AN IMPROVED PENHOLDER
Year: 1884

page_text: I ALEXANDER MCCALLUM GORDON of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh,
Accountant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVED
PENHOLDER to be as follows:-
Penholders as ordinarily constructed when used in ruling lines allow the ruler to
become soiled by ink from the pen, and unless the ruler is constantly wiped the
paper being ruled is apt to be smudged or smeared with ink and the neatness and
good appearance of the work spoiled; besides there is considerable waste of time
caused by cleaning the ruler.
Now the main object of my invention is to provide a penholder equally
applicable for writing or ruling and in which there is no danger of the ruler being
soiled.
The invention consists essentially in making a pen holder with a barrel and
guard secured to a stick or equivalent and a nib or pen carrier sliding in or on the
barrel so that the nib or pen inay be projected beyond or drawn behind the guard.
In practice the pen or nib carrier and pen are projected for dipping in the ink
and writing and retracted for ruling, the guard is then between the pen or nib
and the ruler.
J. P. KING,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I ALEXANDER MCCALLUM GORDON of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh,
Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED
PEN HOLDER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Penholders as ordinarily constructed when used in ruling lines allow the ruler to
become soiled by ink from the pen, and unless the ruler is constantly wiped the
paper being ruled is apt to be smudged or smeared with ink and the neatness and
good appearance of the work spoiled; besides there is considerable waste of time
caused by cleaning the ruler.
Now the main object of my invention is to provide a pen holder equally
applicable for writing or ruling and in which there is no danger of the ruler being
Boiled.
The invention consists essentially in making a penholder with a barrel and
guard secured to a stick or equivalent and a nib or pen carrier sliding in or on the
barrel so that the nib or pen may be projected beyond or drawn behind the guard.
Instead of making the guard fixed and the nib or pen carrier movable the said
carrier may be fixed and the guard be made movable.
Fig 1 is a view of a penholder under my invention with a stationary guard a
secured to the stick b by a barrel c. d nib or pen carrier free to slide to and fro
within the barrel c and moved either inwards or outwards by the stud f passing
through a slot in the barrel c. As shown the pen is in position for ruling, the
dotted lines show it projected for dipping into the ink.
Fig 2 is an elevation of a modification of pen holder in which the barrel c and
pen or nib carrier d are in one and in which the guard a slides on the said barrel.
The dotted lines show the position of the guard when in acting position.
Fig 3 is an elevation of a penholder in which the guard is attached to the barrel
by a pin and is turned on its axis as shown by the dotted lines when it is required
to dip the pen in the ink.
It will be obvious that the barrel and stick might be in one piece and that wood
metal or other material may be used in the construction of my improved pen-
holders, also that pen or nib holder and guard may be combined in many ways
without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature. of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. The combination of a movable pen or nib holder and stationary guard
substantially in the manner and for the purposes setforth.
Second The combination of a stationary pen or nib holder and movable guard
substantially in the manner and for the purposes setforth.
Dated this 29th day of September 1884.