It also had a new improved over-underfeed.Ĭonstantly experimenting and improving George Parker again in 1893 patented a new kind of bent feed, almost like an old style clothes pin with one prong curiously bent. By 1891 he had rejected the plug-idea and instead designed a feed that protruded inside the barrel, this to prevent a blob when the ink level in the pen was low. Three months later he patented a developed priming-finger with a slit in it. "The plug always regulates the feed beneath the pen by keeping a constant supply always in contact with it, while a removable flexible priming-finger over the pen forms a capillary space over the pen, which holds the thinner and more watery portion of the ink and always keeps the pen inked from above for immediate use." Ike most pens of that time it was an overfeed solution. In this his first patent he tried a feed that had a plug at the end, which forced the ink to run through a small hole which was the beginning of the ink channel. Parker soon identified that the main problem was in the design of the ink-feed. The main problem with fountain pens is that they are essential a mechanism to provide a controlled leak. Parker was born in 1863 and patented his first pen design when he was 25 years old. I will however try to list as many catalogued models as possible and at the same time tell the early story of the production advances of the Parker Pen Company in th earliest days, before the Duofold. If You wanted a pen with a gold band engraved with that special flower, Parker would most probably have accomodated You. Partly because Parker also made alot of pens by order. Partly because there was a constant tinkering going on and since all pens were more or less hand made there are discrepancies, prototypes and repairs made with different spares. And when he realised that he already had most of the tools to make pens of his own he eventually ended up starting his own production with the help of a local jeweller.įor obvious reasons it's virtually impossible to list all the pens made by Parker from this period.
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Which he incidently also had sold to them, since he was moonlighting as a sales agent for the John Holland Gold pen company.
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He story has been told many times, how the telegraphy teacher George Safford Parker bought tools to help his students with repairs of their poor quality fountain pens.