IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ralph Spear at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th July 1880.
RALPH SPEAR, of North Buildings, in the City of London.
IN PENHOLDERS.'
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"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention relates to improvements in penholders, the object of the
improvements being to so construct the penholder as to enable it to retain a
quantity of ink, and to feed it to the pen in a regular manner, and thus obviate
the necessity of having to constantly dip the pen into the ink as at present.
In carrying out the Invention I employ a penholder of any ordinary construction,
and to the metal holder properly so called I adapt a kind of brush constructed of a
number of wires, or cut metal, or a feeder. Any pen may be used with the holder,
which being dipped in the ink in the usual manner will take up a comparatively.
large quantity of ink, and supply it evenly and regularly to the pen, and avoid
blots
15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Ralph Spear in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th January
1881.

page_text: quantity of ink, and to feed it to the pen in a regular manner, and thus obviate the
necessity of having so frequently to dip the pen into the ink as at present.
In carrying out the Invention I employ a penholder of ordinary construction,
but preferably such as that hereinafter described, and to the metal holder properly
so called I adapt a feeder consisting of a kind of comb or brush constructed of a
number of wires, or cut metal, or other suitable material, such as horn. Any pen
may be used with the holder, and being dipped in the ink in the usual manner the
feeder will take up a comparatively large quantity of ink, and supply it evenly and
regularly to the pen, and avoid blots.
But to make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe the same
by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figuro 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 a side clevation of a penholder constructed according to my improvements;
Figure 3 is a section on line A, B,-of-Figuro-1-; Figure 4, plan of the underside of
Figure 1. Similar letters in all the Figures represent similar parts.
a is the metal part of the penholder, preferably constructed to hold the pen b on
the outside, as shewn; c is the feeder, which is preferably made of horn or like
non-corrosive material. The feeder c is constructed of a number of teeth forming a
kind of comb, and arranged so. as somewhat to conform to the shape of the pen,
that is to say, the central tooth of the feeder is the longest, and the teeth are
bevilled on the undersido from the point of the pen towards the holder; the other
end of the feeder is solid and adapted to fit the tubular part of the holder, so that
it may be easily placed therein and removed therefrom; d is the ordinary handle
or stick of the penholder.
A penholder being furnished with a feeder, as herein before described, it will be
understood that if the pen be dipped in ink in-the-usual manner, a comparatively
large quantity of ink will be taken up by the feeder, and the ink thus taken up
will be fed in an evon and regular manner to the pen while it is being used, and
without the ink dropping off therefrom in blots, and will thus obviate the necessity
of having so frequently to dip the pen into the ink, as is the case when an ordinary
pen without a feeder is employed. Although I have shewn in the Drawing a comb
shaped feeder as being the form which I have found to answer best in practice,
othor forms of feeder, as herein before described, may be employed.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the best means with
which I am acquainted for carrying the same into effect, what I claim is,—
The construction and application to penholders of a feeder, arranged and
operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and represented in the accompanying Drawing, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ralph Spear, have hereto set my hand and
seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury,
London.
RALPH SPEAR. (L.S.)