A New or Improved Pen or Pencil Holder for the Prevention or Cure of Writers' Cramp.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 16th ec., 1896-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1897
Date of
Complete Specification Left, 16th ec., 1896-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Pen or Pencil Holder for the Prevention or
Cure of Writers' Cramp.
ARTHUR EDWARD GILBERT, A.I.E.E., 4 Waterford Crescent, Whitley,
Northumberland, Telegraph and Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved pen or pencil holder designed
principally to prevent, or cure, that serious affliction called writers cramp. By
one arrangement this is effected by forming the holder similar in shape to a tripod
well opened out, but with one leg thick and tapered and about double the length
of the other two legs. On or into and near the thick end of this long leg, which
may be tapered or shaped like a bodkin, is fitted or screwed the two short legs,
one to hold the pen and the other to act as a rest so that, when writing, the long
leg is gripped, grasped or clenched in the hand and the two short legs secured
between the first & second fingers, or the first finger & thumb or between any
fingers most suitable to the writer. The three legs may rub on the paper at the
same time, when writing, thus giving a steady motion to the fist, which does the
work (not the fingers) making it quite impossible for cramp to occur.
The long
thick tapered leg, as also the two other legs, may be round, milled, grooved or
fluted and made of ebonite, vulcanite, ivory, bone, glass, wood or other suitable
material, gold, silver, aluminium or white or other metal and may be made hollow
or solid. This long leg may have a ball, hollow or solid, near to the two short legs,
of the same, or lighter, material to grasp in the palm of the hand or, the short legs
may
be fitted or screwed into this ball instead of at or near the side of it. Such
ball and long leg may be formed in one piece or the ball may be slipped on to the
leg which may not be tapered. Or, instead of a ball, the thick leg may be long
oval in shape, hollow or solid, to answer the same purpose. If hollow, may be
filled with hot water when required for use.
Doted this 14th day of March 1900
ARTHUR E. GILBERT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Pen or Pencil Holder for the Prevention or
Cure of Writers' Cramp.
I, ARTHUR EDWARD GILBERT, of 4 Waterford Crescent, Whitley,
Northumberland, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved pen or pencil holder designed
principally to prevent or cure that serious affliction called writers' cramp.

page_text: And in order that my said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood I have hereunto appended a sheet of
explanatory drawings in which Figures 1 and 2 represent a plan and elevation
respectively of one arrangement of my pen or pencil holder, and Figures 3 and 4
are modified constructions of the long limb of same. Figures 5 and 6 are an
elevation and plan view respectively of a modification in which the hand rest is
made in the form of a ball, and Figure 7 represents views of an auxiliary ball and
ring which is placed over the small finger and held in the palm of the hand, while
Figure 8 represents a perspective view showing the hands of the writer using the
devices.
Referring to these drawings:-
By one arrangement as shown in Figures 1 and 2 the holder is formed similar in
shape to a tripod well opened out but with a leg a thick and tapered and about
double the length of the other two legs b and c. On or into and near the thick
end of this long leg a which may be tapered or shaped like a bodkin, is fitted or
screwed the two short legs b and c one b to hold the pen or pencil and the other c
to act as a rest so that when writing as shown in Figure 8 the long leg a is gripped,
grasped or clenched in the hand and the two short legs b and c secured between the
first and second fingers or the first finger and thumb or between any fingers most
suitable to the writer. The three legs may rub on the paper at the same time
when writing, thus giving a steady motion to the fist which does the work (not the
fingers) making it quite impossible for cramp to occur. The long thick tapered
leg a as also the two other legs b and c may be round milled, grooved or fluted and
made of ebonite, vulcanite, ivory, boue, glass, wood or other suitable material;
gold, silver, aluminium or white or other metal and may be made hollow or solid.
This long leg a may be made of shorter length as shown in Figure 3, or as shown
in Figure 4 it may have! hollow or soli, near to the two short legs b and c
of the same or lighter material to gras in the palm of the hand or the short legs
may be fitted or screwed into this ball instead of at or near the side of it. Such
ball a' and long leg a may be formed in one piece or the ball may be slipped on to
the leg which may not be tapered or instead of a ball the thick leg may be long
oval in shape, hollow or solid to answer the same purpose. When the long leg a
is formed hollow it may as shown in Figures 1 to 3 be fitted with a stopper or
plug a², and be filled with hot water for use in frosty or cold weather.
In the arrangement shown in Figures 5 and 6 the long leg a is dispensed with
and a ball a substituted instead, and the limbs b and c inserted into ferrules fitted
in slots formed in the ball a'. The leg e may be dispensed with to suit some
writers as its use is optional.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 7 which may be used in junction with
the bolder, the ring d is placed over the little finger to enable the writer to glide
along the paper, and the ball e is to expand the sinews of the same finger by
grasping it, and by this means cramp which is most liable to occur in the little
finger is thus avoided.
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
The construction and arrangement of pen or pencil holder for the prevention or
cure of writers' cramp, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 15th day of December 1896
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.