The Fountain Pen Patent Archive

The instruments that put ink under pressure

19th century pen patent

Patent drawing sheet showing several dip pens fitted with adjustable elastic finger and thumb plates (A, B, C) held by sliding rings, alongside enlarged views of nib blanks with thickened points and arched slits, a channel-style ink feeder, and a hand gripping a plated pen holder; a second sheet shows a mechanical stamping apparatus (Fig. 11) used to form the nib blanks and detail views of the upper and lower dies.MODE OF MAKING METALLIC PENS OR INSTRUMENTS FOR WRITING.Henry Christopher Windle, Joseph Gillott, and Stephen Morris · March 21, 1838Six diagrams labeled 1 through 6 showing the progressive shaping of a gold pen nib, from a flat blank with a slot marked A, through curved forms with an open slit marked B, to a finished closed nib marked C at the tip.METALLIC PEN.Matthew S. Fife · April 3, 1849Six technical line drawings show a metal dip pen nib in flat blank form and bent form, with labeled parts including ribs, slots, side spring plates, nib, and shank, plus a final drawing of a full pen holder with the nib flexing under writing pressure.METALLIC PEN.Myer Phineas · July 12, 1853A patent drawing showing a long slender pen holder tapering to a split metal nib, with three smaller detail views illustrating a slide-on collar with two curved metal tongues attached near the pen point.METALLIC PENAlphonso Craytey · July 1, 1856Patent drawing showing a disassembled 19th-century fountain pen with labeled parts including barrel sections, quill conductor, nib, and small hardware components like screws and disks.IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENSCharles Adolphus Rosefield · May 12, 1857Four small line drawings show a metal pen nib blank with slots cut into its sides, the curved pen body, a separate spring piece with a bow-shaped end, and the fully assembled pen with the spring fitted over the back of the nib.METALLIC PENF. A. Wait · July 7, 1857Line drawing of a dip pen nib showing an S-shaped curve between shank and point, with labeled flanges and cross-sections illustrating its construction.WRITING-PEN.Samuel Warrington · July 24, 1866A sequence of six technical line drawings showing the underside plan and longitudinal cross-sections of a 19th-century fountain pen holder, each labeled with letters marking the reservoir, elastic tube, distributing tube, nib, and thumb-plate components.RESERVOIR PEN-HOLDERJohn Darling · September 3, 1867Patent drawing showing a pen nib with an attached perforated metal ink reservoir, including a top view, a cross-section, and a plan view of the detached reservoir.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSE. L. Pratt · February 18, 1868Two technical line drawings of a fountain pen: Figure 1 shows a longitudinal cross-section revealing an internal glass ink cistern, central air tube, and spring valve with a thumb button, while Figure 2 shows the same pen's exterior side view with a tapered nib and cylindrical barrel.IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENS.George Kneip · October 6, 1868Patent drawing showing six figures of a steel dip pen nib with an attached spoon-shaped metal reservoir on its back, including plan and side views, a detached spoon piece, and cross-sectional details of the sliding attachment mechanism.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSHenry S. Goodspeed · March 9, 1869Patent drawing of a steel dip-pen nib with a curved fountain spring inserted through slots and its ends bent over to hold it in place, shown from front, side, and as a separate spring piece.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSWilliam A. Morse · December 7, 1869Patent drawing showing a pen nib in Fig. 1 with notches labeled B B, Fig. 2 showing the same nib fitted with a rubber ring N and ink channel D, and Fig. 4 showing a small half-moon shaped rubber ring labeled N.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSD. D. Foley · January 18, 1870Patent drawing showing a cylindrical fountain pen holder in longitudinal section with internal spring, valve, and piston mechanisms, alongside eight small perspective views of a four-sided pen point labeled Figures 3 through 11, each showing a different facet or angle of the nib used for varying handwriting styles.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSRichard H. Chinn · December 20, 1870Patent drawing showing four views of a metal pen nib labeled Fig. 1 through Fig. 4, illustrating differing widths of the left (A) and right (B) sides of the tip and a beveled edge in cross-section.IMPROVEMENT IN WRITING-PENSHenry D. J. Pratt · June 20, 1876Line drawing of a dip pen holder with a rectangular slot for a cylindrical solid-ink cartridge, shown in elevation, underside, top, and cross-section views alongside the cartridge itself.IMPROVEMENT IN WRITING-PENSLeopold Beral Bertram · November 14, 1876Patent drawing showing six figures of a fountain pen holder, including a longitudinal cross-section revealing an internal ink reservoir, elastic rubber chamber, connecting rod, curved ink delivery tube to the nib, a plunger with hooked wire for filling, and a protective cap for the pen point.IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENSHenri Berlie and François X. Lamboley · May 1, 1877Patent drawing of a Victorian-era fountain pen showing the barrel, sliding tubes, internal valve mechanism, nib assembly, and a curved metal fountain attachment clipped beneath the pen point, with cross-sectional detail views of the pump and valve components.IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENSGeorge Wells · May 27, 1879Patent drawing sheet showing a slender fountain pen in full profile, a cutaway sectional view revealing an internal sliding frame with needle valve and threaded gland-screw packing box, a close-up of the finger button and diaphragm, a top view of the concentric packing components, and a small sketch of a hand holding the pen while writing.FOUNTAIN-PENFedor Juliusberger · December 8, 1885Patent drawing of a hard rubber fountain pen holder shown in full longitudinal section with labeled internal parts including the nib, nozzle, wedge key, ink ducts, condensing chamber, and cap, alongside smaller cross-sectional and detail figures of the mechanism.FOUNTAIN PEN-HOLDER.William W. Stewart · December 21, 1886Two vertical patent drawings of a hard rubber fountain pen in longitudinal section, one shown open with the point exposed and internal flexible tube and compressor visible, the other shown with the protective cap fitted over the nib end, with lettered parts labeling the barrel, tube, compressor, and nib.FOUNTAIN-PEN.Robert Christopher Frampton · January 29, 1889Patent drawing showing two long fountain pen assemblies with labeled parts (barrel A, tube B, cap D, feeder F, pen E) alongside small cross-sectional diagrams of the feeder bar showing spiral and straight ink grooves.FOUNTAIN-PEN.Theodore Frederick Bourne · February 5, 1889Patent drawing sheet showing multiple elongated wooden pen-holders with metal collars, various flat-shanked steel nibs with shoulders and slots, and small circular end-view diagrams illustrating different slit and hole patterns for centering the nib.COMBINED PEN AND PEN-HOLDERGeorge Henry Holland Clement · December 24, 1889Patent drawing sheet showing flat metal pen blanks B and C with V-shaped slotted ends, several folded partial and completed twin-pointed nib assemblies labeled Figures 1 through 11, and a signed inventor block for Abraham Kline.TWIN-POINTED PEN.Abraham Kline · August 6, 1895Line drawing of a metal reservoir clip clasped around a dip pen's nib, shown in perspective, cross-section, and underside views, with labeled parts a, a2, a3, a4, and A.RESERVOIR ATTACHMENT FOR PENS.George W. Dally · August 27, 1895Patent drawing of a hard rubber fountain pen shown in full diagonal view with a cutaway section revealing the internal feed-bar, pen-point, and plug-valve, alongside smaller detail views of the triangular feed-bar cross-sections and the pen-point's locking projection.FOUNTAIN-PEN.William H. O'Keefe · October 1, 1895Patent drawing showing eight labeled cross-sectional and detail views of a fountain pen, including the assembled holder, nib, feeder-bar with angular bore, and a small rubber ball on a wire used to regulate ink flow.FOUNTAIN-PEN.William W. Stewart · August 24, 1897Patent drawing of a fountain pen showing a long hollow barrel in cross-section (Fig.1) with an internal wire skeleton and feeder-bar, plus four smaller side views (Figs. 3-5) of alternate wire-strand skeleton configurations converging into a bow near the nib, and a round cross-section (Fig.2) showing the nested tube and skeleton arrangement.FOUNTAIN-PENWilliam W. Stewart · August 29, 1899