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H.. C. BENSON. \FQUNTAIN-PE No 193 071; 7 Patented July 17,1877.

N, PETERS, PHOTO L TNOGRAFH UNITED STATES PATE Genres.

HENRY O. BENSON, OF -YONKERS, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH REOKENDORFER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-FEMS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l93,0-7 I, dated July 17, 1877; application filed I June 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, HENRY O. BENSON, of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pens; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, andto the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that kind-of pen which is provided with a soluble solid ink or writing material, so arranged that when the pen is dipped in water said material will, to a certain extent, dissolve in the water held by the pen, and thus produce an ink or writingfluid, which will be given off by the pen in the usual way.

I am aware that a pen in which the combination above named is found has before been made.

My invention relates to the means for bolding and maintaining the solid writing material in proper position with relation to the pen.

It is my object to combine the pen and the means aforesaid in such a manner as to admit of the solid ink being renewed as often as required.

It is further my object to produce such a combination of the parts specified as will permit the pen to be removed and replaced without interference with the writing material or the means for holding the same.

In the drawings accompanying this specification there are shown articles in which both A of the results above mentioned are arrived at.

The pens shown in the drawings are represented on an enlarged scale.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are each a longitudinal central section of a pen embodying my invention.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the clasp that retains the ink-solid is part and parcel of the interior barrel or tube of the pen-holder.

Referring to these figures, A is the outer barrel of the pen-holder, and B isthe inner barrel. and held in' the usual way. Formed in one piece with the inner barrel B is an extension or tongue, D, whose'outer GildgGXtBIldS forward, so as to be in close proximity to the under side of the pen 0, and this end is bent into tubular, or approximately tubular, form, to constitute a clasp which shall receive and hold'the ink-solid d. This ink-solid is in the shape of a stick, like a pencil-lead or a crayon, and can readily be inserted in, or. withdrawn from, the clasp. When in place it is in contact,'or almost in contact, with the under side of the pen, and is so positioned that when the pen is dipped in 1iquid-as, for instance, water-the liquid taken up will dissolve a portion of thewriting material, thus producing a writing-fluid which will produce marks like those of ink.

The ink-solid I in preference use possesses copying properties, being composed of aniline combined with white clayand gum, or other suitable base or binding medium'such a core or stick, for instance, as is found in the ink I copying-pencil, so called, now in market.

In each Fig. l and 2 the clasp is made in one piece with the inner barrel of the holder, the two clasps differing only in form. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the inner barrel in Fig. 1, detached from the other parts of the pen.

I prefer that the tongue D should be a spring, or'have a slight spring action, so as to have a slight hearing at its point against the pen.

It is also preferred that the jaw of the-clasp or tube should be somewhat elastic, so as to take better hold on the ink-stick. In Fig. 3 the device for holding the ink-solid is made of wire, E, bent at its front end toform a hook or ring, or segment of a ring, sufficient to receive and hold the ink-stick cl, which, by the spring action of the wire, is held up against the under side of the pen, as shown. The inner end of the wire is made fast to the pen-holder, and when, as in the present case, the holder is arranged to slide in a case, F, the wire can extend out into and through the sliding ring Between the two the penG is inserted G, thus forming the bond of union between the holder and the-external ring, bywhich the holder is moved. 4

The outer end of the wire spring may, if preferred, be formed only with a slight bend or concave suflicient to fit the ink-stick, which, in this caseywill be held in place by the pressure of the spring between said spring and the pen. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the inner barrel and the spring-clasp. (Shown in Fig. 3.) I would remark that the clasp may be at I tached not only to the holder, but also to the handle, or to the pen itself. I prefer, however, on most accounts,rto attach the clasp to the holder.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- '-1. The combination, substantially as set forth, of the pen, the clasp, and the detachathe pen-holder, the pen proper, and the inksolid spring-clasp, arranged to bear against or toward the under side of the pen with a yielding pressure, asand for the purposes specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY O. BENSON.

Witnesses:

S. BRAISTED, LEONARD REINDEL.

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