Improvements relating to Reservoir Attachments for Pens.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 26th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Reservoir Attachments for Pens.
JOHN HARRISON of Castle Bytham in the County of Lincoln Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A small tube, or receptacle, connected, or combined with an ordinary writing
pen, or penholder; and which forms a reservoir, for the ink; charging itself when
the pen is dipped, by what is generally known as capilary action.
I perfer to mount the feeder or tube on the top of the pen or penholder, the lower
end terminating, near the point of the pen; so that the point or end of the feeder
is immerged in the Ink, when the pen is dipped, the tube being small enough to
produce capilary action; and thus charge itself with ink; and the ink in the tube
being connected with the ink on the pen nib it feeds the pen as the ink becomes
used from the nib in the act of writing. The tube may be constructed either round,
flat, or any peculiar shape best adapted to draw up the ink or to suit the pen, or
penholder to which it is applied.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Reservoir Attachments for Pens.
JOHN HARRISON of Castle Bytham in the County of Lincoln Engineer 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:-
A small tube connected, or combined with an ordinary pen, or penholder charging
itself with ink when the pen is dipped by what is generally known a cappillary
attraction. This is produced by making the tube sufficiently contracted to be within
the size of a drop of ink and making it open at both ends. This will be clearly
understood by reference to the accompanying drawings. Figs. 1 and 2 show the
attachment mounted on the top of the pen. This is also a convenient form for quill
pens; Figs. 3 and 4 show the invention placed on the underside of the pen: Figs. 5
and 6 show the invention made to pass through the centre of the penholder. The
tube may be constructed either round, or any peculiar shape best adapted to draw up
the ink, or to suit the pen or penholder to which it is applied.
Although I have shown in the accompanying drawings three different manners in
which my invention can be carried into practical effect there is so little difference in
them that one description will suffice for the whole; I therefore make use of the same
letters in each modification.
A is the tube; b the end which dips in the ink, in the act of dipping the pen; c is
the top and open end; d is the part by which it is attached the pen, or penholder;
the lower end of the tube may have a slit at x, as well as an opening, at the end
for the purpose of giving a better flow of ink to the
pen.
When the tube becomes coated on the insid a cleaning pin is passed through the
tube

page_text: 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 :
1st. A capillary tube in combination with an ordinary. writing pen for the purpose
herein described and shown with reference to the accompanying drawings:
2nd. The manner of mounting the tube as herein shown and described.
Dated 91th day of August 1880
J. HARRISON