| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 401198000 | Wick feed from within reservoir to tool | 29 |
| 20080260452 | Writing instrument, drawing instrument and/or marking instrument and reservoir for such instruments - A writing instrument, drawing instrument and/or marking instrument has at least one shaft, at least the liquid reservoir mounted therein and a writing wicking, wherein between the writing wicking and the liquid reservoir at least one contact point or contact area for the conducting of the writing medium is formed. The at least one liquid reservoir has, on the side facing the writing wicking, an area with a seal, wherein the area with the sealing means covers the entire free front side of the liquid reservoir. The area with the seal is designed to be stretching at least into a partial area of the casing surface. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080279614 | Device and a Method For Dosage of Fluids - A device and a method for continuous and adjustable dosage of fluids at low pressure. The invention is self-cleaning and low tech. It consists of a tapering dosage unit in which a filling, which allows fluids to pass in the longitudinal direction of the dosage unit, is inserted. At the outlet end of the dosage unit, a venturi tube is located which clamps the filling and thereby create a nozzle opening that fits the fluids viscosity and the pressure for a given desired dosage. When the dosage unit clogs, a flushing can be obtained by either increasing the pressure of the fluid and thereby forcing a flexible dosage unit to increase the sectional area and allow cleaning or in the same way through a mechanical opening of the dosage unit. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090047056 | ENCAPSULATED FIBER TYPE WRITING INSTRUMENT - The invention provides a writing instrument that can prevent excessive ink from flowing from a writing part integrated with inner fiber and can prevent the writing part from being displaced in a longitudinal direction. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090142128 | Dry erase marker renewal device - A device for use in rejuvenating a marker to allow the flow of ink through the tip of the marker after it has become dried out. The device is comprised of an actuator and a reservoir. The actuator of the device comprises a receiver, a spray chamber and a threaded engagement for connection to the reservoir. The reservoir is configured to hold a volume of solvent. A solvent chamber, a conduit, a nozzle and a plurality of bellows make up the reservoir. As actuator and bellows are compressed solvent travels through the conduit and nozzle and into spray chamber spraying marker tip with solvent. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090148224 | Marking apparatus - A marking apparatus displaceable along a surface ( | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090257816 | ERASABLE INK FOR POROUS TIP WRITING INSTRUMENTS - Disclosed herein is a water-based erasable ink for use in a writing instrument. The ink comprises platy-like pigment particles, film formers and an aqueous vehicle. Also disclosed are writing instruments using such inks as well as comprising a reservoir containing a water based erasable ink having a non-shear-thinning composition and a porous fiber nib in fluid communication with this reservoir. Related methods of forming an erasable marking are also disclosed. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090269122 | INK REPLENISHMENT CARTRIDGE AND ENCAPSULATED FIBER TYPE WRITING INSTRUMENT USING INK REPLENISHMENT CARTRIDGE - The invention provides an ink replenishment cartridge and a writing instrument using the ink replenishment cartridge where new ink can be easily replenished in the writing instrument in which ink has been spent completely. The invention has a characteristic that the ink replenishment cartridge is provided with an ink tank having an ink discharge port, ink filled in the ink tank and a closing cap detachably mounted on the ink tank to close the ink discharge port and the ink tank is installed with the ink discharge port communicating with an opening at a rear end of a stem of the writing instrument from which a detachable tail cotter is removed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090317172 | Writing Tip For Tracing Lines of Different Widths and Writing Implement Comprising Such a Tip - A capillary writing tip that includes a body extending from a base along a central axis (Z) to a peak, the body having a main face with a maximum dimension (L) measured transversally with respect to the central axis and delimited by a main base edge adjacent to the base, as well as by a first and a second substantially straight peak edge, which meet at the peak and are of respective lengths (l) less than the maximum length. The body also has a first secondary face delimited by, among other things, the first peak edge; a second secondary face delimited by, among other things, the second peak edge; the first and second secondary faces presenting a substantially straight common edge extending from the peak to a lower end adjacent to the base, the common edge having a length (m) which is different from the maximum width (L) and from the length (l) of the first and second peak edges. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100074672 | WRITING INSTRUMENT - In a writing instrument in which an ink for a writing instrument such as a water-based ink and an oil-based ink impregnated into an ink occlusion body in a barrel is fed to a pen tip in a writing part, in order to provide a writing instrument in which a sign of exhausting the ink can readily and surely be detected, the above writing instrument is provided with a structure in which the ink impregnated into the ink occlusion body in the barrel is fed to the pen tip in the writing part, wherein the ink impregnated into the ink occlusion body described above is fed to the pen tip via an ink guiding feed having visibility, and a sign of exhausting the ink fed from the ink occlusion body is detected by visually observing the ink guiding feed described above via a visible part formed in the barrel. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100172689 | WRITING IMPLEMENT - A refill of a low viscosity water-based ink ballpoint pen is provided with a housing, a pen tip attached to a front end of the housing, an ink tank ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100196081 | Coloring Apparatus - An apparatus for enabling a liquid or dye to be conveyed from a nib of a source of liquid or dye to a fluid absorbent nib of a market pen. The apparatus includes a tubular docking member having the source and the nib of the source at a first end and an open portion at a second end configured to receive and engage an end of the marker pen including the nib of the marker pen selectively to be placed in contact with the nib of the source to cause liquid or dye to pass between the nib of the source and the nib of the marker pen. The liquid may comprise a translucent liquid such as water and the dye may comprise an indicator such as a water-based ink containing colored dyes, dispersed pigments or other coloring media. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100247224 | INK FEEDER FOR FELT-TIP INK PEN - An ink feeder for a felt-tip ink pen and communicable with an ink reservoir defined in the ink pen includes a main body made of a rigid material to internally define a feeding bore; a plurality of micro raised portions radially inward protruded from and circumferentially spaced along an inner wall surface of the main body for clamping a felt tip of the ink pen in place; and a plurality of ink feeding clearances each being formed between two adjacent ones of the micro raised portions and communicable with the feeding bore, so that ink stored in the ink reservoir of the ink pen is fed to the felt tip via the ink feeding clearances. The rigid main body and other ink pen components can be assembled to form the ink pen in an automated manner, and the ink feeding clearances ensure smooth ink feeding without the risk of leakage. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110008095 | REVERSIBLE THERMAL DISCOLORATION AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION AND WRITING IMPLEMENT USING THE SAME AND WRITING IMPLEMENT SET - To provide a reversible thermal discoloration aqueous ink composition which is capable of suppressing the lightening and deepening of handwriting at the time when a writing implement containing the reversible thermal discoloration aqueous ink composition in the barrel, and particularly, which does not lighten the color of handwriting with time in an erecting state or does not lighten the color of handwriting by the application of vibration at transportation or at the time when it is carried on in an erecting state, as well as a writing implement using the same and a writing implement set. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110044748 | LIQUID DYE FORMULATIONS IN NON-PETROLEUM BASED SOLVENT SYSTEMS - A method of coloring a substrate is disclosed that includes the steps of dissolving a vegetable oil ester based solvent wherein the ester is selected from a group consisting of esters having carbon chain length of C-1 to C-18 in a liquid solvent dye to form a low-sulfur containing dye formulation such that the vegetable oil ester is present in an amount of between about 5 and 80 percent by weight of the dye formulation, and mixing sufficient amounts of the dye formulation with the substrate to produce mixtures of predetermined color in which the levels of toxic substrate are substantially less than in otherwise equivalent mixtures that include hydrocarbon-based solvents. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110222956 | AQUEOUS MANICURE PREPARATION AND MANICURE PREPARATION-FILLED APPLICATOR - An aqueous manicure preparation which is an aqueous cosmetic preparation for a nail art wherein in an applicator which is equipped with at least a liquid storing part and an applying member and in which a liquid is transported from the liquid storing part to the applying member by virtue of capillary force, the aqueous manicure preparation stored in the liquid storing part contains at least water, a water-soluble resin, a tabular pigment, an emulsion resin, a moisturizing agent and a fungicide and further contains crystalline cellulose and has a viscosity satisfying the following condition (A) in measuring the viscosity at a temperature of 25° C. by means of a cone plate type viscometer: | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120009005 | ERASABLE INK FOR POROUS TIP WRITING INSTRUMENTS - Disclosed herein is a water-based erasable ink for use in a writing instrument. The ink comprises platy-like pigment particles, film formers and an aqueous vehicle. Also disclosed are writing instruments using such inks as well as comprising a reservoir containing a water based erasable ink having a non-shear-thinning composition and a porous fiber nib in fluid communication with this reservoir. Related methods of forming an erasable marking are also disclosed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20130004231 | APPLICATOR - An applicator includes an application liquid reservoir in which filled application liquid is flowable, an applying body for applying the application liquid, an application liquid-occlusion body located between the application liquid reservoir and the applying body and designed to be impregnated with the application liquid, and a channel forming portion located between the application liquid reservoir and the occlusion body and having a channel in which the application liquid is flowable, wherein the channel forming portion has a protrusion, the protrusion having a cavity inside and more than one communication openings communicated with the cavity. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130064595 | WRITING INSTRUMENT - In order to provide a writing instrument in which a writing direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a pen tip and which can surely write to end of writing, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a pen tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one ink guiding part through which an ink contained in a barrel is provided to a writing part held by the holding member which is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing direction, wherein an area ratio of the visible part is 40% or more of the pen tip protruding from a tip part of the writing instrument. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130089369 | Liquid Dye Formulations in Non-petroleum Based Solvent Systems - An environment friendly writing instrument that includes a hollow body, an ink reservoir at the first end of the hollow body to hold ink, and a felt tip which extends from the reservoir to the second end of the hollow body, and a dye formulation comprising (I) a vegetable oil ester in an amount of between about 5 and 80 percent by weight of the dye formulation, (ii) a liquid solvent dye present in the dye formulation in an amount sufficient to impart a predetermined color to the dye formulation and (iii) sulfur in an amount of less than about 10 ppm, and wherein the ink is formed from the dye formulation. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130170889 | SURFACE CLEANING, COATING AND SCRATCH FILLING APPARATUS - The present disclosure generally relates to pocket-sized or key chain size surface cleaning, coating and scratch filling apparatuses. Some of the applications of an embodied apparatus include a tool for cleaning, coating treating or repairing; sunglass/eyeglass, goggles, computer screen, PDA's, smartphones, cell phones, IPods, IPads and/or CDs, DVDs, and/or Bluray disc surfaces. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130336705 | DISPENSING APPLICATOR FOR FLUIDS - A hand-held dispensing applicator comprising a fluid source, a frangible applicator tip attached to the fluid source, and an absorbent member attached to the frangible applicator tip is provided. When the frangible applicator tip is broken, fluid flows from the source to the absorbent member, whereby the fluid is applied and spread on a surface. Preferably, the frangible applicator tip comprises a support element permanently connected to the fluid source, a relatively rigid tongue element extending outwardly of the support element, and a frangible region there between. Preferably, the tongue element comprises ribs for reinforcing the tongue element to resist unintentional breaking of the frangible region. More preferably, the applicator tip comprises a semi-permeable or non-permeable cover disposed around the frangible region to control the speed and direction of the dispersion of the fluid in the absorbent member. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20150050066 | MARKER WITH DECORATIVE FLUID SLEEVE - A dual chamber container includes an inner hollow body containing a marker fluid which is adapted to be dispensed. The inner hollow body is at least partially surrounded by an outer hollow body containing a decorative fluid which is retained in the container as the marker fluid is dispensed. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150063894 | Writing instrument having an ink balance mechanism - A writing instrument is provided with a barrel including a bottom opening; a partition disposed in the barrel to divide the barrel into an upper ink reservoir filled with ink and a lower storage filled with an absorbent material; a writing member partially disposed in the absorbent material and extending out of the bottom opening; and a conveying line disposed through the partition. The conveying line includes a venting channel and an ink conveying channel. Each of the venting channel and the ink conveying channel communicate with both the ink and the absorbent material. A smooth writing can be carried out. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150086258 | SURGICAL MARKER - A marking instrument having a plurality of removable writing nibs serially aligned so that an operator can remove a spent or fluid-affected writing nib and, thereby, access a fresh writing tip. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150367672 | WRITING INSTRUMENT - In order to provide a writing instrument applicable to an applicator, in which a writing or applying direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a tip, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a tip | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160135566 | Cosmetic Applicator - A cosmetic applicator includes a casing, a cartridge disposed in the casing, a sleeve coupled to the casing, and a core. The cartridge includes a tube member formed with at least one protrusion, and a plug member having a shoulder section abutting against the tube member, a rear end section abutting airtightly against the protrusion, and a front end section. The sleeve has a rear end portion sleeved on the front end section and abutting against the shoulder section of the plug member, and at least one protrusion abutting airtightly against the front end section. The core has an absorbing segment extending through the sleeve and the plug member for absorbing liquid cosmetic, and a liquid output segment extending out of the sleeve. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160250885 | WRITING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEALING MEANS IN WRITING INSTRUMENT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160374454 | EYE LINER PENCIL HAVING A SINGLE APPLICATOR - An eye liner pencil includes a cap including an internal annular ridge; a hollow member in the cap; a tubular handle including a front first opening, an annular protrusion rearward of the first opening and configured to secure to the ridge, a rear second opening, and an internal annular trough adjacent to the second opening; a hollow support including a tapered rear end, a front opening, an internal space, an externally threaded section, and protuberances; a felt wick including an applicator; a sleeve including parallel surface slit, and a rear internally threaded section secured to the externally threaded section; a hollow, cylindrical sponge member with the support inserted through to secure the sponge member onto the support; a cylindrical reservoir with the support inserted into; and a hollow plug member including a rear external rim d wherein the trough is secured to the rim. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20190143740 | SURGICAL MARKER | 05-16-2019 |
