US253283A - hawkbs - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. P.. HAWKES.

I POUNTMN PEN. No. 253,283.

Patented Feb. 7,1882. Y

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ATTORNEY.

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Usare@ @raras Param* GEORGE F. HA/VKES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOUNTAIN-PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,283, dated February 7, 1882.

Application nica April 1, 1881. (No model.)

i To alt whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE F. HAWKEs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Pens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is conned to that class'of fountain-pens wherein a curved feedingspout I ervoir having an air-tube extending from the upper end of the handle downward and into the pen section at the lower end, the air-tube being closed at the upper end by a screw-cap; secondly, a screw-coupling which connects the handle-reservoir with a detachable pen-section, which latter has a curved spout that supplies the ink to the nib of the pen. The screwcoupling is provided with an interior annular recess, which forms a space around the shank of the pen-section for inserting and securely holding the pen. y I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of my improved fountain-pen, and' Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are detailed side views, respectively, of the han` die-reservoir, the air-tube, the screw-coupling, and the pen-section, shown as detached from each other.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre! spending parts.

A in the drawings represents the hollow handle or reservoir of my improved fountainpen, and B the screw-coupling which connects the handle-reservoir A with the pen-section O. The handle-reservoirfA is screwed onto the eXteriorly-threaded rear end of the coupling B, while the pen-section O is inserted into the opposite socket-shaped end of the coupling until a shoulder, c, ofthe pen-section O comes in contact with an interior shoulder or contraction, b, of the screw-coupling. An air-tube, D, extends through the entire length of the handle A, and is tightly secured to the upper end of the handle A by a sleeve, d, which is made in one piece with the air-tube, or of a separate piece, as desired. rEhe sleeve d tits by a collar, d', onto the end of the handle A, and is threaded above the collar d', it being provided with a vent-l1ole,cl2,iu theusual manner, which is closedV by a screw-cap, D. The screwcap D' closes the air-tube and handle when screwed down tightly to the collar d. By unscrewing the screw-cap D air is admitted to the inside of the fountain-pen, the same passing down through theair-tube and through one or more air-holes at its lower end, so as to give vent to the ink in the handle-reservoir. The air-tube D is made long enough so as to extend through the entire length of the handle into the pen-section, as shown in Fig. 1. The inl; is conducted from the handle-reservoir A through the screw-coupling B into the pen-section O, and through a'valved and beakshaped spout, C', to the nib of the pen. The beak-shaped end of the spout C tits closely to the under side of the pen and supplies the ink thereto. The pen itself is irmly secured by being inserted into an annular socket-shaped recess, e, which is formed in the vscrew-coupling around the shank of the pen-section, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, which annular recess enables the pen to be always set exactly above the beak-shaped spout of the pen-section. The annular recess c in the screw-coupling has the advantage that it can he turned out with great facility, so as to dispense with the difficult sawing outof a segmental space or recess by means of a curved saw, as heretofore in fountain-pens. By means of the screw-coupling and detachable air-tube the fountain-pen may be readily taken to pieces and entirely cleaned of any adhering ink, as access is cthen given to every part thereof-to wit, to the handle, air-tube, screw-coupling, and pen-section.

For carrying the fountain-pen in the pocket a cap is placed over the pen-section and se;y

.cured to the lower end of the screw-coupling for protecting the pen, as shown in Fig. l. A further advantage of this construction of fountain-pens is that the same may be readily filled by unscrewing the coupling from the lower end of the handle-reservoir, in the same manner as stylographic pens, so that the pen offers to par- IOO ties who do not like to write with stylogruphic pens all the facilities of the sume, while permitting the use ot common or gold pens.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten tl. The combination, in u fountain-pen, of a reservoir-handle, u detachable pen-section pro vided with u curved spout adapted to feed ink to a common pen, n coupling' between the pensection and reservoir-handle, and a detaclmble air-tube having a perforated end extended into the pen-section, substantially as described. 2. The combination, in a fountain-pen, of u reservoir-lmndle, n detachable pen-section provided near its upper end with :t shoulder, und

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