IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS OR MARKING INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph John Perry, of Red Lion Square, in the
County of Middlesex, and William Edward Wiley, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Jolin Perry and
William Edward Wiley at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd December 1873.
We, JOSEPH JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of
Middlesex, and WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS OR MARKING INSTRUMENTS," to be as
follows:-
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The Invention has for its object improvements in pens or marking
instruments, and the first part of our Invention relates more particularly
to that class of pens or marking instruments in which two or more
broad plates fixed at a certain distance apart from each other are

page_text: employed to form a reservoir for the ink or other marking fluid, and
this part of our Invention consists in the employment of only one plate
to come into contact with the paper or other surface to produce the
writing or marks required, and in order to enable the ink readily to flow
down such single plate we form it at its lower end with a number of
fine grooves down (which the ink will flow, partly by aid of capillary
attraction and partly by aid of the force of gravitation. This part of
our Invention is also applicable to pens or marking instruments having
a small point or nib to produce comparatively fine marks or writing.
Our Invention consists, secondly, in connecting such plates together
by means of eyeletting or rivetting, in which case for some descriptions
of pens only one of such plates will be made long enough to pass into the
handle, and the others will be made considerably shorter. By these
means we dispense with the costly process of soldering the plates
together and provide means whereby the plates can be readily separated
from each other by being turned on the eyelet or rivet to enable them
to be more readily cleansed than when united together as heretofore.
If desired this mode of connecting together the plates may be
employed in cases where one of such plates is split into two nibs.
In the construction of pens or marking instruments according to our
Invention one or more of the plates may be formed of hard india-rubber,
glass, agate, or other material not liable to be injured by the ink or
marking fluid used, in which case we prefer to make such plates in two
pieces, the one being formed in metal with turned-over pieces to receive
and hold the other which is formed of hard india-rubber, glass, agate, or
other similar material.
Our Invention also consists in providing such description of pens or
marking instruments with prepared "ink paper" placed between the
plates thereof, or in coating the plates of such description of pens or
marking instruments with chemical matter, so that by merely dipping
such pen or marking instrument so prepared into water a supply of ink
or marking fluid is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph John Perry and William Edward Wiley
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, and
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Bend greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Joseph John Perry and
William Edward Wiley, Her special license, that we, the said Joseph
John Perry and William Edward Wiley, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph John Perry and
William Edward Wiley, our 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 "IMROVEMENTS IN PENS OR MARKING INSTRUMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph John
Perry and William Edward Wiley, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly
describe 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 Joseph John Perry, on behalf of
myself and the said William Edward Wiley, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
The Invention has for its object improvements in pens or marking
instruments, and the first part of our Invention relates more particularly

page_text: Figures 1 and 2 represent edge and plan views of a pen or marking
instrument constructed according to the first part of our Invention.
In this arrangement it will be seen that a number of plates a, b, c, d, e,
are so formed and fixed together as to form a reservoir for the ink or
other marking fluid between them as heretofore, but instead of causing
two of such plates to come in contact with the paper or other surface
to produce the writing or marks required we employ only one of such
plates (the plate a) to come into contact with the paper or other surface,
and in order to enable the ink readily to flow down such single plate we
form it at its lower end with a number of fine grooves or slits a¹ down,
which the ink will flow, partly by aid of capillary attraction and
partly by aid of the force of gravitation.
Figure 3 represents another pen or marking instrument constructed
according to the first part our Invention. In this case the parts are made.
precisely similar to those of the pen or marking instrument shown at
Figures 1 and 2, except that the plates a, b, c, d, e, are somewhat
tapered in form towards their outer ends, by which means the pen or
marking instrument may be employed to produce finer marks or writing,
but if desired this part of our Invention may be applied
marking instruments having a small point or nib to the
produce comparatively fine marks or writing, as shown at
and 5.
to pens or
plate a to
Figures 4
At Figure 6 we have represented a pen or marking instrument con-
structed according to the second part of our Invention. In this case
instead of connecting the plates a, b, c, together by solder as in the pens
or marking instruments before described such plates a, b, c, are con-
nected together by means of an eyelet f, or it may be by a rivet, and
in this case only one plate (the plate a) is made long enough to pass:
into the handle g and the others are considerably shorter.
If desired however. this mode of connecting together the plates a, b, c,
may be employed in pens or marking instruments of the form shown
at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, or it may be employed in cases where the

page_text: plate a is split into two nibs, or where both the plates a and b are
made of a length to come into contact with the paper or other
surface.
In the construction of pens or marking instruments according to our
Invention one or more of the plates a, b, c, d, e, may be formed of hard 5
india-rubber, glass, agate, or other material not liable to be injured or
corroded by the ink or other marking fluid used, in which case we
prefer, as shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3, to make such plate or plates in
two pieces, the one being formed in metal with turned-over pieces a² to
receive and hold the other which is formed of hard india-rubber, glass, 1
agate, or other similar material.
Our Invention also consists in providing such description of pens or
marking instruments with prepared "ink paper" placed between the
several plates thereof, or in coating the plates of such description of pens
or marking instruments with chemical matter, so that by merely dipping 1
such pen or marking instrument into water a supply of ink or marking
fluid is obtained.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the
mode in which we carry the same into effect, we would have it
understood that what we claim as our Invention of improvements in 2
pens or marking instruments of the character described is,―
Firstly. The employment of only one plate to come into contact with
the paper or other surface to produce the writing or marks required,
such plate being formed at its lower or marking end with a number
of fine grooves or slits to facilitate the flow of the ink or other marking 2
fluid used in the manner substantially as herein shown and described.
Secondly. We claim the mode of connecting the various plates a, b, c,
d, e, together by means of rivets or eyelets, in manner and for the
purpose substantially as herein shown and described.
Thirdly. We claim forming one or more of the plates a, b, c, d, e, g
either partially or entirely of hard india-rubber, glass, agate, or other
material not liable to be injured or corroded by the ink or other marking
fluid used.
And, Fourthly. We claim the providing such descriptions of pens or
other marking instruments with prepared "ink paper" placed between g
the plates thereof, and we also claim the coating the various plates

page_text: with chemical matter, so that by merely dipping such pen or other
marking instrument into water a supply of ink or marking fluid is
obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph John Perry, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.