Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov!, 1895
JAMES WHEELER 100 High Street Ilfracombe North Devon Pharmaceutical
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object 1. The imparting of greater flexibility, in use,
to the ordinary metallic nibs. 2. The ability to vary the nib from a straight line
with the holder to any required angle whereby the ink carrying capacity of the
nio is increased and its passage across the paper facilitated.
The component parts of my pen-holder are. The barrel or holder having female
screw fixed within the hinder part of same. The india rubber or other elastic
core as lining and spring to front portion of holders. The saddle-piece having
clip for retention of nib in position and a tail-piece acted upon by the screwing up
of the handle to the barrel. The handle having affixed a pin with male screw
which by adjustment depresses the tail piece of saddle and correspondingly tilts
the nib to any desired angle with the holder. The pin for attaching the saddle
and core to the holder.
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I, JAMES WHEELER, of 100 High Street, Ilfracombe, North Devon,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, 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 :-
My invention has for its object (1) the imparting of greater flexibility, in use,
to the ordinary metallic nibs, (2) to provide for varying the position of the nib
from a straight line with the holder to any required angle, whereby the ink carrying
capacity of the nib is increased and its passage across the paper facilitated.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a partial longitudinal section, and Figs. 2 3 and 4 are detail views
showing to an enlarged scale a penholder according to this invention, in which 1 is
the metallic barrel with female screw thread 2 in its hinder-part. 3 is an ordinary
metallic nib. 4 is a saddle-piece which is mounted loosely on a pin 5 secured
across the barrel 1 and between which and the wall of the barrel i the nib 3 is
inserted. The saddle-piece 4 is provided with a clip 7 (see Figs. 2 and 3) suitably
secured to it at its inner end for the purpose of receiving the inner or rear end of
the nib 3. A metallic spring 8 coiled round the pin 5 is used to give elasticity to
the saddle-piece 4. In some cases I employ instead of the metal spring an india
rubber core arranged between the concave part of the saddle piece and the front
of the barrel 1.
In order that the nib 3 may be placed at a suitable angle with the holder 1 the
handle or stem of the holder is provided at its front end with a more or less blunt
metallic or other pin such as 10 and with a male screw-thread 11 corresponding to

page_text: the female screw-thread 2 fitted or formed in the hinder part of the barrel 1. The
saddle-piece 4 ends in an inclined tail-piece 12 which is acted upon by the point 10
when the same is advanced by screwing the threaded end of the handle more or
less into the thread 2; the saddle-piece can thus be turned more or less about its
pin 5 and the nib 3 correspondingly tilted to the desired angle with the holder 2,
the spring, allowing the pib to yield more easily than is the case with penholders
as heretofore constructed. When the handle is screwed back the spring 8 moves
the saddle-piece 4 and nib 3, in the opposite direction. The construction might
obviously be modified (see Fig. 10) by making the pin 10 extend the entire length
of the holder and provided with a screw thread at its upper end so as to be turned
in relation to the holder for adjusting the pen.
Figs. 56 and 7 are respectively a part longitudinal section, an elevation and a
plan of a modified construction of penholder in which the arrangements for
varying the angular position of the nib 3 with regard to the holder are dispensed
with but in which greater flexibility is imparted to the nib than in an ordinary
penholder by means of a spring 8 arranged as described with reference to Figs. 1
to 4 inclusive.
Figs. 8 and 9 are corresponding views to Figs. 5 and 7 of a very simple form of
penholder in which the imparting of greater flexibility in use to the ordinary
metallic nib is effected by means of an india rubber or other elastic core 13, which
acts as a lining and spring to the front portion of the barrel or holder 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of penholders in which provision is made for imparting
flexibility in use to ordinary metallic nibs and for varying the position of the nib
to any required angle whereby the ink carrying capacity of the nib is increased
and its passage across the paper facilitated substantially as described.
2. In a penholder, the method substantially as described of imparting flexibility
in use, to an ordinary metallic nib.
3. In a penholder, the means substantially as described for varying the position
of the nib to any required angle with the holder for the purpose specified.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1895.