Device for receiving a writing implement

A device for receiving a writing implement having a body portion, and writing insert which together with said body portion bounds a pressure-equalizing passage and has a tubular writing member, the device comprising housing means bounding an inner chamber and having an opening arranged for receiving the body portion of the writing implement and communicating with said inner chamber;

• a resiliently yieldable sealing member is said inner chamber of said housing means and located so that the tubular writing member sealingly abuts against said sealing member;
• and a wetting member in said housing means and having at least one surface which discharges a wetting medium, said surface of said wetting member being spaced from and in communication with the pressure-equalizing passage of the writing implement when the latter is inserted in the device, so that a zone of wet air is generated in the region of said pressure-equalizing passage whereby drying of a writing liquid in the latter is prevented, but at the same time the tubular writing member is sealed by said resiliently yieldable sealing member from wet air thereby dilution of the writing liquid in the writing tubular member is prevented.