Making of a Quill Pen patented 1809 part 3
Third. In order to make a farther saving, not only in the article of quills but also in facilitating business, I take and divide quills longitudinally, as before, not only into halves, but in some cases, and according to the size of the quill, into three, and even four parts; and when thb is done, I again divide these parts into lengths, and cut them transversely into two, three, four, and some into five lengths, according to the ultimate dimensions or lengths of the different sized quills. I then make, as before, a pen at each extremity of these lengths, some for large and others for small hand, at discretion; and by this means I am able to produce out of the smallest sized quills eight pens, out of others twelve, and from that to thirty (and from swan quills even more) complete pens, for small hand, drawing, and other purposes, equal in both goodness and durability to those produced out of whole quills. These pens last described I call fragment pens; and I mean to mourtt them on handles for common use in the manner described in section the second. But when they are mounted so as to be carried in the pocket, I mean to handle them variously, either with brass or otherwise; and as they may be mounted or handleu almost an infinite variety of ways, without either advantage or the contrary, I rest no. merit, or propose any claim, on whatever method I may in this branch of the manufacture think it proper to adopt.
