AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ON PENS
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PERRY, of Red Lion Square, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Bookseller
and Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, did
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the eleventh year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said James Perry, His special licence,
that I, the said James Perry, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said James Perry, my executors, admors, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, shonld and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR ON PENS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that I, the said James Perry, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear..

page_text: figures), or the central and lateral slits (as in the later three figures) between
its nib and shoulders, as for example, the aperture in Figure 1 is represented
to be between the nib or point d, and the shoulders a, a. In speaking of each
figure in particular, I have to observe that Figure 1 represents a pen having
an elliptical or oval aperture; Figure 2, a pen with an aperture oval on the
whole, but more pointed at the end towards the nib than at the opposite end;
Figure 3, a pen, with an aperture oval on the whole, but pointed at both
ends; Figure 4, a pen with an aperture formed as a parallelogram, or long
square, in its upper part, but rounded below; Figure 5, a pen with a squaro
aperture; Figure 6, a pen with a square-aperture, but with one of the
corners of the aperture placed in the direction of the nib; Figure 7, a pen with a
circular aperture; Figure 8, a pen with an aperture formed like a lozenge or
diamond, and having its longer diameter in the direction of the nib; Figure 9,
a pen, with a triangular aperture; Figure 10 represents a pen, having besides
the central slit two lateral slits, which arise out of the central slit, one on each
side; Figure 11, a pen with four lateral slits, the two uppermost of them
rising out of the central slit, one on each side, and the remaining two branch-
ing from the central slit, one on each side of it; Figure 12, a pen with six
lateral slits, two of them rising out of the central slit, one on each side, and
the remaining four branching from the central slit, two on each side. All the
preceding constructions of pens produce the flexibility stated by the means
stated, and within the limits stated; and each is, therefore, in common with
every other construction by which the same flexibility is produced, by means
analogous with those which have been explained, and within about the same
compass of the springing parts claimed by me as my invention. Of these
various construction, however, I prefer No. 1. I also consider that the very
best steel which is of a convenient thickness is the most suitable material to
be employed. If steel be used, it is desirable that the pens should be brought
to a spring temper. Of course, also, whatever hard and elastic metal is used,
the pens made from it should be of about the same diameter as those made
from quills.
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In witness whereof, I, the said James Perry, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hund
JAMES (L.B.) PERRY.

page_text: AND BE-IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of October, in
the year, of our Lord 1880, the aforesaid James Perry came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afores
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose!
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty.