Fountain Pen (Patent No: 306650)

Inventor: Conway, Donald Michael Joseph

Location: Jasper

Comments: see Letter to the Editor, Jasper Booster, August 6, 1997; personal correspondence with Gwen McComas, former student; Conway was principal of Jasper School in 1920s; pen was for use by people with muscular difficulties; Charlotte (Sherriff) Blackwood thought it had been purchased by Waterman's but not produced commercially; see personal correspondence

Description: Donald Michael Joseph Conway, Jasper, Alberta, Canada, 16th December, 1930. Filed 26th November, 1929. Serial No. 355,067.

Claim—A writing device comprising a casing having a closed top and cylindrical sidewall, a fountain pen nib-tube threaded into said wall having a nib secured thereto and inclined downwardly therefrom, a rubber bag within said casing attached to said nib-tube, a pressure plate resiliently suspended from said top above said rubber bag, a threaded opening in said top above said plate, a removable can threaded into said opening, a member screw-threaded into the bottom of said casing wall provided with ball-bearings in the lower surface thereof and having an inclined upper surface adapted to support the said rubber bag.

Claim allowed, 1.