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oats o. WlTHnaELL, 0F PLAISTOW, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR To HIM- SELF AND J. B. BRAGKETT, or LEWISTON, MAINE,

Leners vFame No. 62,913, ma March `12, 1867.

PEN-HOLDER.

' iO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that LORIN O. WITIIEREIL, of Plaistow, in the countyf of Rockingham, and State of New Hampshire, have invented 'a new and useful improvement in Pen-Holders, and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of 'which- Figure'l is a real' elevation; and 4 i Figure 2, a longitudinal section of a.pen-holderrand pen, as provided with my invention.

It is not 'new to combine with a pen and its holder an ink retainer or tongue, to Iextend down into the concavity of the pen, and nearly to its nib, the purpose of such being to retain 'ink in the pen. When such retainer is a fixture, or, in other words, is not capable of beingadjusted or Vmoved-nearer to or further from' the nib of' the pen, it does not operate long to good advantage, for the ink, by -drying on it and the pen and between the two, is apt to so cloy thepen as to either materially impede or'arrest itsvaction. With my improvement the retainer is movable away from the nib, so as to enable the pen to' lie-easily cleaned without the necessity of removing it from its stock or bolder; and besides, the ink retainer can be easily adjusted to auch a distance from the nib of the pen as will insure the requisite iiowage o the ink in accordance with the desire of the penman. i

l In the drawings, A denotes the pen, and B its handle or carrier, they being constructei and applied together in the usual manner, except that in makingthe carrier I form it with a depression or long notch, a, in one side of it, arranged between two terminal slots b b, which open out of the tubular carrier, such carrier being destined to receive a handle, to he inserted in it at'its upper end'. The ink retainer is shown-at C as consisting of a long strip of watch-spring, or thin steel, or other proper material. It is inserted through the two terminal slots and in the notch a, so as to rest against the bottom of such notch and bear against the' inner or concave face of the pen. A small stud,c, extends from that part of the retainer which is in the notch, and serves as a means of enabling a person, by the application oi' his thumbnail to it, to effect a. movement ot' the retainer either toward or away from the nib of the pen. 'lhe stud c also answers as a s'top to arrest the movement of the retainer, which it will when against either end of the notch.

I do not claim the application of a tongue or an ink retainer to a pen so as to be stationary relatively thereto; but what I do claim as my improvement, isi- The application of the tongue or ink retainer to Athe pen and its carrier in.n.a.nner so that the said retainer may be movable and' adjustable with respect to thenib of the pen, as set forth.

I also c1aim`the construction of the pen carrier with the depression or notch a, and the two terminal slotsb b, arranged together and il. it, and for the reception and holding ofan ink retainer,-'to operate with the pen,

as specified.

URIN O. WITHERELL.

Y Witnesses:

i R; H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

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