Fountain Pen Capillary Action

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Fountain pen capillary action. The most familiar example of the capillary effect also known as capillary motion or the capillary effect is water spreading across a paper towel. The ink flows through the feed section of the pen through the breather hole or vent hole where the nib splits and down to the tip of the pen. In today s models the ink delivery system in most fountain pens has three main components. In antique fountain pens ink was deposited into the nib by constantly dipping it into an inkwell.
The most common capillary filler is the parker 61 shown above. Nib the tip of the pen that physically deposits the ink onto the paper through a combination of gravity and capillary action more on that later. Fountain pens use gravity and capillary action to feed the ink from the ink chamber whether that is an ink cartridge converter or piston. The waterman x pen on the other hand a demonstrator version of which is shown above fills by immersing the nib end some pre production parker 61 prototypes used this method as well.
Capillary action draws ink from a pen s reservoir into and through the feed and thence along the nib s slit to the tip of the nib from which it can draw the ink onto the surface of the paper when the pen is used to write. The nib works by drawing ink through a small slit using capillary action. A fountain pen is a writing instrument which uses a metal nib to apply a water based ink to paper. The nib is the metal piece that forms the tip of a fountain pen.
George parker s lucky curve fountain pen reduced the risk of leaks with a curved tube blue connecting the nib red to the ink reservoir green. After unscrewing the barrel the teflon coated reservoir inside is dipped in ink. A fountain pen is a unique writing utensil that uses capillary action a phenomenon first record by leonardo da vinci in 1490. Excess ink in the nib drained back down to the reservoir by capillary action making it less likely to spurt out into your pocket when the pen was not in use.
The two halves of the nib that are separated by. The pen draws ink from the reservoir through a feed to the nib and deposits it on paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action.