Help with fixing and identifying Pen

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Not sure if this is the correct forum but I bought this in a French vintage shop maybe 10 years ago before I got into penturning myself. I brought it to a specialist pen shop and they said it could not be fixed. It has no marks i.e. makers name, and I am not sure what material it is made of. It was sold as Bakelite but there were difficulties in translation so ?? It appears to be an ink/rollerball type device. I have attached photos including the removable parts. I have put ink into the "well" and placed the nib part into an ultrasonic bath but there seems to be a blockage. I would be grateful if anyone can enlighten me with regards to the material used, and if it comes apart more, and if it can be brought back to working order. I'd imagine the ink pouch material has perished
Many thanks
Maria
 

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I think the material is Ebonite. To me that looks like the nib from a mechanical pencil and not a pen. To have that wide of an opening would spill alot of ink in a hurry.
 
This looks like a "Tintenkuli", the German term that translates as 'ink worker'. They were produced in Hamburg starting in the early 1920's.

Its hard to tell from the pictures what the material is, but early Tintenkulli pens were made from ebonite or cellluloid and were lever fillers. I notice that there is a lever on the side of the barrel. Given the age, the sac may need to be replaced, or at lease reglued. Sacs were made of rubber, and the usual adhesive was shellac.

Tintenkuli were 'stylographic pens'. Stylographic pens were invented in the US around the beginning of the 20th century, and were initially intended to be an alternative to traditional fountain pens. They never gained a lot of popularity, but around 1920, Dr. Wilhelm Riepe became interested in the design, and took it back to Germany where he created the "Tintenkuli", a lever-filled stylographic pen made from either hard rubber (ebonite) or celluloid. His "Tintenkuli" never displaced conventional fountain pens, but did morph into what later became know as ruling or technical pens. Technical pens differ from ordinary fountain pens in that they were designed to be used with pigment-based ink that would clog the feed of ordinary fountain pens. To prevent clogging, the nib is a hollow tube, with a weighted pin that moves in and out to keep ink flowing through the nib. That pin is fractionally longer than the nib, so when the nib touches paper the pin is lifted slightly to regulate ink flow. There are three major manufacturers of these pens - all in Europe - Staedler, Rotring, and Koh-i-Noor (and today, Koh-i-Noor has a factory in the US). Technical pens came in various nib sizes, denoted numerically by the line width in mm. Standard pens come with stainless steel nibs, but carbide nibs were available for use in instances where the pens were to be used on highly abrasive linen drafting material.

Modern technical pens have a removable reservoir that is either filled using an eyedropper or from an ink bottle with an eye-dropper-like cap. and modern Koh-i-Noor pens have a white body and screw cap. Older Koh-i-Noor pens were black plastic with a colorcoded finial to differentiate nib sizes, and were piston fillers. It was possible to use ordinary fountain pen ink in them. I used one when I was in college to take notes - one of the quirks of technical pens is that the barrel has to be held almost vertical with the nib perpendicular to the paper, so they are better suited for lettering rather than cursive writing, and I found that forced me to write more slowly which means that the notes that I took were actually legible.
 
This looks like a "Tintenkuli", the German term that translates as 'ink worker'. They were produced in Hamburg starting in the early 1920's.

Its hard to tell from the pictures what the material is, but early Tintenkulli pens were made from ebonite or cellluloid and were lever fillers. I notice that there is a lever on the side of the barrel. Given the age, the sac may need to be replaced, or at lease reglued. Sacs were made of rubber, and the usual adhesive was shellac.

Tintenkuli were 'stylographic pens'. Stylographic pens were invented in the US around the beginning of the 20th century, and were initially intended to be an alternative to traditional fountain pens. They never gained a lot of popularity, but around 1920, Dr. Wilhelm Riepe became interested in the design, and took it back to Germany where he created the "Tintenkuli", a lever-filled stylographic pen made from either hard rubber (ebonite) or celluloid. His "Tintenkuli" never displaced conventional fountain pens, but did morph into what later became know as ruling or technical pens. Technical pens differ from ordinary fountain pens in that they were designed to be used with pigment-based ink that would clog the feed of ordinary fountain pens. To prevent clogging, the nib is a hollow tube, with a weighted pin that moves in and out to keep ink flowing through the nib. That pin is fractionally longer than the nib, so when the nib touches paper the pin is lifted slightly to regulate ink flow. There are three major manufacturers of these pens - all in Europe - Staedler, Rotring, and Koh-i-Noor (and today, Koh-i-Noor has a factory in the US). Technical pens came in various nib sizes, denoted numerically by the line width in mm. Standard pens come with stainless steel nibs, but carbide nibs were available for use in instances where the pens were to be used on highly abrasive linen drafting material.

Modern technical pens have a removable reservoir that is either filled using an eyedropper or from an ink bottle with an eye-dropper-like cap. and modern Koh-i-Noor pens have a white body and screw cap. Older Koh-i-Noor pens were black plastic with a colorcoded finial to differentiate nib sizes, and were piston fillers. It was possible to use ordinary fountain pen ink in them. I used one when I was in college to take notes - one of the quirks of technical pens is that the barrel has to be held almost vertical with the nib perpendicular to the paper, so they are better suited for lettering rather than cursive writing, and I found that forced me to write more slowly which means that the notes that I took were actually legible.
I was going to ask where the heck did you pull this info from until I got to the last paragraph.

Gotta love our combined experience on here. 👍
 
One more thought - in addition to the need to replace and/or reglue the sac, it appears that the weighted pin is either missing or stuck inside the nib section.

If its missing, finding the proper replacement could be a challenge.

But if its merely stuck inside the nib (that a frequent problem with modern Rapidograph pens), it may be possible to loosen by soaking the nib section is an untrasonic cleaner. The cleaning solutions that were typically used for drafting pens contained ammonia, so that might help. The challenge is that some of the pigment-based inks contained shellac, and anything that would dissolve drive ink would also attack the adhesive used to attach the sac. If you really want to restore the pen for use, and are very careful to only use solvent on the nib section, DNA might help get it out, but I would use it very sparingly.
 
Wow! I didn't expect this much information but this shows how many members on this forum are so informed and helpful with their knowledge. I am truly grateful to showcaser, hallelujahal, jttheclockman, MRDucks2, and especially monophoto for replying with so much for me to get my teeth into. I am now heading down the "stylographic pen" rabbit hole on the internet! Just one further question if I may- where would I find info on replacing the ink pouch- it seems inaccessible??
With many thanks and apologies for not responding before now but I have been travelling
Maria
 
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