A RESERVOIR PENHOLDER
Year: 1885

page_text: I EDWARD HUSSEY 21 Willy Street Rock Ferry Birkenhead in the County of
Cheshire Advertising Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
A RESERVOIR PENHOLDER to be as follows:-
A holder in which a supply of ink is held & capable of holding sufficient ink for
four hours continual writing, and thus by doing away with dipping in the
inkstand allowing of a greater rapidity in writing I make it in the following
manner. A Glass or metal tube about six inches long to form the holder & reservoir
for the ink I then make a feeder for the pen-nib by packing for half an inch the
bottom and inside of the tube with Gutta Percha softened in hot water and leaving
about half an inch below the bottom to be tapered down to fit the pen nib. I then
bore when set with wire a small hole through the center of Gutta Percha from
which the Ink decends from the Reservoir to the pen nib.
I then pack a small piece of fine Sponge half an inch from the top of feeder, and
inside the Tube.
I then pack another piece of sponge, the same size, two inches from top of
Holder, and inside the Tube.
I then take a piece of Cane, the same thickness as the Tube, one inch and half
long, and pare one inch down, to fit the inside of the Tube, leaving half an inch
above the top of the Tube, to form the stopper.
I fix a small India rubber ball, with a small hole in the centre, over the top of
the Cane stopper, and clasping the top of the Tube, for filling and regulating the
flow of the Ink.
I then fit a holder for the Pen nib, on the bottom of the Tube.
To fill, I place the point of the Pen, into the Ink Bottle, so that the bottom of
the feeder, reaches the Ink, and draw up with the mouth, at the India rubber ball,
until the Tube fills.
To commence the flow of ink, I press the India rubber ball slightly between the
finger and thumb. I claim for my invention, that it is simple in construction, and
perfect in action.
Dated thin the 10th
Amil 1007

page_text: EDWARD HUSSEY Traveller & Agent 21 Willy St. Rock Ferry near Birkenhead
Cheshire do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A RESERVOIR PEN-
HOLDER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I do hereby declare the nature of my invention to relate to the class of pen-
holders denominated "Reservoir Penholders" and I construct the said penholder
by a method described below whereby a quantity of Ink may be held in the
reservoir described below or herein and whereby a sufficient quantity of Ink may.
be supplied to pen during use as will dispense with the necessity of constantly
dipping a pen into an Ink bottle as in the present ordinary method of Writing
I construct my invention in the following manner. First a glass, metal or
vulcanite tube from four to six inches long to form the holder, and reservoir for
the Ink. Second I make a metal case or tube open at one end and worked almost
to a point at the other. At the pointed end of this said case, I make a perforation,
making an aperture not larger than would admit freely the point of an ordinary
needle. Within the said metal case, I insert a circular piece of Gutta-percha,
about one eighth of one inch in thickness. At the bottom of the said case and
almost close to the aforesaid perforation or aperture, the Gutta-percha is also
perforated in the centre to correspond with the perforation in the metal case.
Within the said case immediately above the Gutta-percha I pack loosely a small
quantity of Worsted, or Sponge, and immediately above, adjoining the Worsted, or
Sponge, I insert within the said metal-case, a round piece of cane about half an
inch in length, and worked to so fit into the said case that no ink can decend to
the worsted from the reservoir except through the interstices of the cane.
The said metal case is so constructed that when packed with the substances,
(named above,) it may be fitted, so close as to be air tight, to the one end of the
tube described above, which forms the penholder,-in part and the Ink reservoir.
Within the said tube or Reservoir I insert at a distance of half an inch from the
top, or opposite end of the tube to that to which the metal case is fixed, I insert a
close-fitting piece of cane, and close to that immediately below it I pack a piece of
Worsted, or Sponge. On the top of the tube or reservoir I affix.a cap by screwing
on, or otherwise. In the centre of which cap, I make an aperture or perforation
a little larger in size than the aperture made in the end of the metal case, herein
described; which aperture in the said cap, admits sufficient air to force by pressure,
a sufficient quantity of ink through the aperture at the end of metal-case, at the
other end, on to the pen to which by an appliance subsequently described herein,
it is brought in contact. 1

page_text: For the purpose of filling the reservoir with ink I affix on the top of the tube
and covering the aforenamed cap, a pear-shaped India-Rubber Sucker which is
moveable off, and on, at will.
I then fit a barrel-penholder, on to the tube enclosing therein the metal case
already named, and fix to the penholder a pen of the ordinary kind.
This completes the construction of the said Reservoir penholder and when so
made it is ready for use, when filled with Ink.
To charge the reservoir with Ink I place the point of the pen in a bottle of Ink,
taking precaution to have the bottom of tube (called the metal case) closely in
contact with the Ink. At the same time I place the Sucker named herein to my
mouth and by that mode or means, draw the Ink into the reservoir, the temperature
of the tube being reduced as it is being filled, by the Ink, thereby indicates when
the reservoir is sufficiently filled.
To commence the gradual flow of the ink from the reservoir to the pen nib
I slightly press the top of the Sucker named above, with the thumb and thereby
produce an immediate flow of ink.
The said invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Letter A shows a protector for the pen nib.
B Show exterior view of my Reservoir penholder when completely constructed.
C-Shows the respective sections of my Reservoir penholder illustrating the
construction in detail, of which the following figures indicate the respective parts,
uses, and operations. No 1-1 show the metal-case herein named. No 2 the
Gutta-percha, perforated, inserted within the case. No 3 the worsted or sponge
packed next to Gutta percha within the case. No 4 the piece of cane inserted
within the case. No 9 the small perforation at the pointed end of the case through
which the Ink flows on to the pen when fitted No 5-5 shows the Reservoir or
tube which forms holder & Reservoir No. 8 shews top for screwing cap on.
No 7 shows piece of cane in reservoir, near the top. No 6 shews piece of sponge
within the reservoir immediately below the cane.
The object and effect of 23 and 4 is that of feeders and regulators of the flow of
Ink to the pen when in use.
The object and effect of No 6 and 7 is to regulate & modify the pressure of air
entering the Reservoir to force the flow of Ink; No 1 between No 4 and 5 shows
the point at which the said metal case is affixed to tube or Reservoir.
No 9 shews the perforated aperture at the pointed end of the metal case through
which the ink flows from feeders, on to the pen.
D-Barrel penholder, & pen, affixed, within which metal case & point of tube is
inserted for use as shewn in figure B.
E shews form of metal case perforated in a separate section.
F shows cap to be screwed on to top of tube or Reservoir and perforated at
centre of top for admission of air for pressure to secure flow of Ink, and also to
facilitate the filling of the Reservoir with ink in connection with the Sucker named
herein.
G. shows the form of the said Sucker which, when the pen is in use, or, the
Reservoir is to be filled with ink is affixed to the top of the tube, covering the cap,
named, herein, the object and effect of the Sucker being, when affixed, to the top
of tube as shewn in B, to assist in filling the Reservoir with Ink as afore described,
herein, and to start the flow of ink to the pen us so described before herein.
Having now fully described my invention herein named, I claim for it the
following advantages and novelty of construction
First. That it discovers simplicity of construction.
Second. That the application and mode of using and affixing Cane, Worsted,
Gutta percha, Sponge, and India Rubber Sucker, for the purposes named and
described herein, constitutes my invention a novelty, in its features.

page_text: Third That the simplicity of the construction of my Reservoir penholder renders
it more easy to clean than other inventions having the same object and further it
can. be produced & sold for less than most others. therefore I claim for my:
invention an improvement in Reservoir penholders by the construction of material,
and the manner and process of applying the same, 'named herein.
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