The Fountain Pen Patent Archive

The instruments that put ink under pressure

Elastic finger plate

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, 1838