<noinclude>{{ReferBox|Filling systems}}</noinclude>The ''match-stick filler'' system is one of many systems designed at the beginning of the century to try to automate the fountain pen ink filling. In this case it was a matter of compressing the rubber tank through the use of a match (or a toothpick or other similar tool) that went to press, through a hole made on the shaft of the pen, on the compression bar.
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The ''match-stick filler'' system is one of many systems designed at the beginning of the century to try to automate the fountain pen ink filling. In this case it was a matter of compressing the rubber tank through the use of a match (or a toothpick or other similar tool) that went to press, through a hole made on the shaft of the pen, on the compression bar.
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[[Image:MatchStickFillerSchema.svg|center|500px|Diagram of a pen with ''match-stick filler'']]
[[Image:MatchStickFillerSchema.svg|center|500px|Diagram of a pen with ''match-stick filler'']]