2, Pen Branding Machine

[rhr]

And here's an example of a machine that was put into production, patent no. 1,354,408.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrp...ographfront.jpg

 

It's not a name engraving machine, or a simple stamping machine, but rather a branding machine. Yeah, you've got it now. The name was electrically branded into the pen or pencil. I have seen some generic machines, and others marked with the Sheaffer's Pen Co. name, although it wasn’t assigned to them exclusively. It was marketed as "The Namograph", and it was not produced exactly as it appears in the patent.

 

I sold one of these machines a few years ago, and I recently found another one. I have also seen another two or three on Ebay in the last five years. Here's another picture of the "Namograph".

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/namograph.jpg

 

George Kovalenko.

 

:ph34r:

Edited March 21, 2007 by rhr

[lallin]

There have been two of these offered on eBay recently and I bought one of them. The one I bought is a slightly earlier version sold by The Modern Inventions Corporation. The other one offered on eBay was nearly identical; but, was a product of W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company. The Modern Inventions Corporation acquired the patent from the inventor, manufactured and sold the Namograph; then, sold the rights to Sheaffer and exited the "inventions" business.

 

Max Sherover was the founder and head of The Modern Inventions Corporation. Perhaps better known in his time for another effort, Sherover was the licensee authorized to market The Linguaphone Method, a language learning system using text and records, in North and South America.

 

There is a lengthy article on Max Sherover in the June 28, 1947 issue of The New Yorker (Vol. 23, issue 19). He was quite the fascinating character. If there is interest in reading the article, it is shared here. As mentioned, the article is lengthy; if interested only in The Modern Inventions and Namograph portion, skip to magazine page 40, which is PDF page 8.

Edited May 2, 2017 by lallin