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A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro [1] (British English), ball pen (Hong Kong, Indian, Indonesian, Pakistani, and Philippine English), or dot pen [2] (Nepali English and South Asian English), is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.e., over a "ball point".
The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic Biro) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. [1] It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006.
A pen is a handheld device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing.
A click pen comprises the frame, a thruster, two cams, a guide pin, a spring, an ink cartridge of your choice a ballpoint at the end of the cartridge, and other parts.The guide pin is typically molded into the frame and the spring provides the tension required to retract the ink cartridge.
"Reynolds Rocket" pen was introduced at Gimbel’s department store in New York City, selling $100,000 worth of pens on the first day. [2] Demand in 1945 was running 30,000 pens per day, making it America's #1 ballpoint pen. [3] However, within three years the price of the pen went from $12.50 to 50¢.
Loud's patent of the ballpoint pen, 1888. Keenly interested in inventing, on October 30, 1888, Loud obtained the first patent (US #392,046) for a ballpoint pen [6] when attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not. Loud's pen had a small rotating steel ball ...
Writing tip of a ballpoint pen and 1mm white bar for scale. Pens commonly used today can be categorized based on the mechanism of the writing tip and the type of ink: A ballpoint pen dispenses a viscous oil-based ink by means of a small hard sphere, or ball, which rolls over the surface being written on. The ball is held captive in a socket at ...
Milton Reynolds (1892–1976), an American entrepreneur, was born "Milton Reinsberg" in Albert Lea, Minnesota.He is most famously known for the manufacture and introduction of the first ballpoint pen to be sold in the U.S. market in October 1945.