The Fountain Pen Patent Archive

The instruments that put ink under pressure

Dip pen

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, 1838A technical patent drawing showing an assembled steel dip pen with a pointed nib and wooden handle, alongside separate detail views of the two-piece steel nib, the tubular holder with set screws, and cross-sections showing internal pivot mechanisms.STEEL WRITING-PEN.David Thomas · July 3, 1840Technical patent drawing showing five magnified views of pen nibs, some assembled from separate pieces labeled A and B, with curved points marked C illustrating a rightward deflection near the tip.METALLIC PEN.William Fife · August 29, 1848Six 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, 1853Three technical line drawings of an elongated pointed metallic pen shaft attached to a holder, with one view sliced open to reveal an internal spiral spring and plates, and small projecting lips labeled c near the tip.PEN.W. R. Glover · August 1, 1854Three line drawings of a metal dip pen: a top view showing a bent-over spring tab forming an ink reservoir near the split nib, an unfolded version of the same pen blank with the tab still projecting outward, and a side profile view of the finished pen showing its slight upward curve.METALLIC PENMyer Phineas · February 5, 1856A 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, 1856Technical patent drawing of a nineteenth-century fountain pen holder showing a nib labeled A, a tubular holder B, and an adjustable spoon-shaped tongue C with a convex guide g, illustrated from side, top, and bottom views along with a detached close-up of the tongue mechanism.IMPROVEMENT IN RULING-GUIDES FOR FOUNTAIN-PENS.Isaac H. Hobbs · February 19, 1861Two hand-drawn diagrams of a curved metallic pen nib: Fig. 1 shows a full perspective view with an inserted plate labeled B projecting from the slit, and Fig. 2 shows a detached side view of the same plate with its slot labeled b.IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC PENS.Richard Griswold · May 20, 1862Technical patent drawing showing six figures of a dip pen holder with two nibs joined back to back to form a small ink reservoir between them, alongside a single ordinary pen nib for comparison.Pen-HolderD. D. Foley · December 17, 1867A patent drawing of a dip pen and holder with a small spring-clip ink reservoir attachment fitted near the nib, shown in full length view and in a separate close-up back-end view labeled Fig. 2.IMPROVEMENT IN INK-RETAINING ATTACHMENT FOR PENSAlbert G. Brown · January 25, 1870Line drawing of a pen-holder with a nib and triangular wire ink-retainer, shown whole and in cross-section revealing an internal rubber cushion band labeled b.IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERSRobert B. Lawrence · August 23, 1870Patent drawing showing five views of a metal pen nib: a flat cut blank, a formed pen tip, a side elevation, a cutaway revealing an ink-holding loop, and a side view with a sliding flexibility regulator.IMPROVEMENT IN PENSGermond Crandell · October 18, 1870Patent drawing of an antique dip pen showing a side view of the full pen body and four detail views of the split, spring-loaded nib point with labeled openings, tongues, and grooves.IMPROVEMENT IN WRITING-PENSRichard H. Chinn · January 21, 1873Line drawing of a dip pen holder with a nib and a small curved metal ink-retaining attachment shown both installed and removed, labeled with letters A, B, C, C1, and C2.IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENSWilliam H. Sprague · October 31, 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 of a slender tapered pen holder with a nib at one end, a thumb-catch slot along its side, a hand gripping it in writing position, and a cutaway sectional view revealing an internal ink rod and sliding tube mechanism.IMPROVEMENT IN SOLUBLE-INK PENSJoseph Perkins · January 1, 1878Patent 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 showing a hand writing with a dip pen above four detailed close-up views of the pen-point nib labeled A through F, illustrating a rolled metal tongue forming a small ink reservoir near the tip.PEN.William T. Keefer · March 23, 1897Patent drawing showing three views of a steel dip pen nib with a hardened glass-hard tip, plus a diagrammatic side elevation of an electrical apparatus with a rotating contact disk, dynamo, and support stands used to heat-treat the pen point.METALLIC PEN.Frederick J. W. Fischer · July 18, 1899