Sackett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““(2) In a fountain pen, the combination of the body wherein a column of ink is sustained mainly by atmospheric pressure, a writing pen of ordinary form at the lower end of said body, one or more feeders with surfaces lying adjacent to the pen, and extending from the ink supply downward to the point of the pen, and an air admission to the lower end of the reservoir, substantially as shown, whereby an automatic and constant feeding of the ink from the reservoir to the point of the pen is scoured by capillary action.” “(4) In a fountain pen, the combination of a reservoir wherein the ink is sustained by atmospheric pressure, a writing pen, a feed plate lying adjacent to said pen, “with a thin passage between the two for the feed of the ink from the reservoir, and an air admission at the foot of the reservoir, distinct from the passage through which the ink descends to the pen.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wirt v. Farrelly