AN IMPROVED FEEDING HOLDER APPLICABLE TO WRITING AND DRAWING PENS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fortuné François Benvenuti, of Swansea, in the
County of Glamorgan, Member of the National Academy of France, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FEEDING HOLDER APPLICABLE TO WRITING
AND DRAWING PENS,"
Sealed the 30th October 1866, and dated the 2nd May 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Fortuné François Benvenuti
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd May 1866.
I, FORTUNE FRANÇOIS BENVENUTI, of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan,
Member of the National Academy of France, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FEEDING HOLDER APPLICABLE TO WRITING
AND DRAWING PENS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of
holders, whereby ink or other liquid can be supplied to steel writing and
drawing pens of the descriptions ordinarily in use, and in such quantity as to
be sufficient for use for a considerable length of time without requiring re-
plenishment. The holder consists of a tube, which may be constructed of
glass or metal, and of any desired calibre, according to the purposes to which
it is to be applied, the ink or liquid employed being communicated to the pen
by means of a capillary tube connected with the holder, as herein-after men-
tioned. The top of the tube is provided with a cap, the same being fixed by
means of a screw or other suitable contrivance. A piston formed with a
short stem is placed in the interior of the tube, the upper end of the piston

page_text: stem passing through the cap, and the lower end thereof being terminated by
a stud, on which is placed a small cork or a mass of other material capable
of working freely in the tube in an air-tight manner, the same being fixed on
the stud by means of a screw which presses it against the stud, and at the
same time swells or expands the cork or other material so as to fill the tube
and enable it to work therein in an air-tight manner. At the lower part of
the tubular holder there is a circular opening, through which the ink or liquid
to be used is introduced, such opening being so constructed as to receive an
air-tight screw to which the part in which the pen is to be inserted is attached,
together with the capillary tube before mentioned, which is iu communication
with the interior of the bolder, and whose function it is to supply the ink or
liquid to the pen, one joint only being formed in the holder, when the parts
are thus connected and screwed together. The ink or liquid is discharged or
the issue thereof stopped by pressing slightly on the top of the piston which
projects through the cap, or by lifting it up.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Fortuné François Benvenuti in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FORTUNÉ
FRANÇOIS BENVENUTI, of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, Member of
the National Academy of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Fortuné François Benvenuti, Her special licence that I, the said Fortuné
François Benvenuti, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Fortuné François Benvenuti, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
* AN IMPROVED FEEDING HOLDER APPLICABLE TO WRITING AND DRAWING PENS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Fortuné François
Benvenuti, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
any, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe

page_text: and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Fortuné François Benvenuti, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
-
My said Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of
holders, whereby ink or other liquid can be supplied to steel or other metallic
writing and drawing or ruling pens of the descriptions ordinarily employed,
and in such quantity as to be sufficient for use for a considerable length of
time without requiring replenishment. An essential feature of my Invention
is that it admits of writing and drawing or ruling pens being attached to the
same feeding holder. The holder consists of a tube, which may be constructed
of glass, metal, or ebonite, or of any suitable material, and of any desired
calibre, according to the purposes to which the pen is to be applied, the ink or
liquid being communicated to the pen by means of a capillary tube connected
with the holder as herein-after mentioned. The top of the tube is provided
with a cap, the same being fixed by means of a screw or other suitable and
analogous contrivance. A piston formed with a short stem is placed in the
interior of the tube, the upper end of the piston stem passing through the cap,
and the lower end thereof being terminated by a stud, on which is placed a
small cork or a mass of other material capable of working freely in the tube
in an air-tight manner, the same being fixed on and pressed against the stud
as herein-after mentioned. At the lower part of the tubular holder there is a
circular opening, through which the ink or liquid to be used is introduced, such
opening being so constructed as to receive an air-tight screw to which the part
in which the pen is to be inserted is attached, together with the capillary tube
before mentioned, and which latter is in communication with the interior of
the holder, and the function of which is to supply the ink or liquid to the pen,
one joint only being formed on the holder when the parts are thus connected
and screwed together. The ink or liquid is discharged or the issue thereof
stopped by pressing slightly on the top of the piston, which projects through
the cap, or by lifting it up; or the piston may be propelled or withdrawn by
screwing or unscrewing the screw cap and so operating upon the piston stem.
In the latter case the end of the piston stem which passes through the screw
cap. is furnished with a top, which is screwed on it after the cap is placed

page_text: upon the holder, in such a manner as to allow the piston to work freely and
to follow the movements up and down of the said screw cap when screwed or
unscrewed.
The nature and details of my said Invention will be more clearly understood
by reference to the annexed Drawings.
Figure represents the feeding holder A, A', with the ruling pen a applied
to it; a' is the top of the piston, a being a stop, the function of which is,
as will be explained hereafter, to prevent the piston from being pushed down
inadvertently whilst the holder is carried in the pocket or elsewhere; a¹¹¹ is
the capillary tube.
Figure 2 shews a similar holder B, B', with a writing pen applied to it;
b. is the capillary tube, through which the ink is discharged between the two
nibs of the ruling or drawing pen, or in the cavity or hollow of the writing
pen; n is a screw cap to cover the feeding holder by being screwed upon T,
Figure 4, after the piston has been introduced into the holder, the end of the
stem passing through the hole as seen in æ, Figure 9.
Figure 3 is another holder C, C, without either drawing or writing pen;
is the capillary tube applied to it, shewn at a' in Figure 1, and at 6 in
Figure 2; S is the hole through which the ink is discharged; h' is the screw
on which either the drawing or writing penholder is fixed, so as to be in the
same position as shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
.
Figure 4 shews the tubular feeding holder at D, D', d, d, being mountings in
metal when the holder is ebonite or glass; P is a circular aperture, in which
the piston E¹, Figure 7, is introduced; T is the tappet part on which the cap
F, Figure 9, is screwed; P¹ is the circular aperture through which the ink or
liquid to be used is introduced, and when the capillary tube, as seen in
Figure 8, is screwed up by the tapped part m.
Figure 5 represents a ruling or drawing pen K, & being the part by which
it is fixed in hu, Figure 3, as seen in A, Figure 1.
In Figure 6, K¹ is a writing penholder with a pen applied to it, h¹ being
the part by which it is fixed.
In Figure 7, E', E", is the piston complete, and as it acts when intro-
duced into the tubular feeding holder; F is a cork or a mass of other suitable
material of the same diameter as the interior of the tubular feeding holder,
so as to slide in it easily, but in an air-tight manner, as herein-before men-
tioned; S is the stud, terminating the stem of the piston, as seen in o,
Figure 10, on which the cork or other substance rests; V is another stud, as
seen at o³, Figure 12, and which slides freely on the stem of the piston, so as
to rest on the cork and to press against it in such a manner as to fix it; E is

page_text: the top screw of the piston, as seen in Figure 11,, and the function of which
is to screw on the part of the stem of the piston after the cork and the stud
bave occupied their respective places, so as to press the cork between the two
studs above described, in order to expand the same when working in too loose
a manner; r is the stop shewn at a', in Figure 1.
.
In Figure 8, L, L, is the capillary tube which is screwed on to the tubular
feeding holder; m is the tapped part which screws on the holder at P,
Figure 4; m² is the tapped part on which the pens are screwed, as shewn at
h" in Figure 3.
In Figure 9, F is the screw cap described in n, Figure 2, x being the
circular hole through which the screw piston slides up and down; H is a
small slot intended for the passage of the stop a", Figure 1.
Figure 10 shews at S the screw stem of the piston; o is the terminating
stud, and which is a fixture; 6" is the tapped stem on which the cork is
placed and the screw piston top is screwed up as seen at F, Figure 7.
.
In Figure 11, F is the screw piston top; e', the tapped tube intended to
screw on the stem as before mentioned; f is the stop described in the expla-
nation of Figure 9; I is the head of the screw piston top.
Figure 12 represents the loose stud to be placed over the cork, as shewn at
V in Figure 7.
.
Fig. 13 represents a feeding holder, the piston of which is propelled by
means of the screw cap, by screwing or unscrewing which the piston is actuated
instead of by pressure. In this case the stem of the piston which projects out
of the screw cap as already explained above is fixed by a small top screw in
such a manner as to follow the movements of up and down of the screw cap
whilst screwed or unscrewed.
Figure 14 shews the holder with the cap removed; Figure 15 is the cap;
Figure 16 is the piston and screw stem; Figure 17 is a short tube furnished
with a flange or head, and which is placed on the stem of the piston, the
flange or head receiving the pressure of the cap when the latter is screwed on
the holder and thus depressing the piston.
Figure 18 is the top of the cap, and Figure 19 is the top which is placed
on the piston stem, and which receives the pressure of the cap when the latter
is unscrewed and thus acts upon the piston.
Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in conclusion
that I do not limit or restrict myself to the precise details of construction
herein-before described, as variations may be made therefrom without
departing from the principles or main features of my Invention, and that

page_text: what I consider novel and original; and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the construction of an improved feeding holder applicable to writing and
drawing pens as aforesaid, by means of the combination of parts and mechanism
as substantially herein-before described and set forth, or any mere modifications
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fortuné François Benvenuti, have
bereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.