Components Of A Ballpoint Pen
One day, a large boat that has been on a long voyage filled of the objects that seeking for their purpose. All things were fine until the strong storm came and destroy their boat. The objects inside the boat had spread out in the ocean, some of them had lost and some become unconscious.
When the morning came, some of the objects found themselves in an island. They shout and seek for help thinking that maybe someone could find them. And there it is they meet each other in the island. They introduce themselves to each one of them namely: Tip, Grip, Decorative Ring, Barrel, Clip, Ink Chamber, Twist Mechanism, and Ballpoint Tip.
They were finding ways on how they can survive by their own way. They may be asked but do not help each other. Days, weeks, and months had passed and nothing happened to them. They were still stuck in the island. No one can see them.
Until Ballpoint Tip got an idea that maybe for them to be saved, they should have unity and work as one. The rest murmured and disagree for what Ballpoint Tip said. They said that how they can work as one if even their selves do not know what’s their purpose, the real one? And there is a silence. They come back to their own businesses of finding way to be out of the island and be saved.
Ballpoint Tip did not stop believing that they can be saved by working together as one. And here’s again the idea of Ballpoint Tip, what if we work together as one where we can form unique object from us that can make us saved and give the meaning of our existence. Because of so many hardship that they made separately, they agree on the given opinion.
They make different forms by combining themselves. Failure is not uncommon for them, they made so many. They really want to quit but there is something they really want to achieve and that is to be saved from the island and make a purpose in life. One last time they tried again. They position themselves the place where they are comfortable. Clip inserted himself to Barrel. Ballpoint Tip after the Ink Chamber and was cover by Twist Mechanism. Barrel covers the Ink Chamber. Decorative Ring was place after the Barrel while the Grip was below of the Twist Mechanism. Last, Tip covers the Ballpoint Tip.
Unexpectedly, out of nothing, they had formed an object from them. Twist Mechanism found out that when he turned, Ballpoint Tip came out and when he returned, Ballpoint Tip came in. Ink Chamber was still clueless for what he may do and also the rest. They moved their body and they found out that something difference happened in the sand. Something was getting encoded. They’ve realize that the can encode something in the sand that can be attractive where someone could ever notice them. But this point, they did not fail. Someone noticed them and got interested for what they are. They were finally saved from the island and near to know their purpose.
The man whom found out them look at every detail of what he had found. He tried to fill an ink the Ink Chamber and make an experiment. He discovered that when Twist Mechanism twisted, the Ballpoint Tip came in and out. He gets a paper and tried to make something on it. The man liked to used it and make a discovery that it was very similar from a pen, but this one makes a change from a simple pen. He named his discovery as “Ballpoint Pen”. From then on, he always brings his ballpoint pen wherever he came by simply clipping it on him.
As time passed by, Tip, Grip, Decorative Ring, Barrel, Clip, Ink Chamber, Twist Mechanism, and Ballpoint Tip never become separated and loved to make their purpose as one, it is to make whoever holds them strong and satisfy for what he might do. According to Horce, the pen is the tongue of the mind. A pen has a deeper way purpose than how it looks like. It can sometimes be a sword in a war that it can destroy a whole society by means of writing and it is the way of the Philippine National hero uses to make the Filipinos realize that they need to fight for their country. Nowadays, there are so many different types of pen. In this article we will talk about one kind of pen which is the ballpoint pen. `Ballpoint pen is the innovation of a simple pen that can make a writing or drawing. We used to use it in our daily life but have we ever wander how does ballpoint pen formed? Have we ever become curious how does it functioned and what makes it function? So in this article, we aim to give insight of what ballpoint pen composed of. The ballpoint pen was invented by a Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro in 1938. Fountain pens were already popularly used during those times, however, the ink in these pens have to be refilled regularly, not to mention it smudged easily. Laszlo noticed that newspaper ink dried fast and he thought of a way to incorporate its use with pen. (Opisina. com. ph)
Together with his brother George Biro, Laszlo devised a pen that made use of newspaper ink. The ink was thicker in consistency, however, and didn’t flow smoothly from the pen nib. He solved the problem by fitting a miniscule ball bearing in the tip of the pen which regulated the flow of the ink. The bearing would rotate when the pen is being moved across the paper, transferring ink from the cartridge inside the pen to the paper. The pen could be used for over a year. (Opisina. com. ph)The size of a ballpoint pen's line is determined by the width of the ballpoint. A "point five millimeter" (0. 5 mm) pen has a ball that will produce a line that is 0. 5-mm wide, and a "point seven millimeter" pen (0. 7 mm) has a ball that will produce a 0. 7-mm line. In the modern world there are some changes in the components of ballpoint pen but it is still the old ones. Ball point pen is composes of Tip, Grip, Decorative ring, Barrel, Clip, Ink Chamber, Twist Mechanism, and Ballpoint Tip (Quality logo products). First, the tip of a ballpoint pen is what makes it a ballpoint pen.
At the tip, a freely rotating ball is held in a small socket which connects it to an ink reservoir that allows the pen to write or draw lines (Taylor, 2017). The tip is commonly made up of the metal is steel, brass, or tungsten carbides. Second, the grip in the ballpoint pen was uses to makes it more convenient to use. It was usually made of rubber, an elastic substance so that the ballpoint pen can hold with ease and comfort because commonly the body of ballpoint pen was very firm or solid. It was place after the tip. Third one was the decorative ring. The used of decorative ring in the ballpoint pen is to make it look more appealing or attractive. It can say that it is just an additional component of a ballpoint pen. Next was the barrel. Barrel simply covers what is inside and that is the ink chamber. It is the foundation of the clip so that the ballpoint pen can be hung or clipped properly. It can be found in the upper part of the ballpoint pen. Also we have the clip. Clip was simply describes as the holder of the ballpoint pen. It allows the writer to accessibly reach it when needed or in other words it was handy. Handy that you can hang it by the clip in the shirt, pocket or even at the bag. Then we have the ink chamber. Ink chamber is where the ink is being placed it is the storage of it. The ink of ballpoint pen usually contains the solution of dyes water or organic solvents such as propylene glycol (is a synthetic organic compound. It is a viscous odourless liquid which is nearly odourless), prophyl alcohol. Twist mechanism on the other hand was used to get in and out the ballpoint tip when it was needed. It was like the switch where you turn it on or off the ballpoint pen.
And last, the ballpoint tip. It is where the ink came out and showed after the tip. Without this, the ballpoint pen become useless for it can make nothing without the ballpoint tip. These summarize the components of a ballpoint pen. It may be differs over time but still have the same function and objectives. Our purpose in life cannot be known easily by our own selves. We need others that can help us determine our purpose in life. Just like the ballpoint pen, it will not function without something that makes it function. Meaning, without the objects that composes it, ballpoint pen will be nothing. When we make the components of ballpoint pen simple, it has the outer and inner parts. Outer parts that represent our body and inner part as our soul so therefore, the ballpoint pen itself as our self. In addition, looking at different perspective, ballpoint pen components can represent the things in our life that makes us whole us a person. By these components, our selves become more meaningful that we can do something that we could ever imagine.
