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The 50+ Fountain Pen Filler Types
Filler reference sheet
from the fountain pen of Bob Helfrich

. This is probably not an inclusive list - it is heavy on USA pens and weak on European and Asian models.

 

Type                                            

Company

Accordion Sac                              Betzler, Eversharp
Aerofil                                          Esterbrook
Aerometric                                   Parker
   
Barrel End Lever                          Aurora Novum
Barrel of Ink                                 Sager
Blow Filler                                    Crocker
Breather Tube                               Dunn
Bulb Filler                                     Eagle, Postal
Button Filler                                  Parker, Camel, Hero
   
Capillary                                        Parker, Waterman
Cartridge/Converter  
Click Fill                                        Parker no. 24
Coin Filler                                       Eagle
Crescent Filler                                Conklin, Visconti, Stipula
   
Doctor Faber                                Doctor Faber
Dual Reservoir                              Visconti
Dual Tube                                       Geha
Dual Valve Piston                          Waterman ( prior to 1890)
   
Eye Dropper                                Waterman, AA Waterman, Parker, Rider, etc.
   
Hatchet Fill                                    Crocker, Holland, Servo
Hidden Reservoir                            Aurora
Hump Fill                                        Wirt
   
Ink Battery                                      Ink Maker
Ink Pellet                                        Waterman, Aurora
Ink Vue                                          Waterman
Inverted Syringe                              Ancora maxima
   
Lever                                              Sheaffer, Waterman, Wahl-Eversharp, Parker, Delta
   
Matchstick                                       Various
Medallion Filler                              Waterman, Marlen
   
Nozac                                             Wahl-Eversharp
   
Onoto Plunger                                DeLaRue
   
Piston                                             MB, Pelikan, Omas, Marlen, Sheaffer, Stipula, MG
   
Pneumatic                                       Chilton
Pull Filler                                        Holland
Pump Syphon                                  Ancora
Pump Vac                                       Tibaldi
   
Reservoir Pump                            Stylomine
Rheingold                                     Sonnecken Rheingold
   
Safety                                           Various
Side Button                                    Hero 404
Slide lever                                     Aurora Asterope
Sleeve Filler                                  Eureka, La Boeuf, Cross, Waterman, Stipula
   
Slide Lever                                     Schnell
Snap Fill                                        Houston
Snorkel                                        Sheaffer, Eversharp
Styolgraphic                                   Various
Syringe                                           Morrison, Post, Royal
   
Telescoping Piston                        MB, Pelikan
Touchdown  
Twist Sac                                    AA Waterman, Mabie Todd, Conklin, Wasp, Ingersol
   
Vacoumatic                                 Osmia Progress
Vacumatic-Locking                      Parker
Vacumatic-Speedline                    Parker
Vacumatic- Plastic                        Parker
Visofil                                           Mabie Todd
VP                                               Parker VP
Waterman Tip Fill*                        Various Waterman Models
Wingflow**                                  Chilton

* Tip Fill has to do with only needing to put the tip of the nib in ink
**- Wingflows are Pneumatics

Hardly Exhaustive

Also,Sheaffer lever was first, Waterman lever has a box, Eversharp lever hasJ-bars; each lever system is different enough to avoid patentinfringement.

On EDs - some are middle Joint, others Safety pens, J.G. Rider-removable nib - are they different enough to be different types - or just sub-groups?

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