Tag: Ink Pens

Refilling The Omas Fountain Pen

Arthur Mavericck asked:

The Omas fountain pen can be refilled in a variety of ways. The vintage pens might require you to use a dropper to fill ink into them. Then you also have the self-filling fountain pens which empty or fill when you apply pressure on the sac or the lever that encases it. But some of the Omas fountain pens make use of the piston filler. This technique uses a piston in the pen which is driven either up or down within the barrel of the pen by turning a knob towards the end of the pen.

Most of the Omas fountain pens today make use of cartridges or piston fillers. You also get converters that can modify a cartridge refill pen into a piston refill pen. Fountain pens which have to be filled with the help of a dropper are the ones that can hold a maximum amount of ink while the piston refill pens have the lowest capacity. Most often the piston occupies most of the space in the barrel leaving very little for the ink itself. But filling the Omas fountain pen with a dropper can be messy too if you are not careful.

International cartridges of several makes can be used with most of the Omas fountain pens while some fountain pens may accept cartridges of the same brand only. Also some pens will not allow you to fit a converter. So if you want to use a different ink in such kinds of fountain pens then you can fill the cartridge with the help of a syringe. There is a wide variety of inks available if one wants to refill a pen. Ink bottles too come in different designs, shapes and sizes. However, most users of the Omas fountain pen stock refills so as to avert the risk of ink in the pen getting over. And there are those who love to refill the pen cartridge on their own even though it involves getting your hands messed up with the ink.

Although there are plenty of Omas fountain pens which come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, colors and styles to fit each person’s individual personality, it is not necessary that the Omas fountain pen has to be expensive for it to be of good quality and write well. Depending on your budget, arrive at a price that you are at ease with and compare it with other pens in the same range. You can surely get a good fountain pen without burning a hole in your pocket.

The Omas fountain pens are a result of the writing tools having taken a big leap towards success ever since the days of the quill pen. The rebirth of the fountain pens became profitably successful when all its negative aspects underwent a big transformation from being a leaking mess to securing the interest and notice of top society. If you are avid about handwriting as an art no matter if it is cursive or print, the Omas fountain pen is the perfect writing instrument for you.

This is What Inspired the Mechanism of Ink Pens

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:

The name “pen” is derived from the Latin word “penna”, which means feather. This is a writing instrument that, manually through capillary action applies ink to a surface, usually paper. Pens can be used with inks of many colors but commonly make use of inks in shades varying between black, blue, red, and sometimes green. There are many different kinds of pens, some of which are listed here i.e. Reed pens, Quills, Metal nibs, Fountain pens, Ballpoints, Felt tips, Roller balls and the Porous Point. All the pens of the world are made around these different. Pens are also classified depending on the type of tip that accompanies the pen, there is the ballpoint pen, the rollerball pen, the fountain pen, the felt-tip pen and also the gel pen.

Ink pens have developed very slowly over time, ink pens are practically the quill pens that evolved in the 19th century into the fountain pen. For more than three thousand years the quill was the writing instrument found in most cultures all around the globe. Despite what movies say, the first quill pens used only a small part of the quill as a nib and the rest was thrown away. In other parts of the world like Asia, the pen was replaced with some kind of brushes which are still present in traditional writing forms. The first step in the development of ink pen industry was the invention of steel and the mass production of steel pen points. They were sold in many sizes and shapes according to the large varieties of writing styles. Those simple pen points were simply fitted to a holder and dipped into ink, then you could write a few words and dip again and so on.

If we look back into historical records we can trace the first patent for ink pens, it was owned by Lewis Waterman the man who created the Waterman company. He was the first in the modern history to develop a fountain pen model without any flowing problems. It is true that pens with ink carrying capacity had existed for more than one hundred years before him, but all those models suffered from common problems such as ink leaks. In 1702 a Frenchman called M. Bion created a fountain pen that was very advanced for those days. In America the fist to obtain a patent in the pen industry was Peregrin Williamson who got his recognition in 1809. Furthermore the first self filling pen was recorded by Jacob John Parker in 1831, yet the common problem for all these old ink pens remained ink spills and material issues, this is why they had a close to zero commercial success.

The mechanism of ink pens was simple, they contained three parts, the first was called “the nib”, the second “the feed” and the third was the barrel, which bound the nib and the feed together. Lewis Waterman’s genial idea was to introduce a small hole in the nib for the air to enter, and three small grooves in the feeding mechanism, the combined solution successfully prevented ink spilling. As for the reservoir, the first ink pens with reservoir used an eyedropper, and then, from 1915 self filling sacks of rubber were used. The sack was usually pressed with a metallic plate to produce the needed pressure that once released would **** the ink inside the reservoir.