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The first truly efficient and functional automatic filling system based on the compression of a rubber tank was the famous ''crescent filler'', designed by Roy [[Conklin]]' who patented it in 1901 ({{Cite patent|US|685258}}), which was introduced to the market by the company of the same name founded by him, the first example of the success of a brand due to the invention of an innovative filling mechanism.

<noinclude>{{ReferBox|Filling systems}}</noinclude>The first truly efficient and functional automatic filling system based on the compression of a rubber tank was the famous ''crescent filler'', designed by Roy [[Conklin]]' who patented it in 1901 ({{Cite patent|US|685258}}), which was introduced to the market by the company of the same name founded by him, the first example of the success of a brand due to the invention of an innovative filling mechanism.

[[Image:CrescentFillerSchema.svg|center|500px|Diagram of a pen with ''crescent filler'']]

[[Image:CrescentFillerSchema.svg|center|500px|Diagram of a pen with ''crescent filler'']]

The system was simple and effective, and also allowed for better filling than the later [[lever filler]], as the rubber tank could be completely compressed. Despite its technical superiority, however, the projection of the bow from the body of the pen was quite unpleasant from an aesthetic point of view, and this decreed its inexorable decline.<noinclude>

The system was simple and effective, and also allowed for better filling than the later [[lever filler]], as the rubber tank could be completely compressed. Despite its technical superiority, however, the projection of the bow from the body of the pen was quite unpleasant from an aesthetic point of view, and this decreed its inexorable decline.<noinclude>

==Related Patents===

==Related Patents==

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{{ListsPatentsFeature|Crescent filler}}

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