US1221468A - Fountain attachment for pens. - Google Patents

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M. H. & H. MARUI. FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR PENS. APPLICATION FILED DEC. ll. I915.

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MARIE HERISON MARUI AND HYOKICHI MARUI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR PENS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

Application filed December 11, 1915. Serial No. 66,235.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Manna Hiiiuson Manor, a citizen of the United States, and T'TYOKIGHI MARUI, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, and residents of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain Attachments for Pens, of which the following is a specification.

This device is intended as a means for supplying a quantity of ink to an ordinary writing pen so as to avoid the necessity of dipping the pen into the ink at the frequent intervals required when using an ordinary pen, and although we are aware that devices having certain of the features of our invention have been produced in the past we have endeavored to improve upon such devices as to extend the scope of their usefulness.

The device proper consists of a spoon and we have so constructed our invention that it may be utilized with any pen or holder, and may be continued in service even after the first pen with which it is employed has become useless.

The object of our invention is simplicity, efliciency and cheapness and the construction will be fully set forth as the specification progresses.

The following is what we consider the best means of carrying out this invention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a pen and pen holder, the dotted lines showing the position of our device.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a pen with This and the remaining views are on a large scale.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of our device alone.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a slightly modified construction.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing a certain operation of our invention.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

We have stated that our invention was intended to be employed with an ordinary pen and holder and in Fig. 1 we show an ordinary pen indicated at 7 and a holder therefor as shown at 8. This holder may have a soft finger grip 9 which may be of rubber or any other suitable material. The

pen 7 is adapted to be inserted into the holder, in a manner common to all steel pens or the like and we desire it understood that the holder may be of any size or design and that although we have shown what is sometimes termed a falcon pen the style of pen or the size of this important member need not be specifically setforth as our device will operate with equal facility with any and all pens.

Our device consists of a bowl or spoon of a convenient depth and of an area that will cause or allow the upper or open part to be entirely covered by the pen. Such a bowl is shown at 10 and it will be noted that the outer or free portion is tapered as indicated at 11 for the purpose of allowingthe ink to flow freely toward the point of the pen when the pen is held in position for writing.

The inner or back portion of the bowl may be straight or nearly so as shown at 12, and the sides 13 and 1 1, should extend upwardly to the plane of the inner portion of the pen.

Formed integral. with the bowl is a neck 15 which extends from the bowl to terminate in a hilt portion 16 which is of a width greater than the neck portion 15.

The hilt 16 of our device should be formed as a section of a cylinder, the radius of which coincides with the radius of that portion of a pen which is to be inserted into the holder, and the length of the portion 16 should be sufficient to allow the device to be securely held.

The sizes of the parts need not be limited within any definite bounds, but we have discovered that to operate with the greatest satisfaction the bowl should be entirely covered or should be contained within the outline of the pen and it will also be noted that the opening 17 in the upper side of the bowl is restricted and that it tapers from the back toward the point end as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Thus far we have said nothing as to the material employed. We prefer however that our invention be constructed of annealed German silver or brass or of any other flexible metal. The flexibility is important under some conditions for with certain shapes of pens it will be an advantage to bend the neck 5 in the manner shown in Fig. 6, so that only the extreme point 18 will contact with tht pen. This is important With pens having exceedingly large openings 19 or under other conditions which 7 A We need not set forth.

We have also found that with certain types of holders a straight or uncurved hilt the scope of the appended claims Without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

'Having carefully and fully described our invention What We claim and desire to secure 7 by Letters'Patent is 1. A fountain attachment for pens having a boWl and a hllt extendlng in a continuous line upon a general plane, and a resilient Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the neck connecting said boWl and hilt, to allow the open edge of said bowl to be retained upon the surface of the concaved side of a pen as herein specified.

2. A fountain attachment for pens having neck of reduced area connecting said bowl and hilt.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New November, 1915.

MARIE HERTSON MARUI. HYOKIGHI M AR'UI.

Vitnesses G. E. S. Mann,

ARTHUR PHELPS MARK.

York this 27th day of Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

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