How to make a quill pen patented 1809 part 6
Sixth. To give any pens the property the same benefits as previously described, the fountain and perpetual writing ability, I take any pen made of a quality quill, that has a air-tight barrel, if the quill is too hard to be easily compressed by the fingers, then just simply scrape or shave off the part that the thumb rests on the pen, make it thin enough so that the thumb will by enough to force by holding the pen, to be changed from a cylindrical shape to an oval shape, or other. Take a small cork, or part of a round stick, that can act as a stopper, then force into the open end of the pen above the mouth, leaving such a projection into the mouth to admit the stopper so it can be withdrawn easily.
Then with a sharp knife, or otherwise, with the back of the pen above the slit, make a small groove, not bigger in size than a small pin hole, longitudinally along the surface of the stopper, this will cause the smallest channel possible to carry the ink down to the mouth when the barrel of the quill is compressed. When complete the pen the is ready for action
From a small bottle, or similar, fill with ink the whole barrel of the quill, leaving room just enough to prevent the stopper from getting in contact with the ink when pushed into place. The pen is now ready to write ; so by pressing the quill, as above instructed, makes as much ink to flow through the small channel as will fill the pen; so easy and convenience the pen filling has become that it only takes half the time needed for passing the pen from the end of the line completed to start another, and that makes the pen even more convenient.
I can fill either the smallest possible amount of ink, or completely fill the pen without leakage or ink getting onto the external side of the pen’s point. As always happens when the pens are dipped into a stand, so that the fingers of the writer are for ever being covered in ink.
