straight form, and the shape or modification made for existing "centric
pens, the shaft is in like manner withdrawn and allows the pen to fall out when no
longer required.
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
Holders for pens made as described with ferule for adjusting and binding the
pen and for releasing same.
Dated this Seventh day of January 1893.
WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH,