IMPROVEMENTS IN STYLO- GRAPHIC OR FOUNTAIN PENS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Douglas Carter of King Street Finsbury Square
in the County of Middlesex for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN STYLO-
GRAPHIC OR FOUNTAIN PENS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Douglas Carter at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th March 1882.
JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER of King Street Finsbury Square in the County of
Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN STYLOGRAPHIC OR FOUNTAIN PENS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in stylographic or fountain pens
and relates to means whereby the points of such pens are caused to last much
longer and the pen to write much more smoothly than is the case with such class
of pens constructed as heretofore.
For this purpose instead of forming the point of the pen of metal, vulcanite
wood or ivory as heretofore, I according to my Invention form the point of such
pen of a jewel which is drilled to fit the needle and allow the latter free play
therein.
This drilled jewel I mount in a suitable setting formed of gold or other
incorrodible metal which is fixed to the holder by screwing or by other suitable
means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Douglas Carter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd September 1882.
JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER of King Street Finsbury Square in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN STYLOGRAPHIC OR FOUNTAIN PENS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in stylographic or fountain pens
and relates to means whereby the points of such pens are, caused to last much
longer and the pen to write much more smoothly than is the case with such class
of pens constructed as heretofore.
For this purpose instead of forming the point of the pen of metal vulcanite
wood or ivory as heretofore I according to my Invention form the point of such
pen of a jewel which is drilled to fit the needle and allow the latter free play
therein. This drilled jewel I mount in a suitable setting formed of gold or other
incorrodible metal which is fixed to the holder by screwing or by other suitable
means.
And in order that my said Invention may be morely clearly understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying Drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an outside view partly in section of my improved stylographic or
fountain pen and Figure 2 is a sectional view representing the point of such pen
drawn to a larger scale than Figure 1.
a. is the holder or body of the pen which is constructed as heretofore and is
provided with a needle b which is pressed forward by a spring so as to cause the
needle to project a short distance from the point of the pen except when pressed
back by contact with the writing surface as is well understood.
pen of
According to my Invention however instead of forming the point of the
metal glass vulcanite, wood or ivory as heretofore, I form the point of the pen
of a jewel c which is drilled to fit the needle b. and allow the latter free play
therein.
This drilled jewel c. I mount in a suitable setting d. formed of gold or other
incorrodible metal which is burred over at its outer end to secure the jewel c.
therein and this setting d. is preferably fixed in the holder a by shrinking the latter
on to the jewel c when the latter has been inserted in a hole formed to fit the
cylindrical part of such setting d but if desired the said setting d may be fixed to
the holder by screwing or by other suitable means.
The jewels are drilled and polished in the manner well understood by jewellers.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode in which
I carry the same into effect I would have it understood that what I claim is forming
the points of stylographic or fountain pens of jewels substantially as herein shewn
and described.
In witness whereof I the said James Douglas Carter have hereunto set my
hand and seal this First day of September in the year of our Lord One
thend night hundred end eighty two.