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Q:
how does a ink filler works?
- gayathri (age 56)
gh , gujarat, india
A:
I presume you are referring to an old fashioned fountain pen that you fill from a bottle of ink. There is a small flexible rubber sac inside the barrel of the pen which can be compressed by a lever. When the lever is released a partial vacuum is created in the sac that sucks up the ink. I haven't used one in years but remember having received one as a gift from my grandmother when I graduated from high school. There is a very nice article in Wikipedia about these types of pens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_penLeeH
(published on 09/21/2011)
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